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Journal of Contemporary China is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1067-0564Verify ISSN ↗1469-9400Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 49 / 745 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Development | 41 / 314 | 87th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 125 / 876 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
Journal of Contemporary China is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 49 of 745), Q1 in Development (rank 41 of 314) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 125 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Contemporary China 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.114, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 73.
Journal of Contemporary China is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1067-0564 and its online ISSN is 1469-9400.
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 China has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 3.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Journal of Contemporary China published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 78. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (35.1%), United States (15.5%) and Hong Kong SAR China (9.1%).
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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