Case studies in the evaluation of journals launched within the past decade are presented at the main forum of the 19th Pujiang Innovation Forum in 2026

On September 12, the 2025 List of World-Class Scientific and Technological Journals was officially released at the opening ceremony of the 19th Pujiang Innovation Forum. The list was compiled by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China in collaboration with other research institutions. eScience, a journal sponsored by Nankai University, was selected for inclusion and featured as an evaluation case among journals established in the past decade.

Planning for eScience (ISSN 2667-1417) began in 2020, and the journal was officially launched in 2021, with Chen Jun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Nankai University, serving as its founding Editor-in-Chief. The journal is dedicated to publishing original, significant research of broad interest in energy, electrochemistry, electronics, environmental science and related interdisciplinary fields. It has been indexed or included in authoritative domestic and international databases and listings, including SCIE, EI, CAS, DOAJ, Scopus, Inspec, EBSCO, WJCJ, OAJ, CSCD, China Science Core Journals Database (CSCJD), and the List of World-Class Scientific and Technological Journals. Its latest impact factor is 52.9, ranking first worldwide in Electrochemistry and third in Materials Science Multidisciplinary. Its latest CiteScore is 63.4, ranking first in Electrochemistry and second in Materials Chemistry worldwide.

 The 2025 List of World-Class Scientific and Technological Journals was compiled by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China and partner research institutions using the World Science Citation Database and an evaluation framework for world-class scientific and technological journals. A total of 6,132 journals from 55 countries and regions, covering 23 languages, were selected. Of these, 353 were from China, accounting for 5.8% of the total.

Looking ahead, eScience will work with eScience Energy and other journals to develop a journal cluster and build a world-class platform for publishing research findings, academic exchanges and collaboration, guided by its vision of “Rooted in China, Embracing the World, Leading the Future”.

（Edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)