Chinese Journal of Catalysis

Recently, I submitted a manuscript, which took about two months in total. After revisions, it was accepted, and I also reviewed two manuscripts. Overall, I feel that the journal has a very high target positioning, and the reviewers' opinions are very professional and strict. Each comment hits the key points or addresses the difficult problems in the field. Therefore, I estimate that the work on cooking methods will not be accepted. If we meet the reviewers' requirements in terms of manuscript quality, I feel that the level of the article should not be lower than that of similar articles in Angewandte Chemie. However, the journal currently has its weaknesses. Firstly, its internationalization level is not high enough, and I'm not sure about its international recognition. But our impression is that its quality is definitely not worse than that of ACB or JC. ACS Catalysis has published many good works from 2017 to 2020, but the quality of their papers in recent years varies. Clearly, papers with material-style writing can also be published, and I don't know if CJC can surpass it completely in the future. Secondly, the quality of some special issue manuscripts is average (it may also be because I read them too quickly and couldn't grasp the highlights in the articles). We publish our most outstanding works in CJC because it is our own national journal. If we don't support it, how can it develop? Western journals have a certain bias against domestic journals (even though our work is not inferior to the published ones, why don't they even send it for review? The work of foreigners is not exceptional, so why can they publish?). Finally, I hope that the Chinese Journal of Catalysis will continue to improve. Being selected as a key journal in China is a good start.

The evaluation of this teacher is deeply agreed upon! Currently, the issue of foreign countries restraining our country's technology is becoming increasingly prominent. Therefore, the country regards technological self-reliance and self-strengthening as the strategic support for national development. It is devoted to constructing our own top-tier academic journals and academic platforms, which holds great significance in protecting the discourse power and first-hand intellectual property rights of our scientific researchers. Our country's scientific journals started much later than international ones and have faced great difficulties in development. At this stage, they still require the support of all scientific researchers. With the financial support of the country, everyone should contribute genuinely excellent work to be published in our own journals instead of treating domestic journals with contempt while submitting subpar work and feeling dissatisfied if rejected. Based on my personal experience and the experiences of colleagues around me, the acceptance of manuscripts by our country's journals is based on their quality and innovation. Truly excellent manuscripts will not be buried; even if a prominent figure's name is on a poor manuscript, it will still be rejected. In conclusion, everyone should establish true cultural confidence, avoid belittling ourselves, and not consider international journals as genuine while regarding our own journals as counterfeit. This is equivalent to self-sabotage.