Journal profile · Social Sciences-Law
Chinese Law and Government
ISSN 0009-4609 · eISSN 1944-7051 · Taylor & Francis
Chinese Law and Government: subscription journal; 0 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2020 (Volume 52, Issue 4-6): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Chinese Law and Government is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance, Chinese history and philosophy and Administrative Law and Governance, together about 59% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Chinese Law and Government (中国法与治) is an English-language journal featuring research articles, translations of important Chinese Communist Party and state documents and laws, and document discussion articles. The journal features work on law and government, broadly defined, in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It welcomes work on formal, codified rules and on informal, unwritten rules and norms. It encourages contributions that examine laws, regulations, or normative documents, and contributions that examine processes of implementation and adaption, and processes of influence on and by Party, state, and society. It also encourages contributions that explore relationships between the legal system and other rule systems, such as policies, intra-party regulations, and customs or norms. Chinese Law and Government is committed to disciplinary and methodological pluralism. We encourage contributions from all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, and particularly welcome interdisciplinary perspectives. The editors hope that Chinese Law and Government can act as a forum for communication and exchange between Chinese and Anglophone scholarship and between scholars based in the PRC and elsewhere around the world. We welcome proposals for special issues on any of the topics within the journal’s scope.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and GovernanceSocial Sciences32.2%
- Chinese history and philosophySocial Sciences18.3%
- Administrative Law and GovernanceSocial Sciences8.5%
- Public Administration and GovernanceSocial Sciences5.7%
- Hong Kong and Taiwan PoliticsSocial Sciences5.4%
- Judicial and Constitutional StudiesSocial Sciences4.4%
- China's Ethnic Minorities and RelationsSocial Sciences2.8%
- International Relations and Foreign PolicySocial Sciences2.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | Q4 | 864/885 | 2nd |
| Sociology and Political Science | Q4 | 1404/1415 | 0th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Bibliography of Asian Studies Online, Wilson Social Sciences IndexPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- h-index
- 16OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 38OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 8,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,792 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 73 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 74 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 133 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 5 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
Overview Open journals Open Select Dove Medical Press F1000Research
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0009-4609
- Electronic ISSN
- 1944-7051
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 52, Issue 4-6 (2020)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Chinese Law and Government
Which databases index Chinese Law and Government?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Chinese Law and Government is indexed in Scopus.
Is Chinese Law and Government open access, and what is the APC?
Chinese Law and Government is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .