AIMS Biophysics

AIMS Biophysics is a quarterly open access journal in biophysics, published since 2014 by AIMS Press, the imprint of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Springfield, Missouri.《AIMS 生物物理学》是 2014 年创刊的生物物理学季刊，开放获取，出版方为美国数学科学研究所（American Institute of Mathematical Sciences）旗下的 AIMS Press，社址在密苏里州斯普林菲尔德。

Original research, reviews, editorials, letters and conference reports fill its pages, and the cost of publication falls on authors rather than readers at 500 United States dollars per accepted paper.刊登原创研究、综述、社论、来信与会议报告，出版费用由作者承担而非读者，每篇录用论文 500 美元。

Ten headings set the remit, among them structural biology, cell biophysics, biomechanics, quantum biology, medical biophysics and the theory and modelling of biological systems.十个条目划定收稿范围，结构生物学与细胞生物物理学各占其一，生物力学与量子生物学另列，医学生物物理学以及生物系统的理论与建模也在其中。

The 2025 Journal Citation Reports give it an impact factor of 1.9 and a five-year value of 1.4, 61st of 81 titles in biophysics and therefore in the fourth quartile.2025 年期刊引证报告给出影响因子 1.9 与五年值 1.4，在生物物理学类 81 种刊物中列第 61 位，属第四分区。

Scope

• The aims page calls it an international open access journal devoted to peer-reviewed, high quality, original papers in biophysics, and adds at once that the topic list is not exhaustive.宗旨页称其为刊发生物物理学领域经同行评审的高质量原创论文的国际开放获取期刊，随即又说明所列方向并不穷尽。
• Structural biology heads the list, which on the page means atomic models, density maps and the fitting of one to the other.结构生物学列在最前，落到稿子上多是原子模型、密度图以及两者之间的拟合。
• Cell biophysics covers the membrane and what sits in it, from lipid organisation to the placement of receptors on the surface.细胞生物物理学覆盖膜与膜内装置，脂质的组织方式与受体在表面的排布都算在内。
• Biomechanics appears twice, once alone and once inside the phrase biomechanics, sensing and signalling, so the mechanical reading of living tissue carries extra weight.生物力学出现两次，一次单列，一次嵌在「生物力学、传感与信号」这一条里，对活体组织的力学解读因此分量偏重。
• Two entries are about instruments, namely biophysical technology and detection, sensing and imaging technology means, which keeps method papers inside the remit instead of beside it.有两条专门讲仪器，一条写生物物理技术，一条写探测与成像的技术手段，方法学论文因此在范围内有位置。
• Quantum biology is a heading of its own, one that not every journal in the field carries, and it admits work on coherence, tunnelling and spin effects in biological matter.量子生物学单独成条，同类刊物少有这一栏，相干性、隧穿与自旋效应在生物物质中的研究因此有处可投。
• Medical biophysics runs alongside the physical headings, and the archive bears it out with work on cardiac mechanics and on hadron therapy planning.医学生物物理学与物理一侧并列，存档中关于心肌力学与强子治疗计划的研究印证了这一栏。
• Theory and modelling of biological systems is a heading in its own right, and the board is stocked accordingly with people whose work is computation rather than measurement.生物系统的理论与建模单列成条，编委会里做计算而非测量的人也确实占了几席。
• One heading asks for the origins and history of biophysics, a request rarely seen in a research journal and one that pulls historiographical work into the file.还有一条征求生物物理学的起源与历史，研究类期刊很少这样开口，史学性质的稿子因此也进得来。
• Five kinds of contribution are taken, led by original research articles and reviews, with editorials, letters and conference reports counted as well, and all five go through review.收稿分五类，以原创研究论文与综述为主，社论、来信和会议报告也算在内，五类一律过审。
• The phrase welcomes but is not limited to the ten headings, which leaves room for work that belongs to the discipline without belonging to a heading.原文用「欢迎但不限于」带过这十条，属于本学科却对不上具体条目的稿子仍然可投。
• A single volume shows the spread, with coarse-grained molecular dynamics, capillary filaments in microchannels and photobleaching microscopy in adjacent issues.一卷之内就能看出跨度，粗粒化分子动力学、微通道中的毛细丝与光漂白显微成像出现在相邻的期里。

