About Journal of Jiangsu University (Natural Science Edition)

Journal of Jiangsu University (Natural Science Edition)

Overview and identity

Journal of Jiangsu University (Natural Science Edition) is an engineering-focused scholarly journal published by Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China. It is identified by ISSN 1671-7775. Its Chinese title is Jiangsu Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban), and its standard abbreviation is J. Jiangsu Univ. (Nat. Sci. Ed.). Journal-ranking services classify it under Engineering (miscellaneous), and record its indexed coverage as running continuously from 2005 — with Scopus-derived coverage listings extending to 2025. This profile records the verified bibliographic identity of the journal — its identifiers, publisher, city, engineering scope and coverage history — together with the history of the university whose research it carries, taking care to distinguish it from the same university's other editions and from the journals of other Jiangsu universities, such as the Journal of Southeast University (Natural Science Edition), whose ISSN 1001-0505 is entirely separate.

The journal's volume sequence can be followed in its indexed articles: volume 41 appeared in 2020 and volume 44 in 2023, an annual volume rhythm consistent with a long-running university periodical. Its articles carry DOIs built on its own ISSN, in the form 10.3969/j.issn.1671-7775 followed by year, issue and article number, which makes each paper citable by a stable identifier tied directly to the journal's registration.

Jiangsu University: history of the journal's home

Jiangsu University is a key comprehensive university in Zhenjiang, a historic city on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It was approved by the Ministry of Education in August 2001 through the merger of the former Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang Medical College and Zhenjiang Normal College. Its educational heritage is much older: it traces its origins to the Sanjiang Normal School established in 1902, and its main predecessor developed through the Zhenjiang Agricultural Machinery Institute founded in 1960. That main institution was designated one of the 88 national key universities by the State Council in 1978 and became one of the first institutions authorised to confer doctoral and master's degrees in 1981.

The university presents itself as China's earliest institution to establish agricultural machinery disciplines and to develop agricultural engineering education systematically, cultivating the first cohorts of agricultural machinery undergraduates and master's graduates and China's first PhD and postdoctoral researchers in the field. That engineering lineage — agricultural machinery, fluid machinery and vehicle engineering among its historic strengths — is the soil in which a natural-science edition edited at Jiangsu University grows, and it explains why the journal's classified scope is engineering rather than the pure sciences.

Sponsorship, publisher and editorial home

Ranking and indexing services name Jiangsu University itself as the journal's publisher, and the journal's country of publication as China. In the Chinese university-journal system, the sponsoring university supervises the title's editorial direction and appoints its leadership, while the university's editorial office handles production; readers evaluating any article can therefore trace responsibility from the authors through the editorial office in Zhenjiang to the university named in the journal's records. The journal stands alongside the university's other editions as the natural-science and engineering member of its journal family.

Jiangsu University today is a large comprehensive institution whose programmes span engineering, science, medicine, management, economics, law, education, literature, history and art, and whose engineering identity remains its defining feature. Sixteen of its disciplines have been ranked among the top 1 per cent globally by ESI, including engineering, materials science, chemistry, agricultural science, computer science, physics and mathematics, with agricultural science, engineering, chemistry and materials science in the top 0.1 per cent. A journal of natural science and engineering edited inside such a university has a deep internal supply of research to publish, and an equally deep internal first readership.

Scope: engineering as the organising field

The journal's scope is recorded by SCImago and related services in a single category: Engineering (miscellaneous). That deliberately general classification is the honest description of a university natural-science edition with an engineering centre of gravity. It publishes across the engineering sciences as practised at Jiangsu University — mechanical engineering and fluid machinery, materials and surface engineering, energy and power equipment, vehicles and agricultural engineering — together with the applied natural-science work that supports them. The two indexed examples examined in the next sections, published four volumes apart, show what that scope means in practice.

