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Journal of Contemporary Asia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0047-2336Verify ISSN ↗1752-7554Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 25 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 61 / 744 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Journal of Contemporary Asia is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 25 of 1434) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 61 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Contemporary Asia is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.914, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
Journal of Contemporary Asia is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0047-2336 and its online ISSN is 1752-7554.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Contemporary Asia has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 2.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Contemporary Asia published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 80. 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.
In its latest 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (20.3%), United Kingdom (11.9%) and United States (11.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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