Zhongguo Yuwen (journal)
Zhongguo Yuwen (Chinese Language) is a bimonthly academic journal about Chinese linguistics published by the Commercial Press in China. It was founded in 1952 and is hosted by the Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It is regarded as a leading journal in Chinese linguistics.
The journal began as a monthly publication in 1952, jointly run by the Chinese Character Reform Committee and the Institute of Linguistics. In 1956 the Institute of Linguistics took over editorial duties, and in 1963 it switched to a bimonthly schedule. It was suspended during the Cultural Revolution and resumed in May 1978. In 2014 Zhongguo Yuwen became one of the first academic journals endorsed by the former State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.
Zhongguo Yuwen covers a wide range of topics in Chinese linguistics, including historical linguistics, cross-linguistic studies, dialect studies, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, language information processing, and language policy. It has published many important findings that have influenced the field. According to CNKI, the journal has published thousands of articles, received millions of downloads, and accumulated hundreds of thousands of citations, with a 2024 composite impact factor of 1.292. It is indexed in CSSCI and PKU Core, and AMI evaluations rate it as "authority" (2018) and "top" (2022).
Editors: Editor-in-Chief Wang Feng; Associate Editors Liu Xiangbo and Chen Li.
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