The Chinese Medical Association Publishing House Knowledge Service Platform, MedPaper®, has demonstrated stable performance and a well-established feature set, meeting the requirements for official launch. The platform is now formally open to researchers, clinicians, and all healthcare professionals across China.

On November 7, 2026, a symposium on high-quality data development and knowledge services for medical journals, combined with the key laboratory’s annual review meeting, was held in Beijing. Participants shared practical experience in content governance, high-quality corpora and datasets, digitally enabled dissemination, and knowledge services, exploring applications in research and clinical practice.

In January 2026, the Seminar on the High-Quality Development of the Chinese Medical Journal Cluster was held in Beijing. The meeting reviewed the cluster’s progress, discussed journal development, intelligent medical knowledge services, and high-quality dataset construction, and further promoted the cluster’s brand building and platform-based development.

On September 12, 2026, the 2025 List of World-Class Scientific and Technological Journals was officially released. Five journals sponsored by the Chinese Medical Association were included in the list.

To implement the requirements for developing world-class scientific journals, the Chinese Medical Association has issued a dedicated development plan to advance journal reform. Following a formal review process, five journals were selected for the 2026 program. The Chinese Medical Association will adopt a tailored “one journal, one strategy” approach to promote integrated publishing and digital-intelligent transformation, further enhancing the journals’ international influence and academic discourse capacity.

On June 2, 2026, a delegation from the Saudi Society of Clinical Laboratory Sciences visited the Chinese Medical Association Publishing House. The two sides held in-depth discussions on medical journal development and digital publishing transformation. The Chinese side introduced the development achievements of the Chinese Medical Association journal portfolio and its experience in quality management, while the Saudi side shared progress in healthcare digital transformation under Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. Both sides reached a consensus on strengthening international academic cooperation, co-developing journals, and promoting the dissemination of scientific research achievements.

Clarivate has recently released the 2026 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Journals under the Chinese Medical Association performed strongly, with 21 English-language journals receiving impact factors. Among them, six journals were ranked in Q1.

On June 18, Nancy Chescheir, Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), led a delegation on a visit to the Chinese Medical Association Publishing House. The two sides held in-depth discussions on publication ethics, collaboration among medical journals, digital publishing transformation, and opportunities for future international cooperation.