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The Journal of Tongji University (Natural Science) is the comprehensive natural-science journal of Tongji University in Shanghai. Its print ISSN is 0253-374X and its Chinese national serial number is CN 31-1267/N — the 31 prefix being Shanghai's in the CN system. The recommended ISO 4 abbreviation of the title is J. Tongji Univ. Nat. Sci. It is a monthly Chinese core journal, and its own official introduction, published on the university's journal site at Tongji, describes it as a comprehensive academic journal of natural science that has become especially influential in civil engineering. That pairing — comprehensive in scope, pre-eminent in one field — is the key to the journal's character, and this profile follows the journal's own account of itself wherever possible.
Few Chinese university journals can document their ancestry as precisely as this one. Tongji University is famous in China for civil engineering, architecture and urban planning, and its natural-science journal has carried that tradition in print for generations. But the introduction reaches much further back than the modern journal: it traces the title's history to 1918, decades before the People's Republic was founded, making this a journal whose institutional memory spans the late Qing-era successor institutions, the Republic of China and the modern university alike.
According to the journal's official introduction, its history can be traced back to 1918, when, at the proposal of Principal Ruan Shangjie, Tongji Medicine and Engineering College published Tongji, its first bimonthly academic journal, whose editor-in-chief was Huang Shengbai. The introduction describes that early journal's structure: a first part for experts and researchers, a second part for ordinary citizens, and a third part of miscellaneous articles including notes, letters and introductions to new books. It was, the introduction records, praised by domestic scholars as “our ideal journal.” In the years that followed, the college successively published a variety of academic journals, among them Consciousness Monthly, the Journal of Tongji and Tongji Medical Monthly.
That 1918 origin is more than a ceremonial date. It places the journal's beginnings inside one of China's earliest modern engineering institutions — the college that grew from the German Medical School founded in Shanghai in 1907, expanded to include engineering, and became Tongji University. A publication addressed simultaneously to experts, to ordinary citizens and to general readers was a characteristic product of that era's belief in science as a public good. The modern Natural Science edition is a far more specialised object, but it claims direct descent from that founding act of academic publishing, and its university continues to present the lineage as continuous.
The introduction's second founding date is 1956. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tongji University began in that year to publish the Journal of Tongji University as a comprehensive academic journal of natural science. In 1997 the journal changed its name to Journal of Tongji University (Natural Science edition) — the “edition” form reflecting the organisation of the university's journal publishing into subject editions, of which the natural-science edition is the one profiled here. The title under which the journal is catalogued internationally, Journal of Tongji University. Natural Science, and its ISSN 0253-374X belong to this modern sequence.
The scale of that sequence is documented in the introduction with unusual completeness. From 1956 to the end of 2020, the journal had published 48 volumes, over 400 issues and more than 10,000 papers, including the works of several academic masters. Among the examples named is Li Guohao, an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who published in the journal many times; the introduction singles out his 1994 paper as one that still has profound influence in academic research. A journal that can point to ten thousand papers across forty-eight volumes, and to authors of that rank in its back file, carries an archive that is itself a record of Chinese engineering science since the 1950s.
Formally, the journal is comprehensive: a natural-science journal of a university that today covers ten broad categories of academic disciplines, including engineering, science, medicine, management, economics, philosophy, literature, law, education and arts. In practice, as its introduction frankly states, through continuous reform, development and innovation the journal has become a highly influential academic journal especially in civil engineering. That emphasis is true to its host: Tongji's reputation in China rests above all on civil engineering, architecture, urban planning, transport and the built environment, and its science journal reflects the research mass of those disciplines.
The introduction adds that the journal's papers have high value in both academic theory and application, and are often referenced by scientific and technological personnel at home and abroad, contributing to the promotion of scientific development and research exchange in China. Combined with its monthly frequency — twelve issues a year, a demanding rhythm that only a journal with a deep submission pool can sustain — the picture is of a working journal of record for Chinese civil and structural engineering research, published within a broader natural-science frame. Directory users should describe it in exactly those terms: comprehensive in charter, civil-engineering-led in influence.
The journal is, in its introduction's words, one of the core journals of natural science in China and one of the statistical source journals for Chinese scientific and technological papers. It has been indexed by EI Compendex — the international engineering indexing service whose coverage is a standard marker for serious engineering journals — and by the Chinese Core Journals database and more than 40 other important databases at home and abroad. Scopus-derived listings independently record the title under ISSN 0253-374X in the Multidisciplinary subject area, with coverage beginning in 1999 in those listings, confirming the journal's presence in the international indexing system alongside its deep domestic coverage.
Its print and exchange history adds an older dimension of reach. The introduction records that the print edition not only had a large number of subscribers in China but was distributed abroad through the China International Bookstore, and that the journal had established publication exchange relations with more than 70 universities in Germany, Japan and the United States. The German connection is a fitting one for Tongji, an institution founded by German physicians in 1907; the exchange network shows the journal functioning, long before online publishing, as one of the university's instruments of international scholarly relations.
