In December, 2016, China National Knowledge Infrastructure published Annual report on the influential factors of Chinese Academic Journals (humanity & social sciences·2016 edition). The report showed the statistics of influential factors of Chinese academic journals in 2015. Our journal stands fifth among human and social sciences periodicals (623 in total). The top 10 periodicals are: Social Sciences in China, Open Times, Journal of Renmin University of China, Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences), Journal of Central China Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences), Social Science, Academic Monthly, Journal of Peking University (Humanities and Social Sciences), Jilin University Journal (Social Sciences Edition), and Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Sciences).
Influence of an academic journal usually refers to scientific achievements it published during a certain period and its ability to promote academic researches and application. With the accelerating of scientific innovation, prevailing of cross-disciplinary studies, advance of positioning and publication for humanity and social sciences journals with times, diversity of publishing ways and increasingly spread of knowledge, Annual report on the influential factors of Chinese Academic Journals, based on the journal influential factors, provides a reliable index to measure the impact and the quality of an academic journal, which reflecting the level of human and social sciences journal all over the country with a certain authority and drawing widely attention of many scientific institutes, universities and researchers. Our journal stands 5th according to Annual report on the influential factors of Chinese Academic Journals (humanity & social sciences 2016 edition).
