Journal of Hunan University (Natural Sciences)is a comprehensive core academic journal in natural sciences. Sponsored by Hunan University under the charge of China's Ministry of Education, it has won prizes such as "A Hundred Key Journals" in the Second National Periodicals Awards of China, and "Hunan's Top Ten Periodicals in Science and Technology". It has been indexed as a source periodical by the Engineering Information (EI) Compendex Database.

As a monthly periodical,Journal of Hunan University (Natural Sciences)is published on 28th of each month. Each issue contains 96 pages and the journal is distributed both at home and abroad, whose distribution codes are 42-44 domestically and BM877 abroad, and the RRP (Recommended Retail Price) is 96 yuan per year. Currently, Journalof Hunan University (Natural Sciences)contains such columns as biotechnologies, chemistry and chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, mathematics, computer science and management, and so on.

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