Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed open access journal devoted to antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention and the epidemiology of care delivered in hospitals and health systems.《抗菌药物管理与医疗保健流行病学》是一本经同行评议的开放获取期刊，专注抗菌药物管理、感染预防，以及医院与卫生系统内诊疗活动的流行病学研究。

Cambridge University Press issues it for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, known as SHEA, and the first volume opened in 2021.该刊由 Cambridge University Press 代表美国医疗保健流行病学学会（SHEA）出版，第 1 卷于 2021 年问世。

Scope

• Its remit is the safety of care in hospitals and health systems, with antimicrobial stewardship and the prevention of healthcare-associated infection as the two anchors.刊物的核心关切是医院与卫生系统中诊疗活动的安全性，抗菌药物管理与医疗保健相关感染的预防构成两根支柱。
• Original investigations make up the bulk of every volume, and the editors favour work whose lessons can be carried to institutions other than the one studied.原创研究占据每卷的主要篇幅，编辑部青睐那些经验可以移用到研究机构之外的文章。
• A single centre's generalisable experience and a multicentre trial are both admissible, provided the methods and the practical implications are stated without hedging.单一中心具有推广价值的经验与多中心试验都在接收之列，前提是方法与实践含义交代得不含糊。
• Stewardship papers cover programme design, prospective audit with feedback, formulary restriction and prescribing metrics, and they weigh the unintended consequences of broad-spectrum use.管理类稿件涉及项目设计、前瞻性审核与反馈，也讨论处方集限制与处方指标，以及广谱药物使用带来的非预期后果。
• Infection prevention appears through hand hygiene and environmental cleaning as basic subjects, through device-associated infection bundles and outbreak investigation as applied ones.感染预防方面有手卫生与环境清洁两类基础课题，也有器械相关感染集束化措施与暴发调查，还关心病区如何真正采纳这些措施。
• Healthcare epidemiology contributions work on surveillance definitions, colonisation and infection rates, risk adjustment, and comparisons across institutions or across time.医疗保健流行病学稿件处理监测定义、定植率与感染率、风险调整，以及跨机构或跨时段的比较。
• Diagnostic stewardship has a strand of its own, taking in test ordering, turnaround time, multiplex panels and the wording of microbiology reports sent to clinicians.诊断管理自成一路，涵盖检验开单、报告周转时间与多重病原检测组合，也关注发给临床医生的微生物报告如何措辞。
• Vaccination of healthcare personnel, including influenza and SARS-CoV-2 campaigns, is treated as an infection prevention intervention rather than a matter for occupational health alone.医护人员疫苗接种（含流感与 SARS-CoV-2 接种活动）被当作感染预防干预来讨论，职业健康并非唯一视角。
• Public health policy belongs in the same frame, and blood-borne pathogen exposure stands among the occupational hazards the journal keeps returning to.公共卫生政策处于同一框架之内，血源病原体暴露是该刊反复回到的职业危害题目之一。
• Quality improvement that touches whole health systems is another strand, and reports of local change cycles sit beside full trials in the same issue.触及整个卫生系统的质量改进另成一路，地方性改进循环的报告与完整试验可以同处一期。
• Articles accepted range from original research through review articles and practical perspectives to manuscripts built around teaching, so a curriculum redesign needs no trial to reach publication.录用文章的体裁从原创研究延伸到综述与实践视角，也包括围绕教学设计的稿件，课程改造无须包装成试验即可发表。
• Submissions are weighed for how far the findings travel, since a stewardship intervention that works in one health economy may need a different design in another.评审掂量的是结论能走多远，在一套医疗支付体系中奏效的管理干预，换到另一套体系常常要重新设计。
• The journal is fully gold open access, which means every accepted paper is free to read and carries a licence allowing reuse with attribution.该刊实行完全金色开放获取，所有录用论文免费阅读，并附有允许署名后重复使用的许可。

