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Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI, DOAJ. Published by Duke University Press.
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ISSN 1598-2661Verify ISSN ↗2586-0380Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 241 / 1186 | 79th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 289 / 760 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 680 / 1434 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 344 / 536 | 35th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1182 / 1530 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 241 of 1186), Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 289 of 760) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 680 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 8.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 1598-2661 and its online ISSN is 2586-0380.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 16. 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 61 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (27%), China (20.5%) and Canada (11.5%).
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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