About this journal
Aims and scope
Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies is mainly dedicated to Chinese culture, but its Chinese title, Huayi xuezhi ( Scholarly Journal on China and Neighbouring Countries), points to the fact that contributions concerning subjects such as Japanese, Mongol, Manchu, Tibetan, or Korean studies may also be published, if closely related to China.
The journal promotes intercultural communication in cooperation and dialogue with Chinese and Western scholars. The contributions published in the journal cover all relevant fields of Sinology, including: Chinese history, language, literature, philosophy, Chinese religions and their history, mission history, art, etc. They may be published either in English, German, French, and exceptionally in Chinese.
The journal is published for the Monumenta Serica Institute, an institute which testifies to the vivid interest of the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.) in the Chinese people, their culture, languages, and religions.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 18K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.106 (2023) SNIP
- 0.154 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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. 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.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief and Institute Director
Zbigniew Wesolowski S.V.D. (MSI, Germany) [email protected]
Copy Editors
Barbara Hoster (MSI, Sankt Augustin, Germany)
Anthony Hu (Hu Baozhu) S.V.D. (MSI, Sankt Augustin, Germany)
Dirk Kuhlmann (MSI, Sankt Augustin, Germany)
English Language Editors
Daniel Bauer S.V.D. (Taipei, Taiwan)
Anna Clart (London, UK)
Technical Assistance
Jozef Bištut S.V.D. (MSI, Sankt Augustin, Germany)
Members of the Monumenta Serica Institute (all S.V.D.)
Piotr Adamek
Jacques Kuepers
Leo Leeb
Wilhelm K. Müller
Dominic Niu
Zbigniew Wesolowski
Journal Advisors
† J. Chiao Wei (Trier)
Vincent Goossaert (Paris)
Nicolas Koss, O.S.B. (Taibei)
Susan Naquin (Princeton)
Roderich Ptak (München)
Ren Dayuan (Beijing)
Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Wolfenbüttel)
Nicolas Standaert, S.J. (Leuven)
Konstantin Tertitsky (Moskva)
Abstracting and indexing
Monumenta Serica is included in the following services:
Arts & Bibliography of Asian Studies
ATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®)
European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH)
De Gruyter Saur
Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
EBSCO
Historical Abstracts (Online)
OCLC
ProQuest
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
Scopus
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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