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Journal of Silk is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1). Published by China Silk Association.
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ISSN 1001-7003Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: China Silk Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 276 / 1936 | 85th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 374 / 1434 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 299 / 425 | 29th | Q3 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 199 / 256 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 114 / 137 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of Silk is Q1 in History (rank 276 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 374 of 1434) and Q3 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 299 of 425), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Silk is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1, 85th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.273, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Silk is published by China Silk Association. Its ISSN is 1001-7003.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Silk has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Silk published 4 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 161. 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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