The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Center for Literature and Information has released the 2022 China Science Citation Index (CSCD-JCR), and the Journal of Arid Land Geography has seen its impact factor rise steadily to 1.9408. It reached a new record high and continued to rank in Q1 in the field of astronomy and earth science.

Over the past 40 years since its inception, Arid Land Geography has given full play to the characteristics of arid and semi-arid regions, continuously strengthened the construction of periodical talent team, periodical running mechanism, high-quality manuscript sources, etc., increased investment in the construction and operation of digital publishing platforms and new media publicity work, and improved the quality of manuscript sources, accelerated the review cycle, shortened the publication cycle, and expanded publicity. The professional ability, operational ability, competitive ability and influence of the journal have been continuously improved, and it has become a high-quality communication platform for academic exchange and achievement release in the field of arid region geography research.

Arid Land Geography sincerely thanks the organizer for the supervision and guidance, the editorial board and reviewers for their selfless dedication, and all the authors and readers for their great support!