Journal of Pingdingshan University is an academic theoretical journal founded by Pingdingshan University. The original social science edition was founded in 1986, and the self-science edition was founded in 1987. It was once merged into a bimonthly magazine in 1992-1994, and then restored to the social science and self-science editions after 1995, and then merged into a bimonthly magazine in 1998. Approved by the General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China, the journal has been in public circulation since January 1999, and it is a quarterly, comprehensive edition. With the approval of Henan Provincial Press and Publication Bureau, it was changed to a bimonthly magazine since the first issue of 2002, and was officially changed to its present name with the approval of the State General Administration of Press and Publication in December 2004 with the International Standard Serial Publication Number (ISSN): ISSN1673-1670 and the Domestic Uniform Serial Publication Number (CN41-1377/Z).
Since its establishment, the journal has made great contributions to the promotion of two civilisations by adhering to the tenet of running the journal. Now it has a full-time editorial team with a sound disciplinary structure and a stable group of high-level authors. Now there are ‘Ideology and Politics-Law’, ‘Language and Literature’, ‘History and Philosophy’, ‘Regional Culture of Henan’, ‘Pedagogy’, and ‘Education’. ‘‘Pedagogy-Psychology’‘ “Geography and Tourism”’ ‘Economy and Management’’ ’Forum on the Rise of Central China ‘‘Mathematics and Applied Mathematics’‘ “Electrical Technology and Mechanical Engineering”’ ‘Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Material Science’’ Information Technology and Application’ and other permanent columns.
Since its inception, Journal of Pingdingshan University has been constantly pursuing and exploring, especially since its public release, it has paid more attention to the publication of academic excellence, and gradually moved towards the road of standardisation of the arrangement, which has won the praise of all parties concerned. It is now a source journal of China Academic Journal Comprehensive Evaluation Database, a journal of China Academic Journal (CD-ROM Edition), a journal of excellent execution, a journal of China Journal Network, and a core journal of National Newspaper Index.