Advances in Bridge Engineering is an open-access journal from SpringerOpen, sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4.《Advances in Bridge Engineering》是 SpringerOpen 的开放获取刊物，由成都的西南交通大学主办，2025 年影响因子 2.4。
Volume 1 appeared in 2020 and volume 7 is the 2026 volume, one volume a year, with no issue numbers inside a volume and an article number on every paper instead.第 1 卷在 2020 年开出，第 7 卷对应 2026 年，一年一卷，卷内不再分期，每篇论文领到的是文章编号。
Scope
The stated aim is a platform between Chinese bridge practice and the rest of the world, and the editors say so plainly on the journal page.它写明的目标是搭一座台子，一头是中国桥梁实践，一头是世界，这句话就写在期刊页上，不加修饰。
New structural styles come first, since a cable-stayed or arch scheme that has not been built before needs a place to be described before it is built again.新结构形式排在最前，一座没造过的斜拉或拱式方案，需要有个地方先把话说清楚，别人才好照着再建。
New materials are handled with the same intent, and the journal wants the application reported and not only the laboratory coupon.新材料按同样的意思处理，刊物要的是应用结果，实验室里的小试片不够。
Load determination and the evaluation of load effects form a steady block, from traffic models to the measured response of a completed span.荷载确定与效应评价是稳定的一块，从车流模型一直排到成桥后的实测响应。
Complex bridges are examined for static and dynamic behaviour, which in practice means long-span structures where the two are hard to separate.复杂桥按静力与动力两面考察，落到实际就是大跨结构，那里静与动本来就分不干净。
Wind, earthquake and other disasters get separate treatment, and a paper on typhoon loading may sit next to one on scour at a pier.风、地震与别的灾害分开处理，一篇讲台风荷载的论文，旁边可能就排着一篇讲桥墩冲刷的。
Running safety of traffic on the bridge is treated as a subject of its own, with vehicle-bridge interaction models and derailment criteria appearing in the same section.桥上行车安全单列一块，车桥耦合模型与脱轨判据出现在同一节里。
Health monitoring and damage identification carry a large share of the papers, and a typical study starts from sensor records on a bridge in service.健康监测与损伤识别占了不少篇幅，典型的一篇从在役桥梁的传感器记录起步。
Condition assessment, strengthening and maintenance follow from that, since a monitored defect has to end in a decision about repair.状态评定、加固与养护接在后面，监测出来的缺陷总得落到修不修的决定上。
Artificial intelligence and big data are named in the scope, and the journal treats them as tools for the same bridge problems rather than as a field apart.人工智能与大数据写进了范围，刊物把它们当作解决同一批桥梁问题的工具，不另立门户。
Construction technology has its own line, and papers on erection, closure and temporary works are accepted on the same footing as analysis.施工技术自成一条线，架设、合龙与临时工程的论文，与分析类论文同等对待。
Bridges for new kinds of transport and interdisciplinary work close the list, which is where rail and road schemes meet materials science.新型交通的桥梁与交叉研究排在末尾，铁路与公路的方案在那里同材料科学碰面。
Three article types are offered, original innovation, review and technical note, and the labels are printed on the article page rather than kept internal.论文分三种，原创创新、综述与技术札记，标签印在文章页上，不留在内部。
Papers are numbered rather than paginated, so a citation points to an article number that stays put when the volume closes.论文按编号排而不按页码排，引文指向的那个编号，到整卷收口时也不会挪位。
History
The first volume carried 21 papers in 2020, and the annual count moved to 29, 29, 32, 36 and 41 in the five years after that.第 1 卷在 2020 年收了 21 篇，此后五年依次是 29、29、32、36 与 41 篇。
Volume 7 has 40 papers so far in 2026, so the level of the last few years is holding.第 7 卷到 2026 年已有 40 篇，近几年的水平算是守住了。
Crossref holds 228 records for the title, all of them under the electronic ISSN and none of them behind a paywall.存缴里一共 228 条，全挂在电子刊号下，没有一条在付费墙后面。
Volume number and year differ by 2019, so volume 3 is 2022 and volume 5 is 2024 without exception.卷号与年份差 2019，第 3 卷就是 2022 年，第 5 卷就是 2024 年，没有例外。
Each volume has one issue number only, which is how a journal that publishes continuously looks once the records are counted.每卷只有一个期号，一本连续出版的刊物，把记录数一遍就是这个样子。
The impact factor was first recorded at 2.1 for 2024 and rose to 2.4 for 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.9 that is higher than the annual one.影响因子 2024 年首次给出，2.1，2025 年升到 2.4，五年影响因子 2.9 比单年还高。
