A little blue on the chinese journal association
The editor presented it at the beijing international book fair on the day of the exhibition of the first chinese magazine cover design. The design of the cover of journals in different areas presents unique styles and features that reflect precision in their positioning and audience needs. Senior scientific editor and deputy editor of molecular plants was invited to share ideas and perspectives on the design of the cover of the journal。
Molecular plants is the head of the chinese academy of sciences, which co-sponsored an english-language journal in the field of plant science by the centre for innovation in molecular plant science and the chinese society of plant physiology and plant molecular biology. Founded in 2008, it is the leading military journal for the first and second editions of the china science and technology journal. After 17 years of development, the molecular plants sci impact factor and citescore have been among the world's top research-type journals in the field for four consecutive years, becoming one of the top journals in plant science。
How can complex scientific stories be told in a simple and understandable way? We believe that science requires artistic expression, which empowers scientific dissemination. In a presentation of the landmark results of the deciphering of the tea genome, the cover presents a picture of tea taken by the tea farmers, followed by a map of the chauma road, highlighting its origins and its worldwide spread. We also often use myths that are well known to us, such as water treatments, post-spills, etc., to package complex scientific discoveries with these cultural carriers, significantly lower the threshold of public understanding and make science more relevant. At the same time, today, when globalization is published, we believe that the chinese element cover is not only a beautiful picture, but also an important strategy for the right to international discourse。
The other type of cover is the cover of a journal called "west" style. One issue of the cover imitates the ancient map of the parchment, which shows the study of yang's pangenomics in the image of the ocean. The dna double spiral in the river means big data that will lead us to explore the environmental adaptation and morphological diversity of the yangs. Also worth mentioning is the cover of a western comic book, which received the top ten american covers of the 2021 chinese journal of excellence in technology, with three well-meaning health workers representing three key proteins for biosynthesis of the plant rna, who together carefully cared for the baby rna in the nursery。
Plant diversity has always been an important element of the cover of molecular plants, a scientific journal at the forefront of the science of deep-tilled plants. Another issue, like the cover of yinghua, is a tribute to china’s first nobel prize winner in physiology or medicine, who has slain the great scientific journey of extracting artemisinin to save 50 million lives。
If this idea constitutes the "three original colours" designed for the cover of the journal of molecular plants, we are now exploring the "future spectrum" designed for the cover, that is, recasting the scientific imagination by using a mass of ai data. We expect ai to upgrade the cover design from a one-on-one workshop to an algorithm factory, releasing more possibilities。
In the future, we will continue to use cover media to make hard-core science “visible”, to make cutting-edge results “spoken”, and to enable journals to break professional boundaries and engage in dialogue with the wider world。
Source: chinese news publication, cable
24 june 2025
