The Journal of Contemporary China is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 on contemporary Chinese affairs. It is published five times per year by Routledge

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 and covers issues such as Chinese politics, law, economy, culture, and foreign policy, among others. Its current editor-in-chief is Suisheng Zhao (Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

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).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Science Citation Index and is listed in the Journal Citation Reports

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with an impact factor

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 of 0.437 in the category "Area Studies". It is also indexed in American History and Life, British Humanities Index

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, CSA Abstracts

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, GEOBASE

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, Historical Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, International Development Abstracts, and MLA International Bibliography.