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The Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences) is the natural-science journal of Nanjing University, based in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province. Its print ISSN is 0469-5097, and its official website is published by the university at jns.nju.edu.cn, where the journal presents its current issues in both Chinese and English interfaces. The recommended ISO 4 abbreviation of the title is J. Nanjing Univ. Nat. Sci., the form under which its articles are cited in reference lists. As its name states, this is the natural-sciences side of Nanjing University's journal publishing — the channel for research from the university's science disciplines, distinct from any social-science or humanities counterpart.
The journal's longevity is visible in its volume numbering. On its official site, the issues for 2026 form volume 62 — the September 2026 issue is volume 62, issue 5 — a sequence that places the journal's origins in the mid-twentieth century and shows it publishing continuously into the present. A university journal that has reached its sixty-second volume is not a recent venture; it is one of the standing instruments through which a major Chinese university has reported its science for generations of researchers.
The surest guide to the journal's scope is the contents of its own recent issues, which the official site presents openly. The 2026 volume alone illustrates the breadth the words “natural sciences” carry at Nanjing University. One article in volume 62 applies lipid analysis of ancient pottery to a Pearl River Delta sand-dune site, using residue analysis to reconstruct how early coastal populations processed marine resources some 5,000 years ago — archaeology conducted with the tools of chemistry. Another studies how elevated carbon dioxide and copper and cadmium contamination together affect the fate of plant-derived organic matter in soil. A third reviews the environmental factors and physical mechanisms that govern the decay of tropical cyclones.
Alongside those earth- and environment-facing papers, the same volume carries work on head-related transfer function databases for spatial audio, on functional ultrasound imaging of visual pathways in the rat brain, on object detection in security-check X-ray images, on retinal vessel segmentation, on acceleration of diffusion-transformer inference, and on multimodal federated learning. Atmospheric science, soil science, archaeometry, acoustics, neuroscience, computer vision, medical image analysis and machine learning thus appear within a single volume of a single journal. That is the working meaning of “comprehensive” for this title: it publishes across the natural and information sciences of its university rather than within one department's boundaries.
Nanjing University traces its history to 1902, when Sanjiang Normal School was founded in Nanjing. Through the following decades the institution evolved through a succession of names — Liangjiang Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeast University, the Fourth Zhongshan University and National Central University — before becoming National Nanjing University in 1949 and, in 1950, simply Nanjing University. In the nationwide reorganisation of higher education in 1952, some of its units, including engineering and agriculture, were separated, while it merged with the liberal arts and sciences schools of the University of Nanking, founded in 1888. The university that emerged was a comprehensive institution centred on fundamental teaching and research in the arts and sciences.
That 1952 settlement explains the character of its natural-science journal. Nanjing University's identity since then has rested on strength in the fundamental sciences: its own and partner institutions' accounts single out astronomy and astrophysics, physics, materials science, chemistry and earth science as disciplines in which it performs outstandingly, and the university has long prided itself on being a science-research university even as it has grown into a multidisciplinary institution covering the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, technological sciences, life sciences, modern engineering and management. A natural-sciences journal is therefore not a peripheral publication at Nanjing; it reports from the historic core of the university's reputation.
The research infrastructure behind the journal's pages is substantial. Nanjing University's own research accounts describe national and state key laboratories in fields directly relevant to the journal's scope, including coordination chemistry, solid-state microstructures, pollution control and resource reuse, pharmaceutical biotechnology, novel software technology and mineral deposits research, together with a national laboratory for microstructures. Dozens of the university's faculty have been members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. When a university journal publishes soil-carbon experiments, cyclone modelling or microelectronics-adjacent computing research, it is drawing on exactly this laboratory base.
The disciplinary spread matters for readers interpreting the journal's contents. A paper on tropical-cyclone decay comes from an atmospheric-sciences tradition in which Nanjing is nationally prominent; a paper on pottery lipid residues comes from the meeting point of its earth sciences, chemistry and archaeology; a paper on federated learning comes from its computer science community, which the journal also serves. The journal binds these communities into one numbered volume sequence, so that the university's science can be followed as a whole as well as discipline by discipline.
