Recently, the High-speed Railway journal, published by Beijing Jiaotong University, was listed in DOAJ, EBSCO and Scopus research databases.
【Background information on the international databases】
- About DOAJ （Directory of Open Access Journals）
DOAJ is one of the world's top five literature retrieval systems, along with PubMed, SCI, Scopus, and EI, it is created and maintained by the Lund University Library in Sweden in conjunction with SPARC. Established in May 2003, it currently contains over 17,000 open access journals covering diverse academic fields such as science and technology, medicine, social sciences and human sciences. The high-quality articles of the journals included in the system are peer-reviewed or rigorously examined, synchronized with the release of the publication and can be downloaded in full text free of charge.
- About EBSCO (EBSCO Information Services)
EBSCO database is an intuitive online index platform utilized by millions of users and thousands of organizations worldwide. It is one of the largest multidisciplinary full-text databases. EBSCO facilitates fast access to literature for researchers of all disciplines, fosters international academic exchanges, and broadens the influence of journals within the international academic community by offering high-quality database resources and search functions.
- About Scopus
Launched in November 2004, Scopus is an abstract and citation database developed by Elsevier. The database has a comprehensive and multidisciplinary scope, encompassing a wide variety of fields such as the natural sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The content is selected by independent domain experts and provides powerful search and analysis tools for researchers, librarians, institutional research managers and funding agencies. Scopus is now a leading database in the industry.
Scopus has received widespread attention from the academic community at home and abroad due to its powerful functions, and its data have been widely used in the fields of world university rankings, China's highly cited scholars list, and academic discipline assessment of universities and colleges.
【Introduction of BJTU’s High-speed Railway journal】
High-speed Railway is an academic journal created by Beijing Jiaotong University, with LU Chunfang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as the editor-in-chief and YU Zujun, President of BJTU, as executive editor-in-chief. The journal intends to disseminate new theories and technologies, discuss theoretical and practical problems in high-speed railway development. Adhering to the policy of integration between theory and practice, introduction and innovation, the journal strives to reflect the latest achievements in high-speed railway planning and design, operation and management, related equipment innovation and engineering technique. Additionally, the journal aims to promote international academic exchanges and cooperation in order to enhance the international influence of the cause of China's high-speed railway and thusly promote the development of high-speed railway technology worldwide. The editorial board of High-speed Railway is composed of 51 members, 60% of whom are foreign nationals from the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Singapore, Greece, and other countries. The journal has also been selected as "High Starting Point New Journal" under the "Excellence Action Plan for Chinese Science and Technology Journals in 2022" program.
The "Excellence Action Plan for Chinese Science and Technology Journals" is a critical governmental initiative that aims to implement the "Opinions on Deepening Reforms to Cultivate World-Class Science and Technology Journals". The "High Starting Point New Journal Project" is designed to identify journals that exhibit exceptional leadership, forward-thinking insight, and domain expertise, and to establish high-level English journals in disciplinary areas of traditional advantages, emerging strategic frontiers, and key common technology fields. Based on the principles of promoting high-quality publishing resources, filling knowledge gaps and compensating for technological shortfalls, the program supports the establishment of new journals in fields of priority.
