2025 Forum on Development of China's STM Journals Held in Beijing

BEIJING, July 10 — The 2025 Forum on Development of China’s STM Journals, a parallel forum of the 27th Annual Meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), was held in Beijing on July 10.

The event, themed "breaking boundaries, reconstructing, and empowering: building a new ecosystem for academic publishing," was attended by over 360 representatives from various sectors, including experts from the world-class STM journals construction expert committee, joint implementation departments of the Action Plan for Excellent STM Journals, renowned journal editors-in-chief, editorial board members, and editors, as well as representatives from publishing service institutions, technology companies, and evaluation agencies.

The forum was guided by President Xi Jinping’s important instructions on building world-class STM journals. It featured keynote speeches and 4 thematic discussion sessions on "platform support for journal quality improvement and data empowerment," "construction of independent journal evaluation system," "world-class journal construction and first publication of research papers," and "pathways for academic society-led journal platform construction."

The keynote speech session was presided over by Gao Hongjun, Vice President of the CAST.

Guo Dongming, President of the Liaoning Association for Science and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of Extreme Manufacturing, Sun Tan, Vice President of the Library Society of China and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Library and Information Science in Agriculture, Jin Xianmin, Executive Editor-in-Chief of Chip and Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiao Hong, Deputy Vice President of Tongfang Knowledge Network Digital Technology Co., Ltd., and Zhou Yuanchun, Deputy Director of the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), delivered keynote speeches respectively focusing on topics including journal-driven industrial innovation, AI-empowered academic platforms, building international discourse power, promoting integrated publishing, and facilitating data sharing.

They also engaged in in-depth discussions with participants on accelerating the improvement of China’s STM journals' academic standards and independent publishing capabilities.

To build a broad consensus on reform, the forum launched a pre-forum research paper call, selecting 20 outstanding papers through peer review. These papers were compiled into a collection for participants' exchange and will be formally published in the 10th issue of Chinese Journal of Scientific and Technical Periodicals.

The forum also launched the "CAST SCHOLAR" platform, built by the Science & Technology Review Publishing House.

Relying on CAST’s organizational advantages of national societies and local branches, the platform integrates literature and data resources of STM journals from the national and provincial societies, achieving integrated operation of the entire editorial and publishing process and secure local storage of literature data.

It will provide services including publishing and dissemination, academic integrity monitoring for journals, and intelligent knowledge services for sci- tech professionals.

The CAST initiated the Forum on Development of China’s STM Journals in 2004.

This year's forum, coinciding with the full implementation of the second phase of the Action Plan for Excellent STM Journals, has attracted widespread attention from the scientific and journal communities.

Focusing on hot topics including accelerating the improvement of journal academic quality and influence, and speeding up the construction of independent publishing and data platforms, the participants engaged in theoretical debates, academic discussions, and practical sharing to contribute to the construction of world-class STM journals and the acceleration of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology.

Tag: Department of Sci-tech Innovation of CAST