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Contemporary Social Sciences

Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences · China

ISSN2096-0212

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.11

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.165

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Social Sciences (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionChina

Primary LanguageEnglish, Chinese

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 39 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications—

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Internet Archive

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2096-0212

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Internet Archive

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English, Chinese

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

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2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q4

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Frequently asked questions about Contemporary Social Sciences

Is Contemporary Social Sciences a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Contemporary Social Sciences: it is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Contemporary Social Sciences?

Contemporary Social Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.11.

Is Contemporary Social Sciences indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Contemporary Social Sciences is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Contemporary Social Sciences?