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The "Outline of the China Association for Science and Technology 2035 Action Plan" voted and passed at the 9th meeting of the 10th National Committee of the China Association for Science and Technology on the 18th proposed to strengthen the ranks of first-class scientific and technological journals and promote the construction of 1,000 scientific and technological journals with global influence by 2035.
Science and technology journals directly reflect a country's scientific and technological competitiveness and cultural soft power. Cultivating world-class science and technology journals is an important support for building a world power in science and technology. In July 2019, the China Association for Science and Technology and four other departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Deepening Reforms to Cultivate World-Class Science and Technology Journals", which made comprehensive arrangements for promoting the construction of science and technology journals in my country; in September of the same year, the China Association for Science and Technology and seven other departments launched the China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan, which takes a five-year cycle to build a support system for the national science and technology journal system.
It is understood that China's Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan has supported nearly 300 scientific and technological journals to enter the first-class ranks, and the number of journals ranked in the top 5% and top 25% of the international influence in their disciplines has increased by 6 times and 2 times respectively compared with 2018.
At present, the second phase of the China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan has been fully launched, with 450 journals and 13 clustered publishing units included in the support scope, promoting the upgrade of journal construction from single journal breakthroughs to creating an ecological system, and promoting cluster and platform construction in an integrated manner, to support my country's scientific and technological journals to continue to "create first-class".
According to the outline, in the next 10 years, the China Association for Science and Technology will implement the China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan on a rolling basis, expand the support coverage of mid-level science and technology journals, expand the scale of cluster group pilot projects, build an independent evaluation system, broaden international manuscript source channels, promote the development of open science, etc., to promote the continuous improvement of the influence of my country's science and technology journals.
