Anesthesiology

Anesthesiology is the monthly peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, published by Wolters Kluwer through Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, which has served as the specialty's flagship title since 1940 and carried a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.4《麻醉学》（Anesthesiology）是美国麻醉医师学会（American Society of Anesthesiologists）的月刊型同行评审医学期刊，由（Wolters Kluwer）旗下（Lippincott Williams & Wilkins）出版，自 1940 年创刊以来一直是麻醉学领域的旗舰刊，2025 年影响因子为 9.4。

Scope

• The stated mission is to promote scientific discovery and knowledge in perioperative, critical care and pain medicine in order to advance patient care其官方宗旨是推动围手术期医学、危重症医学与疼痛医学领域的科学发现与知识积累，以促进患者照护。
• It publishes original investigations, review articles, editorials, classic papers revisited and reviews of educational materials, while case reports, case scenarios and case-based correspondence are stated not to be accepted该刊发表原创研究、综述、社论、经典论文回顾以及教学材料评介，而病例报告、病例情景与病例类通信据官方声明不予接收。
• The journal states that it leads the world in publishing and disseminating the highest quality work to inform daily clinical practice and to transform the practice of medicine in the specialty该刊称其在发表与传播最高质量的成果、以指导日常临床实践并推动本专业医学实践变革方面居世界前列。
• Every issue adds multimedia and interactive features such as visual abstracts, video abstracts, infographics, author interviews and Editor-in-Chief podcasts released in several languages每期都配有多媒体与互动内容，如图形摘要、视频摘要、信息图、作者访谈及以多种语言发布的（Editor-in-Chief）播客。
• It is the official journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists yet is stated to operate with complete editorial autonomy under an independent international editorial board该刊为美国麻醉医师学会的机关刊，但据官方声明在独立的国际编委会下完全自主运作。
• It is indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed, the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, holding the first quartile in the Anesthesiology category with a rank of 2 out of 72 titles该刊被（MEDLINE）与（PubMed）、（Science Citation Index Expanded）及（Scopus）收录，在麻醉学类位居第一四分位，于 72 种刊中排名第 2 位。

History

• The title was founded in 1940, its first volume appearing in July 1940 as the official journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists该刊创办于 1940 年，首卷于 1940 年 7 月问世，为美国麻醉医师学会的机关刊。^[1]
• Its founding editor-in-chief was Henry S. Ruth, who led the journal from 1940 to 1955, followed by Ralph M. Tovell from 1956 to 1958 and James E. Eckhenhoff from 1959 to 1962其创刊主编为（Henry S. Ruth），1940 至 1955 年主持刊物，其后依次由（Ralph M. Tovell）于 1956 至 1958 年、（James E. Eckhenhoff）于 1959 至 1962 年接任。
• Later editors-in-chief included Lawrence J. Saidman from 1986 to 1996, Michael M. Todd from 1997 to 2006 and James C. Eisenach from 2006 to 2016此后历任主编包括（Lawrence J. Saidman）1986 至 1996 年、（Michael M. Todd）1997 至 2006 年、（James C. Eisenach）2006 至 2016 年。
• Evan D. Kharasch served as editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2025 and is now listed as editor-in-chief emeritus, and the journal's article deposits carry the 10.1097 DOI prefix（Evan D. Kharasch）2018 至 2025 年任主编，现列为荣休主编，刊物的文章登记使用 10.1097 号（DOI）前缀。
• It is published monthly as twelve issues a year in two six-issue volumes, and its Journal Impact Factor rose from 7.892 in 2021 and 8.986 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2024 and 9.4 in 2025该刊每月出版，每年 12 期、分为两卷各 6 期；影响因子由 2021 年的 7.892 与 2022 年的 8.986 升至 2024 年的 9.1 与 2025 年的 9.4。

Editors

• The journal is currently led by two interim co-editors-in-chief, Deborah J. Culley, Robert Dunning Dripps Professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, and James P. Rathmell, Leroy D. Vandam Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and chair of anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital该刊目前由两位临时共同主编主持，即宾夕法尼亚大学佩雷尔曼医学院（Robert Dunning Dripps）讲席教授兼麻醉与危重症医学系主任（Deborah J. Culley），以及哈佛医学院（Leroy D. Vandam）麻醉学讲席教授兼布列根和妇女医院麻醉科主任（James P. Rathmell）。
• Michael J. Avram, associate professor emeritus at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, serves as assistant editor-in-chief西北大学范伯格医学院荣休副教授（Michael J. Avram）任副主编。
• Its executive editors are Andrew Davidson of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Jerrold H. Levy of Duke University, and Laszlo Vutskits of the University Hospitals of Geneva执行编辑为墨尔本皇家儿童医院的（Andrew Davidson）、杜克大学的（Jerrold H. Levy）与日内瓦大学医院的（Laszlo Vutskits）。
• A statistical editor team is led by Subhash Aryal of the University of Pennsylvania and Snehalata Huzurbazar, with Timothy T. Houle of Massachusetts General Hospital as statistical editor advisor统计学编辑团队由宾夕法尼亚大学的（Subhash Aryal）与（Snehalata Huzurbazar）领衔，麻省总医院的（Timothy T. Houle）任统计学编辑顾问。
• Among its section editors are Brian T. Bateman of Stanford University, Amanda A. Fox of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Maxime Cannesson of Los Angeles其栏目编辑包括斯坦福大学的（Brian T. Bateman）、德克萨斯大学西南医学中心的（Amanda A. Fox）与洛杉矶的（Maxime Cannesson）。
• Manuscripts undergo rigorous peer review, and the publisher states that accepted work reaches online publication three days after acceptance稿件须经严格的同行评审，出版方声明文章在录用后 3 天即可在线发表。