Fresh approach sought to promote academic journals

More needs to be done to attract high-quality scientific and technological papers to be first published in domestic academic journals, hundreds of industry insiders were told as they gathered in Beijing for the 2017 Forum on the Future of Chinese Academic Journals on Nov 22-23.

"We've made great progress in science and technology, and domestic academic journals over the past year," says Zhu Bangfen, 69, a condensed matter physicist and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"However, the progress of academic journals has lagged behind that of scientific research."