Modern China

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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
0.9
SJR
0.414
CiteScore
2.0
Categories
History
Sociology and Political Science
Geography, Planning and Development
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1975-2025
journal names
Modern China
MOD CHINA
Publications
1 012
Citations
12 820
h-index
51
Publications
147
Citations
4 588
Top-3 citing journals
Modern China
Modern China (780 citations)
China Quarterly
China Quarterly (330 citations)
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (279 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
USA (526 publications)
China (217 publications)
Australia (54 publications)
China (49 publications)
USA (34 publications)
Australia (8 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Modern China
780 citations, 6.08%
China Quarterly
330 citations, 2.57%
SSRN Electronic Journal
279 citations, 2.18%
Journal of Asian Studies
179 citations, 1.4%
China Information
131 citations, 1.02%
Journal of Chinese Political Science
102 citations, 0.8%
Modern Asian Studies
91 citations, 0.71%
Journal of Peasant Studies
89 citations, 0.69%
China Journal
68 citations, 0.53%
Asian Ethnicity
66 citations, 0.51%
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
65 citations, 0.51%
Sustainability
61 citations, 0.48%
Critical Asian Studies
59 citations, 0.46%
Asian Studies Review
58 citations, 0.45%
Journal of Chinese Governance
53 citations, 0.41%
Journal of Contemporary Asia
50 citations, 0.39%
Rural China
49 citations, 0.38%
Comparative Political Studies
43 citations, 0.34%
Positions
43 citations, 0.34%
Urban Studies
41 citations, 0.32%
World Development
39 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Agrarian Change
38 citations, 0.3%
Land Use Policy
38 citations, 0.3%
Environment and Planning A
38 citations, 0.3%
American Ethnologist
37 citations, 0.29%
Religions
36 citations, 0.28%
Chinese Sociological Review
36 citations, 0.28%
Eurasian Geography and Economics
33 citations, 0.26%
Land
32 citations, 0.25%
Chinese Journal of Sociology
32 citations, 0.25%
American Journal of Sociology
31 citations, 0.24%
Journal of Rural Studies
30 citations, 0.23%
Voluntas
30 citations, 0.23%
China Economic Review
29 citations, 0.23%
Cities
28 citations, 0.22%
International Journal of Asian Studies
28 citations, 0.22%
Comparative Studies in Society and History
27 citations, 0.21%
Geoforum
26 citations, 0.2%
Studies in Comparative International Development
26 citations, 0.2%
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
26 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Comparative Economics
26 citations, 0.2%
Development and Change
25 citations, 0.2%
China Report
25 citations, 0.2%
Habitat International
25 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
25 citations, 0.2%
International Migration Review
25 citations, 0.2%
PLoS ONE
25 citations, 0.2%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
24 citations, 0.19%
SAGE Open
23 citations, 0.18%
Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
22 citations, 0.17%
Chinese Journal of Communication
21 citations, 0.16%
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
20 citations, 0.16%
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
20 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Asian and African Studies
19 citations, 0.15%
Asian Journal of Law and Society
19 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Civil Society
19 citations, 0.15%
Critical Sociology
19 citations, 0.15%
Governance
19 citations, 0.15%
Social Indicators Research
18 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Contemporary China
17 citations, 0.13%
Asian anthropology
17 citations, 0.13%
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
17 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Chinese Sociology
17 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Chinese History
17 citations, 0.13%
Social Science Research
17 citations, 0.13%
Japanese Journal of Political Science
16 citations, 0.12%
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
16 citations, 0.12%
Twentieth-Century China
16 citations, 0.12%
China's Legal System
16 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Development Studies
15 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Asian Public Policy
15 citations, 0.12%
Media, Culture and Society
15 citations, 0.12%
International Journal of Heritage Studies
15 citations, 0.12%
International Political Science Review
15 citations, 0.12%
