Recently, the China Association for Science and Technology released the 2025 edition of the World Journal Clout Index (WJCI) Report. The report is a key outcome of the major research project “Research on the Comprehensive Evaluation Method of World Science & Technology Journal Impact” initiated by the China Association for Science and Technology. It was developed by a research team jointly organized by CNKI, in collaboration with several major domestic publishing institutions, information agencies, and journal societies. Since the release of the first WJCI Report in 2020, Power Generation Technology has been listed for six consecutive years and has entered the Q2 for the first time. This marks a further enhancement of the international influence of Power Generation Technology, establishing it as an outstanding journal with regional representativeness and disciplinary prominence.

The WJCI Report covers the major branches of 47 secondary disciplines across 5 broad categories, highlighting the development of outstanding global journals in emerging and interdisciplinary fields. A total of 15,274 outstanding journals with regional and disciplinary representativeness worldwide were included after rigorous evaluation, among which 1906 are Chinese scientific and technological journals. In the “Electrical Engineering” discipline to which Power Generation Technology belongs, a total of 202 journals were selected, of which 41 are from China. Power Generation Technology ranks 62nd among all journals in this discipline and ranks in the Q2.