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The Chinese ranking of academic journals’ impact on WeChat of the second quarter of 2021 announced

Cactus Communications

August 31, 2021

Linkresearcher, an academic communication service platform under “Global Science,” collaborated with Impact Science, a Cactus Communications (CACTUS) brand that provides science communications strategy and tactics, to announce a ranking of academic journals based on new media influence.

The list data were obtained from the “Linkresearcher Academic Official Account Database”, and the ranking of the WeChat dissemination of the journal is a function of how well the journal performed on the WeChat accounts platform. The read count of the article is accounted for when the title of the WeChat article includes the journal title and the WeChat article focuses on the journal.

The Chinese ranking of academic journals’ impact on WeChat of the second quarter of 2021

The 100 Chinese academic journals that entered the list in the second quarter of 2021 have received nearly 3,000 WeChat tweets and generated a total of 3.13 million dissemination.

The top three journals in terms of dissemination are Horticulture Research (Nature Portfolio), Molecular Plant (Cell Press) and The Innovation (Cell Press). The ranking of 64 journals has improved; these include China Water & Wastewater (up by 45 places), Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (up by 27 places), Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (up by 24 places, Nature Portfolio). Of these, 35 journals are new entrants into the list, and the three highest-ranked among the newly listed journals are: Nano-Micro Letters (Springer), Journal of Energy Chemistry (Elsevier) and eLight (Springer).

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Significant increase in the number of journals listed by international publishers

53 journals published by international publishers were included in the list in the second quarter, which is a significant increase over the 41 included for the first quarter. The Institute of Physics (IOP) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) entered the list for the first time, while Springer (ranked 17), Elsevier (ranked 13), Wiley (ranked 7), Nature Portfolio (ranked 6), and Cell Press (ranked 3) were represented by more journals than in past years.

WeChat dissemination of English journals is more attractive

In the second quarter of 2021, each journal on the list was reported on by an average of 3.7 official accounts, of which the top three are National Science Review (Oxford University Press), Cell Research (Nature Portfolio) and Molecular Plant (Cell Press), which have 21, 17, and 17 WeChat public accounts for reporting, respectively. The dissemination attractiveness of English journals is generally greater than that of Chinese and bilingual journals. A total of 9 English journals have been reported on by more than 10 official accounts. In comparison, 70% of Chinese journals have received attention from only one official account.

WeChat dissemination of selected journals in the “Excellence Action Plan for Chinese Sci-tech Journals”

Among the journals listed in the second quarter of 2021, 55 were selected for the China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan, including 14 leading journals, 11 key journals, 25 echelon journals, and 5 new high-start journals, which have attracted more than 2,000 reports on WeChat tweets. These accounted for 72.5% of all the WeChat journal reports on the list.