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Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica (APS) started its publication in July 1953 following its predecessor “Chinese Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences” which was started in 1936. The APS is devoted to original research articles on pharmaceutical sciences including pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacy, pharmacognosy, antibiotics, chemistry of natural products, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmaceutical analysis. Research articles, communications, reviews and commentaries introducing new theories and new technologies are also published. Readers of the APS are supposed to be mainly those involved in scientific research and those pertaining to higher education. Papers in The APS are mainly written in Chinese with an abstract in English. However, all tables, figures and references are in English. Papers in English are also published but with an abstract in Chinese.
Leading information services both in China and abroad indexing the APS include: Chinese Biomedical Data Base, Chinese Scientific Literature Data Base, Chinese Pharmaceutical Abstracts (CPA), Data Base of Names of the Titles of Chinese Scientific Journals, Data Base of Chinese Academic Journals (CD), Abstract of Chinese Medicine (ACME) and Chemical Abstracts (CA), Abstract Journal（AJ）, Biological Abstracts (BA), Index Medicus (IM/Medline), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA). In the list of 1000 journals most frequently cited in Chemical Abstracts, the APS ranked in the front of the Chinese medical journals. According to statistics of the database of the Chinese science literature the number of citations of the APS ranked seven among 500 Chinese journals and the first among biomedical journals during the last five years. The total citation rate and impact factor of the APS in 2004 were 2778, and 0.962, respectively. It won the 1st “National Prize for Chinese Journals” in 1999 and was selected as the “Journal of High Popularity and High Academic Level” in the “Phalanx of Chinese Journals” in 2001. It also won the 2nd “ National Prize for Chinese Journals (100 Key Science and Technological Journals)” and the 3rd “ Prize for Chinese Excellent Science and Technological Journals” in 2002.

Chinese Chemical Letters was founded in July 1990. The journal publishes preliminary accounts in the whole field of chemistry, satisfying a real and urgent need for the dissemination of research results, especially hot topics. In a way, it has become a show window of important chemical literature of China. For this purpose, articles in the journal are only written in English. The journal does not accept articles previously published or scheduled to be published. After publication of the communication in the journal, it can be expanded to a full paper and published else-where.  Authors are requested to send papers of 2-4 pages. Papers of other than 2-4 pages are not acceptable.

The journal has been indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded since 1993. The journal is also indexed or abstracted by Chemical Abstract, Chemical Citation Index, Research Alert etc.

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The Journal of Asian Natural Products Research (JANPR) was founded in October 1998. The Journal  publishes chemical and pharmaceutical studies in the English language in the field of natural product research on Asian ethnic medicine. The journal will publish work from scientists in Asian countries, e.g. China, Japan, Korea and India, including contributions from other countries concerning natural products of Asia. 

The journal is chemistry-orientated. Major fields to be covered are: isolation and structural elucidation of natural constituents (including those for non-medical uses), synthesis and transformation (including biosynthesis and biotransformation) of natural products, pharmacognosy, and allied topics. Biological evaluation of crude extracts are acceptable only as supporting data for pure isolates with well-characterized structures

 The journal has been indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded since 1999.