Taylor & Francis is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE) from 2011, for Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

With a 2009 impact factor of 0.219, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers will move to Taylor & Francis in Volume 33 (2011), increasing in frequency from seven issues to eight issues per year.

Taylor & Francis’ Singapore office will provide local liaison and support, while the company’s international Marketing networks will ensure that the journal’s content is seen, read and cited by active researchers around the world, optimising citations and usage.

The journal will benefit from Taylor & Francis’ InformaWorld platform, with functionality such as forward citation linking and advanced online publication of articles through iFirst. Online submission and review will be introduced via a new online submissions system, ensuring efficient peer review and outreach to international authors. Back issues of the journal will be made available to subscribers online.

President Shi-Shuenn Chen, Editor-in-Chief at Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, said: ‘It is our great pleasure having the opportunity to work with Taylor & Francis to jointly publish this Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers. We are at an important stage of accomplishing another success in the journal’s development. With Taylor & Francis, we are making a big move forward to be actively involved in the globalization of the journal, and to promote international cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and win-win progress.’

Rachel Sangster, Journals Publisher at Taylor & Francis (Asia Pacific), added: ‘This new publishing partnership with the Chinese Institute of Engineers is a great honour for Taylor & Francis and is demonstrative of our expanding reach in the region. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers is a successful, established journal, and we look forward to welcoming it to the T&F stable and increasing its international profile even further.’