Two JCR categories are claimed, and the journal sits 53rd of 104 in construction and building technology at the 49.5th percentile and 101st of 193 in civil engineering.期刊引文报告里占两个类目，建筑与建造技术 104 种中排 53，百分位 49.5，土木工程 193 种中排 101。
Both places are third quartile, and the citation total of 441 with a cited half-life of 3.3 years fits a title that is only six volumes old.两处都在第三区，总被引 441 次、被引半衰期 3.3 年，正合一本只有六卷的刊物。
Gold open access covers every paper, the journal is listed in DOAJ, and authors are told they keep the copyright without payment.金色开放获取覆盖全部论文，刊物在 DOAJ 里有记录，作者被告知保留版权且无需付费。
The National Library of Medicine catalogues the title with PubMed coverage marked as selected citations only, which is unusual for a bridge journal and worth stating as the record has it.国家医学图书馆给它建了目录，PubMed 一栏记作仅选引，桥梁刊物出现这一条不常见，记录怎么写就怎么记。
The journal page gives a CiteScore of 4.3 for 2025, a figure computed from Scopus and therefore different from the impact factor carried by the citation index.期刊页给出 2025 年的 CiteScore 为 4.3，这个数从 Scopus 算出，与引文索引里的影响因子不是同一套。
Downloads are reported as 214.8 thousand for 2025, a number the publisher prints beside the impact factor on the same panel.2025 年的下载量报作 21.48 万次，出版方把它与影响因子并排印在同一块面板上。
The imprint is SpringerOpen in Singapore, and the university in Chengdu is named as sponsor on the same page, which puts the editorial address and the money in two different countries.出版印记是新加坡的 SpringerOpen，主办方则是成都那所大学，两者同页并列，编辑地址与出钱的一方分处两国。
An honor roll for 2020 to 2025 was announced at the end of the first five years, naming high-impact papers, excellent reviewers and outstanding board members in three separate lists.头五年结束时刊出了 2020 至 2025 年的荣誉榜，把高影响论文、优秀审稿人与杰出编委分成三张单子列出。
A journal update also reports that 62 of its editorial board members were placed on the world top two per cent scientists list.另有一则期刊消息说，编委里有 62 人进了全球前百分之二的科学家名单。
Editors
Two editors-in-chief are named on the journal page, Qin Shunquan of China Major Bridge Engineering in Wuhan and Li Yongle of Southwest Jiaotong University.主编有两位，武汉的中铁大桥局的秦顺全与西南交通大学的李永乐。
Six honorary advisers are listed above them, Zongyu Gao of the China Railway Major Bridge Reconnaissance and Design Institute, Chuan He, Jiann-Wen Ju of UCLA, Limin Sun of Tongji, Youlin Xu and Wanming Zhai.主编之上还有六位名誉顾问，中铁大桥勘测设计院的高宗余、何川、加州大学洛杉矶分校的 Jiann-Wen Ju、同济大学的孙利民、徐幼麟与翟婉明。
Five associate editors-in-chief handle the load, Steve C.S. Cai, Hong Hao of Curtin, Venkatesh Kodur of Michigan State, Bin Wang and Lin Zhao.五位副主编分担工作量，Steve C.S. Cai、科廷大学的 Hong Hao、密歇根州立大学的 Venkatesh Kodur、王斌与赵林。
The board itself is wide, and the addresses run from Suez and Tehran through Istanbul and Madrid to Brisbane and Los Angeles in one alphabetical list.编委铺得很开，一张按字母排的名单里，从苏伊士与德黑兰，经伊斯坦布尔与马德里，一直排到布里斯班与洛杉矶。
Review is single-blind, so the reviewer stays unnamed and the author is known, and the journal says so in the aims statement.评审是单盲的，审稿人不署名，作者是知道的，这句话写在办刊宗旨里。
Median time from submission to a first decision is given as three days, which is short enough to be read as a desk-decision figure rather than a full review.从投稿到初审中位数 3 天，这个数字短到应当读成编辑初判，而不是完整外审。
Reviewers are thanked through the honor roll rather than in a printed list, and the excellent reviewer category is the only place their names appear.审稿人经由荣誉榜致谢，不印名单，优秀审稿人那一栏是他们名字唯一出现的地方。
Board members are acknowledged the same way, in the outstanding board member list, and a further announcement records their selection for a Springer Nature editor award in 2026.编委也照此致谢，落在杰出编委那一栏，另有一则消息记下他们入选 Springer Nature 2026 年的编辑奖项。
Submission runs through Editorial Manager, and the journal page points there instead of running its own manuscript system.投稿走 Editorial Manager，期刊页把入口指向那里，不自建投稿系统。
No section editors are published, so the division of labour among the two chiefs and five associates stays inside the editorial office.分栏编辑没有公布，两位主编与五位副主编之间怎么分工，留在编辑部内部。