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Journal of Japanese Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Society for Japanese Studies.
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ISSN 0095-6848Verify ISSN ↗1549-4721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society for Japanese Studies
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 713 / 1434 | 50th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 577 / 1137 | 49th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 688 / 1221 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 352 / 536 | 34th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 294 / 315 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1998–2002), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Japanese Studies is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 713 of 1434), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 577 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 688 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Japanese Studies 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.135, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
Journal of Japanese Studies is published by Society for Japanese Studies. Its print ISSN is 0095-6848 and its online ISSN is 1549-4721.
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 Japanese Studies has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #978 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Japanese Studies published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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 77 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (60.4%), Japan (14.9%) and United Kingdom (8.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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