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Journal ofCentralChinaNormalUniversity(Humanities and Social Sciences)
Launched in February 1955 (publicly issued at home and abroad since 1978),Journal of Central China Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences)is a comprehensive academic journal in humanities and social sciences sponsored by CCNU under the supervision of Ministry of Education. It was on the list of first Chinese core journals in 1995, and was included in Ministry of Education’s Prestigious Journals Project in 2006. In 2012, it became one of the first periodicals to receive financial support from the National Fund of Social Sciences, and was awarded Top 10 Prestigious Journals of Hubei in the same year. In 2013, it won a publishing award granted by the government of Hubei Province , and was put on the list of China ’s Top 100 Periodicals in Social Sciences.
The journal strictly obeys laws and regulations such as Copy Right Law of the People’s Republic of China , and always adheres to the Party’s basic line. It has been highly praised by its supervisors for a comprehensive, precise publicity of the Party’s line, principles and policies.
As a prestigious journal with deep humanistic concerns and special attention to key issues in social reform and development, the journal commits itself to the historical continuity and theoretical innovation of academic research, as well as the dissemination of latest high-level academic achievements. It aims to maintain its status as an academic pioneer by making the best of CCNU’s research strengths in various fields.
The journal has enjoyed expanding academic and social influence in recent years due to its consistent efforts in maintaining high publishing standards. According to the 2014-2015 statistics of CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index) source journals,Journal of Central China Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences)ranks third among China ’s HEI journals. InA Guide to the Humanities＆Social Science Core Journals in China (2013 Edition)released by Chinese Social Sciences Appraisal Center, the journal is ranked fourth among China’s comprehensive humanities and social sciences core journals. It is also one of the humanities and social sciences journals whose articles are most frequently reprinted by the three influential digests, i.e.Xinhua Digest,ChineseSocial Science DigestandChina University Academic Abstracts.
The journal has also made substantial progress in gaining international influence. Special issues in English,Politics and Society, have been published since 2013, which focus on studies in China ’s political and social issues. The issues mainly consist of original English articles, but there’re also selected translations fromJournal of Central China Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences). On an agreement with German publisher Springer in May 2014,Politics and Societyis now in global circulation through open access.
Journal of Central China Normal University (Natural Sciences)
Journal ofCentralChina Normal University (Natural Sciences)is a comprehensive academic journal in natural sciences sponsored by CCNU under the supervision of Ministry of Education. Launched in 1955, it is one of the first HEI journals after the founding of new China . It was published quarterly from 1980 to 2011, and became a bimonthly in 2012. It is now one of China ’s comprehensive natural sciences core journals and also a source journal for CSTPC (Chinese Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations).
Operated in accordance to the government’s principles and policies about press and publication, the journal always advocates innovation and the pursuit of truth. It aims to contribute to CCNU’s teaching and research, and cultivate new talents for the academic world. Over the past six decades, the journal has developed into an important channel to showcase CCNU’s latest progress in teaching and research as well as the academic achievements of scholars at home and abroad, with a circulation of several thousand in dozens of countries and regions. It has established contacts with hundreds of institutions of higher learning, libraries, research institutes and scientific and technical information institutions and enjoys a widening academic influence with an increasing citation frequency. According toChinese S & T Journal CitationReport published by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), a prestigious appraisal institution for scientific and technical journals,Journal of Central China Normal University (Natural Sciences)have ranked high among journals of Chinese normal universities and colleges in terms of both impact factor and citation frequency over the years.
In 1999,Journal of Central China Normal University (Natural Sciences)became one of the Top 50 Scientific and Technical Journals of Hubei, and was awarded Excellent Journal of Hubei. In the expert evaluation organized by Ministry of Education, it won First Prize of Excellent HEI Journals in Natural Sciences, and was put on the list of China ’s Top 50 HEI Journals. From 2001 to 2012, it won the award of Excellent Journal of Hubei four times consecutively, and was awarded by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television for its high economic returns and great social effects. It won the award of China ’s Excellent Scientific and Technical HEI Journal three times, in 2008, 2010 and 2012 respectively. In 2013, the journal won the Contribution Award for HEI Discipline Construction.
Journal of Central China Normal University (Natural Sciences)has been listed as a source journal by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) and Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD). It has joined China Journal Net and the periodical database developed by Wanfang Data, and has also been included in CAJ-CD (China Academic Journals-CD), a large consecutively-published database. The journal’s articles have been reprinted by or included in many abstract journals and databases, such as EBSCOhost of US, Abstracts Journal (AJ) of Russia, Chemistry Abstracts (CA) of US, Biological Abstracts (BA) of US, Mathematical Reviews (MR) of US, Zentralblatt MATH (ZM) of Germany, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) of US, Zoological Record (ZR) of UK, Index of Copernicus (IC) of Poland,Chinese Mathematical Abstracts,Chinese Physics Abstracts,Chinese Journal of Inorganic Analytical ChemistryandChinese Geographical and Resources Abstracts.