"The official retirement of the CAS Journal Partition Table is indeed a crucial watershed moment for China's scientific evaluation system, says Xinchen Gu, an ecologist at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou."
"The cessation of the CAS ranking came with little fanfare. On 24 March, an organization called Xinrui Scholar announced that it has released a new journal ranking."
"This led to some confusion, says Nie, about whether CAS had simply rebranded its ranking into an independent system."
"Others think its closure is an opportunity to move research evaluation beyond journal metrics."
The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has stopped publishing its journal ranking, which has been pivotal in research evaluation for over 20 years. This decision has left universities and researchers uncertain about future evaluation methods. Although the CAS ranking is retired, a new index called Xinrui Scholar has emerged, using similar methodologies. Scholars are questioning whether this new ranking will gain the same influence as the CAS list, while some see this as a chance to rethink research evaluation beyond journal metrics.
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