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Understanding China is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 2196-3134Verify ISSN ↗2196-3142Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 502 / 1936 | 74th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 315 / 891 | 64th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 541 / 1434 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Law | 735 / 1162 | 36th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 532 / 745 | 28th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 699 / 876 | 20th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 661 / 755 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 2014–2017), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Understanding China is Q2 in History (rank 502 of 1936), Q2 in Philosophy (rank 315 of 891) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 541 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Understanding 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 0.7, quartile Q2, 74th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Understanding China is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 2196-3134 and its online ISSN is 2196-3142.
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.
Understanding China has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,074 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Understanding China published 101 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 105. 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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