| The evaluation index | Score | Scoring criteria |
| Reader rights | 20 | At the same time as the article is published, you will enjoy the right to read all the content of the article for free |
| 16 | Enjoy free access to all articles within 6 months of publication | |
| 12 | 6 months after the publication of all articles enjoy free reading rights | |
| 5 | Not all articles (including some articles, “hybrid” journals) can be read for free at the same time or after publication | |
| 0 | Subscription, membership, browsing or other fees are required to access all articles | |
| Reuse rights | 20 | Issue license notices for reuse and recombination of article content |
| 14 | No special statements are issued regarding the reuse and recombination of the content | |
| 7 | Publish restrictions on reuse and recombination of article content | |
| 0 | Reuse and recombination of article content is prohibited | |
| Copyrights | 16 | Authors own absolute copyright |
| 10 | Authors reserve copyright/publisher’s right to grant authors extensive reuse rights (e.g., use published data in presentations/teaching, create derivatives) and licensing rights (grant others to use them) | |
| 4 | Authors retain copyright/publishers grant authors partial reuse rights (e.g., using published data in presentations/teaching, creating derivatives) | |
| 0 | Publishers own the copyright and allows only fair use by the author | |
| Author posting rights | 16 | Authors may post any version of the article on any website or Wechat or Weibo platform after the article is published |
| 10 | Authors may publish certain versions of the content determined by publishers on any website or Wechat or Weibo platform at the same time as the article is published | |
| 6 | Authors may publish certain versions of the content as determined by publishers on any website or Wechat or Weibo platform within a certain period of time (the specific delay period is determined by the publisher) after the publication of the article | |
| 4 | At the same time or after the publication of the article, the authors may publish certain versions of the content determined by publishers on specific websites or Wechat and Weibo platforms | |
| 0 | Authors shall not publish any version of the content to any website or Wechat or Weibo platform at any time | |
| Automatic posting | 12 | At the same time of publication, the journal automatically publishes the backup of all articles to a trusted third party knowledge repository (e.g. national Journal database of Philosophy and Social Sciences). |
| 8 | The journal automatically releases copies of all articles to a trusted third party repository of knowledge within 6 months of publication (e.g., Database of National Scholarly journals of Philosophy and Social Sciences) | |
| 4 | The journal automatically publishes copies of all articles to a trusted third party repository of knowledge within 12 months of publication (e.g., National Database of Scholarly journals in Philosophy and social Sciences) | |
| 0 | The journal automatically publishes a backup of some (but not all) articles to a trusted third party knowledge repository (e.g., Database of National Scholarly journals of Philosophy and Social Sciences) within 12 months of publication. | |
| Machine readability | 16 | The full text of the article, metadata, supporting data (including formatting and semantic markup), and citations are available through an application programming interface (API) and publicly published notes |
| 12 | The full text of the article, metadata, and citations are available through an application programming interface (API) and publicly published notes | |
| 8 | Publish instructions publicly, allowing full text, metadata, and citations of articles to be crawled without permission | |
| 4 | Publish instructions publicly, allowing full text, metadata, and citations of articles to be crawled with permission | |
| 0 | The full text of the article cannot be crawled |