American Journal of Clinical Pathology

American Journal of Clinical Pathology is the official journal of the American Society for Clinical Pathology and of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists.美国临床病理学杂志是美国临床病理学会与临床实验室医师与科学家学会的官方刊物。

Oxford University Press has published it since 2016, and two volumes appear each year.牛津大学出版社自 2016 年起出版该刊，每年出两卷。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 and the five-year figure is 2.3.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 2.3。

Manuscripts go through double-anonymized review, with author details kept on a separate title page.稿件采用双盲评审，作者信息单独放在标题页上。

The journal takes pathology and laboratory medicine work that raises clinical practice, education and advocacy for the profession.刊物接收能提升临床实践，教育教学与行业倡议的病理学与检验医学研究。

Scope

• Scientific articles and reviews have to apply directly to the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine.科研论文与综述必须能直接用于病理学与检验医学的实践。

• All clinical settings count, from the academic centre to the community laboratory.所有临床场景都算，从学术中心到社区实验室。

• Laboratory tests themselves are open to investigation.检验项目本身就是可研究的对象。

• Methods and algorithms form two more subjects the scope names.方法与算法是范围里另外列出的两项。

• Conceptual frameworks for diagnosis belong here as well.用于诊断的概念框架同样归入。

• Prognostication and management are named beside diagnosis.预后判断与疾病管理与诊断并列写明。

• Every subspecialty of anatomic and clinical pathology falls inside that remit.解剖病理与临床病理的每个亚专科都在这一范围内。

• Descriptive case series that add new knowledge are accepted, which sets them apart from single case reports.能带来新知识的描述性病例系列可以接收，这与单例报告划清了界线。

• Quality improvement is a standing subject.质量改进是常设主题。

• Laboratory management is another.实验室管理是另一项。

• Test utilisation and stewardship get their own heading.检验项目的利用与合理性管理单独成条。

• Education and training sit next to them.教育与培训紧随其后。

• Global health closes the list of accepted subjects.全球健康是接收主题清单的末项。

• Basic or early translational studies without near-term applicability are ruled out.没有近期应用前景的基础研究或早期转化研究被排除。

• Case reports that add no significant new knowledge are ruled out too.不带来显著新知识的病例报告同样被排除。

• Purely clinical studies that lean on routinely available laboratory tests are the third exclusion.只用常规可得检验项目的纯临床研究是第三条排除项。

• Reviews run to 6,000 words and 50 references.综述限 6000 词与 50 条参考文献。

• Brief Reports are capped at 1,500 words, two display items and 25 references.简报上限为 1500 词，2 个图表与 25 条参考文献。

• Editorials take 1,500 words and five references.社论限 1500 词与 5 条参考文献。

• Letters take 500 words and five references.读者来信限 500 词与 5 条参考文献。

• Abstracts run to 250 words under objectives, methods, results and conclusions.摘要限 250 词，分目的，方法，结果与结论四段。

• AMA style governs the manuscript, the short title stays within 40 characters, and keywords number three to ten.稿件按美国医学会体例排版，短标题不超过 40 个字符，关键词 3 至 10 个。

• Diagnostic accuracy studies are expected to follow STARD, and ICMJE and COPE rules apply across the board.诊断准确性研究要求遵循 STARD，国际医学期刊编辑委员会与出版伦理委员会的规则全面适用。

• A continuing medical education editor handles the credit side of the journal.刊物设有继续医学教育编辑，负责学分部分。

• Advocacy for the profession is named in the mission beside clinical practice and education.使命声明把为行业发声与临床实践，教育教学并列写出。

• The parent society's mission adds certification and advocacy for patients, pathologists and laboratory professionals.母学会的使命另外提到认证工作，以及为患者，病理医生与实验室专业人员争取权益。

• The journal calls itself international, and the board page bears that out with editors in Houston, St Louis and Salt Lake City.刊物自称国际化，编委名单上休斯敦，圣路易斯与盐湖城的编辑也印证了这一点。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in January 1931.第 1 卷于 1931 年 1 月问世。

• The journal was bimonthly from 1931 to 1939 and monthly from 1940 onward.1931 年至 1939 年为双月刊，1940 年起改为月刊。

• Philadelphia was the first place of publication, with Lippincott as the publisher.费城是最初的出版地，出版方为利平科特。

• Oxford University Press took the imprint in 2016, and the National Library of Medicine now records England as the country.牛津大学出版社 2016 年接手，美国国家医学图书馆因此把国家记为英格兰。

• MEDLINE has covered the journal from volume 44 number 4 in October 1965.MEDLINE 自 1965 年 10 月第 44 卷第 4 期起收录。

• OLDMEDLINE and the Abridged Index Medicus cover the earlier and the core years respectively.前段年份由 OLDMEDLINE 覆盖，核心年份另见《删节版医学索引》。

