We recently partnered with Tsinghua University on a three-day virtual event “The Voice of Chinese Scholars”.

The event is one of the measures taken by the research institute to implement Tsinghua University’s 2030 Global Strategy, which aims to foster a more international and open academic exchange at the University and encourage their early-career scholars to integrate into the global academic community.

With this in mind, early-careers scholars from aeronautics, computer science, life science and mathematics at Tsinghua University were joined by Editors-in-Chiefs’ from our Science and Technology journals. These journals ranged from established flagship titles, such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, to newly launched journals such as Research Directions: Biotechnology Design and Research Directions: Quantum Technology.

During the meeting, the editors introduced the journal, its development goals, as well as the editorial board’s role and composition of members. Attendees from Tsinghua University spoke about their academic backgrounds, knowledge of journals, and suggested development strategies.

Included in the exchange were discussions on the standards of first-class journals, how to maintain academic levels of excellence in a journal, how Chinese researchers can solve the language dilemma of publishing papers in international journals, and how to promote a new journal among Chinese scientific research groups.

Executive Publisher Wendy Xie commented on the event “As an academic publisher, part of our role in the community is to give young scholars the tools to publish their research at the highest levels, and ultimately spread knowledge and deepen and broaden understanding. To do this, we must engage with, listen to and educate this growing community.”

This ongoing outreach and institutional collaboration is part of our overarching commitment to Open Research and encouraging participation, submissions and readership from the global scholarly community and we look forward to similar events in the future.