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Rural China is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2213-6738Verify ISSN ↗2213-6746Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1273 / 1936 | 34th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1084 / 1434 | 24th | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 457 / 536 | 14th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 826 / 876 | 5th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Rural China is Q3 in History (rank 1273 of 1936), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1084 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 457 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rural China 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 0.2, quartile Q3, 34th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.120, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Rural China is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2213-6738 and its online ISSN is 2213-6746.
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.
Rural China has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #691 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Rural China published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 21. 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 72 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (73.6%), United States (25%) and Singapore (1.4%). 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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