• The library record links the Technical Bulletin of the Registry of Medical Technologists as an absorbed title.图书馆记录把《医学技术师登记处技术通报》作为被并入的旧刊挂在旁边。

• Pathology Patterns Reviews appears in the same record as a related series.病理学图谱综述作为相关出版物出现在同一条记录里。

• Two volumes a year carry the output, so volume 164 covered 2025 and volume 165 covers 2026.每年两卷承接全年内容，第 164 卷对应 2025 年，第 165 卷对应 2026 年。

• The 2021 impact factor was 2.493.2021 年影响因子为 2.493。

• 2022 reached 5.4, far above anything else in the five-year window.2022 年达到 5.4，远高于这五年窗口里的其他年份。

• 2023 came back to 2.3 and 2024 slipped to 1.9.2023 年回到 2.3，2024 年降到 1.9。

• 2025 recovered to 2.3.2025 年回升到 2.3。

• The 2025 window holds 127 articles and 10,409 citations behind them.2025 年窗口内有 127 篇文章，背后是 10409 次被引。

• Gold open access accounted for only 11.30 percent of that window.金色开放获取在这一窗口只占 11.30%。

• A cited half-life of 15.8 years is among the longest in pathology.15.8 年的被引半衰期在病理学期刊里属于很长的一档。

• The Coden is AJCPAI, and the print and electronic numbers are 0002-9173 and 1943-7722.刊物代码为 AJCPAI，印刷版与电子版号分别是 0002-9173 与 1943-7722。

• The 2025 article influence score is 0.683, which ranks 33rd of 86.2025 年论文影响分值 0.683，在 86 种刊中排第 33。

• Scopus gives CiteScore 3.9, 77th of 209 in pathology and forensic medicine.斯高帕斯给出的引用分值为 3.9，在病理与法医学的 209 种刊中排第 77。

Editors

• Steven H. Kroft at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee is editor-in-chief.主编是密尔沃基威斯康星医学院的 Steven H. Kroft。

• The board is built around subspecialties, each with an associate editor and one or more assistant editors.编委会按亚专科搭建，每个亚专科配一名副编辑与一至多名助理编辑。

• Jane W. Turner at Washington University in St Louis takes autopsy and forensic pathology.圣路易斯华盛顿大学的 Jane W. Turner 负责尸检与法医病理。

• Paul J.L. Zhang at the University of Pennsylvania takes bone and soft tissue pathology.宾夕法尼亚大学的 Paul J.L. Zhang 负责骨与软组织病理。

• Marilin Rosa at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa takes breast pathology.坦帕莫菲特癌症中心的 Marilin Rosa 负责乳腺病理。

• Kiang-Teck J. Yeo at the University of Chicago takes clinical chemistry.芝加哥大学的 Kiang-Teck J. Yeo 负责临床化学。

• Geoffrey Wool, also at Chicago, takes coagulation.同样在芝加哥的 Geoffrey Wool 负责凝血。

• Benjamin L. Witt at the University of Utah takes cytopathology.犹他大学的 Benjamin L. Witt 负责细胞病理。

• Priya Nagarajan at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston takes dermatopathology.休斯敦 MD 安德森癌症中心的 Priya Nagarajan 负责皮肤病理。

• Geoffrey Talmon at the University of Nebraska in Omaha takes education and training.奥马哈内布拉斯加大学的 Geoffrey Talmon 负责教育与培训。

• Edward B. Stelow at the University of Virginia takes gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology.弗吉尼亚大学的 Edward B. Stelow 负责胃肠与肝脏病理。

• Matthew D. Krasowski at Iowa works as assistant editor under clinical chemistry.艾奥瓦大学的 Matthew D. Krasowski 在临床化学门下任助理编辑。

• Amit Gokhale edits the journal's ACLPS material.Amit Gokhale 负责刊物中属于 ACLPS 的稿件。

• Melissa P. Upton holds the continuing medical education editorship.继续医学教育编辑由 Melissa P. Upton 担任。

• Submissions run through ScholarOne, and the editorial office answers by email.稿件经 ScholarOne 提交，编辑部通过电子邮件答复。

• Lavinia P. Middleton at MD Anderson and Martin C. Chang at Vermont assist in breast pathology.MD 安德森的 Lavinia P. Middleton 与佛蒙特大学的 Martin C. Chang 在乳腺病理一组任助理编辑。

• Christopher VandenBussche at Johns Hopkins assists in cytopathology.约翰斯霍普金斯大学的 Christopher VandenBussche 在细胞病理一组任助理编辑。

• Cyril Jacquot at Children's National in Washington assists in coagulation.华盛顿儿童国家医院的 Cyril Jacquot 在凝血一组任助理编辑。