Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia is the monthly journal of the Association of Anaesthetists, published by Wiley, established in 1946 and covering anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.4 and a rank of 5th among 72 anaesthesiology journals《麻醉》（Anaesthesia）是（Association of Anaesthetists）的月刊，由（Wiley）出版，1946 年创刊，涵盖麻醉、重症监护与疼痛医学，2025 年影响因子为 7.4，在 72 种麻醉学期刊中列第 5 位

Scope

• General and regional anaesthesia form the historical core, covering both technique and clinical outcome全身麻醉与区域麻醉构成历史核心，兼顾技术细节与临床结局。
• Intensive care and perioperative medicine are treated as integral parts of the journal rather than adjacent specialties重症监护与围手术期医学被视为该刊的有机组成部分，而非相邻专业。
• Pain therapy, including acute and chronic pain management, has a standing place in every volume疼痛治疗（含急性与慢性疼痛管理）在各卷中均有固定位置。
• Research on equipment and monitoring is explicitly within scope, reflecting the journal's long engagement with anaesthetic technology设备与监测研究明确属于收录范围，反映该刊与麻醉技术的长期互动。
• The journal is primarily clinical but accepts basic science papers where clinical relevance can be demonstrated该刊以临床为主，但接受能证明临床相关性的基础科学论文。
• Education, training, workforce and patient safety topics appear regularly, alongside quality improvement work教育、培训、人力配置与患者安全议题常与质量改进研究一同出现。
• Each published paper carries an online commenting facility, so post-publication debate is built into the format每篇发表论文都附带在线评论功能，使发表后讨论成为体例的一部分。

History

• The journal was founded in 1946 as the publication of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, the society now known simply as the Association of Anaesthetists该刊于 1946 年创刊，作为（Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland）的出版物，该学会今简称为（Association of Anaesthetists）。
• It has remained society-owned throughout and is published on the association's behalf by Wiley, whose Blackwell imprint long handled the title该刊始终为学会所有，由（Wiley）代表学会出版，其（Blackwell）品牌长期承担该刊业务。
• Twelve issues appear each year, and the association also publishes Anaesthesia Reports, an open access companion launched in 2019, previously called Anaesthesia Cases, for case reports and short clinical material该刊每年出版 12 期，学会另出版（Anaesthesia Reports），该刊 2019 年创刊、原名（Anaesthesia Cases），收录病例报告与短篇临床材料。
• Publication is hybrid, with subscription access for members and institutions and an open access route for individual papers该刊采用混合出版，会员与机构通过订阅访问，单篇论文可选择开放获取。
• Its impact factor was 6.955 in 2021, 12.893 in 2022, 6.9 in 2024 and 7.4 in 2025, with the 2022 figure the highest in its history其影响因子 2021 年为 6.955，2022 年为 12.893，2024 年为 6.9，2025 年为 7.4，2022 年为其历史最高。
• The median time from submission to first decision is 12 days, and the journal publishes guidance and consensus statements that are widely adopted in UK practice其投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 12 天，该刊发表的指南与共识声明在英国临床实践中被广泛采用。

Editors

• Matt Wiles, consultant anaesthetist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Sheffield, is editor-in-chief现任主编为（Matt Wiles），他是（Sheffield Teaching Hospitals）的顾问麻醉医师，并任（University of Sheffield）荣誉临床讲师。
• He succeeded Andrew Klein of Cambridge in the role他接替了剑桥的（Andrew Klein）。
• Kariem El-Boghdadly of Guy's and St Thomas' in London serves as senior editor, with regional anaesthesia and airway management as his main areas伦敦（Guy's and St Thomas'）的（Kariem El-Boghdadly）任高级编辑，主要方向为区域麻醉与气道管理。
• About twenty editors cover cardiac anaesthesia, critical care, paediatrics, pain medicine, education and global health, drawn from the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Ireland, the United States, Australia and Singapore约 20 位编辑覆盖心脏麻醉、重症、儿科、疼痛医学、教育与全球健康，来自英国、意大利、加拿大、爱尔兰、美国、澳大利亚与新加坡。
• Rona Gloag is editorial coordinator at the Association, and Maryann Turner of Perth Children's Hospital is dissemination editor（Rona Gloag）任学会方面的编辑协调人，（Perth Children's Hospital）的（Maryann Turner）任传播编辑。
• Editorial policy favours work of direct clinical use, and a dedicated dissemination editor promotes published content beyond the printed pages编辑方针偏向具直接临床实用价值的研究，并设专任传播编辑把已发表内容推向纸本之外的渠道。