Submission Guidelines for International Review of Thought
Journal Information Journal Title: International Critical Thought ISSN: 2159-8282; eISSN: 2159-8312 Supervising Institution: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Sponsoring Institutions: CASS Division of Marxist Studies and the Institute of Marxism Studies Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group Editorial Office: Editorial Office of International Critical Thought Publication Language: English Frequency: Quarterly Disciplinary Field: Marxist theory Date of Establishment: March 2011
Journal Impact Domestic Indexing: Recognized in 2022 as a Core Foreign Language Journal in the AMI (Academy of Management and Indexing) Comprehensive Evaluation of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences [1] (the only foreign-language core journal in the primary discipline of Marxist theory). International Indexing: ESCI (an edition of Web of Science: SSCI, SCIE, A&HCI, ESCI); Scopus; ICI (Index Copernicus International); ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Italy); UGC-CARE (University Grants Commission - Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics, India); ABCD (Academic Business Current Data); OCLC. Impact Metrics: 0.8 (2024) Impact Factor: Q3 JIF (in Political Science); 0.6 (2024) 5-year IF; 1.1 (2024) CiteScore (Scopus): Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile (in Cultural Studies); 0.249 (2024) SJR: Q3 (in Political Science and International Relations). Distribution: Global (In 2024, the journal was subscribed to by 3,265 university and research institute libraries worldwide). Downloads and Readership: In 2024, global downloads of electronic papers exceeded 70,000. The top ten countries by download volume were: United Kingdom, United States, China, Australia, Canada, India, Netherlands, South Africa, Germany, and Turkey. The top ten universities and research institutions were: University of Edinburgh, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, New York University, Anadolu University, Nankai University, University of Sydney, Murdoch University, University of Leeds, University of Bristol, and Queen Mary University of London.
Submission Information Submission Website: www.tandfonline.com/rict Submission Requirements: Submitted papers should possess intellectual depth, scholarly rigor, and originality, focusing on the theory and practice of Marxism and socialism, as well as major issues concerning the development of human society in the contemporary world. Submissions must include at least two Word documents: a title page (containing the paper title, author biography, and contact information) and the full text for blind peer review [2] (including paper title, abstract, keywords, and main body; references should be formatted as continuous numbered footnotes on the relevant page; the document must not contain author names or contact information). Manuscript Language: Chinese or English. Word Count: Approximately 15,000 characters for Chinese; 8,000–12,000 words for English.
Contact Information Email: ict@cass.org.cn Telephone: 010-85195750 (Wednesday and Thursday, 9:00–16:30) Address: Editorial Office of International Critical Thought, Institute of Marxism Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, No. 5 Jianguomennei Avenue, Beijing (Postcode: 100732) Journal Website: www.tandfonline.com/rict