Published research: materials, corrosion and cavitation

In 2023, in volume 44, issue 3, on page 351, the journal published a study of the effect of pre-corrosion in sodium chloride solution on the surface cavitation erosion of 304 stainless steel, by Liu Haixia and colleagues, under DOI 10.3969/j.issn.1671-7775.2023.03.015. The paper explored how corrosion affects cavitation erosion, performing experiments on the corrosion and cavitation erosion of 304 stainless steel samples using different concentrations of sodium chloride solution, with keywords covering cavitation erosion, austenitic stainless steel, material erosion, stainless steel, surface morphology and surface roughness.

Cavitation damage is a practical problem for exactly the machinery in which Jiangsu University specialises — pumps, fluid machinery and hydraulic equipment, whose metal surfaces are attacked by collapsing vapour bubbles, and whose working life depends on how their materials resist that attack. A paper joining corrosion science to cavitation testing therefore sits squarely in the journal's engineering scope, and in the research tradition of its home university.

Published research: energy equipment and wind turbines

In 2020, in volume 41, issue 2, on page 237, the journal published a study of the calculation and test verification of main bearing temperatures in wind turbine generator units, by Deng Zhidang and Sun Tao, under DOI 10.3969/j.issn.1671-7775.2020.02.018. During power generation, temperature tests on the front and rear bearings of the generator were conducted to obtain temperature and temperature-rise curves, and the paper's indexed subjects include body temperature, the finite element method, temperature effects, friction and viscosity.

Wind-power equipment is energy engineering of direct national importance, and bearing temperature is a governing factor in a turbine generator's reliability. Taken together with the cavitation paper, this example shows the journal's range within engineering: from the surfaces of stainless steel in a laboratory to the rotating machinery of a wind farm, published in the same Zhenjiang title, in the same DOI series, three years apart.

Coverage, indexing and metrics

The journal's indexed coverage is its clearest external record. ResearchBite's Scopus-derived listing gives its coverage history as 2005 to 2023, Resurchify's as 2005 to 2024, and SciJournal's record gives its active years as 2005 to 2025 — three services, drawing on the same underlying Scopus data, agreeing that the journal has been covered continuously since 2005 and into the mid-2020s. SciJournal records an h-index drawn from SCImago data and reports the journal's 2025 impact figure as higher than in 2024; ResearchBite likewise records an SJR for the title and places it in the third quartile of its Engineering (miscellaneous) category. The exact metric values change from year to year and from service to service, and this profile does not rest on any single one of them; what they jointly verify is a continuously indexed, cited engineering journal of two decades' standing.

For researchers, that continuity matters. A coverage run from 2005 to 2025 means the journal's back volumes form a searchable two-decade record of engineering research as reported from Zhenjiang, in the language in which most of that work was first published, retrievable through the standard international indexing services by its ISSN 1671-7775.

Readership and audience

The journal's core readership is the Chinese-reading engineering community: researchers, engineers and postgraduate students in mechanical, materials, energy and agricultural engineering, at Jiangsu University itself and at universities, institutes and enterprises across China. Because its scope is engineering in general rather than one branch of it, its audience crosses the boundaries between the engineering sub-disciplines — the fluid-machinery specialist and the wind-energy engineer meet in the same journal — while its applied-science contents also serve readers in chemistry, physics and mathematics whose work feeds engineering applications. Its Scopus coverage gives its articles a second, international discoverability beyond that domestic readership.

Place in Chinese scholarly publishing

Journal of Jiangsu University (Natural Science Edition) belongs to the large, structured system of Chinese academic journals in which universities maintain editions for their research communities. Within that system it is the engineering voice of a university founded in its present form in 2001 from a merger, but heir to an agricultural-engineering tradition reaching back to 1960 and an educational lineage reaching back to 1902. Understanding the title requires the facts assembled here: published by Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang, identified by ISSN 1671-7775, classified in Engineering (miscellaneous), covered by Scopus continuously from 2005 to 2025, and publishing work of the kind illustrated by its cavitation-erosion and wind-turbine papers. On those measures it is an established part of China's engineering literature, and its record continues to grow volume by volume from its base on the south bank of the Yangtze.