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Politics and Development of Contemporary China is Scopus-indexed. Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Politics and Development of Contemporary China has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.
Politics and Development of Contemporary China is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2946-2355 and its online ISSN is 2946-2363.
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.
Politics and Development of Contemporary China has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
Politics and Development of Contemporary China published 14 papers in 2025. 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. 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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