AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (aip.org), is pleased to announce that it has signed a new partnership agreement with Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics (CJCP). Beginning in 2012, AIP will manage hosting, sales, marketing, and distribution of CJCP for all international markets outside China. CJCP will maintain editorial control of the journal and distribution in China.

AIP will begin hosting CJCP on its Scitation platform in January 2012. AIP sees CJCP as an ideal complement to its own highly cited publication, The Journal of Chemical Physics.

"We are very pleased to collaborate with the American Institute of Physics, a pioneer in online publishing, which drives innovation through continuing investment in emerging technologies and R&D," said Prof. Xueming Yang, Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. "AIP's involvement will help our publication to enjoy a higher degree of discoverability and to improve our journal's quality and prestige."

Launched in 1988, and supported by both the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, CJCP reports on new and original experimental and theoretical research, bridging atomic- and molecular-level investigations in material science, chemistry, physics, the life sciences, and related fields. The journal comprises letters, articles and reviews.  CJCP is one of 24 journals published by the Chinese Physical Society and is indexed in Thomson Reuters' Science Citation Index Expanded, as well as in other major indexes.

"There's so much excellent research being published in the Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics right now, and our goal is to greatly increase the visibility of this work and to disseminate it as rapidly and as widely as possible," says Robert Harington, Publisher, AIP Partnerships. "We are confident that by leveraging the great functionality of our Scitation platform, we'll be able to accomplish these goals."

About American Institute of Physics

The American Institute of Physics is an organization of 10 physical sciences societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the largest publishers of scientific information in physics. AIP also delivers valuable resources and expertise in education and student services, science communication, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statistical research, industrial outreach, and the history of physics and other sciences. Offering publishing solutions for scientific societies and organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 13 journals(journals.aip.org), two magazines—including its flagship publication, Physics Today—and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Scitation, AIP's online publishing platform, hosts 1.6 million articles from 190 scholarly journals, proceedings, and eBooks of learned society publishers. AIP also provides the international physical science community with UniPHY, the first literature-based social and professional networking site; it features pre-populated profiles of more than 300,000 scientists and enables collaboration among researchers worldwide.

About Chinese Physical Society

The Chinese Physical Society, established in 1932, is a nongovernmental organization created to promote and popularize the field of physics. CPS has branches throughout the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, as well as 28 subdivisions and specialized committees. The Society has more than 32,000 individual members and seven group members.

(Source: American Institute of Physics)