Open Times is a journal of the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, supervised and sponsored by the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, and edited and published by the Open Times Magazine. Founded in 1982, originally titled "Guangzhou Research", it was renamed "Open Era" in 1989 and is now a bimonthly publication that is publicly distributed both domestically and internationally. Publication number: ISSN1004-2938, CN44-1034/C; postal code: 46-169.
Open Times was listed in the latest edition of the "Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) Source Journal" (2021-2022), "the authoritative journal of the comprehensive evaluation of Chinese humanities and social sciences journals AMI", "Chinese core journal", and the important reprint source journal of the NPC's photocopying of newspapers and periodicals. It was honored as "Guangdong Provincial Excellent Journal", "the most popular journal of comprehensive humanities in the academic journal database of the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Documentation Center", "China's internationally influential excellent academic journal" and other honors.