We are pleased to announce that the FEC ranks 9th among 60 selected journals on the list of “2015 Excellent International Impact Academic Journals of China (Humanities and Social Sciences)” as per the Annual Report for International Citation of Chinese Academic Journals (CAJ-IJCR) newly released by China Academic Journals (CD) Electronic Publishing House, Tsinghua University Library and International Academic Literature Evaluation Research Center. This is the second time the journal appears on the list since 2014. According to the Report, the impact factor of the FEC is 0.133 while the international total cites (excl. self-citation) are 42, a good progress compared to the figures released last year, 0.082 and 31.
Initiated at the end of 2012, the CAJ-IJCR was designed to reflect the international impact of China’s academic journals from the perspective of bibliometrics and in a comprehensive and objective way. This academic journal evaluation is the first of its kind in China. So far 4 annual reports have been released, all well-received and attracting much attention from both the academic circles and the periodical industry in China.
For more information, please refer to:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/zgjx/2015-12/21/c_134936606.htm
http://hii.cnki.net/cajz/bzsm.html
In cooperation with the Canadian Economics Association, Frontiers of Economics in China is pleased to announce the winner of the FEC Best Paper Award in 2018:
| “Trade and Innovation: The Role of Scale and Competition Effects,”by Kevin Lim, Daniel Trefler, and Miaojie Yu |
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“Anti-Dumping Duties and their Heterogeneous Effect on Chinese Exporters,” (Revised title: “The Trade Effects of Anti-Dumping Duties: Firm-level Evidence from China”) by Gabriel Felbermayr, Alexander Sandkamp and Erdal Yalcin. |
On the morning of June 13th, the 2016 FEC Editors’ Annual Meeting was held at Room 801, School of Economics, SUFE. Executive Editor Prof. Zhiqi Chen presided over the meeting. Present at the meeting were Prof. Guoqiang Tian, Editor of the FEC and Dean of IAR; Co-Editors Prof. Chunrong Ai, Prof. Kevin Xiaodong Huang and Prof. Guanzhong James Wen; Liguo Lin, Vice Dean of IAR; Yuanyuan Chen, IAR Assistant to Dean and head in charge of the FEC editorial office administration; Xudong Chen, IAR Assistant to Dean; Mr. Hai Liu, Director of Social Science and Humanities Academic Publications, Higher Education Press; along with two editor assistants.
At the meeting, Prof. Guoqiang Tian spoke highly of the work done by the editorial team and Higher Education Press, and expressed wishes for all parties to make persistent efforts for further progress considering that the journal was still at a critical initial period of growth. The editorial staff presented a work report and shared with the participants various indicators and performance metrics of the journal in the last few years. Prof. Zhiqi Chen briefed the meeting on the progress of the special issue on international trade. Director Hai Liu reported FEC’s new achievements in database inclusion and new media publicity. The participants had in-depth discussions on the adjustment of the aims and scope of the FEC, double-blind review policy, and relevant financial regulations, and exchanged ideas on overseas publisher cooperation plan, further improvement of the FEC’s international influence, language quality guarantee of published papers, etc. The meeting approved the proposal of adjusting the scope of the FEC according to the principle of highlighting its characteristics, properly extending the emphasis of its previous scope from “the Chinese economy or other transition economies” to “the Chinese economy and other, emerging, developing or transition economies”.
