On December 19, with the approval of the National Press and Publication Administration, Advanced Agrochem, the first international English‑language academic journal in China’s agrochemical field sponsored by Central China Normal University, officially obtained the domestic unified serial publication number (CN42‑1953/TQ). Only four years after its launch, this English‑language journal has now completed the international–domestic dual‑track certification, becoming the first “dual‑licensed” journal in China’s agricultural chemistry field to simultaneously hold inclusion in nine major domestic and international databases—including ESCI, CSCD, and BIOSIS Previews—and to possess a CN number.
Since its founding in 2022, Advanced Agrochem was indexed by Scopus, DOAJ, CAS, and other international databases in 2023. In 2024, it was selected for the second phase of the “High‑Starting‑Point New Journals Project” under China’s Excellent Science and Technology Journal Development Program, achieving a CiteScore of 9.7. In 2025, it was further included in ESCI and the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), with its real‑time CiteScore surpassing 14.9. It is expected to receive its first Impact Factor in June 2026.
Advanced Agrochem is an open‑access international journal covering multiple subfields of agricultural chemistry. It is co‑edited by Professor Yang Guangfu from our university and Professor Yingfu Li, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Canada. The journal publishes research on agrochemicals, agricultural analytical chemistry and food safety, agricultural biochemistry, chemical biology, agricultural bio-transformation, agricultural biotechnology, pesticide science and plant protection, and the high‑value conversion and utilization of agricultural products. It also encourages submissions on emerging sciences and bio-technologies applied in agriculture, such as nanotechnology, gene editing, chemical probes, proteomics, fluorescent labeling, mass spectrometry, and in vivo imaging.
The approval of the CN number provides our university’s agricultural chemistry discipline with a new academic platform to better serve China’s drive to build a world power in science and technology. It also marks another significant achievement in the university’s efforts to strengthen the development of academic journals in recent years.
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