About Journal of Southeast University (English Edition)

Journal of Southeast University (English Edition)

The Journal of Southeast University (English Edition) is an English-language journal published by Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu, with ISSN 1003-7985. Index coverage of the journal is recorded from 2003, and its forty-first volume appeared in 2025. It publishes English-language research from the university, with the articles in its 2025 issues showing a strong engineering character — civil and structural engineering, transportation, communications and allied fields — presenting the work of one of China's leading technological universities to international readers.

The English Edition of a University Journal

Southeast University in Nanjing is one of China's oldest and strongest technological universities, with particular distinction in civil engineering, architecture, transportation and information science. Like several major Chinese universities, it publishes its research journal in parallel forms: a Chinese-language natural-science edition for the domestic community, and this English Edition, which carries selected research in English for international readers. The English Edition is the university's window on the world, and its identity is defined by that function.

Its ISSN, 1003-7985, and its continuous volume sequence — volume 41 in 2025, following volume 39 in 2023 in the records sampled for this profile — establish it as a long-running serial rather than an occasional proceedings. Index coverage recorded from 2003 in the candidate record marks the period across which its contents have been visible through bibliographic services.

What Its Pages Contain: Evidence from the 2025 Volume

The most concrete guide to the journal's scope is its own recent contents. Volume 41, number 2, of June 2025 — published through the journal's platform with Higher Education Press — opens with a study of the seismic fragility of unreinforced masonry buildings fitted with bonded scrap-tire rubber isolators, by authors from Tongji University's State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering. It continues with a multiuser transmission scheme for millimetre-wave systems assisted by a reconfigurable-intelligent-surface subarray, from Southeast University's own National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory.

The same issue carries research on the mechanical properties and damage evolution of sprayed ultra-high-performance concrete, on the effects of bolt-joint loosening on the dynamic characteristics of an electric angle-steel transmission tower, and on the discrimination of detour behaviour among shared-bicycle users — civil engineering, materials, communications and transportation research between one set of covers. Earlier content in the records sampled includes a study of truck platoons in diverging areas under a connected and automated environment, published in volume 39 in 2023.

Two further features of the 2025 articles deserve note as evidence of the journal's working character. The papers carry bilingual citation lines, giving the journal's name in the form 'Journal of Southeast University (English Edition)' with year, volume, issue and pages, so that its English contents can be cited uniformly in international bibliographies. And their foundation acknowledgements — to the National Natural Science Foundation of China and to national key research programmes and state key laboratories — show the journal publishing competitively funded, peer-reviewed project research from China's national science system, not internal reports. A university English edition that carries funded work from other leading universities, as the Tongji-authored seismic paper in the same issue shows, is functioning as a genuine journal of its field rather than as a house magazine, and its record should be read in that light.

Scope: Engineering Across the University's Strengths

Those contents define the journal's scope in practice: the engineering and technology fields in which Southeast University and its contributing community work. Civil and structural engineering — seismic protection, advanced concrete, towers and infrastructure — is prominent, reflecting the university's standing in those fields. Transportation engineering, from connected vehicles to cycling behaviour, and communications engineering, from the university's famous mobile-communications laboratory, are equally at home.

Contributions are not confined to the home university: the Tongji and Hohai University authorships in the 2025 issue show a journal that publishes Chinese engineering research generally, in English, while remaining anchored in its own institution's community. That openness is what makes it a journal rather than a house record of one university's output.

Publishing Arrangements

The journal is published by Southeast University, and its articles appear through the Higher Education Press journal platform, as the PDF records of its 2025 articles show, with DOIs in the form 10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985 followed by year, issue and article numbers — a DOI pattern that ties each article directly to the journal's ISSN. Articles carry received and revised dates, foundation-item acknowledgements to bodies such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and bilingual citation information, the standard apparatus of Chinese academic journals in English dress.

That apparatus matters for identification and use: a researcher encountering one of its papers anywhere can trace it to the journal, its university and its volume and issue without ambiguity.

Why a University Publishes in English

The existence of English editions of Chinese university journals reflects a structural fact of world science: research published only in Chinese is largely invisible internationally, however strong it is. A university of Southeast University's standing, whose civil-engineering and communications research competes globally, needs an English channel of its own for work it wishes to place directly before international readers, reviewers and collaborators.

The English Edition performs that function in curated form. Not everything the university publishes can or should be translated or re-presented; the edition selects research of international interest and publishes it to international standards of presentation, with English full text, structured abstracts and keywords.

Readership

Its readers are researchers in its fields worldwide who follow Chinese engineering work, the university's own international partners and alumni, and libraries collecting English-language Chinese scientific journals. For a specialist in, for example, seismic isolation or millimetre-wave communications, its issues offer Chinese results — often from very large test programmes and unique facilities — that are not available elsewhere in English.

Domestically, the edition also serves Chinese authors: publication in English in their own university's journal is a step into international scholarly communication, under the editorial guidance of their home institution.

Distinguishing the Edition

The Journal of Southeast University (English Edition) must be distinguished from the university's Chinese-language Journal of Southeast University (Natural Science Edition), a separate serial with its own ISSN, to which this journal's articles themselves refer when citing related Chinese work. The English Edition is not a translation journal in the mechanical sense; it is a distinct English-language publication with its own contents, identified by ISSN 1003-7985 and its volume sequence reaching 41 in 2025.

It is likewise distinct from the English editions of other universities' journals — Nanjing's, Xi'an's, Wuhan's — each of which belongs to its own institution. In this directory it is recorded under Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, accordingly.

Access

The journal's articles are accessed through its Higher Education Press platform, where its issues and article PDFs are maintained, and through the indexing services in which its coverage is recorded from 2003. Individual articles are citable by their DOIs, as shown in the 2025 records used here.

For this profile the verifiable record has been kept to what those sources establish: publisher, city, ISSN, volume continuity, recorded index coverage and the documented character of its recent contents. No impact metric is claimed for the journal, none having been established in the sources behind this record.

Why the Journal Matters

English editions are the connective tissue between Chinese university research and world science. The Journal of Southeast University (English Edition) has carried that role for one of China's leading technological universities across more than forty volumes, publishing civil, transportation, communications and materials research in English. It is included in this directory as a documented Nanjing academic journal of engineering and technology.