Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) issued new rules on publishing research outputs: NSFC projects now require that“20% or more of the representative papers be published in domestic science and technology journals,”and MOST requires that, for China–foreign coauthored papers, “the share published in domestic journals be no less than 50%.”These policies both advance the goal of“writing papers on China's land” and make compliant, high‑quality domestic journals a key outlet for researchers. The international academic journal Risk Sciences, when measured against official national recognition criteria, clearly qualifies as a domestic journal, offering researchers a locally grounded publishing platform that aligns with policy while retaining an international outlook.

The determination that Risk Sciences is a domestic journal rests primarily on the National Office for Science and Technology Awards' May 2025 update to the“FAQ on Nominating for the State Science and Technology Awards.”That document defines two core criteria for domestic journals: (1) S&T journals with a China National Serial Number (CN), and (2) journals without a CN number but that are in fact controlled by Chinese institutions and individuals. In terms of background, Risk Sciences was co‑founded by the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and KeAi. From equity structure to effective operational control, the journal is fully overseen by Chinese institutions, squarely meeting the criterion of“actual control by Chinese institutions,” and its domestic‑journal status has clear support in official policy.

Launched in 2024 as an interdisciplinary journal, Risk Sciences is closely aligned with the national strategy of developing high‑level domestic journals. Since the 2019 launch of the “China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan,” the state has continued to support homegrown journals with international reach and disciplinary leadership. Focusing on the emerging interdisciplinary field of risk science, Risk Sciences spans economics, finance, environment, public health, public administration, and more, aiming to build Asia's first comprehensive academic platform dedicated to risk‑related cross‑disciplinary research. This editorial direction—focusing on national strategic needs and integrating academic resources across fields—not only responds to the call to strengthen China's academic discourse power, but also makes the journal an important vehicle for building a scholarly discourse system in the field of risk science in China.

For researchers, publishing in Risk Sciences both satisfies policy requirements and facilitates efficient knowledge translation. On one hand, the journal centers on three core areas—risk analysis, emergency management, and financial risk control—precisely matching multiple national strategic needs. Its positioning aligns with strategic directions in finance and insurance such as pension finance, supply‑side structural reform, and financial security; it responds to emergency‑management goals such as modernizing the emergency management system and capacity and enhancing disaster prevention, mitigation, relief, and the handling of major public emergencies; and it supports fintech transformation imperatives like accelerating the development of the digital economy, deeply integrating the digital and real economies, and building internationally competitive digital industry clusters. In all these ways, the journal helps move research from theory into practice in areas such as pension‑finance innovation, emergency‑management application, and financial‑security assurance.

On the other hand, leveraging the excellent‑paper recommendation mechanisms of several recent high‑level academic conferences, Risk Sciences has become a core supporting journal for three major meetings. First is the 7th Annual Conference of the Quantitative Finance and Insurance Branch of the China Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics, held in Kunming on August 22–24, 2025, which focused on Empowering New Quality Productive Forces with Quantitative Finance and Insurance and covered hot topics such as sci‑tech finance, inclusive finance, and pension finance—an important exchange platform in quantitative finance and insurance. Second is the 20th International Emergency Management Forum and the 21st Annual Conference of the Emergency Management Professional Committee of the China Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics, to be held on November 7–9, 2025—China's longest‑running and most influential international conference in emergency management, with the core goal of advancing the modernization of the emergency management system and capacity. Third is the Annual Conference of the Financial Technology and Algorithms Committee of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, to be held on December 6–7, 2025—a flagship fintech event closely tied to the national digital‑economy strategy. As a supporting journal for these three meetings, Risk Sciences can not only rely on the mechanism of excellent papers being preferentially recommended to authoritative journals to provide a fast track from research to publication, but its editors have also participated in the Editors‑in‑Chief Forum at the Quantitative Finance and Insurance meeting and will join the upcoming Editor Face‑to‑Face session at the Emergency Management Forum, discussing research frontiers, writing norms, and review standards alongside editors‑in‑chief of other leading journals—further improving the dissemination quality, translation efficiency, and academic impact of research outputs.

At present, China's S&T journals are embracing a window of high‑quality development. With its compliant status of actual control by Chinese institutions, its cross‑disciplinary editorial profile, and its strong alignment with national strategies, Risk Sciences builds a publishing bridge for researchers that combines policy compliance, academic excellence, and international communication. Looking ahead, the journal will continue to focus on the frontiers of risk science, strengthen collaboration with domestic research institutions and academic platforms, and help more high‑quality research take root in China—contributing to China’s high‑level sci‑tech self‑reliance and to the building of its academic discourse system.