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Social Sciences in China is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0252-9203Verify ISSN ↗1940-5952Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 200 / 286 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1991–1997, 1983–1989, 1980–1981), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Social Sciences in China is Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 200 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Sciences in China 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.235, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Social Sciences in China is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0252-9203 and its online ISSN is 1940-5952.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Sciences in China has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #160 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Social Sciences in China published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 72. 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.
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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