It was officially informed by Clarivate Analytics recently that Cognitive Semantics, an international academic journal sponsored by the School of Foreign Languages of Beihang University, got included in Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

Starting in early 2022, the review process took a year to complete. Cognitive Semantics, founded by Professor Li Fuyin of the School of Foreign Languages of Beihang University in 2015, is published by Brill, a Dutch publishing house, with 2 issues published each year and each including 15 articles. Since 2022, the journal regularly publishes 3 issues, each with 20 articles. So far it has been included in ESCI, SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, Communication Source, Linguistic Bibliography and other international high-level databases.

ESCI is a new index in the Web of Science database issued by Thomson Reuters in late 2015. It is designed to expand the range of publications available in Web of Science. It includes academic journals and other academic works that are evaluated by peer experts as “comply with publishing ethics and have high-quality content”. The ESCI database now covers 254 disciplines in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, 74.4 million citations (some of which could be dated back to 1900), and more than 7,800 international journals. Journals included in ESCI stand a chance to be further included in SCIE, SSCI or AHCI.

As is stated in the title page of both its website and print version, “As a peer-reviewed international journal, Cognitive Semantics takes the relationship between meaning and mind as its central concern”, Cognitive Semantics focuses on the relationship between the state-of-the-art science and technology and "semantics". Original articles about "Semantics and Mind" are published in this journal with special focus on the influence of latest developments in science and technology on semantics. Special attention has been paid to cognitive linguistics, semantics, psycholinguistics, cognitive sociolinguistics, typology, historical linguistics, functional linguistics, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, as well as the research and application of semantics in combination with brain sciences, neuroscience and life sciences.

Reported by Zuo Shan and Liu Wei

Reviewed by Xiao Hong

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Zhang Anqi