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Review of Religion and Chinese Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2214-3947Verify ISSN ↗2214-3955Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 120 / 760 | 84th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 363 / 1434 | 74th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 235 / 692 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2014–2024), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 120 of 760), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 363 of 1434) and Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 235 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2214-3947 and its online ISSN is 2214-3955.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Review of Religion and Chinese Society published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 25. 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 55 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.3%), China (13.6%) and Canada (7.3%).
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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