About Nuclear Techniques

Nuclear Techniques

Nuclear Techniques (He Jishu) is a Chinese-language journal of nuclear science and technology published in Shanghai by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1978. It is the Chinese-language sister title of the English-language Nuclear Science and Techniques, published by the same institute; the two journals have separate ISSNs and separate contents. Its ISSN is 0253-3219. Published from Shanghai, Shanghai, by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, it belongs to the generation of specialist Chinese scientific journals that gave each engineering and scientific community its own peer-reviewed record. This profile sets out its origins, its publisher and institutional home, the subjects it covers, its indexing and standing, and the readership it serves.

Origins and history

The journal began in 1978 at the Shanghai institute then known for nuclear research, which later became the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics. The institute operates the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, one of China's major large scientific facilities, and synchrotron and accelerator science consequently occupies a prominent place in the journal. Its volume numbering reached Volume 46 by 2023, when it carried review material on China's nuclear-data experimental research, and citation records show its articles on facilities such as the institute's photo-neutron source published with its DOI prefix based on ISSN 0253-3219.

That history matters because the journal's identity is inseparable from the institution behind it. Readers citing Nuclear Techniques cite a title with a continuous run, a stable editorial home in Shanghai and a defined place in China's journal system, not a transient publication. Its development has followed the development of its field in China: as the research community around the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai grew, the journal carried its methods, results and debates into the permanent literature.

Publisher and institutional home

The journal is published by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. Editorial responsibility therefore sits inside the research community it serves, a pattern typical of China's institute and society journals, in which the sponsoring body guarantees continuity, supplies reviewers and editors from its own specialists, and aligns the journal with the community's research programmes. The Shanghai base is part of the bibliographic record: directories and citation databases use the combination of title, ISSN and city to distinguish this journal from similarly named titles elsewhere.

For authors, that institutional home defines the journal's expectations. Manuscripts are judged by specialists in the same field, written for readers who know the subject's background, and published as part of a continuing conversation within the community centred on Shanghai and extending across China.

Scope and subject coverage

The journal's coverage can be organised into the following areas, each of which recurs across its volumes:

Accelerator science. The journal publishes work on accelerators and accelerator-based facilities, including the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the light-source and neutron-source platforms associated with its publisher. Papers in this area form one of its standing subject strands, connecting new results to the earlier literature the journal itself has published.

Synchrotron radiation science. The journal publishes work on synchrotron radiation methods and applications, reflecting the publisher's role as operator of Shanghai's synchrotron facility. Papers in this area form one of its standing subject strands, connecting new results to the earlier literature the journal itself has published.

Nuclear physics. The journal publishes work on nuclear physics, including nuclear-data measurement and the experimental facilities used for it in China. Papers in this area form one of its standing subject strands, connecting new results to the earlier literature the journal itself has published.

Research themes in depth

Radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry. It also publishes work on radiochemistry and related nuclear-chemistry research, a historic strength of the Shanghai institute. Coverage of this kind widens the journal beyond a single technique or application and makes it a general record of its field rather than a narrow bulletin.

Nuclear electronics and detectors. It also publishes work on nuclear electronics, radiation detectors and readout techniques, a field surveyed in review articles by the institute's researchers. Coverage of this kind widens the journal beyond a single technique or application and makes it a general record of its field rather than a narrow bulletin.

Nuclear energy and applications. It also publishes work on nuclear energy applications and applied nuclear technology, from radiation applications to nuclear engineering support science. Coverage of this kind widens the journal beyond a single technique or application and makes it a general record of its field rather than a narrow bulletin.

Indexing and recognition

Bibliographic listings record the journal with publisher Science Press in Scopus-derived data, with coverage noted for 1993-1995 and 1998 onward in SciJournal's compilation, and Researcher.Life records it as Scopus-indexed, publishing 46 articles in 2025 in that listing. In China it sits within the core-journal system for nuclear science.

Indexing of this kind is the mechanism by which a Chinese-language journal remains visible to the international bibliographic system. Abstracting services, citation databases and library catalogues record the title under its ISSN and romanised Chinese name, so that its articles can be found, cited and counted alongside journals published in English.

Editorial character and article types

Like other Chinese core journals in its class, Nuclear Techniques publishes peer-reviewed research articles reporting original results, together with review and survey material that organises a fast-moving subfield for its readers. Articles are written in Chinese — the working language of the community it primarily serves — with the bibliographic apparatus that allows them to be cited internationally. The emphasis is on work that advances its subject technically: new methods, new measurements, new designs and carefully documented applications, rather than general commentary.

Readership and professional role

The journal's readers are nuclear scientists and engineers in Chinese Academy of Sciences institutes, universities and the nuclear industry, especially the accelerator and synchrotron communities centred on Shanghai. For that readership it performs several functions at once: it is a channel for announcing new results, an archive of methods and data that later work builds on, and a professional forum in which the standards of the field are maintained through peer review. Researchers preparing work in its subjects consult its back volumes as the natural starting point for the Chinese literature of the field.

Place among Chinese journals in its field

Within China's crowded journal landscape, Nuclear Techniques is the Chinese-language nuclear-science journal of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, complementing rather than duplicating its English-language sister journal. That distinctness is deliberate and bibliographically protected: title, ISSN, sponsor and city together separate it from every neighbouring title, so that citations, subscriptions and indexing records attach to the correct journal. Profiles in this directory therefore treat it as a journal in its own right, with its own history and scope, and not as an edition or translation of any other publication.

Continuing publication

Nuclear Techniques continues to publish from Shanghai under its established title and ISSN. Its continuing presence in current volume listings and citation records confirms an active journal, not a historical one. For the WorldNM directory it stands as the documented record of an important strand of Chinese scientific publishing: a specialist, peer-reviewed journal, rooted in a named institution, serving a defined research community, and maintaining the literature of its field in Chinese for successive generations of researchers.