History

• The journal opened in 2014 as volume 1 under AIMS Press, the imprint of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an organisation whose list had until then been built on mathematics.刊物 2014 年以第 1 卷起步，出版方 AIMS Press 是美国数学科学研究所的出版品牌，该机构此前的刊物清单以数学为主。
• The first issue ran to five items, among them an editorial by David A. Saint titled "Finding a niche in a changing sociological, technological and scientific world", which set out the ground the title meant to occupy.首期登了五篇，其中一篇是 David A. Saint 的社论，题为「在变动的社会、技术与科学世界中寻找位置」，交代了刊物打算占住的那块地。^[1]
• Volume numbers have run one a year without a gap since then, volume 1 in 2014 and volume 13 in 2026.此后卷号一年一卷没有断过，2014 年是第 1 卷，2026 年走到第 13 卷。
• Four issues a year was the pattern from the start and it still holds, issues 1 to 4 in every volume and no separate stream for articles published ahead of an issue.一年四期从创刊起就是定式，至今未改，每卷编 1 到 4 期，没有另设抢先发表的序列。
• Output has never been large. The heaviest year was 2015 with 46 items in the Crossref deposit, against 18 in 2018 and 26 in 2025.发文量一向不大，最重的 2015 年著录 46 篇，2018 年只有 18 篇，2025 年为 26 篇。
• Identifier practice changed at volume 7 in 2020. Earlier DOIs spell out year, volume, issue and first page, as 10.3934/biophy.2018.4.290 does, while later ones close on a four-digit article number.标识符在 2020 年第 7 卷换了写法，此前的 DOI 依次写年份、卷、期与起始页，此后的 DOI 以四位文章号收尾。
• The title sits in the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than the Science Citation Index Expanded, and its Journal Citation Reports record is filed under the former.刊物列在新兴来源引文索引里，尚未进入科学引文索引扩展版，其期刊引证报告记录也挂在前者名下。
• The impact factor record is short. The 2023 release gave 1.1, 2024 gave 1.0 and 2025 gave 1.9, with 524 citations recorded against roughly 18 items a year.影响因子的记录不长，2023 年公布 1.1，2024 年 1.0，2025 年 1.9，全刊录得 524 次被引，年发文约 18 篇。
• The National Library of Medicine indexes the title for selected citations only, so partial coverage in PubMed is a matter of policy rather than of interruption.美国国家医学图书馆只收录部分文章，PubMed 的覆盖因此出于取舍，并非收录中断。
• Open access is the whole model rather than an option. A 500 dollar charge falls due on acceptance, and the publisher says this income is the journal's only support.开放获取是全部模式，不属于可选项，录用后收 500 美元，出版方写明这笔收入是刊物的唯一经费来源。
• Editorials, letters, conference reports, commentaries, corrections and errata are exempt from the charge, and authors without funds are invited to write to the editorial office.社论、来信、会议报告、评论、勘误与更正一律免收，经费不足的作者可去信编辑部说明。
• A further 80 dollars buys full formatting of the manuscript and its references, offered as a service and not imposed as a condition.另付 80 美元可由编辑部代做全文与参考文献的格式加工，这项服务自愿选用。
• The archive is held in Portico and CLOCKSS, and 98.67 percent of the 2025 output came out gold, which follows from the funding arrangement.存档交给 Portico 与 CLOCKSS 两家保管，2025 年的论文有 98.67% 以金色开放获取发表，与经费安排相互吻合。
• Volume 13, the 2026 volume, has reached issue 4, with seven items in each of the first three issues.2026 年的第 13 卷已经出到第 4 期，前三期各登七篇。

Editors

• Two co-editors-in-chief share the post. Carlo Bianca works from the Efrei Research Lab at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University in France.主编由两人共同担任，Carlo Bianca 在法国 Paris-Panthéon-Assas University 的 Efrei Research Lab 任职。
• Domenico Lombardo holds the other half, at the Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes of the National Research Council in Messina, Italy.另一半由 Domenico Lombardo 担任，他在意大利墨西拿的 National Research Council 化学物理过程研究所工作。
• Xu Guo is managing editor and runs journal operations, and a single address takes editorial and payment queries alike.Xu Guo 任执行编辑，主持刊物运营，编辑事务与费用问询走同一个邮箱。
• Thirty-nine people sit on the editorial board, a list short enough that most names carry a visible specialism.编委会共 39 人，名单不算长，多数名字背后都能看出一门具体专长。
• The United States supplies ten of the thirty-nine names, Italy and Germany five apiece, China four, and the other fifteen are spread across Canada, France, Portugal, Poland, Australia, Russia, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, Turkey and Japan.编委会 39 人中美国占十席，意大利与德国各五席，中国四席，其余十五人散在加拿大、法国、葡萄牙、波兰、澳大利亚、俄罗斯、丹麦、英国、以色列、西班牙、土耳其与日本。
• Reinhard Lipowsky, at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, brings membrane and soft matter theory, while Claudia Tanja Mierke at Leipzig works on cell mechanics.波茨坦 Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces 的 Reinhard Lipowsky 带来膜与软物质理论，莱比锡的 Claudia Tanja Mierke 做细胞力学。
• Single-molecule methods have Yuri L. Lyubchenko of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and electron microscopy has J. Bernard Heymann of the Frederick National Laboratory.单分子方法由 University of Nebraska Medical Center 的 Yuri L. Lyubchenko 代表，电子显微学由 Frederick National Laboratory 的 J. Bernard Heymann 代表。
• Andrey G. Cherstvy, also at Potsdam, works on polymer and DNA physics, Dimitrios Stamou at Copenhagen on bionanotechnology, and Françoise Argoul at Bordeaux on optical methods.同在波茨坦的 Andrey G. Cherstvy 研究聚合物与 DNA 物理，哥本哈根的 Dimitrios Stamou 做生物纳米技术，波尔多的 Françoise Argoul 做光学方法。
• The clinical end is thinner but present, with James Chow in radiation oncology at Toronto, Ebrahim Mostafavi at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Khaled Barakat in pharmacy at Alberta.临床一侧人少却有，多伦多做放射肿瘤学的 James Chow 在列，Stanford Cardiovascular Institute 的 Ebrahim Mostafavi 与 Alberta 药学院的 Khaled Barakat 也在。
• Review is single-blind. Referees learn who wrote the paper and authors never learn who judged it.评审采单盲制，审稿人知道作者是谁，作者不知道审稿人是谁。
• The editorial office screens each submission for scope, English and ethics before an academic editor takes it over and invites referees, and that editor issues the first decision.编辑部先查范围、英文与伦理，再交一位学术编辑接手并邀请审稿人，初审结论由这位编辑作出。
• Papers from editors, guest editors and board members go to someone else, and a special issue submission with a conflict of interest goes to an uninvolved board member.编辑、客座编辑与编委自己的稿子改由他人处理，专刊中出现利益冲突的稿子交给无关的编委。
• Referees work from a standard report form, conflicts of interest must be declared by every party, and the review file stays confidential.审稿人按统一的评审表填写，各方须申报利益冲突，评审材料对外保密。