Leading transportation journal Communications in Transportation Research moves to fully open access platform SciOpen, expanding global reach and supporting open science
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Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR), ranked #1 in its field with an Impact Factor of 14.5, transitions from Elsevier to Tsinghua University Press starting Volume 6 (2026). The journal will be published fully on the SciOpen platform, enhancing global visibility, supporting open science, and offering a seamless submission and publishing experience.
Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (JICV), China’s first fully open-access English journal in its field, will transition from IEEE to Tsinghua University Press starting with Volume 9 (2026). The journal will be published on the SciOpen platform, reinforcing its commitment to open science and global scholarly exchange.
Tsinghua University Press is pleased to announce the official launch of Ocean (www.sciopen.com/journal/3008-1203), an international, peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to advancing research in ocean science, technology, and engineering.
Recently, the 2025 Volume 1, Issue 2 of Materials and Solidification, an English academic journal dedicated to the field of materials and solidification, has been officially published. Co-sponsored by Tsinghua University Press and academically supported by the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing (SKLSP) at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), the journal is led by Professor Jinshan Li (from SKLSP, NPU) as Editor-in-Chief and Professor Junjie Wang (also from SKLSP, NPU) as Executive Editor-in-Chief. It aims to build a high-level academic exchange platform for researchers and engineering technology experts worldwide, promoting the research and development of solidification theory, material design, microstructure evolution, process innovation, and related fields.
Circular Economy has been officially included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) by Web of Science, a leading global provider of scientific and scholarly research information.
SciOpen, a digital publishing platform for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals developed by Tsinghua University Press, has recently reached a major milestone: it now hosts more than 200 journals. This achievement not only highlights its strong capacity to attract high-quality journals, but also reflects its growing success in enhancing the global visibility of local journals. SciOpen has also drawn interest from international recognized institutions such as the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and Tech Science Press.
In August, the first issue of Volume 31 of Tsinghua Science and Technology was released on SciOpen, an academic publishing platform developed by Tsinghua University Press. This move marks a new chapter for the journal.