Expert Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX
CHAPTER 1
General Information of China’s STM Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Basic Facts of Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.1 The Changes in the Number of STM China’s Journals from 2018 to 2022 . . . . . .. . . . . 3
1.1.2 Regional Distribution of Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.3 Distribution by Publication Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.1.4 Distribution by Language and Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.1.5 Distribution by Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.1.6 Distribution by Supervising, Sponsoring, and Publishing Organizations. . . .. . . . 16
1.2 Journal-Running Conditions and Human Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.2.1 Journal Operation Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.2.2 Human Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.3 Publication Management and Content Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.4 Funding of China’s STM Journals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.4.1 Funding from Supervising and Sponsoring Organizations . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.4.2 National-Level Special Project Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.4.3 Publishing Industry Special Project Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.4.4 Provincial and Municipal Special Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.4.5 Funds from Other Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1.5 Business Conditions of China’s STM Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.5.1 Print Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.5.2 Distribution Methods and Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.5.3 Advertising Business Methods and Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.5.4 Copyright Revenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.5.5 Overseas Publishing Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.5.6 Project Activity Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.5.7 New Media Investment and Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1.5.8 Total Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1.5.9 Total Expenditure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.6 Development Progress of New Media for Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.6.1 Annual Visits to Journal Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.6.2 Official Mobile Device Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.6.3 Official WeChat Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.6.4 Official Weibo Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
CHAPTER 2
Impact Analysis of China’s Scientific Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.1 Journal Analysis by Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.2 Volume of Citable Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.3 Analysis of Domestic Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.3.1 Total Cited Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.3.2 Impact Factor and Immediacy Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.3.3 Self-Citation Rate of STM Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.4 Analysis of International Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.4.1 Performance Reflected in the International Citation Annual Report . . 46
2.4.2 Performance Reflected by WJCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2.4.3 China’s Scientific Journals Indexed in International Databases . . . . . . 55
CHAPTER 3
Current Situation of China’s Popular Science Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
3.1 General Introduction of China’s Popular Science Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.1.1 Basic Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.1.2 Operation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3.2 New Media Communication Capability and Effectiveness of Popular Science Journals in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
3.2.1 Adoption Status of New Media Platforms for Popular Science Journals . . . . .. . . 68
3.2.2 Dissemination of Popular Science Journals on the WeChat Official Accounts .. . . . . . 69
3.2.3 Dissemination of WeChat Channels of Popular Science Journals . . . .. . . 70
3.2.4 Dissemination of the Douyin Account of Popular Science Journals . . . .. . . 71
3.2.5 Dissemination of the Bilibili Platform of Popular Science Journals . . .. . . . . . 74
CHAPTER 4
Overview of Papers Published in China’s Scientific Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.1 Disciplinary Distribution of Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . 79
4.1.1 Volume of Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4.1.2 Academic Impact of Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . 84
4.1.3 International Collaboration in Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals . . . .. . . . 93
4.2 Institutional Distribution of Publications in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . . . . . 93
4.2.1 Global Institutional Distribution of Publications in China’s SCI Journals . . . . .. . . . . 93
4.2.2 Distribution of China’s Institutions Publishing in China’s SCI Journals . . .. . . . . 95
4.2.3 Top 50 China’s Institutions Publishing in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . 97
4.3 Academic Impact of Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.3.1 Comparative Analysis of Academic Influence in Scientific Journal Publications Among Major Research-Producing Countries . . . . . . . . . 103
4.3.2 High-Impact Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals in 2022 . . . . . 105
4.3.3 International Collaborations for Papers in China’s SCI Journals . . . . 105
4.3.4 Annual Reviews of Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . . 110
CHAPTER 5
Analysis of Papers Published in China’s STM Journals Based on Domestic Databases . .. .. 115
5.1 Disciplinary Distribution of China’s Scientific Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.2 Regional Distribution of China’s Scientific Journal Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.3 Publishing Institution Distribution of China’s Scientific Journals . . . . . . . . . 122
5.4 Analysis of Funded Papers Published in China’s Scientific Journals . . . . . . . 125
5.5 Analysis of Papers with Overseas Authorship and Internationally Co-Authored Papers .. 131
5.6 Academic Influence of Papers Published in China’s SCI Journals . . . . . . . . . 134
