• 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


Honorary Senior Advisor

  • Ferid Murad
  • Prof. Ferid Murad

    (Nobel Laureate)
    Stanford University
    Stanford, CA
    USA

    • Co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine