Aims and scope

Studies in Chinese Religions is devoted to the advanced study of Chinese religions, which may include Buddhism, Catholicism and other forms of Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, and Islam in China, as well as folk (or popular) religions, and religions practised by ethnic minorities in China. The journal seeks to promote multi-disciplinary approaches and encourages submissions from scholars working in the fields of Anthropology, Economics, Education, History, Iconology, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Philology, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology and Sociology.

Peer Review Integrity
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. All submissions shall be made to scr@cass.org.cn and the publisher's portal ( https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=RSTU).

Journal metrics

Usage

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Citation metrics

  • 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.2 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 0.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.323 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.150 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief:
Xiaoyun Zheng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Associate Editors:
Jianxin Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Jinhua Chen, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Executive Editors:
Susan Andrews, Mount Allison University, Canada
Wenbin Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Advisory Board:
Timothy Barrett, SOAS at University of London, UK
Stephen Bokenkamp, Arizona State University, USA
Megan Bryson, Tennessee, USA
Isabelle Charleux, CNRS, France
Lai Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Kenneth Dean, McGill University, Canada
Catherine Despeux, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, France
Toru Funayama, Kyoto University, Japan
Imre Galambos, Cambridge, UK
Zhaoguang Ge, Fudan University, China
Vincent Goossaert, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France
Tamami Hamada, Yokohama University of Art and Design, Japan
Ann Heirman, Ghent, Belgium
Natasha Heller, Virginia, USA
Xiuping Hong, Nanjing University, China
Jinhua Jia, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
John Kieschnick, Stanford, USA
John Lagerwey, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Michael Nylan, UC-Berkeley, USA
Robert H. Sharf, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Koichi Shinohara, Yale University, USA
Barend ter Haar, University of Hamburg, Germany
Stefania Travagnin, SOAS, UK
Bangwei Wang, Peking University, China
Daoru Wei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Nobuyoshi Yamabe, Waseda, Japan
Chün-fang Yü, Columbia University, USA
Xiaoyun Zheng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Xinping Zhuo, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Editorial Board:
Susan Andrews, Mount Allison University, Canada
Ester Bianchi, University of Perugia, Italy
Sebastien Billioud, University Paris-Diderot, France
Daniela Campo, EPHE, France
Adam Yue Chau, Cambridge University, UK
Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University, USA
Ming Chen, Peking University, China
Noga Ganany, Cambridge, UK
Imre Hamar, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Shih-shan Susan Huang, Rice University, USA
Zhe Ji, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, France
George Keyworth, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womens, S. Korea
Chi Tim Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Sonya Lee, University of South California, USA
Wen Lei, Beijing Normal University, China
Xun Liu, Rutgers University, USA
Yang Lu, Peking University, China
Pengzhi Lü, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Elizabeth Morrison, Middlebury, USA
Michael Radich, Heidelberg, Germany
Weirong Shen, Tsinghua University, China
Kai Sheng, Tsinghua University, China
Ekaterina Skrypnik, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Yinggang Sun, Zhejiang University, China
Maggie Chuiki Wan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Richard G. Wang, University of Florida, USA
Jiang Wu, University of Arizona, USA
Xin Yu, Zhejiang University, China

Abstracting and indexing

Studies in Chinese Religions is indexed in ESCI, Scopus, the ATLA Religion Database, Bibliography of Asian Studies, and NTU Digital Library of Buddhist Studies.

Open access

Studies in Chinese Religions is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

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  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

  • Now indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • and Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)

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