ACTA SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM UNIVERSITATIS SUNYATSENI is a multidisciplinary academic journal supervised by the Ministry of Education of China, sponsored by Sun Yat-sen University, and published by Editorial Department of Journal, Sun Yat-sen University.

Since first issued in 1955, ACTA SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM UNIVERSITATIS SUNYATSENI provides researchers with an effective medium for communicating important recent developments in their areas of specialization to colleagues and to scientists in natural science, and publishes Chinese and English current research articles as well as selected high-quality survey articles. ACTA SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM UNIVERSITATIS SUNYATSENI is a bimonthly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research results on a broad range of natural sciences and high-tech fields on the basis of its originality, scientific significance. Research papers that are funded by national, provincial and ministerial funds will be prior to.

ACTA SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM UNIVERSITATIS SUNYATSENI is indexed by Guide to Chinese core journals; The key magazine of China technology, CSTPCD; Chinese Science Citation Database, CSCD; China Core Journal Alternative Database, CCJAD; China Science and technology journal Database, CSTJ; Chinese Science Abstracts; Science Abstracts, SA; Chemical Abstracts, CA; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CSA; Abstract Journal, AJ; Mathematical Reviews, MR; Zentralblatt MATH, Zbl MATH; The Zoological Record, ZR; Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience Abstracts，CAB Abstracts; Mathematical Reviews, MathSciNet; and Scopus, CNKI, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar.