18 Sep 2026
Recently, the 2025 World-Class Scientific and Technological Journal Catalogue was officially released at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Pujiang Innovation Forum. Bioresources and Bioprocessing (BIOB), an academic journal published by ECUST, was listed in the Catalogue. The recognition further acknowledges the journal’s academic quality, international influence, and publishing standards, and marks another achievement in ECUST’s efforts to develop high-level international academic journals.
The World-Class Scientific and Technological Journal Catalogue takes academic organizational capacity, academic leadership, academic impact, and social impact as its core evaluation dimensions. It aims to select science and technology journals with high academic standards and international influence.
This year, the Catalogue included a total of 6,132 science and technology journals worldwide, 353 of which are Chinese journals, accounting for 5.8% of the total. The inclusion of BIOB marks important progress in the journal’s pursuit of high-quality and internationalization.
BIOB has been founded in 2014, with the CN publication number 31-2230/Q81. Supervised by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by ECUST, the journal is co-published by the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Springer Nature, with Professor Jianhe Xu from the School of Bioengineering serving as its founding editor-in-chief. The journal focuses on bioresources, biomanufacturing, biocatalysis, bioprocess engineering, and related interdisciplinary fields. It is currently indexed in major databases in China and internationally, including SCIE, Scopus, PubMed Central, DOAJ, and CSCD. Its latest impact factor is 6.3, ranking in JCR Q1.
In recent years, BIOB has been selected for the Phase II Program for English-Language Journals of the China Excellence Action Plan for Scientific and Technological Journals and included in the CSCD Core Collection. Looking ahead, the journal will further bring together high-quality academic resources from China and abroad, strengthen the commissioning and dissemination of high-level original research, and continuously enhance its academic leadership and international influence. It will contribute to scientific and technological innovation and international academic exchange in the field of bioengineering.
