About Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection

Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection

Overview and identity

Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection is a Chinese-language journal devoted to corrosion science and the protection of metals. Its Chinese title is Zhongguo Fushi yu Fanghu Xuebao, and its International Standard Serial Number is ISSN 1005-4537. It is published in Shenyang, Liaoning, by the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on behalf of the Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection. That combination — a national academy institute acting as publisher and a specialist learned society lending its name to the title — defines the journal. It is not a general materials journal that occasionally touches on corrosion. Corrosion and protection are its entire territory, from fundamental mechanisms to the engineering methods used to slow, monitor and prevent damage in service.

The journal's official site is at jcscp.org, where recent volumes, article abstracts in Chinese and English, citation information and digital object identifiers are presented. Articles carry DOIs under the prefix 10.11902/1005.4537, a prefix that incorporates the journal's ISSN and makes individual papers traceable in international citation systems. Volume numbering had reached the mid-40s by 2024 — volume 44 appeared that year — which indicates a founding in 1981. More than four decades of continuous publication have made the title one of the longest-established specialist corrosion periodicals in China.

The Shenyang base and the Institute of Metal Research

Shenyang is a fitting home for a corrosion journal. The Institute of Metal Research, known as IMR, was founded in 1953 as one of the first research institutes established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Its first-term director was the distinguished physical metallurgist Professor Li Xun. IMR works on high-performance metallic materials, new inorganic non-metallic materials and advanced composite materials, covering structure, properties, processing, synthesis and application, and corrosion and protection have been part of that mission from within its research system.

In 1999 the Chinese Academy of Sciences approved the merger of IMR with the Institute of Corrosion and Protection of Metals, strengthening the corrosion side of the combined institute. IMR's research system has included a laboratory for corrosion and protection, an environmental corrosion centre and a national engineering research centre for corrosion control of metals. The institute lists the Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection among the academic journals it edits and publishes in cooperation with academic societies, alongside titles such as Acta Metallurgica Sinica and the Journal of Materials Science and Technology. For readers, that pedigree matters: the journal is edited inside an institution that itself runs corrosion laboratories, field exposure work and national corrosion-control engineering research, rather than at a distance from the laboratory bench.

Scope: mechanisms, environments and materials

The journal publishes fundamental and applied corrosion science. Fundamental work addresses corrosion mechanisms — how metals dissolve, how passive films form and break down, how localised attack such as pitting and crevice corrosion develops, and how stress and corrosion act together. Applied work addresses the environments in which Chinese industry actually operates: marine and deep-sea exposure, oil and gas production and pipelines, petrochemical plant, nuclear power systems and general industrial atmospheres and waters.

The range of metals covered follows the range of metals in service. Steels dominate much of the contents, from carbon and pipeline steels to stainless steels, but the journal also publishes on aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium and high-temperature alloys. A 2024 review of corrosion testing and analysis for magnesium alloys, for example, discussed dissolution characteristics, corrosion mechanisms and protective measures for the lightest engineering metal, while work on powder-metallurgy aluminium alloys compared new 9C-series grades with the established 5083 alloy for marine use. The common thread is not the alloy system but the question: how does this material degrade in this environment, and what can be done about it?

Recent research themes in its pages

Recent issues show the breadth of that question in practice. One study examined hydrogen damage in pipeline steel, a central concern for oil and gas transmission, where hydrogen generated by corrosion or present in the service environment can enter steel and reduce its resistance to cracking. Another line of work concerns stress corrosion cracking, including studies relevant to high-strength steels used in aircraft landing gear, where a component must carry severe loads and where a corrosion-assisted crack can have safety-critical consequences. Monitoring matters here as well: a 2024 paper described monitoring technology for stress corrosion crack propagation in aluminium alloy based on optical fibre Bragg gratings, turning a hidden degradation process into a measurable signal.

Marine and deep-sea corrosion form another strong theme. A study of 316L stainless steel in the deep-sea environment investigated crevice corrosion for combinations of the steel with itself, with polytetrafluoroethylene and with nitrile butadiene rubber, using deep-sea exposure, simulated deep-sea testing and electrochemical techniques. Work on 7075-T651 aluminium alloy examined how nitrate and galvanic coupling affect crevice corrosion in neutral sodium chloride solution — the kind of chloride environment that makes localised attack so persistent in marine and coastal service. These papers illustrate the journal's characteristic method: combine exposure or simulation with electrochemical testing and surface analysis, rather than relying on a single measurement.

Protection: coatings, inhibitors and new materials

Protection is half of the journal's title, and half of its purpose. A 2023 review surveyed research progress on carbon dots in the field of metal corrosion and protection, describing carbon dots as a new zero-dimensional member of the carbon family with strong adsorption capacity, low toxicity, high solubility, good stability and abundant surface functional groups, attracting attention as corrosion inhibitors and as fillers for anticorrosion coatings. The appeal is clear from the review's framing: avoiding metal corrosion has become a key issue because metals are so widely applied, and there is an urgent need for low-toxicity, high-efficiency anticorrosive materials.

Inhibitor research in the journal also addresses established industrial problems. Work on imidazoline inhibitors examined their inhibition of carbon dioxide-induced corrosion of carbon steel under conditions where oil and water alternately wet the surface, a realistic complication in oil production where carbon dioxide corrosion is a routine threat and inhibitors are the most commonly used control method. Coatings research ranges from conventional protective systems to specialised products such as epoxy-based polar marine ice-breaking coatings designed for low-temperature wear and corrosion resistance on ships operating in ice. Reviews of corrosion resistance in high-entropy alloys, published in 2024, extend the protection discussion to new alloy design itself, noting that high-entropy alloys can display better corrosion resistance, high-temperature wear resistance and comprehensive mechanical properties than traditional alloys, while high-temperature corrosion remains a concern for alloys that must serve hot.

Energy, nuclear and industrial systems

Corrosion is an operating cost and a safety issue across the energy industries, and the journal reflects that. A 2024 review examined the relationship between hot functional test water chemistry and the corrosion behaviour of component materials in pressurised water reactor nuclear power plants, connecting water chemistry control directly to materials performance. Another 2024 article reviewed risk-based inspection technology in the petrochemical industry, describing it as an equipment risk management technology adopted in Western developed countries over the past thirty years and widely used in petrochemical plants. Together with work on zinc anodes for neutral aqueous zinc-ion batteries — where hydrogen evolution, passivation and dendrite formation affect stability and safety — these articles show a journal that follows corrosion wherever energy is produced, stored or converted.

Indexing, record and readership

The journal is indexed in Scopus and in the Chinese Science Citation Database, CSCD, and it is recognised within the Chinese core journal system. Those listings place its contents in both international and domestic discovery systems: a paper on deep-sea crevice corrosion or carbon-dot inhibitors can be found by a researcher searching Scopus abroad and by a Chinese engineer searching domestic databases at home. Its bilingual presentation on jcscp.org, with English titles and abstracts for Chinese-language articles, supports that dual readership.

Its readers are corrosion scientists, materials researchers, and engineers responsible for pipelines, ships, offshore structures, chemical plant, power generation and transport equipment. For that audience the journal offers something a general materials title cannot: concentration. Issue after issue returns to degradation and protection, building a cumulative record in which a new inhibitor, coating or test method can be judged against decades of earlier work on the same problems.

Distinctions and place among Chinese journals

The journal should not be confused with neighbouring titles. It is distinct from Corrosion Science and Protection Technology, a separate Shenyang sister title in the same institute family, and from Materials Protection, a Wuhan-published journal on corrosion and surface protection with a different publisher and ISSN. It is also different in kind from the broad materials journals published in Shenyang by the same institute, such as the Chinese Journal of Materials Research and Acta Metallurgica Sinica, which treat corrosion as one topic among many. Here corrosion is the subject itself.

Within WorldNM's directory of Chinese magazines and journals, the Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection represents the specialist scientific press at its most focused: a society journal, edited at a national academy institute founded in 1953, publishing since the early 1980s, and still documenting — in volume 44 and beyond — how China's metals corrode in its seas, pipelines, reactors and aircraft, and how that damage can be understood, monitored and prevented.