Theranostics

I have read dozens of articles published in this magazine and have a few thoughts: 1. The circulation of this magazine is not small (at least 600 articles per year). There are not many reviews, and there are basically no "letters to the editor" type of articles. A considerable portion of the articles are contributed by foreign scientific research institutions and have an impact factor of over ten. This indicates that the main focus is on the quality of the articles. 2. After a rough calculation, a significant portion of the papers published by domestic institutions in the past six months are from national/provincial key laboratories, as well as high-level universities and research institutes. This shows that everyone has their own judgment and will not blindly follow the opinions of a few hospitals (non-academic institutions). 3. Based on my own submission experience, the reviewers are very professional and have increasingly higher requirements for basic research.

Actually, this is indeed a low-quality journal. There are two criteria for judging a low-quality journal: 1- If it is an international journal not hosted in China, we look at the proportion of Chinese articles. In this journal, the editorial board is located outside of China and most of the editors are from abroad, yet the proportion of Chinese articles surprisingly reaches 66%. 2- We also consider how domestic fund reviewers perceive this article. Unfortunately, if the National Natural Science Foundation of China were to write this article, it would be directly despised.

Furthermore, generally speaking, all published articles are praised. For example, in the comments section of PLOS ONE and Oncotarget, there are numerous comments stating that the journal has high quality, professional peer review, is difficult to submit to, and requires a year of additional experiments before acceptance.