About Journal of Xinjiang University (Natural Science Edition in Chinese and English)

Journal of Xinjiang University (Natural Science Edition in Chinese and English)

Overview and identity

Journal of Xinjiang University (Natural Science Edition in Chinese and English) is a comprehensive scientific and technological academic journal under the supervision and sponsorship of Xinjiang University, based in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. It was founded in 1975, is publicly distributed both domestically and internationally, and is identified by ISSN 2096-7675 and domestic number CN 65-1316/N. It is published bimonthly in both Chinese and English. Its editorial office, which is responsible for editing and publishing the journal, is located at No. 666 Shengli Road, Tianshan District, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Its journal page is hosted on the SciOpen platform at sciopen.com/journal/2096-7675, where its editor-in-chief is listed as Wang Liejun.

The journal states its aims plainly: based in Xinjiang and facing the whole country, it takes serving Xinjiang University's work and promoting the university's Double First-Class initiative as its duty, and disseminating the latest scientific research findings as its primary aim, adhering to the principles of truth-seeking, rigour, service and innovation, and striving to build a communication platform with academic leadership value for the majority of scientific researchers. This profile records those verified facts — founding, sponsorship, identifiers, frequency, language, editorial address, columns, indexing and honours — from the journal's own published description.

Fifty years of development

A history published in the journal itself for its fiftieth anniversary records that, since the publication of its inaugural issue in 1975, the journal has consistently upheld its founding aspiration. Over those fifty years it evolved from a semi-annual and then quarterly publication to a bimonthly one, and its language expanded from Chinese only to bilingual publication in Chinese and English — a change now built into its very title. The same anniversary account notes that the journal's development records the progress of Xinjiang University's disciplines and scientific research, and the growth trajectory of emerging scholars.

The anniversary analysis also quantifies the journal's disciplinary character. In serving the development of the university's disciplines, the national key discipline of Applied Mathematics, the autonomous region's advantageous discipline of Biology, and the two first-class disciplines of Chemistry and of Computer Science and Technology have the highest number of articles published in the journal, together accounting for 60.6 per cent of all articles it has published. The article appeared in 2024, in volume 41, issue 5, on pages 513 to 518, in an issue marking both the centennial celebration of Xinjiang University and the fiftieth anniversary of the journal itself.

Xinjiang University: the sponsoring institution

Xinjiang University traces its origin to 1924, when the Xinjiang Russian and Law School was founded in Urumqi; it was converted to Xinjiang College in 1935, took the name Xinjiang University in 1960, and on 30 December 2000 the former Xinjiang University and the Xinjiang Engineering Institute merged into the new Xinjiang University. It is a comprehensive research-oriented university, one of the first national key universities under Project 211 and among the first 42 Double First-Class universities in China, co-built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The university offers thirteen discipline categories, from philosophy, economics, law, education, literature and history to science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and interdisciplinary studies.

A journal sponsored by such a university has a defined institutional duty, which this journal states in its aims: to showcase the characteristics of its disciplines and to promote the construction of the Double First-Class at the university. The editorial address at No. 666 Shengli Road, in the Tianshan District of Urumqi, places the journal on the university's home ground in the capital of the autonomous region, at the foot of the Tianshan mountains whose name the district itself carries.

Columns and scope: mathematical, physical and chemical sciences

The journal organises its contents in named columns: Research Headlines; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Information Science and Technology; Life Science and Technology; Ecology-Resources-Environment; and Engineering Technology. From time to time it also plans special topics focusing on the research and development construction of the eight industrial clusters of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The Mathematical and Physical Sciences column carries the journal's work in the disciplines that dominate its historical record: applied mathematics, a national key discipline at the university, and the physical sciences. The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering column likewise reflects one of the university's first-class disciplines, chemistry, and connects the journal to the chemical industries of the region. Because the journal itself reports that mathematics, biology, chemistry and computer science together supply over three-fifths of its articles, these columns are not a formal list but a description of where its contents actually come from.

Scope: information, life sciences, ecology and engineering

The Information Science and Technology column covers computing and information research, the second of the university's first-class disciplines represented strongly in the journal, computer science and technology. The Life Science and Technology column carries biological research, reflecting biology's status as an advantageous discipline of the autonomous region. The Ecology-Resources-Environment column is the journal's home for work on the environments of Xinjiang — a vast autonomous region of deserts, oases, grasslands and mountain systems, in which questions of water, land and resources are central scientific concerns. The Engineering Technology column completes the set, carrying applied and engineering work, including the special topics planned around the region's eight industrial clusters.

Research Headlines, the opening column, gives the editors a place for the work they wish to feature. Taken together, the seven columns make the journal a general scientific and technological periodical rather than a specialist one: its unity comes from its institution and its region, not from a single discipline, and a reader of one issue can move from applied mathematics to ecology to engineering technology within a single bimonthly number.

Indexing, databases and honours

The journal's own description lists its database inclusion in detail. In China it is included in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang Data, the VIP Chinese Science and Technology Periodicals Database, the Superstar Journals Database (Chaoxing) and Changjiang Wenku (CJWK); internationally it lists the American Chemical Abstracts in its online version, the German Mathematics Abstracts and EBSCO, among others. The pairing of Chemical Abstracts and the German mathematics abstracts with the Chinese databases matches the journal's own disciplinary profile, in which chemistry and mathematics are two of its strongest fields.

Its honours, as listed by the journal, include designation as a China Science and Technology Core Journal and as an RCCSE Chinese Core Academic Journal (A-), recognition as an Outstanding Science and Technology Journal in Chinese Universities, selection as an Outstanding Chinese Science and Technology Journal of the Xiniu Program in 2022 and 2024, the Xinjiang Journal Award for consecutive years, a Q1 ranking in the Annual Report for Chinese Academic Journal Impact Factors for 2022, and status as a source journal of the China Science and Technology Papers and Citation Database and of the World Journal Clout Index (WJCI).

Submissions, access and readership

Submissions are made through the journal's official submission website on the CNKI publishing platform, at publish.cnki.net/xjdz, where authors register in the submission system before submitting a manuscript; the journal also publishes telephone numbers for its editorial office, and its CNKI journal portal carries its editorial notices, including the procedure by which authors may appeal, in writing to the editorial department, against review comments or results. The journal's archive is presented on SciOpen, where volumes run through 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and into 2026, with volume 43 appearing in 2026.

Its readership follows from its aims: based in Xinjiang and facing the whole country, it serves scientific researchers across China, with a particular role for the research community of Xinjiang itself. Publication in both Chinese and English, in a bimonthly rhythm, makes its contents accessible to the domestic practitioners who form its core audience while giving its featured research a route to readers outside China through its English-language presentation and its international abstracting services.

Place in Chinese scholarly publishing

Journal of Xinjiang University (Natural Science Edition in Chinese and English) belongs to the large, structured system of Chinese academic journals in which comprehensive universities sponsor titles for their research communities, but it is distinguished within that system by its half-century run, its move from Chinese-only to bilingual publication, and its explicit regional mission within a national circulation. Understanding it requires the facts assembled here: founded in 1975, supervised and sponsored by Xinjiang University, edited at No. 666 Shengli Road in Urumqi, published bimonthly under ISSN 2096-7675 and CN 65-1316/N, organised in seven named columns, and indexed and honoured as recorded above. On those measures it is an established part of the scientific literature of northwestern China, and its record continues to grow issue by issue from its base in Urumqi.