How many Chinese journals are included in the newly indexed 700 regional journals on Web of Science?

Abstract: Based on the current news via Thomson Reuters “700 new regional journals in the world have been added to Web of  Science since 2007”, we conducted an investigation to find out that 38 (5.4%) Chinese journals (including Hong Kong region) are included. The results also show that up to now a total of about 147 Chinese journals (113 from China Mainland, 8 from Hong Kong and 26 from Taiwan) have been included by SCI and SSCI & AHCI.

Key words: WoS (Web of Science), Index, Regional journals, Chinese Journals, China.

shows that the newly added 700 regional journals are mainly from Europe (364, 52%) and Asia-Pacific (199, 28.4%), and mostly about Social and Behavioral Science (161, 23%), Chemistry (148, 21.1%), and Agriculture Biology & Environmental Sciences (108, 15.4%). Among those 700 regional journals, how many are from China?

Up to now, a total of about 147 Chinese journals (113 from China Mainland, 8 from Hong Kong and 26 from Taiwan) have been included by SCI and SSCI & AHCI. Table 3 shows that 137 journals are indexed by SCI, and the remaining 10 are indexed by SSCI & AHCI.

原文作者：[1] Xiu-fang WU, Qiang FU, Helen (Yue-hong) ZHANG.Zhejiang Univ Sci A .2008 9(7):867-870.

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