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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
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ISSN 1520-9857Verify ISSN ↗2328-966XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 283 / 1186 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 743 / 1434 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 283 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 743 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.107, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1520-9857 and its online ISSN is 2328-966X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #591 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 23. 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 20 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (50%), China (20%) and United Kingdom (15%). 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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