The China Journal

The China Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on China. It covers anthropology, sociology, and political science. Two issues are published per year by University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University (having previously been published on behalf of ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific). Its current editor is Ben Hillman (ANU), associate editor is Edward Sing Yue Chan (ANU), and book review editor is Jonathan Unger (ANU).^[1]

The China Journal

Discipline	Area studies
Language	English
Edited by	Ben Hillman
Publication details
Former name(s)	The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs
History	1979–present
Publisher	University of Chicago Press for the Australian Centre on China at Australian National University
Frequency	2 issues/year
Impact factor	2.750 (2019)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	China J.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1324-9347 (print) 1835-8535 (web)
JSTOR	chinaj
OCLC no.	1127472705
Links
Journal homepage

History

The Journal was previously titled The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (ISSN 0156-7365),^[2] under which name it was published from 1979 to 1995.^[3][4]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and is listed in the Journal Citation Reports with a 2023 impact factor of 4.7, ranking #1 out of 176 “Area Studies” journals.^[5] It is also indexed in PubMed, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, GEOBASE, Historical Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest 5000, and MLA International Bibliography.