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Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Sungkyunkwan University, Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (ICPC).
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ISSN 1598-267XVerify ISSN ↗2734-1356Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sungkyunkwan University, Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (ICPC)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 324 / 891 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 554 / 1434 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 324 of 891) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 554 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.171, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 5.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is published by Sungkyunkwan University, Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (ICPC). Its print ISSN is 1598-267X and its online ISSN is 2734-1356.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 19. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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