Geological Journal of China Universities is a comprehensive academic journal of earth science jointly founded by the national Higher Geological Institute and university (department), sponsored by Nanjing University, and its administrative department is the Ministry of Education.
Since its inception, the journal has been widely praised by experts in the same industry and aroused the attention of science and technology circles at home and abroad. In 2004, Geological Journal of China Universities was selected as the national core journal of Geology, and compiled into the "Chinese Core Journal Overview". At present, the important journals and databases at home and abroad regularly include: Chemical Abstracts (USA), Abstract Journal (Russia), Citation Database of Chinese Sciences (CAS), Core Journals of Chinese Scientific Papers Statistics (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China), and Comprehensive Evaluation Database of Chinese Academic Journals. Chinese Science and Technology Journal Database, Chinese Geological Abstracts and Paleontological Abstracts, etc.