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Middle Kingdom Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Golden House Publications.
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ISSN 2515-0944Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Golden House Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology | 89 / 388 | 77th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 401 / 1221 | 67th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 232 / 692 | 66th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 207 / 536 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Middle Kingdom Studies is Q1 in Archeology (rank 89 of 388), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 401 of 1221) and Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 232 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Middle Kingdom Studies 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 1.2, quartile Q1, 77th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.138, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Middle Kingdom Studies is published by Golden House Publications. Its ISSN is 2515-0944.
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.
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