American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal that SAGE issues eight times a year, covering clinical, behavioral and public health research on lifestyle as prevention and treatment.《美国生活方式医学杂志》由 SAGE 每年出版 8 期，刊载把饮食与运动等生活行为用作疾病预防和治疗手段的临床与公共卫生研究。

Founded in 2007 and associated with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, it addresses clinicians, health educators and researchers who want practical evidence rather than laboratory mechanisms.这份刊物创刊于 2007 年，与美国生活方式医学学会（American College of Lifestyle Medicine）相联系，读者多为临床医生、健康教育者与卫生研究者，关注可直接用于诊疗的证据。

Scope

• Coverage centers on lifestyle medicine as a clinical discipline, with original research, reviews and case reports that translate diet, exercise and sleep science into office-based practice.收稿重心是把生活方式医学当作临床学科，原创研究、综述与病例报告都在讨论如何把饮食、运动与睡眠的科学结论带进门诊。
• Nutrition papers examine dietary patterns such as Mediterranean, plant-forward and low-carbohydrate approaches, along with counseling strategies that patients can sustain over years.营养方向的论文考察地中海饮食与植物性饮食等膳食模式，也考察患者能够长期坚持的饮食咨询策略。
• Physical activity work spans exercise prescription, sedentary behavior, cardiorespiratory fitness testing and the design of walking or resistance programs for people with chronic conditions.运动方向涵盖运动处方与久坐行为，也涉及心肺适能测评，以及为慢病人群设计步行或抗阻训练方案。
• Weight management receives sustained attention, including obesity pharmacotherapy combined with intensive behavioral programs, metabolic surgery follow-up and weight-neutral approaches to cardiometabolic risk.体重管理长期占据篇幅，包括肥胖药物治疗与强化行为干预的联合方案、代谢手术后的随访，以及不以减重为唯一目标的代谢风险管理。
• Sleep health is treated as a modifiable risk factor, with studies of insomnia, short sleep, shift work and the influence of sleep counseling on blood pressure and glucose control.睡眠健康被视为可干预的风险因素，相关研究涉及失眠与轮班作业，也考察睡眠咨询对血压和血糖控制的作用。
• Stress, loneliness and psychological distress appear frequently, often through mind-body programs, resilience training and measures of social connection among older adults and health professionals.压力与孤独感也常被讨论，正念训练、韧性课程以及老年人与医务人员的社会联结测量都是常见选题。
• Tobacco cessation, alcohol reduction and other substance behaviors are covered with an emphasis on brief interventions that primary care teams can deliver during short visits.戒烟与限酒等成瘾行为同样在范围内，重点放在基层医疗团队能在短暂就诊中完成的简短干预。
• Behavior change theory underpins much of the content, including motivational interviewing, self-determination constructs, coaching models and digital tools that reinforce adherence between appointments.行为改变理论构成许多论文的骨架，动机性访谈与自我决定理论常被用来解释依从性，数字工具则用于两次就诊之间的随访。
• Cardiometabolic topics include hypertension, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia and fatty liver disease, usually reported through pragmatic trials, cohort analyses and quality improvement projects.心血管代谢主题覆盖高血压与 2 型糖尿病，也涉及血脂异常和脂肪肝，多以实用性试验与队列分析的形式呈现。
• Primary care redesign features prominently, from team-based models and referral pathways to reimbursement arrangements that let clinics bill for lifestyle counseling rather than procedures alone.基层诊疗模式的重构占相当比重，从团队分工与转诊路径，到让诊所能够为生活方式咨询计费的支付安排。
• Health equity work examines how income, race, rural residence and food access shape who benefits from prevention programs, with attention to culturally tailored delivery.健康公平方向考察收入与居住地如何影响预防项目的获益人群，也讨论贴近当地文化的干预交付方式。
• Population and policy papers address worksite wellness, school nutrition standards, built environment and the cost-effectiveness of prevention relative to drug therapy.人群与政策类稿件涉及职场健康项目、学校供餐标准与建成环境，并比较预防与药物治疗的成本效果。
• Medical education, residency curricula and clinician wellbeing form a smaller but steady stream, reflecting the journal's interest in who delivers lifestyle medicine and how they are trained.医学教育与住院医师培训也有稳定来稿，反映出刊物关心由谁提供生活方式医学服务，以及这些人如何受训。
• Article types include original research, systematic and narrative reviews, brief reports, program evaluations and commentaries, with supplements devoted to conference abstracts.文体上接受原创研究、系统综述与叙述性综述，也刊登简报、项目评估与评论，增刊则集中收录会议摘要。

