After the XVI International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (ICCP2007) was held in Nanjing in June 2007, the organizing committee of the congress has published one paper collection (Shen Shuzhong et al., 2007, Palaeoworld) and one abstract collection (Wang Yue et al., 2007, Journal of Stratigraphy). In 2009 and 2010, two paper collections about Carboniferous-Permian research progress were respectively published.

The subject of the first collection is “Carboniferous and Permian biota, integrative stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeogeography, and palaeoclimatology”. This selection is co-edited by professors Wang Xiangdong and Shen Shuzhong from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Ian Somerville, chief editor of Geological Journal. After selection, 11 papers are published in Palaeoworld (2009, Volume 18, Issues 2-3). They discuss topics such as Russia’s and Kazakhstan’s Carboniferous biological group, biostratigraphy and boundary stratotype, Carboniferous-Permian eustatic change, and climatic revolution, as well as Poland’s intra-continental basin depositing in middle and upper Permian, and brachiopod faunas extinction events in late Guadalupian series.

The subject of the second collection is “Lopingian (Late Permian) stratigraphy of the world, major events and environmental change”. This selection is co-edited by professor Shen Shuzhong, Professor Charles Henderson, Chairman of Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy and Professor Ian Somervill. A total of 13 papers are published in Geological Journal (2010, Volume 45, Issues 2-3). They discuss topics such as High-resolution Lopingian (Late Permian) timescale of South China, high-resolution conodont biostratigraphy in Iran, Lopingian (Late Permian) stratigraphy in Asia-Australia and Himalayan region, latest Permian extinction in the Southern Alps, carbon isotopes variety  through the Permian-Triassic transition in South China, foraminiferal faunal succession in Lopingian stratigraphy in Tibet, and Permian systems in Poland, Turkey and Australia.

So far, all the paper collections of the XVI International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian have been published.