World Politics
14 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Chinese Religions
14 citations, 0.11%
Pacific Review
14 citations, 0.11%
Policy Studies Journal
14 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Marriage and Family
14 citations, 0.11%
Democratization
14 citations, 0.11%
Population and Development Review
14 citations, 0.11%
Cultural Anthropology
14 citations, 0.11%
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
14 citations, 0.11%
Asian Journal of Criminology
14 citations, 0.11%
Labor History
13 citations, 0.1%
Social Science and Medicine
13 citations, 0.1%
Political Studies
13 citations, 0.1%
Nations and Nationalism
13 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
13 citations, 0.1%
Annals of Tourism Research
13 citations, 0.1%
Population, Space and Place
13 citations, 0.1%
Urban Geography
12 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Modern Chinese History
12 citations, 0.09%
Boundary 2
12 citations, 0.09%
Central Asian Survey
12 citations, 0.09%
Political Geography
12 citations, 0.09%
Economy and Society
12 citations, 0.09%
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
12 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Family Issues
12 citations, 0.09%
Regulation and Governance
12 citations, 0.09%
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Citing publishers

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Taylor & Francis
2107 citations, 16.44%
SAGE
1894 citations, 14.77%
Cambridge University Press
1589 citations, 12.39%
Springer Nature
1045 citations, 8.15%
Wiley
922 citations, 7.19%
Elsevier
786 citations, 6.13%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
265 citations, 2.07%
MDPI
206 citations, 1.61%
University of Chicago Press
180 citations, 1.4%
Oxford University Press
172 citations, 1.34%
Duke University Press
167 citations, 1.3%
Emerald
145 citations, 1.13%
Brill
117 citations, 0.91%
Institute of Asian Studies at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
61 citations, 0.48%
Walter de Gruyter
58 citations, 0.45%
Frontiers Media S.A.
52 citations, 0.41%
University of California Press
46 citations, 0.36%
OpenEdition
42 citations, 0.33%
Annual Reviews
33 citations, 0.26%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
32 citations, 0.25%
CAIRN
32 citations, 0.25%
Consortium Erudit
26 citations, 0.2%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
23 citations, 0.18%
World Scientific
22 citations, 0.17%
IGI Global
20 citations, 0.16%
SciELO
18 citations, 0.14%
MIT Press
16 citations, 0.12%
American Anthropological Association
15 citations, 0.12%
Intellect
15 citations, 0.12%
Edinburgh University Press
10 citations, 0.08%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
10 citations, 0.08%
Cornell University Press
8 citations, 0.06%
Sungkyunkwan University, Academy of East Asian Studies
8 citations, 0.06%
French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
8 citations, 0.06%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
8 citations, 0.06%
EDP Sciences
7 citations, 0.05%
Trans Tech Publications
7 citations, 0.05%
Liverpool University Press
7 citations, 0.05%
Hindawi Limited
7 citations, 0.05%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
7 citations, 0.05%
Scientific Research Publishing
7 citations, 0.05%
American Economic Association
6 citations, 0.05%
University of Adelaide
6 citations, 0.05%
Berghahn Books
6 citations, 0.05%
Guilford Publications
6 citations, 0.05%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
5 citations, 0.04%
The Royal Society
5 citations, 0.04%
Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
5 citations, 0.04%
PERSEE Program
5 citations, 0.04%
Bristol University Press
5 citations, 0.04%
4 citations, 0.03%
Academy of Management
4 citations, 0.03%
American Society of Comparative Law
4 citations, 0.03%
Akademiai Kiado
4 citations, 0.03%
Virtus Interpress
4 citations, 0.03%
Cognizant, LLC
4 citations, 0.03%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
4 citations, 0.03%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
3 citations, 0.02%
Mary Ann Liebert
3 citations, 0.02%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
3 citations, 0.02%
Martin Media
3 citations, 0.02%
Center for Western Studies
3 citations, 0.02%
Association for the Sociology of Religion
3 citations, 0.02%
China Science Publishing & Media
3 citations, 0.02%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
3 citations, 0.02%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
3 citations, 0.02%
Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences
3 citations, 0.02%
Brepols Publishers NV
3 citations, 0.02%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2 citations, 0.02%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2 citations, 0.02%
Higher Education Press
2 citations, 0.02%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2 citations, 0.02%
IOP Publishing
2 citations, 0.02%
Editions Ophrys
2 citations, 0.02%
Science in China Press
2 citations, 0.02%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2 citations, 0.02%
American Psychological Association (APA)
2 citations, 0.02%
JSTOR
2 citations, 0.02%
JMIR Publications
2 citations, 0.02%
Project MUSE
2 citations, 0.02%
Ubiquity Press
2 citations, 0.02%
F1000 Research
2 citations, 0.02%
American Educational Research Association
2 citations, 0.02%
AOSIS
2 citations, 0.02%
International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences
2 citations, 0.02%
Equinox Publishing
2 citations, 0.02%
The Econometric Society
2 citations, 0.02%
Hans Publishers
2 citations, 0.02%
Academia Koreana, Keimyung University
2 citations, 0.02%
The British Association for Korean Studies
2 citations, 0.02%
Cogitatio
2 citations, 0.02%
American Marketing Association
1 citation, 0.01%
IOS Press
1 citation, 0.01%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
1 citation, 0.01%
University of Hawaii Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
1 citation, 0.01%
AIP Publishing
1 citation, 0.01%
National Taiwan Normal University
1 citation, 0.01%
1 citation, 0.01%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1 citation, 0.01%
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Publishing organizations

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University of California, Los Angeles
67 publications, 6.62%
Renmin University of China
45 publications, 4.45%
Chinese University of Hong Kong
21 publications, 2.08%
University of Washington
20 publications, 1.98%
Harvard University
19 publications, 1.88%
Yale University
17 publications, 1.68%
University of California, Berkeley
17 publications, 1.68%
University of Michigan
16 publications, 1.58%
Tsinghua University
15 publications, 1.48%
University of Oxford
14 publications, 1.38%
Stanford University
14 publications, 1.38%
University of Hong Kong
14 publications, 1.38%
University of British Columbia
14 publications, 1.38%
Australian National University
13 publications, 1.28%
Duke University
13 publications, 1.28%
University of California, San Diego
13 publications, 1.28%
Johns Hopkins University
12 publications, 1.19%
Griffith University
12 publications, 1.19%
Cornell University
11 publications, 1.09%
Fudan University
10 publications, 0.99%
Columbia University
10 publications, 0.99%
Hong Kong Baptist University
9 publications, 0.89%
University of Chicago
9 publications, 0.89%
Sun Yat-sen University
8 publications, 0.79%
National University of Singapore
8 publications, 0.79%
University of Melbourne
8 publications, 0.79%
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
8 publications, 0.79%
University of California, Riverside
8 publications, 0.79%
University of California, Davis
7 publications, 0.69%
University of Texas at Austin
7 publications, 0.69%
Peking University
6 publications, 0.59%
University of Manchester
6 publications, 0.59%
Michigan State University
6 publications, 0.59%
George Washington University
6 publications, 0.59%
Lingnan University
6 publications, 0.59%
University of California, Santa Cruz
6 publications, 0.59%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6 publications, 0.59%
University of Pittsburgh
6 publications, 0.59%
University of Haifa
5 publications, 0.49%
Nanjing University
5 publications, 0.49%
Pennsylvania State University
5 publications, 0.49%
La Trobe University
5 publications, 0.49%
Princeton University
5 publications, 0.49%
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
5 publications, 0.49%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
5 publications, 0.49%
Leiden University
5 publications, 0.49%
York University
5 publications, 0.49%
Western Sydney University
4 publications, 0.4%
University of Southern California
4 publications, 0.4%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 publications, 0.4%
Yonsei University
4 publications, 0.4%
City University of Hong Kong
4 publications, 0.4%
Tufts University
4 publications, 0.4%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4 publications, 0.4%
Dartmouth College
4 publications, 0.4%
University of Minnesota
4 publications, 0.4%
