Recently, according to the information released on the official website of “Going Global” Expert Committee and Scopus Academic Committee of China, the journal Nano Materials Science run by Chongqing University was included in the Scopus database for the first time, after it was included in CSCD, DOAJ and CAS databases.

Scopus database is a database of scientific research management and discipline planning launched by Elsevier, the largest publishing house in the world. It is the largest A & I database of abstracts and citations in the world. It contains more than 22,800 academic journals, more than 7 million academic conference papers and 150,000 books from more than 5,000 publishers in the world. Because of its powerful functions, Scopus database has been widely concerned by academic circles at home and abroad. Its data has been widely used in the world university rankings, the list of highly cited scholars in China, disciplinary evaluation of colleges and universities and so on. The selection criteria and procedures of journals in Scopus database are becoming more and more stringent. Being included in the database means that the academic quality and academic influence of articles published in NMS, as well as the standardization, internationalization and normalization of journal publishing have been internationally recognized. It also lays a solid foundation for the construction of NMS as a first-rate journal. NMS was officially launched (quarterly) in March 2019 with Academician Lyu Jian of City University of Hong Kong as editor in chief and 118 experts from 21 countries as editorial board members. The journal focuses on the latest research achievements in the preparation and processing of nano-structured materials and nano-functional materials, material gene characterization, material performance evaluation and application, as well as the design, preparation, evaluation and application of nano devices. By April 2021, NMS articles had been downloaded for more than 310,000 times (ScienceDirect database), and was cited by 409 SCIE indexed journals from 84 countries, 10.843 citations for each article. In 2021, the immediate impact factor was 4.274. The journal was funded by Chongqing Publishing Earmarked Funds, and was dubbed as excellent science and technology journal of colleges and universities in China, famous academic journal of colleges and universities in China, New Journal Award of Keai.

With substantial support of Chongqing University, NMS will further explore the mode of diversified cooperation between editorial team and academic team, steadily improve the quality of the journal, and strive to build an international academic exchange and service platform, in an ultimate effort to contribute to the development of disciplines and the construction of CQU as the first-rate university.