We are pleased to announce that Zoological Research (ZR)  has reached a new level this year. On 30 December 2013, the China Academic Journals Electronic Publishing House, Library of Tsinghua University and China Scientific Literature Evaluation and Measuring Research Center jointly awarded ZR the “2013 The Highest International Impact Academic Journals of China” in Science, Technology and Engineering for its achievement in internationalizing life sciences research. ZR was among 175 Science and Technology Journals selected for the award from a pool of 4622 journals (3502 Science and Technology Journals and 1120 Humanities and Social Science Journals), all of which were in the top 5% of domestic Chinese publications in their field, as determined by comparing their international annual total citation frequency and international impact factor.