Recently, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) officially released the 2025 World-Class Scientific and Technological Journals List. Aggregate, an English scientific journal hosted by South China University of Technology (SCUT), has been selected for this prestigious list.

Based on the Web of Science database independently developed by ISTIC and its new evaluation indicator system, the 2025 World-Class Scientific and Technological Journals List selects 6,132 journals from approximately 70,000 actively published scientific journals worldwide. These journals, distributed across 55 countries and regions and covering 23 languages, include 353 Chinese journals, accounting for 5.8%.

As the world's first international open-access journal focusing on aggregate science, TheAggregate was launched in December 2020. It advocates a novel academic paradigm of moving from isolated molecules to functional aggregatesand covers interdisciplinary fields such as chemistry, materials, physics, biology, and engineering. Being committed to building a high-level international academic exchange platform, the journal continues to publish high-quality original research.

 The Aggregate has ranked in the Q1 zone of Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in three disciplinesfor five consecutive years, which are Chemistry, Multidisciplinary, Chemistry, Physical, and Materials Science, Multidisciplinary. Moreover, itwas selected for the 2023 China Excellent Plan for Scientific and Technological Journals, a High-Start New Journals Project. Additionally, the journalis listed as a TOP journal in the first quartile of the Chemistry category in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Journal Partition Table.

In 2025, the Aggregate achieved an Impact Factor of 14.5, with a stable annual publication volume exceeding 200 articles, demonstrating a positive trend of simultaneous growth in both quantity and quality.

Source from SCUT News