About this journal
Aims and scope
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.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 10K annual downloads/views
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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
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. 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 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.
- 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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Co-Editors
Holly Snape - University of Glasgow, UK
Weinan Wang - University of Glasgow, UK
Advisory Committee
Thomas P. Bernstein - Columbia University
Parris H. Chang - Pennsylvania State University
Jerome A. Cohen - Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison
Michael Y. M. Kau - Brown University
John W. Lewis - Stanford University
Victor Li - East-West Center
John T. Ma - New York Public Library
James D. Seymour - Columbia University
James Tong - University of California, Los Angeles
Ezra F. Vogel - Harvard University
Abstracting and indexing
Chinese Law & Government is Abstracted/ Indexed in the following:
- Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBZ)
- Scopus
- Wilson Social Sciences Index
6 issues per year
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