The introduction lists a long sequence of national recognitions. In 2002 the journal was selected into the Double Hundred Periodicals of the Chinese Journal Matrix. In 2003 it won the Second National Periodical Award for 100 Key Scientific and Technological Journals, and in 2005 the Third National Periodical Award in the same category; in 2004 it took the first prize for Excellent Scientific and Technological Periodicals of the Ministry of Education. It was selected among China's high-quality university science and technology journals in 2006, 2008 and 2010, among the 100 Outstanding Academic Journals in China repeatedly from 2007 onward, and among the 300 High-Quality Science and Technology Periodicals. In 2012 it was rated among the Most Internationally Influential Academic Journals in China, and in 2019 it was selected into the Excellence Program of Scientific and Technological Journals in China.
The introduction also quantifies the journal's later influence, with figures a profile can report because the journal itself publishes them. In online publishing, its annual online reading exceeded 3 million and its annual downloads exceeded 500,000 in 2020, by incomplete statistics, and its average annual download has remained at approximately 500,000 in recent years. According to the 2018 report of the China Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research Center cited there, its influence index CI of 619.735 ranked fourth, and its impact factor of 1.147 ranked fifteenth, among 429 comprehensive science and technology journals in China, while its world academic journals index ranked it in the second quartile among 148 comprehensive sci-tech journals selected worldwide. These are the journal's own cited measures of a position its introduction summarises as consistently in the top set of similar journals.
Tongji University traces its history to 1907, when the German Medical School for the Chinese in Shanghai was founded by the German government together with German physicians including Erich Paulun. Expanded to include engineering, it became the German Medical and Engineering School, was formally established as a Chinese university under the name Tongji University in 1923–24, and became National Tongji University in 1927, one of the earliest national universities in China. The name Tongji, the university notes, suggests cooperating by riding the same boat — a phonetic echo in Shanghainese of the German word deutsche.
Today Tongji is a leading comprehensive, research-oriented university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education, listed in Project 211, Project 985 and the Double First-Class Construction, with 29 colleges and a faculty that includes numerous members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Around 1949 it already had five colleges — science, engineering, medicine, liberal arts and law — and it now offers programmes across ten disciplinary categories. The natural-science journal of such a university sits within one of China's strongest concentrations of civil engineering, architecture and urban research, which is precisely where its documented influence lies.
The introduction closes its assessment by crediting the journal with great contributions to discipline construction and academic talent cultivation — the two functions Chinese universities themselves emphasise when they judge their journals. Discipline construction is served when a journal gives a university's strongest fields a prestigious domestic outlet, attracting the submissions that keep a discipline's national conversation centred on its home institution. Talent cultivation is served when generations of graduate students and young researchers learn the craft of scholarly publication in its pages, as the journal's ten-thousand-paper archive implies they have since 1956.
Li Guohao's repeated presence in the journal, noted above, illustrates both functions at once: a master of Chinese bridge and structural engineering publishing, over a career, in his own university's journal, and that journal still citing his 1994 paper decades later as influential. University journals endure by holding exactly that kind of loyalty from their best scholars, and the Tongji introduction's emphasis on academic masters in its back file is a claim about scholarly community as much as about metrics.
The identifying set for this journal is: Journal of Tongji University (Natural Science), cited in the form Journal of Tongji University. Natural Science; abbreviation J. Tongji Univ. Nat. Sci.; ISSN 0253-374X; CN 31-1267/N; published in Shanghai by Tongji University; monthly frequency. Tongji publishes other editions and journals, and other Shanghai universities publish natural-science journals of their own, so the ISSN and CN number together are the reliable identifiers. A citation lacking the Natural Science edition marker should be checked against 0253-374X before being attributed to this title.
For current information — submission guidance, recent issues and editorial contacts — the authoritative source is the journal's own site within Tongji University's domain, where the introduction quoted throughout this profile is published. Its account is the primary record of the journal's history, indexing and awards, and third-party listings, including the Scopus-derived summaries that classify the title as Multidisciplinary, should be read as supplements to that record rather than replacements for it.
The Journal of Tongji University (Natural Science) can claim one of the longest documented pedigrees of any Chinese university science journal: an ancestor journal founded at Tongji Medicine and Engineering College in 1918, a modern comprehensive journal founded in 1956, a Natural Science edition named in 1997, and 48 volumes, over 400 issues and more than 10,000 papers by the end of 2020. It is EI Compendex-indexed, counted among China's core natural-science journals, honoured repeatedly at national level, read online millions of times a year, and recognised above all for its influence in civil engineering — the signature discipline of its university. Its essentials for the directory are its full edition title, ISSN 0253-374X, CN 31-1267/N, its monthly Shanghai publication, and that 1918 lineage: a journal that has carried the name Tongji into scientific print, in one form or another, for more than a century.
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