American Journal of Roentgenology

The American Journal of Roentgenology is published by the American Roentgen Ray Society, founded in 1907 and described by its publisher as the world's longest continuously published general radiology journal, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.4 and a rank of 13th among 217 radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging journals《美国放射学杂志》（American Journal of Roentgenology）由（American Roentgen Ray Society）出版，1907 年创刊，出版方称其为世界上连续出版时间最长的普通放射学期刊，2025 年影响因子为 7.4，在 217 种放射学、核医学与医学影像期刊中列第 13 位

Scope

• The journal publishes clinically oriented articles across all radiology subspecialties, with relevance to daily radiological practice as the explicit test该刊发表覆盖全部放射学亚专科的临床导向论文，并以对日常放射学实践的相关性作为明确标准。
• Original research dominates the content, from diagnostic accuracy studies to multicentre prospective trials of imaging strategies原始研究构成内容主体，从诊断准确性研究到影像策略的多中心前瞻性试验。
• Review formats include AJR Expert Panel Narrative Reviews, in which panels of specialists summarise evidence and give practice recommendations综述形式包括（AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review），由专家组总结证据并提出实践建议。
• Artificial intelligence and imaging informatics are a fast-growing area, covering reconstruction, detection and reporting workflows人工智能与影像信息学是快速增长的领域，涵盖重建、检出与报告流程。
• Practice management, health policy, quality and safety, and the economics of imaging are treated as legitimate research subjects科室管理、卫生政策、质量与安全以及影像经济学被视为正当的研究对象。
• Education, training and continuing medical education content runs alongside the research pages, including case-based teaching material教育、培训与继续医学教育内容与研究版面并行，包括病例式教学材料。
• Editorials, commentary and multimedia complete the mix, and new articles appear online each week before being collated into monthly issues社论、评论与多媒体内容构成其余部分，新论文每周在线发布，随后汇编为月刊。

History

• The journal was founded in 1907, giving it an archive that reaches back to the earliest years of the specialty该刊创刊于 1907 年，其存档可回溯至该专业的最初年代。
• It is owned and published by the American Roentgen Ray Society, and an annual subscription bundled with web and mobile access is a benefit of society membership该刊由（American Roentgen Ray Society）拥有并出版，附网页与移动端访问的年度订阅是学会会员权益之一。
• Subscribers reach more than 25,000 articles dating back to 1965 through the journal's digital archive订阅者可通过该刊数字存档访问可回溯至 1965 年的 25,000 余篇文章。
• Print circulation is close to 25,000, and publication is weekly online with monthly collated issues纸本发行量接近 25,000 份，出版节奏为每周在线发布、每月合辑成期。
• For 2025 the journal reported an impact factor of 7.4 at the 94.2nd percentile, an immediacy index of 4.9 ranked third, an Eigenfactor of 0.013 ranked twentieth and 31,027 citations ranked eleventh2025 年该刊影响因子为 7.4，处于第 94.2 百分位，即时指数 4.9 列第三，特征因子 0.013 列第二十，被引 31,027 次列第十一。
• Its impact factor stood at 3.959 in 2021, 6.582 in 2022, 6.1 in 2024 and 7.4 in 2025, a sustained rise over four reporting years其影响因子 2021 年为 3.959，2022 年为 6.582，2024 年为 6.1，2025 年为 7.4，四个报告年度持续上升。

Editors

• Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, a radiologist at NYU Langone Health, is editor-in-chief and signs the journal's editorial pages现任主编为（NYU Langone Health）的放射学家（Andrew B. Rosenkrantz），该刊社论版面由其署名。
• He writes a monthly Editor's Notebook that walks readers through selected papers and explains editorial choices他每月撰写「主编札记」，带读者浏览选登论文并说明编辑取舍。
• Manuscripts are submitted through the society's editorial system, with the editorial office reachable at ajrsubmit@arrs.org稿件经学会的编辑系统投递，编辑部联系邮箱为（ajrsubmit@arrs.org）。
• Expert Panel Narrative Reviews are produced by invited panels rather than by single authors, a format the journal uses for contested clinical questions专家小组叙述性综述由受邀专家组而非单一作者完成，该刊以此形式处理存在争议的临床问题。
• The Roentgen Key Case Catalog supplies concise weekly cases for continuing medical education, tying the editorial programme to readers' maintenance of certification「伦琴关键病例目录」每周提供简明病例用于继续医学教育，把编辑计划与读者的认证维持需求相连。