Advances in Simulation

Advances in Simulation is an open access journal published by BioMed Central as the official journal of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine, launched in 2016, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports give it an impact factor of 3.6.《模拟研究进展》是 BioMed Central 出版的开放获取期刊，是欧洲模拟医学学会的官方刊物，2016 年创刊，《期刊引证报告》2025 年给出的影响因子为 3.6。

Scope

• The publisher describes the journal as a pioneering open access journal dedicated to simulation in health and social care with an expert international editorial board, and says that its scope incorporates all science and social science disciplines, the health and social care professions and multi and inter professional studies.出版方官网称该刊是专注于健康与社会照护模拟的开拓性开放获取期刊，配有经验丰富的国际编委会，其范围涵盖所有科学与人文社会科学学科、卫生与社会照护各专业以及多专业与跨专业研究。

• The topics listed for it include the study of health care practice, human factors, psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication, teamwork and human performance, education and learning technology, and economics.其列出的议题包括医疗照护实践研究、人因、心理学、社会学、人类学、沟通、团队协作与人因表现、教育与学习技术以及经济学。

• Further subjects are anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and therapeutics, scientific computation and simulation modelling, population studies, and the use of simulation in theatre, craft and programme evaluation, so that the journal reaches from traditional medical areas to the applied arts.其余议题包括解剖学、生理学、药理学与治疗学、科学计算与模拟建模、人口研究，以及模拟在戏剧、工艺与项目评价中的应用，使该刊从传统医学领域延伸到应用艺术。

• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports list the title in the category of health care sciences and services, where it ranks fifty third of 194 titles with a percentile of 72.9 and a journal citation indicator of 1.27.《期刊引证报告》2025 年把它列入卫生保健科学与服务类目，在该类目 194 种期刊中位列第 53 位、百分位为 72.9，期刊引证指标 1.27。

History

• The journal was founded in 2016, its first issue being volume 1 number 1 of January 2016 published in London by BioMed Central.该刊创刊于 2016 年，首期为 2016 年 1 月的第 1 卷第 1 期，由伦敦的 BioMed Central 出版。

• Its catalogue record states that it is the official journal of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine and that articles are added as received to the annual volume in progress, and the publisher now lists that society among its partnerships.其编目记录说明该刊是欧洲模拟医学学会的官方刊物，稿件收到后即编入当年在编的卷次，出版方官网也把该学会列为合作单位。

• The title publishes one volume a year with a single numbered issue and an annual supplement of meeting abstracts, so that volume 10 of 2025 carried its issue one in December together with the supplement of meeting abstracts for the society, and volume 11 of 2026 followed in December 2026.该刊每年一卷，卷内只有一个编号期，另有年度会议摘要增刊，2025 年的第 10 卷在 12 月出第一期并附学会会议摘要增刊，2026 年的第 11 卷于 2026 年 12 月接续出版。

• The publisher's page reports a journal impact factor of 3.6 for 2025, a median of 15 days from submission to first decision and 687.5 thousand downloads in 2025.出版方官网报告其 2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.6、自投稿至首次决定中位 15 天，2025 年下载量 68.75 万次。

• The publisher also notes that the title has moved from the BioMed Central site to the Springer Nature Link platform, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports record a share of open access articles of 100 percent and an immediacy index of 1.0.出版方还说明该刊已从 BioMed Central 站点迁至 Springer Nature Link 平台；《期刊引证报告》2025 年记录其开放获取文章占比 100%、即时指数 1.0。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Gabriel Reedy of Aarhus University in Denmark, with Debra Nestel of Monash University in Melbourne as founding editor.主编是丹麦奥胡斯大学的（Gabriel Reedy），创刊编辑为澳大利亚莫纳什大学的（Debra Nestel）。

• Three senior editors serve with them, Victoria Brazil of Bond University, Walter Eppich of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Michaela Kolbe of the University Hospital of Zurich, and twenty two associate editors cover the specialties of the field.与他们同任的高级编辑有三位，分别是邦德大学的（Victoria Brazil）、爱尔兰皇家外科医学院的（Walter Eppich）与苏黎世大学医院的（Michaela Kolbe），另有二十二位副编辑覆盖该领域各专业。

• A social media editor leads the journal's channels, twenty nine members sit on the editorial board and eleven on the international advisory group, among them Erik Hollnagel of the University of Southern Denmark, Roger Kneebone of Imperial College London and William McGaghie of Northwestern University.该刊设有社交媒体编辑，编委会有二十九位成员，国际顾问组有十一位，其中有南丹麦大学的（Erik Hollnagel）、伦敦帝国理工学院的（Roger Kneebone）与西北大学的（William McGaghie）。

• The publisher's catalogue record states that the journal uses single anonymous peer review and that its articles are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence or, for some content, under a public domain dedication, with an article processing charge of 2290 pounds sterling, 2890 US dollars or 2490 euros.出版方的编目记录说明该刊采用单盲评审，文章以知识共享署名许可发表，部分内容则采用公共领域奉献声明，文章处理费为 2290 英镑、2890 美元或 2490 欧元。