Description
Publishes original research articles, letters, case reports, reviews/mini-reviews and guest edited thematic issues on various topics related to marine sciences. Articles may be focused largely, but not exclusively, on contributions from China

Aims and Scope

The Marine Sciences section of the journal Current Chinese Science publishes original research articles, letters, reviews/mini-reviews and guest edited thematic issues on various topics related to marine sciences. Articles may be focused largely, but not exclusively, on contributions from China.

This section is not limited to a specific aspect of the field but is instead devoted to a wide range of sub-fields in the area. Articles of interdisciplinary nature are particularly welcome. Submissions in the following marine science areas are of special interest to the readers of this journal:

• Aquaculture
• Chemical oceanography
• Fisheries
• Marine ecosystem
• Marine & freshwater biology
• Marine habitats
• Marine geology
• Marine genomics
• Marine metagenomics
• Marine medicine
• Marine pollution
• General oceanography
• Operational oceanography
• Physical oceanography
• Shellfish research
• Others

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman FRS
(32052 citations)
Honorary Life Fellow
Kings College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
UK

Biography

Biography of Atta-ur-Rahman

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Kings College, University of Cambridge (1968), has 1235 international publications in several fields of organic chemistry including 349 books published largely by major U.S. and European presses. He was elected as Fellow of Royal Society (London) (2006) and won the prestigious UNESCO Science Prize (1999). Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was appointed Academician (Foreign Member) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015). He won the “Friendship Award of China” (2014) and was conferred the highest scientific award of China, the International Science & Technology Cooperation Award, by President Xi Jinping (2020). He was bestowed with the International Scientific Corporation Award (2014) and the “Einstein Professorship” by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2013). He was conferred honorary D.Sc. by University of Cambridge and appointed an Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, University of Cambridge. The Austrian government has honoured him with its highest civil award (“Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande") (2007). He is Professor Emeritus at University of Karachi, Pakistan.
- 2019 China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award Recipient
- Academician (Foreign Member) Chinese Academy of Sciences