University of Sheffield
4 publications, 0.4%
University of Victoria
4 publications, 0.4%
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
4 publications, 0.4%
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3 publications, 0.3%
East China Normal University
3 publications, 0.3%
University of Cambridge
3 publications, 0.3%
Shanghai University
3 publications, 0.3%
King's College London
3 publications, 0.3%
Oregon State University
3 publications, 0.3%
Ohio State University
3 publications, 0.3%
University of California, Irvine
3 publications, 0.3%
University of Cologne
3 publications, 0.3%
Central Michigan University
3 publications, 0.3%
McGill University
3 publications, 0.3%
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
3 publications, 0.3%
Brown University
3 publications, 0.3%
University of Vienna
3 publications, 0.3%
University of Toronto
3 publications, 0.3%
Appalachian State University
3 publications, 0.3%
Indiana University Northwest
3 publications, 0.3%
Clark University
3 publications, 0.3%
University of Vermont
3 publications, 0.3%
University of Virginia
3 publications, 0.3%
New York University Abu Dhabi
2 publications, 0.2%
University of Tübingen
2 publications, 0.2%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2 publications, 0.2%
Bar-Ilan University
2 publications, 0.2%
Sichuan University
2 publications, 0.2%
Jilin University
2 publications, 0.2%
Ghent University
2 publications, 0.2%
Lund University
2 publications, 0.2%
Wuhan University
2 publications, 0.2%
University of New South Wales
2 publications, 0.2%
University of Technology Sydney
2 publications, 0.2%
Jinan University
2 publications, 0.2%
Xiamen University
2 publications, 0.2%
China University of Political Science and Law
2 publications, 0.2%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 0.2%
University of Oslo
2 publications, 0.2%
London School of Economics and Political Science
2 publications, 0.2%
National Chengchi University
2 publications, 0.2%
University of Queensland
2 publications, 0.2%
Murdoch University
2 publications, 0.2%
Australian Catholic University
2 publications, 0.2%
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University of California, Los Angeles
8 publications, 5.44%
Renmin University of China
6 publications, 4.08%
Fudan University
5 publications, 3.4%
Sun Yat-sen University
4 publications, 2.72%
City University of Hong Kong
3 publications, 2.04%
Lingnan University
3 publications, 2.04%
Tsinghua University
2 publications, 1.36%
Bar-Ilan University
2 publications, 1.36%
Ghent University
2 publications, 1.36%
Nanjing University
2 publications, 1.36%
Wuhan University
2 publications, 1.36%
Australian National University
2 publications, 1.36%
University of New South Wales
2 publications, 1.36%
University of Oxford
2 publications, 1.36%
King's College London
2 publications, 1.36%
National University of Singapore
2 publications, 1.36%
Yale University
2 publications, 1.36%
University of Melbourne
2 publications, 1.36%
Columbia University
2 publications, 1.36%
Yonsei University
2 publications, 1.36%
Hong Kong Baptist University
2 publications, 1.36%
University of Cologne
2 publications, 1.36%
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
2 publications, 1.36%
Koc University
1 publication, 0.68%
Peking University
1 publication, 0.68%
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
1 publication, 0.68%
Tel Aviv University
1 publication, 0.68%
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Haifa
1 publication, 0.68%
Ariel University
1 publication, 0.68%
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Naples - L'Orientale
1 publication, 0.68%
Beijing Foreign Studies University
1 publication, 0.68%
East China Normal University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Technology Sydney
1 publication, 0.68%
East China University of Political Science and Law
1 publication, 0.68%
China University of Political Science and Law
1 publication, 0.68%
Durham University
1 publication, 0.68%
Tianjin University of Commerce
1 publication, 0.68%
Shanghai University
1 publication, 0.68%
South-Central Minzu University
1 publication, 0.68%
Southern University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Manchester
1 publication, 0.68%
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
1 publication, 0.68%
Carnegie Mellon University
1 publication, 0.68%
Minzu University of China
1 publication, 0.68%
Pennsylvania State University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Western Australia
1 publication, 0.68%
