Research Journals
China Journal of Accounting Research
China Journal of Accounting Research (CJAR) is the world's first English-language journal focusing exclusively on accounting and finance issues in China. CJAR was jointly founded in 2008 by Sun Yat-sen University and City University of Hong Kong, and is published by Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher. The journal operates under the standard international model. The current Co-Editors-in-Chief are Professor Zhang Junsheng of Sun Yat-sen University and Professor Chen Yangyang of City University of Hong Kong. CJAR strives to build an academic bridge enabling "the world to understand China, and China to influence the world." The journal is currently rated as an A-level journal on theJournal Quality Listof the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), a 2-star journal ontheAcademic Journal Guide of the Association of Business Schools(ABS), and is included in the Journal Quality Listof Federation of Management Societies of China. In the Journal Citation Report, CJAR is ranked in Q1 in both the Business and Finance categories.
Advanced Management Studies
Advanced Management Studies aims to become a first-class academic journal in the fields of strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, and organizational management. It has a professional and international editorial board and follows a rigorous double-anonymous review process. Domain editors and reviewers evaluate manuscripts and assist authors in improving their work with a constructive and professional academic approach, ensuring a fast and efficient review process.Since January 2017, the journal has been consecutively included in the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index(CSSCI)Source Collection of Collected Papers. It has been rated as a Core Collected Paper Journal in the "AMI Comprehensive Evaluation of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Core Journals in 2022". From 2020 to 2025, it has been consecutively included in the Journal Quality Listof Federation of Management Societies of China. In 2021, it was included in the AMBA-Cabells Journal Report. The journal is also indexed in databases such as CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), CQVIP, Wanfang Database, and airiti Library.
SmartTech Innovations
SmartTech Innovations is an academic journal in science and technology sponsored by Sun Yat-sen University and supervised by the Ministry of Education. First published in 2025, the journal's core mission is to publish advances in the innovation, development, and application of digital intelligence technologies, and to build an academic exchange platform for research in digital intelligence technology, thereby promoting the high-quality development of China's strategic emerging industries. The journal aims to become a premier Chinese-language journal in interdisciplinary fields such as management science and computer science. By organizing special issues on cutting-edge interdisciplinary topics including FinTech, digital intelligence management, and embodied intelligence, the journal has become a frontier platform for academic exchange highly regarded by both academia and industry, attracting numerous researchers to engage in in-depth discussions on digital intelligence technologies.
