About Science Bulletin World

Science Bulletin World

Overview

Science Bulletin World is an international journal published by KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. in Beijing, appearing in KeAi's journal catalogue in 2026 alongside its sister title Science Bulletin Brain. Catalogued under the abbreviation Sci. Bull. World, it is devoted to cutting-edge interdisciplinary research across five broad domains: the physical sciences, earth and environmental sciences, information and artificial intelligence, one health, and engineering sciences. Where its sister title specialises in the brain, Science Bulletin World takes the opposite approach: it is a deliberately generalist, cross-disciplinary title, extending the Science Bulletin name — long attached to China Science Press's flagship multidisciplinary journal supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences — into a new global platform whose organising principle is integration across disciplines rather than depth within one of them.

The Science Bulletin Name and Heritage

The new journal's name connects it to one of the most established titles in Chinese science publishing. Science Bulletin, known as Chinese Science Bulletin from 1966 to 2014 and renamed Science Bulletin in 2015, is a multidisciplinary academic journal supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and co-sponsored by the Academy and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It publishes high-calibre peer-reviewed research on a broad range of natural sciences and high-technology fields, semi-monthly, with criteria centred on originality, scientific significance and interest to a general readership, and it is described by its publishing partner Elsevier as the leading SCI-indexed multidisciplinary English scientific journal in China. Since 2017 the flagship has been published with Elsevier and distributed on ScienceDirect on behalf of Science China Press. Science Bulletin World builds on that recognition, adding the word 'World' to signal a global, outward-facing brief that goes beyond reporting the best of one country's research.

Publisher: KeAi Communications

Science Bulletin World is published by KeAi Communications, the Beijing-based joint venture of China Science Publishing & Media and Elsevier. The partnership between the two parent companies began in 2007 as a books joint venture; KeAi was repurposed in 2013 as an open-access journal publishing service provider, and it now publishes more than 280 scholarly journals across all scientific disciplines, around two thirds of them partnered with more than 90 esteemed research institutions, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, academic societies and leading universities. KeAi leverages its parents' capabilities — ScienceDirect distribution, Editorial Manager submission systems, analytics and production — and describes its mission as publishing first-class research outputs from the research community to benefit society globally. A new generalist title fits that mission closely: it is a platform play, designed to capture interdisciplinary work that does not sit naturally inside any single specialist journal in the portfolio.

A Journal Defined by Interdisciplinarity

The journal states its purpose in five linked aims. It strives to advance deep integration across disciplines; to foster emerging research directions; to bridge scientific discoveries with social applications; to innovate science education and communication; and to build a global platform for interdisciplinary academic exchange. Each aim marks a difference from a conventional research journal. Deep integration means the journal values work that genuinely combines methods and concepts from different fields, not merely adjacent papers from several fields in one issue. Fostering emerging directions gives editors licence to publish in areas too new to have dedicated journals. Bridging discoveries with social applications brings translation and use into the journal's criteria. Innovating science education and communication extends its interest beyond research articles to how science is taught and shared. And the global-platform aim commits it to international authorship and readership from the outset.

Physical Sciences

The first of the journal's five domains is the physical sciences — the territory of physics, chemistry, materials and astronomy, and the historical heartland of the Science Bulletin tradition. Interdisciplinary physical-science research today characteristically involves computation, advanced instrumentation and questions imported from other fields: materials designed for energy systems, quantum technologies moving towards engineering, and chemical problems framed by environmental or biological goals. A generalist journal offers such work a venue where reviewers and readers are selected for breadth. For physical scientists whose results speak simultaneously to energy, environment or information researchers, Science Bulletin World provides a single destination rather than a choice between a physics audience and an applications audience.

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The second domain covers earth and environmental sciences: the study of the planet's atmosphere, oceans, land surface and interior, and of human impacts upon them. This is inherently integrative territory — climate research alone combines physics, chemistry, oceanography, ecology, computation and social science — and it is an area where Chinese research groups, with major investments in earth observation, climate modelling and environmental monitoring, are highly productive. In Science Bulletin World's structure, earth and environmental work sits alongside the information and engineering research that supplies its instruments and models, and alongside the one-health research that deals with environmental change's consequences for human, animal and ecosystem health, encouraging connections that specialist journals structure out.

Information and Artificial Intelligence

The third domain, information and artificial intelligence, recognises computation as a cross-cutting method for all of modern science rather than a self-contained discipline. Artificial intelligence methods now appear in physical discovery, earth-system modelling, engineering design and health research alike, and a journal organised around integration is a natural home for work on scientific machine learning, data-intensive discovery and intelligent systems whose main significance lies in what they enable in another field. Listing information and AI as a named domain, on equal footing with the physical and earth sciences, signals that such enabling work will be judged as a first-class contribution, not as a technical supplement to someone else's science.

One Health and Engineering Sciences

The fourth domain, one health, is itself an interdisciplinary concept: the recognition that human health, animal health and environmental health are interdependent, and that problems such as zoonotic disease, antimicrobial resistance and food safety must be studied across those boundaries. Its inclusion places health within the journal's generalist frame without duplicating its sister title's clinical neuroscience specialism. The fifth domain, engineering sciences, covers the design and construction disciplines through which discoveries become infrastructure, devices and systems. Together the five domains describe a complete arc from fundamental physical inquiry through planetary systems and computation to health and built technology — the full territory across which the journal invites integrated work, and across which its editors must draw reviewers able to judge contributions that no single department would claim entirely as its own.

Education, Communication and Social Application

Two of the journal's five aims set it apart from most research titles. The commitment to bridge scientific discoveries with social applications means the journal is interested in the pathway from laboratory result to public benefit — in policy, practice and technology — and not only in discovery itself. The commitment to innovate science education and communication goes further, treating how science is taught, explained and discussed as part of its subject matter. For a publisher whose parent, China Science Publishing & Media, is a comprehensive science, technology, medicine and education media group, that broader conception of a journal's role is coherent: the title is intended not only as a repository of papers, but as an instrument for exchange between the research community and the wider society that funds and uses its work.

Outlook

Science Bulletin World appears in 2026 as a new entrant in the demanding category of international general-science journals, a space occupied by long-established titles. Its distinguishing assets are its Beijing base at the centre of one of the world's largest research systems, the Science Bulletin heritage, KeAi's distribution through Elsevier's platforms, and an explicitly integrative editorial brief spanning the physical sciences, earth and environmental sciences, information and artificial intelligence, one health and engineering sciences. Whether it succeeds will depend on attracting genuinely interdisciplinary papers — work whose importance is clearest when disciplines are read together. Its stated aims, from deep integration to science communication, define the standard against which its first volumes will be assessed.