According to Good Submission Network, Journal of Liaocheng University is a provincial periodical. Provincial periodicals refer to periodicals sponsored by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and their subordinate ministries, commissions, departments and bureaus, as well as those sponsored by institutions of higher learning, which can be distributed nationwide. Liaocheng is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, which belongs to the provincial administrative region.