JOINSTM Chapter | China
The STM China Chapter is responsible for coordinating and developing STM member activities in China.
Members:
- Xiaoying Chu, AAAS
- June Tang, ACS
- Yuyan Kong, BMJ
- Kelly Zhang, Charlesworth
- Bill Ning, Clarivate
- Steven Wang, Clarivate
- Wendy Ding, De Gruyter Brill
- Xiaoling Kang, Elsevier
- Lihua Fang, Emerald
- Christy Cui, Frontiers
- Diane Wang, Frontiers
- Eric Na, IET
- Rick Liu, IOPP
- Heidi Ma, RELX
- Ella Chen, RSC
- Fei Pan, Shanghai Jaio Tong University
- Joyce Li, Springer Nature
- Caroline Sutton, STM
- Mark Robertson, STM Consultant
- Shuai Yan, STM Consultant
- Ang Eng Guan, T&F
- Yu Wang (Shirley), Wiley
- Steven Shi, World Scientific
Resources
- Overview of STM
- STM Report 2018 – Summary
- STM Position on Open Science
- STM China meeting 2015 Report
- AAP Overview on Scholarly publishing
- Global Brief 2021 Report Supplement: Economics & Market Size*
*TranslatedSTM_White_Report_a4_v15_zhCN from English to Mandarin Chinese 29th March 2022. This report supplement builds off the STM Global Trends Report produced in 2018, and offers a specialized focus on Economics and Market Size. It works to shine a light on the scale and shape of scholarly publishing and provides updated figures covering 2018 onwards, by lending compelling snapshots on specific aspects and characteristics of the industry, such as global market size and revenue shares to outputs and global regional analyses. Special thanks to the Royal Society of Chemistry and Elsevier for supporting the translation from English to Mandarin Chinese.
- STM Tech Trends 2025 | STM Trends 2025 Webinar recording
- STM Tech Trends 2024 | Tech Trends 2024 poster
Bilingual presentation
YouTube presentation (Chinese subtitles)
Past Tech Trends infographics
The latest STM news from China
CAS reportedly restricts funding for high-APC open access journals
On 3 April, China’s state-owned Central Television reported on CAS’s new policy ceasing funding for approximately 30 fully open access journals with article publishing charges (APCs) above US$5,000. Limitations would apply to use of academic and national funding and would not preclude authors from self-funding to publish in these journals. It is important to note…
ISTIC to build World Science Citation Database
At the Zhongguancun Forum on 27 March, Huang Qi, Director of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), announced that ISTIC and the Zhejiang Lab have jointly developed the overall framework for a World Science Citation Database. The initiative aims to build a cross-lingual, panoramic research infrastructure.
VAT on scholarly materials
After many years of tax exemption, the Chinese government has reintroduced VAT on scholarly materials at a rate of 10.8%.
CAS Library discontinues Journal Ranking
On 27 March, the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS Library) announced it will cease updating and releasing its Journal Ranking from 2026, clarifying that any ranking released by other organisations has no connection to the CAS Library.