About this journal
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
- 11K annual downloads/views
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
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Speed data is only available where a journal has made more than 10 decisions of that type in the time period. Speed metrics are averages; some manuscripts will take longer than this. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed/downloaded by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months. This includes manuscripts which are not sent for peer review (desk rejections). Manuscripts which are sent out for review can therefore have a significantly longer wait than this metric indicates.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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
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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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- 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)
4 issues per year
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