China’s scientific journals have seen a gradual improve in each their numbers and the quantity of papers printed, but there may be nonetheless room for enchancment of their general scale and impression, in response to a current report.
The blue guide on China’s scientific journal improvement revealed that 247 Chinese worldwide journals have been included within the Science Citation Index (SCI) final 12 months, accounting for 1.7 % of the 40,000 complete SCI papers printed in 2024.
Published by the Service Center for Societies of the China Association for Science and Technology, the blue guide stated that the tutorial high quality and world recognition of those journals have steadily improved.
The quotation impression of papers printed in these journals reached 5.11 final 12 months, surpassing the three.51 for all worldwide papers authored by Chinese students and the worldwide common of two.77. Additionally, 63.2 % of the journals have been positioned within the prime quarter of Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and 68.7 % of the papers printed in China’s journals have been within the prime quarter of the JCR, up from 50 % in 2022.
Despite an enchancment in publishing quantity, with 61 % of China’s journals seeing a rise in printed papers final 12 months, this scale nonetheless fell quick in comparison with the over 830,000 worldwide papers printed by Chinese students. This highlights the necessity to improve the general carrying capacity of China’s home journal platforms, the guide stated.
Furthermore, 88 % of the papers printed in China’s journals final 12 months have been authored by Chinese students. However, this represented solely 4.2 % of the full worldwide papers printed by Chinese students, indicating that greater than 95 % of their work continues to be being printed in abroad journals. This underscores that China’s publishing capacity for worldwide scientific and technological journals has not but met the publication calls for of native analysis outputs, and there stays important progress to be made in growing world-class worldwide journals.