ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA (English edition) is sponsored by the GSC and started publication in 1922 with its former name Bulletin of the Geological Society of China. It is one of the scientific periodicals with a long history in China. The journal has been praised several times by the MST, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (PDCPC) and General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP). During 2006-2011, the magazine received financial aid for six consecutive years from the Project of A-category Outstanding Periodicals of the CAST, and was supported as the Chapter Ⅹ Academic Publications 83 first-prize winner of the Best International Scientific Journals Award (2012-2014) given by the CAST. In recent years, notable progress has been made in magazine internationalization and the journal was chosen as the source item by more than 10 famous index references, digests and databases, including the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Chemical Abstracts (CA) of the Institute of Science Information of the US. In 2013, Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) published 6 issues (1746 pages in total), carrying 132 scientific papers including 27 overseas papers (20.5%). The impact factor was 1.57 in 2012, taking the first place among all geoscientific magazines in China.
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