To understand the development status and problems of sci-tech periodicals in Shandong province, and improve its academic influence, core competitiveness and the ability to serve the overall situation，it is necessary to create a high-level scientific and technological journal phalanx with international communication power and highlighting Shandong characteristics. By distributing questionnaires to 131 sci-tech periodicals and holding seminars, the development status of sci-tech periodicals in Shandong province was investigated in the following five aspects: basic information, composition of human resources, grants and subsidies, business status, and new media development. It was obtained that all of the sci-tech periodicals in Shandong province were small, scattered and weak, being characterized by scattered publishing resources, unbalanced discipline layout, lack of excellent editors, low overall academic influence, and insufficient media-periodicals integration capacity. Suggestions to promote high-quality development of sci-tech periodicals in Shandong province are as follows: optimize the layout of publishing structure, improve the development environment of sci-tech periodicals, strengthen the construction of editors, empower their capacity to publish, promote their cluster construction and promote sci-tech digital transformation.

sci-tech periodicals  /  Shandong province  /  publishing ability  /  editorial team  /  digitization  /  cluster construction