China’s scientific journals have made significant strides in recent years, with a notable increase in both the number of journals and the volume of published papers. However, a recent report highlights that there is still considerable room for improvement in terms of scale and global influence. The blue book on China’s scientific journal development, published by the Service Center for Societies of the China Association for Science and Technology, reveals that 247 Chinese international journals were included in the Science Citation Index (SCI) last year, accounting for 1.7 percent of the 40,000 total SCI papers published in 2024. The report also notes that the academic quality and global recognition of these journals have steadily improved. The citation impact of papers published in these journals reached 5.11 last year, surpassing the 3.51 for all international papers authored by Chinese scholars and the global average of 2.77. Additionally, 63.2 percent of the journals were positioned in the top quarter of Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and 68.7 percent of the papers published in China’s journals were in the top quarter of the JCR, up from 50 percent in 2022. Despite these improvements, the scale of publishing in China’s journals still falls short compared to the over 830,000 international papers published by Chinese scholars. This underscores the need to enhance the overall carrying capacity of China’s domestic journal platforms. Furthermore, 88 percent of the papers published in China’s journals last year were authored by Chinese scholars, but this represented only 4.2 percent of the total international papers published by Chinese scholars. This indicates that more than 95 percent of their work is still being published in overseas journals, highlighting the need for further development of world-class international journals in China.