The journal's official site organises its output by volume and issue and maintains an online-first page for manuscripts that have been accepted and posted before assignment to an issue, noting that such articles remain available from that page until they are placed. The 2026 volume illustrates the journal's regular rhythm: by its third issue it had already published review and research articles paginated into the mid-hundreds — the cyclone review appears at pages 335–346 of volume 62, issue 3 — and the September 2026 number is issue 5 of the volume. Page numbering running continuously across issues within a volume is the traditional pattern of Chinese university journals, and the citations shown on the site follow the standard form: journal title, year, volume, issue and page range.
The bilingual presentation of the site is also part of the journal's practice. Article titles and abstracts are presented in English on the English interface, making Nanjing's natural-science output discoverable to international readers, while the journal itself remains a Chinese university journal rooted in its domestic scholarly community. The abbreviation J. Nanjing Univ. Nat. Sci. and the print ISSN 0469-5097 together give that output a stable international citation identity.
Nanjing is one of China's historic capitals, a city on the Yangtze River in Jiangsu that served as the capital of successive dynasties and of the Republic of China, and it remains one of the country's great university cities. Nanjing University's historic Gulou campus stands in the city centre, and its Xianlin campus, opened in 2009, lies to the north-east. A journal published from this setting carries the name of both the city and the university into the scientific literature; citations to J. Nanjing Univ. Nat. Sci. are, among other things, a recurring reminder of Nanjing's place in Chinese science.
The university describes itself as one of China's key comprehensive universities under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education, and it belongs to the group of institutions supported through the national programmes for world-class university development. Its science journal shares that standing. When researchers elsewhere in China cite work from this journal, they are citing the output of a university whose fundamental-science departments have been national reference points since the mid-twentieth century — the period in which the journal's own volume sequence began.
Nanjing is home to many universities, and several publish journals with confusingly similar English names. The Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences) must be distinguished from the journals of Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Nanjing University of Science and Technology, each of which is a separate institution with its own natural-science edition and its own ISSN. The reliable identifiers for the journal profiled here are the ISSN 0469-5097, the publisher Nanjing University, the official site at jns.nju.edu.cn, and the abbreviation J. Nanjing Univ. Nat. Sci.
The “Natural Sciences” parenthesis in the title does similar work inside the university's own publishing: it marks the science journal as one edition of the Journal of Nanjing University, set apart from editions serving other fields. A citation that omits the edition or the ISSN can easily drift to the wrong Nanjing title, which is why directory records for this journal should always carry both the full title and 0469-5097 together.
The journal's readership follows from its scope. Within the university, it serves the science faculties whose work it publishes — mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, earth and atmospheric sciences, life and environmental sciences, electronic and computer sciences among them. Nationally, it serves researchers in those fields who follow Chinese-language comprehensive science journals for work from leading universities. Internationally, its English-language site and standard abbreviation make its contents traceable to scholars who track Chinese fundamental research through citations and abstracts.
Its scholarly role is the classic one of the Chinese comprehensive university journal, performed at an unusually research-intensive institution: to provide a peer-reviewed, university-published outlet in which fundamental results — including interdisciplinary work that sits between established specialist journals, such as chemistry applied to archaeological pottery — can appear in full, in Chinese, under the university's own name. The online-first system and the bilingual site show that classic role being carried on with contemporary publishing tools.
Verification of this title is straightforward because the journal maintains an official presence on its university's domain. The homepage recorded for it — jns.nju.edu.cn, under the ISSN path 0469-5097 — displays current issues, article abstracts and the online-first list, and it is the authoritative source for the journal's present status, contents and submission information. Bibliographic references such as Paperpile's abbreviation listing independently confirm the full title, the ISO 4 abbreviation J. Nanjing Univ. Nat. Sci. and the print ISSN 0469-5097. Between the official site and the standard bibliographic record, every core fact in this profile can be checked directly.
The Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences) is the standing scientific record of one of China's oldest comprehensive universities. Its volume sequence, reaching 62 in 2026, runs back to the mid-twentieth century; its host university, founded in 1902 and reshaped in 1952 around fundamental arts and sciences, is nationally distinguished in exactly the disciplines the journal publishes — physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth and atmospheric science, and the information sciences. Its recent contents, from tropical-cyclone physics to archaeological chemistry to federated learning, demonstrate that breadth in action. For directory users, the essentials are the full title with its Natural Sciences edition marker, ISSN 0469-5097, the abbreviation J. Nanjing Univ. Nat. Sci., and the official site on Nanjing University's own domain — the fixed points of a journal that has carried Nanjing science into print for more than six decades of volumes.
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