Journal of Arid Land Selected for SCIE

On July 15, 2011, the editorial office of the Journal of Arid Land (JAL) received an e-mail transmitted through Prof. ZHU Cheng, the consultant of the Chinese Society of University Journals in Natural Sciences and the standing director of China Editology of Science Periodicals. The e-mail was sent by Mariana Boletta, the Senior Editor of Thomson Reuters, who said that JAL has been selected for coverage in SCIE and Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, beginning from the initial issue in 2009.

Launched in the fourth quarter of 2009, JAL is an international quarterly journal in the natural sciences (website: www.jal.xjegi.com), sponsored first by Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography and secondly by the Science Press of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and published by Science Press. Over the more than a year, JAL has actively tracked the international research hotspots in arid areas, quickly improved the quality of the journal, and raised its international impact under the great support of the directors of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the joint efforts of the Editorial Board and the editors of JAL.

Since launching in 2009, JAL has insisted on an international development path, and has encouraged international authors, while recruiting international reviewers and editorial board members. The papers published in JAL cover a broad field of natural resources and environmental researches and promote understanding of the characteristics of arid regions.  JAL has been abstracted/indexed internationally by VINITI Abstracts Journal (РЖ) in Russia, Index of Copernicus in Poland, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory in the USA, and full-text embodied nationally by China Online Journals and China Academic Journals Integrated Online Database in China.