Lin Chung Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi is a peer-reviewed journal and the definitive journal for scientists, clinicians, and trainees in the field of otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery, and the inaugural issue debuted on May 20, 1987.
It has been continuously selected as the Chinese core journal of Peking University and the statistical source journal of Chinese scientific and technological papers, and selected as the T2 level Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Science in the classification catalogue of high-quality scientific and technological journals in China. It is a nominated Journal for the second National Journal Award, a hundred key journals for the third National Journal Award, a double effect Journal of the Chinese Journal matrix, one of the top ten influential natural science academic journals in Hubei Province, and a selected journal for the "excellent journal exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China". It has been included in important databases and authoritative abstracts at home and abroad such as Medline of the United States, chemical abstracts of the United States (CA), Dutch abstracts and Citations Database (Scopus), Western Pacific Medical Index of the World Health Organization (WPRIM), Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD) and RCCSE Chinese core academic journals.