History

• The first volume appeared in 2007 with Thousand Oaks, California on the imprint line, the base from which SAGE has published the title ever since.第 1 卷于 2007 年问世，版本项写着加利福尼亚州千橡市，SAGE 自此一直从这处基地出版本刊。
• Each paper gets its own DOI before the issue that will carry it closes, so articles from one volume were already online while the previous volume was still being filled.每篇论文在所属期号截稿之前就已获得独立 DOI，某一卷的文章上线时，前一卷还在陆续补齐。
• Its founding remit was practical rather than molecular, asking authors to show what clinicians could do on Monday morning with patients who had multiple chronic conditions.最初的定位偏向实用而非分子机制，要求作者说明临床医生在周一门诊能对多病共存的患者做什么。
• The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, a professional society for clinicians practicing this approach, is recorded as the journal's affiliated organization in publisher metadata.美国生活方式医学学会（American College of Lifestyle Medicine）是该刊在出版方元数据中登记的关联学会，其成员多为实践这一路径的临床医生。
• Through its first decade the journal appeared bimonthly, six issues to a volume, a cadence suited to a field still assembling its evidence base.头十年刊物按双月刊发行，每卷 6 期，这一节奏与学科尚在积累证据的状况相称。
• PubMed indexing began with volume 10, number 1, the January-February 2016 issue, so earlier content reached readers mainly through publisher platforms and PMC deposits.PubMed 索引自第 10 卷第 1 期（2016 年 1 月至 2 月号）开始，此前的文章主要通过出版方平台与 PubMed Central 存档传播。
• Full text also travels through PubMed Central, which broadened access for trainees and for readers in countries where institutional subscriptions are scarce.全文同时经 PubMed Central 传播，受训医生与订阅资源有限地区的读者因此更容易读到。
• Citation tracking came later than indexing: the title sits in the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than the Science Citation Index Expanded, a distinction that limits some national evaluation lists.引文追踪晚于索引收录，该刊列于 ESCI 而非科学引文索引扩展版，这一差别影响部分国家的成果认定清单。
• Annual output has grown to roughly 140 research and review articles, and the recent volumes carry eight issues where the bimonthly years carried six.年发文量已增至约 140 篇，近几卷每卷排到 8 期，而双月刊时期每卷只有 6 期。
• Supplements are numbered inside the volume rather than as separate issues, and volume 19 in 2025 ran three of them beside its eight regular numbers.增刊在卷内单独编号，不另立期次，2025 年的第 19 卷在 8 个正期之外还排了 3 个增刊。
• Impact factor movement has been modest: 1.5 in 2023, 1.3 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025, against a five-year figure of 2.8 that suggests steadier citation accumulation over time.影响因子变化平缓，2023 年为 1.5，2024 年为 1.3，2025 年回升至 1.9，五年影响因子 2.8 则显示引用积累更为平稳。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the title ranks 260th of 443 in public, environmental and occupational health, placing it in the third quartile of that category.2025 年期刊引证报告把该刊排在公共卫生、环境与职业健康类目的 260 位（共 443 种），处于该类的第三四分位。
• Roughly one article in eight is published gold open access, while the rest sit behind subscription, so the archive remains hybrid rather than fully open.约八分之一的文章以金色开放获取发表，其余仍在订阅墙内，整份刊物因此保持混合模式。
• The National Library of Medicine still records the title as bimonthly, a line that has not been revised since the journal moved to eight numbers a volume.美国国家医学图书馆的记录至今仍写作双月刊，这一行自刊物改为每卷 8 期后就没有再改过。

Editors

• James M. Rippe, a cardiologist and founder of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute, is editor-in-chief, a role he also holds on the textbook Lifestyle Medicine.主编（James M. Rippe）是心脏病学家，为 Rippe Lifestyle Institute 的创办人兼主任，另主编一部生活方式医学教科书。
• His editorial work leans on cardiovascular prevention, having published widely on weight loss, exercise dose and risk factor reduction in both journals and monographs.他的编辑取向偏重心血管预防，在减重与运动剂量等题目上发表过多篇论著与专著章节。
• Below the editor-in-chief the masthead lists associate editors and section editors drawn from primary care, nursing, dietetics, exercise physiology and health psychology.主编之下设副编辑与分栏编辑，人选来自基层医疗与护理，也来自营养学、运动生理学与健康心理学。
• Editorial board members come mainly from North America but include contributors based in Europe and Asia, a spread that matches the journal's international submissions.编委以北美学者为主，也有供职于欧洲与亚洲的成员，这一分布与刊物的国际来稿相符。
• Board service is largely honorary and advisory: members suggest reviewers, flag emerging topics and occasionally handle clusters of papers on a shared theme.编委职责偏重咨询，主要推荐审稿人、提示新兴议题，偶尔负责一组同主题稿件。
• Manuscripts pass an editorial screening for scope and reporting quality before external review, and authors receive a decision with reviewer comments through the SAGE platform.稿件先经编辑初审，判断选题是否符合范围、报告是否完整，再送外审，作者通过 SAGE 平台收到决定与审稿意见。
• The editorial office matches each submission with two or more external referees, then returns unsigned comments together with a decision letter from the handling editor.编辑部为每篇来稿匹配两位以上外审专家，再把匿名意见与责任编辑的决定一并退回作者。
• No pre-submission enquiry is required: authors read the author guidelines, prepare a structured abstract and submit through the online system directly.投稿无需事先询问编辑，作者阅读作者指南后准备结构式摘要，直接在线上系统提交即可。
• Commentaries and book reviews are frequently commissioned, and the editors welcome short proposals for themed collections before a full manuscript is prepared.评论与书评多为约稿，编辑部也欢迎作者在写全文之前先提交主题专栏的简短构想。
• Corresponding authors handle proofs, licensing and the optional open access fee, and the journal asks that data availability statements accompany every empirical paper.通讯作者负责校样与版权协议，并可选择支付开放获取费用，实证类论文须附数据可得性声明。