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Twentieth-Century China is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 1521-5385Verify ISSN ↗1940-5065Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 413 / 1936 | 78th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 457 / 1434 | 68th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 490 / 745 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 2002), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
Twentieth-Century China is Q1 in History (rank 413 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 457 of 1434) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 490 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Twentieth-Century 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.175, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Twentieth-Century China is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 1521-5385 and its online ISSN is 1940-5065.
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.
Twentieth-Century China has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #535 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Twentieth-Century China published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 38. 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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