"China needs better science journals to provide a better platform for our own scientists."

The institute, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, is designed to provide decision-making support to government agencies and keep the science and technology community up to date.

In 2000, only 47 of China's sci-tech publications were included in the Science Citation Index published by Thomson Reuters, which covers the world's most notable and significant journals across 100 disciplines.

By 2011, the number had increased to 155, accounting for 1.9 percent of all SCI journals.

Journals: Rapid increase in sci-tech papers

At the same time, the number of China's sci-tech papers increased. Between 2001 and 2011, Chinese scientists published 836,300 international papers. In 2010 alone, they authored 121,500 international papers.

"This number is still too small compared with the total output of papers in China," Wu said.

As of 2011, only 20 percent of China's SCI papers were published in domestic journals. The rest went to foreign journals.

Wu said the most obvious reason for China's sci-tech journals lagging behind is language.

"In the United Nations, you may have different working languages, but in the international science community, English is the de facto working language," he said.

Out of more than 5,000 domestic sci-tech journals in China, about 200 are published in English.

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