Deakin University
1 publication, 0.68%
Griffith University
1 publication, 0.68%
La Trobe University
1 publication, 0.68%
James Cook University
1 publication, 0.68%
Boston University
1 publication, 0.68%
American University
1 publication, 0.68%
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
1 publication, 0.68%
Hong Kong Shue Yan University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Hong Kong
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Missouri–Kansas City
1 publication, 0.68%
University of California, Berkeley
1 publication, 0.68%
Towson University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Washington
1 publication, 0.68%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 0.68%
University of California, Davis
1 publication, 0.68%
Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
1 publication, 0.68%
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Texas at Austin
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 0.68%
Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
1 publication, 0.68%
Eastern Michigan University
1 publication, 0.68%
Wayne State University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.68%
University of British Columbia
1 publication, 0.68%
Dartmouth College
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Göttingen
1 publication, 0.68%
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
1 publication, 0.68%
Goethe University Frankfurt
1 publication, 0.68%
Emory University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Coimbra
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Sheffield
1 publication, 0.68%
Brock University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Toronto
1 publication, 0.68%
Indiana University Northwest
1 publication, 0.68%
Texas A&M University – San Antonio
1 publication, 0.68%
Texas A&M University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Westminster
1 publication, 0.68%
University of New Mexico
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Iowa
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Virginia
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Kansas
1 publication, 0.68%
Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.68%
California State University, East Bay
1 publication, 0.68%
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USA, 526, 51.98%
USA
526 publications, 51.98%
China, 217, 21.44%
China
217 publications, 21.44%
Australia, 54, 5.34%
Australia
54 publications, 5.34%
United Kingdom, 47, 4.64%
United Kingdom
47 publications, 4.64%
Canada, 27, 2.67%
Canada
27 publications, 2.67%
Germany, 17, 1.68%
Germany
17 publications, 1.68%
Republic of Korea, 13, 1.28%
Republic of Korea
13 publications, 1.28%
Japan, 13, 1.28%
Japan
13 publications, 1.28%
Israel, 10, 0.99%
Israel
10 publications, 0.99%
Singapore, 10, 0.99%
Singapore
10 publications, 0.99%
Netherlands, 8, 0.79%
Netherlands
8 publications, 0.79%
France, 4, 0.4%
France
4 publications, 0.4%
Austria, 4, 0.4%
Austria
4 publications, 0.4%
Denmark, 3, 0.3%
Denmark
3 publications, 0.3%
Italy, 3, 0.3%
Italy
3 publications, 0.3%
Belgium, 2, 0.2%
Belgium
2 publications, 0.2%
Norway, 2, 0.2%
Norway
2 publications, 0.2%
UAE, 2, 0.2%
UAE
2 publications, 0.2%
Turkey, 2, 0.2%
Turkey
2 publications, 0.2%
Sweden, 2, 0.2%
Sweden
2 publications, 0.2%
Portugal, 1, 0.1%
Portugal
1 publication, 0.1%
Iraq, 1, 0.1%
Iraq
1 publication, 0.1%
New Zealand, 1, 0.1%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.1%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.1%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.1%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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China, 49, 33.33%
China
49 publications, 33.33%
USA, 34, 23.13%
USA
34 publications, 23.13%
Australia, 8, 5.44%
Australia
8 publications, 5.44%
United Kingdom, 8, 5.44%
United Kingdom
8 publications, 5.44%
Germany, 6, 4.08%
Germany
6 publications, 4.08%
Israel, 4, 2.72%
Israel
4 publications, 2.72%
Canada, 3, 2.04%
Canada
3 publications, 2.04%
Belgium, 2, 1.36%
Belgium
2 publications, 1.36%
Republic of Korea, 2, 1.36%
Republic of Korea
2 publications, 1.36%
Singapore, 2, 1.36%
Singapore
2 publications, 1.36%
Portugal, 1, 0.68%
Portugal
1 publication, 0.68%
Italy, 1, 0.68%
Italy
1 publication, 0.68%
Turkey, 1, 0.68%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.68%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.68%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.68%
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