SSWC Indexed in “A Guide to the Core Journals of China”

On September 2015. “A Guide to the Core Journals of China” version 2014, i.e., 7th Edition, was published by Peking University Press, and in which the journal Science of Soil and Water Conservation (SSWC) sponsored by Chinese Society of Soil and Water Conservation was listed under the category of agricultural basic science.

“A Guide to the Core Journals of China” was edited by the library of Peking University, and total 7 editions have been published. In this version of 7th edition, approximate over 50 databases and abstracted journals were used as statistical sources of assessment indicators, and the number of accounted literatures reached 6500 million, moreover, the experts involved in auditing the core journals were 3700. Using assessment indexes such as impact factor, times cited, times cited by others, times downloaded, etc., 1983 of 14728 journals were evaluated as Core Journals by combining quantitative and qualitative assessment methods

The SSWC supervised by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) is a sole comprehensive academic journal sponsored by Chinese Society of Soil and Water Conservation. It is a bi-monthly published journal initiated in 2003. It was indexed in “the Key Magazine of China Technology” since 2004, and “Chinese Science Citation Database (CSBD)” since 2011. At present there are 7 columns of Fundamental Studies, Applied Studies, Development Studies, Forum, Research Review, Feature Article, and Trends of the Society.

SSWCC mainly presents authoritative research articles of both scientific theories and technologies on soil and water conservation, including an impressive array of them:

l  the patterns and laws of soil water erosion, wind erosion, gravity erosion, and torrential flood and debris flow; monitoring and forecasting the soil erosion;

l  agricultural, forestry, and engineering for controlling the soil loss, comprehensive governance technologies for small watersheds;

l  degradation mechanism of land in arid areas, and control and prevention technologies of desertification;

l  the occurrence mechanism of the disaster in mountainous areas under the combined action of gravity and water erosion, and comprehensive control technologies against the disasters of torrential flood, debris flow, and landslide;

l  planning, design, implementation and efficiency assessment for soil and water conservation engineering;

l  as well as novel products, technologies, measures and materials related to soil and water conservation.