History

• The title was founded in 2021, when SHEA and Cambridge University Press added an open access journal to the society's publishing programme.该刊创于 2021 年，美国医疗保健流行病学学会与 Cambridge University Press 在这一年为学会的出版计划新增一份开放获取期刊。
• SHEA's older journal, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, had carried the field's core literature since 1980, and the new title was set up as a parallel venue rather than a replacement.学会原有的《感染控制与医院流行病学》（Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology）自 1980 年起承载该领域核心文献，新刊以并行平台而非替代者的身份设立。
• Volume 1, issue 1 appeared in 2021, and the run has been indexed in PubMed and deposited in PubMed Central from that opening issue onward.第 1 卷第 1 期于 2021 年出版，整卷自创刊号起即被 PubMed 收录，并在 PubMed Central 全文存档。
• Publication has been continuous ever since, so each annual volume carries one numbered issue and articles take numbers rather than page ranges when they are ready.此后一直沿用连续出版，每个年度卷只设一个编号期，文章一旦就绪就取得编号，而不排连续页码。
• A citation therefore reads as volume, issue and article number, a layout that keeps accepted papers moving instead of holding them back for a full issue.引文于是写成卷、期与文章编号三段，这种编排让录用稿持续上线，不必为一期凑齐而等待。
• Supplemental issues, recorded as S1 and S2 within a volume, carry society guidance and themed collections beside the regular stream.增刊在卷内记为 S1 与 S2，用来刊登学会指南与专题合集，与常规稿件分流。
• Volume 5 closed in 2025 and volume 6 opened in 2026, matching a rhythm of one volume per calendar year from the start.第 5 卷在 2025 年收尾，第 6 卷于 2026 年开启，与创刊以来每年一卷的节奏吻合。
• The title is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and its Journal Impact Factor stood at 1.8 for 2024 and 1.9 for 2025.该刊收录于 Emerging Sources Citation Index，2024 年的影响因子为 1.8，2025 年升至 1.9。
• That 2025 figure places it in the third quartile of the infectious diseases category, at rank 103 among 141 titles.2025 年的这一数值将其置于传染病学类目的第三四分位，在 141 种期刊中排第 103 位。
• The five-year impact factor also reads 1.9, and the most recent counted year brought roughly 289 articles into the record.五年影响因子同为 1.9，最近一个统计年度记录在册的论文约 289 篇。
• Citations had accumulated to about 1,328 by the 2025 count, a base that fits a journal only a few volumes old.到 2025 年统计时累计被引约 1328 次，这个基数与一份仅有数卷历史的期刊相称。
• Gold open access accounts for 99.86 per cent of the output, and the Directory of Open Access Journals lists the title.金色开放获取占全部产出的 99.86%，《开放获取期刊目录》也收录了该刊。
• Authors meet an article processing charge on acceptance, the standard arrangement under which the publisher recovers the cost of making every paper free to read.作者在录用后支付文章处理费，这是出版方以免费阅读为前提回收成本的通行安排。
• The editorial office and the publisher have kept the scope stable across the first five volumes, adding topics rather than renaming the journal.编辑部与出版方在前五卷中保持范围稳定，做的是增补议题，刊名未再改动。

Editors

• Two editors head the masthead, Gonzalo M. Bearman and Priya Nori, whose names appear together on the journal's Cambridge Core page.编委会名单顶端并排列出两位主编（Gonzalo M. Bearman）与（Priya Nori），两人的名字同时出现在该刊的 Cambridge Core 页面。
• The masthead records Bearman's degrees as M.D. and M.P.H. and gives Richmond, Virginia, as his place of work.刊页在（Gonzalo M. Bearman）名下标注医学博士与公共卫生硕士两个学位，工作地点记为弗吉尼亚州里士满。
• Nori serves as the second editor, so editorial authority is shared between two people instead of resting on a single chair.（Priya Nori）担任第二主编，编务由两人共同主持，未设单人主编席位。
• Associate editors and a named editorial board sit beneath them, with the roster published on the journal's Cambridge Core pages and revised as terms rotate.两位主编之下设副编辑与具名编委会，名单登在该刊的 Cambridge Core 页面，并随任期更替更新。
• Review is single anonymous, meaning reviewers see the authors' names while authors do not learn who reviewed the paper.评审采取单盲方式，审稿人看得到作者姓名，作者不会获知审稿人身份。
• Manuscripts enter through the Cambridge Core submission system, and the editors ask authors to write for readers drawn from infection prevention, pharmacy and hospital leadership.稿件经 Cambridge Core 的投稿系统进入流程，编辑部要求行文面向由感染预防、药学与医院管理层构成的读者。
• SHEA position statements share the journal's pages with independent research, so a society document and an investigator-initiated study can appear in the same volume.学会的立场声明与独立研究共用同一版面，一份机构文件与一项研究者自发的课题可以出现在同一卷。
• Acceptance decisions rest with the editors, while Cambridge University Press handles production, hosting and the billing of open access charges.录用决定由编辑部作出，排版、托管与开放获取费用结算由 Cambridge University Press 承担。
• Because the journal is gold open access, authors keep broad reuse rights and may deposit the published version in an institutional repository.由于实行金色开放获取，作者保留较宽的再利用权利，也可将发表版存入机构知识库。
• Education-focused manuscripts have held a standing place in the editors' remit, which suits a field where training in stewardship varies sharply between countries.以教育为对象的稿件在编辑方针中一直占有一席，这契合一个各国管理培训差异明显的领域。