On December 8, 2025, Space: Science & Technology was formally listed within the Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). All articles revealed since 2021 will probably be progressively included into the SCIE database.
The editorial crew would love to increase our heartfelt gratitude to the hosts of the journal: Beijing Institute of Technology and the China Academy of Space Technology, in addition to to Editor-in-Chief Prof. YE Peijian, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, your entire Editorial Board, all authors and reviewers for their invaluable contributions. We additionally sincerely thank all specialists, students, and colleagues who’ve cared for and supported Space: Science & Technology.
Space: Science & Technology will proceed to face facet by facet with all of the editors, authors, and readers, specializing in the frontiers of aerospace, noting advances in deep-space exploration, and striving unremittingly to advertise innovation and breakthroughs in area science and know-how.
The speedy development of BIT’s worldwide journal displays the college’s educational basis and analysis innovation capability. BIT will proceed to advance the development and improvement of its worldwide journal portfolio, additional strengthening disciplinary help and contributing to the cultivation of world-class revolutionary skills.
Journal Introduction
Space: Science & Technology is a high-level, complete worldwide English-language scientific journal co-founded by Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)|Science. It can be the primary accomplice journal from AAAS specializing in aerospace analysis for the reason that founding of Science.
The Editor-in-Chief is Prof. YE Peijian, recipient of the nationwide honorary title “People’s Scientist,” member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Executive Editor-in-Chief is Prof. DENG Yulin, Chair of the Life Sciences Division on the International Academy of Astronautics and professor from BIT.
The journal goals to highlight the newest instructions and developments in international aerospace improvement, current new theories, new purposes, and new findings rising from cutting-edge analysis and exploration, and promote speedy interdisciplinary integration and technological breakthroughs within the aerospace area. It seeks to offer researchers and engineering professionals with a rigorous educational change and data dissemination platform.
Since publishing its inaugural editorial in February 2021, the journal has been included within the China’s Science and Technology Journals Excellence Action Phase II English Echelon Journal Project, the 2024 Key English Science and Technology Journals Support Project underneath the Beijing Excellence in Science and Technology Journals Initiative, and the 2025 Project for Supporting the Construction of High-level International Science and Technology Journals of Beijing (Journal Enhancement).
It has been listed in SCIE (Impact Factor 6.8, introduced June 2025), Ei Compendex, Scopus, INSPEC, DOAJ, CNKI, SAO/NASA-ADS, CSCD, and listed among the many China Scientific and Technical Core Journals. According to the CAS, Space: Science & Technology is assessed as a TOP journal within the broad area of Physics and Astrophysics (Q1), and in addition positioned in Q1 for each Astronomy & Astrophysics, Engineering: Aerospace.
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