Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine is a monthly, peer-reviewed and fully open access journal devoted to tropical biomedicine, sponsored by Hainan Medical University in Haikou, China, and produced on the Wolters Kluwer Medknow platform.《亚太热带生物医学杂志》是一份同行评审、完全开放获取的月刊，以热带生物医学为主题，由海南海口市的海南医科大学主管主办，经 Wolters Kluwer Medknow 平台出版发行。

Founded in 2011, with volume 1 number 1 dated February of that year, it is ranked in the third quartile of the Tropical Medicine category by the Journal Citation Reports and records an impact factor of 1.9 for 2025.该刊创刊于 2011 年，第 1 卷第 1 期标注同年 2 月，在《期刊引证报告》中被列入热带医学类目第三四分位，2025 年影响因子为 1.9。

Every article is free to read under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence, the journal levies no processing charge, and its readership reaches researchers across the Asia-Pacific region and the wider world.全部文章依 Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 许可免费阅读，本刊不收取处理费，目标读者覆盖亚太地区及更广泛地区的科研工作者。

Scope

• The declared remit invites concise reports of original research across every area of tropical biomedicine and its related fields, treating experimental and clinical work as equally welcome.办刊说明欢迎热带生物医学及其相关领域各类原创研究的简明报告，实验工作与临床工作同等受重视。
• Parasitic disease occupies a central place, with published studies on schistosomiasis, trematode infection, helminthiasis and malaria in affected populations.寄生虫病居于核心位置，已刊研究涉及血吸虫与吸虫感染，蠕虫病和流行区的疟疾也在其列。
• Plasmodium isolates, vaccine prospects and drug sensitivity assays recur in the malaria literature the journal has carried since its first issue.疟原虫分离株、疫苗前景与药物敏感性试验反复出现在该刊自创刊号起的疟疾文献中。
• Medical microbiology and infectious disease in tropical settings form another strand, covering bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens together with their diagnosis.热带地区的医学微生物学与传染病构成另一条主线，涉及细菌、病毒与真菌病原及其诊断。
• Zoonotic and veterinary topics fall inside scope, so animal reservoirs, transmission to people and the health of livestock share the pages.人畜共患病与兽医议题在范围之内，动物宿主、向人的传播与家畜健康均占篇幅。
• Epidemiological surveys and studies of the ethical and social dimensions of health in tropical regions are named as part of the stated scope.流行病学调查与热带地区健康的伦理及社会层面研究被明确列入办刊范围。
• Medicinal and natural products attract steady submissions, including plant-derived compounds, essential oils and extracts tested for antimicrobial activity.药用与天然产物来稿稳定，包括植物来源化合物、精油与提取物，其抗菌活性接受检验。
• Traditional remedies are examined with modern methods rather than described alone, in line with the aim of appraising customary practice experimentally.传统药物以现代方法加以检验而非仅作描述，这与用实验评估惯用疗法的目标一致。
• The biochemistry and molecular pharmacology that underlie tropical disease and drug action belong to the remit, an area echoed in the abstracting classification the title carries.支撑热带疾病与药物作用的生物化学与分子药理学属于办刊范围，该刊所入文摘分类也反映这一取向。
• Studies of natural antidiabetic agents and of oxidative stress in animal models show how laboratory physiology connects to the therapeutic interest of the journal.天然降糖成分与动物模型氧化应激的研究，体现实验室生理学与该刊治疗学关注之间的联系。
• Medical entomology and the biology of intermediate hosts, such as the snails that carry trematodes, sit inside a parasitological coverage that runs from vector to definitive host.医学昆虫学与中间宿主生物学（如传播吸虫的螺类）包含在从媒介到终宿主的寄生虫学覆盖之中。
• Articles that carry clinical interest and practical implication are given stated preference, so bench findings are expected to point toward the care of patients.具有临床意义与实际应用的论文被明确优先，实验室发现被期望指向患者照护。
• Contributions are solicited from any part of the world with attention to the Asia-Pacific region, and the journal prints original reports alongside review material.来稿面向世界任何地区并关注亚太地区，刊物除原创报告外也刊登综述材料。

History

• The journal was established in 2011 and its first volume opened with issue 1 in February, beginning a monthly run that reaches its sixteenth volume in 2026.该刊创办于 2011 年，首卷于 2 月以第 1 期开印，此后按月出版，2026 年进到第 16 卷。
• Hainan Medical University, on Hainan island at Haikou, founded and sponsors the title, and the editorial office is registered in the university library building along Xueyuan Road.该刊由海南岛海口市的海南医科大学创办并主管，编辑部地址登记在该校学院路图书馆大楼。
• From the outset it adopted twelve issues a year, a cadence confirmed by the numbering of its early volumes and of the volumes published now.该刊自始采用每年 12 期的月刊形制，早期卷次与现今卷次的期号编排都印证这一节奏。
• The opening issue carried work on malaria vaccines, on Plasmodium vivax sensitivity testing and on a case of cutaneous larva migrans, which set a parasitological tone.创刊号收录疟疾疫苗、间日疟原虫敏感性检测与一例皮肤幼虫移行症的论文，奠定寄生虫学基调。
• Early articles were registered under the Crossref prefix 10.1016 and the imprint then read simply Medknow, before the title settled into the numbering still in use.早期论文以 Crossref 前缀 10.1016 注册，当时刊名页仅显示 Medknow，此后转入沿用至今的编号体系。
• Current articles take the 10.4103 prefix of the Medknow registration route, and Crossref now names the publisher as Ovid Technologies, part of Wolters Kluwer, working with Medknow Publications.现行论文使用 Medknow 注册路径的 10.4103 前缀，Crossref 现将出版方记作隶属 Wolters Kluwer 的 Ovid Technologies 与 Medknow Publications。
• Its online home shifted from a standalone domain to the publisher's platform, where the title now sits behind the Wolters Kluwer journal site reached through its Ovid address.其在线入口从独立域名迁往出版商的期刊平台，该刊现置于 Wolters Kluwer 站点，经 Ovid 网址访问。
• It is distinct from the older Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, which uses ISSN 1995-7645 and began in 2008, while the two titles share a sponsor yet keep separate numbers and separate remits.它与创刊更早的 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 相区别，后者使用 ISSN 1995-7645，始于 2008 年，两刊同出一源而刊号与选题各别。
• Registered output peaked near 2012 at several hundred papers and then narrowed to a few dozen a year, with the latest full year posting some five dozen citable items.注册发文量在 2012 年前后达到数百篇的高峰，随后回落到每年数十篇，最近完整一年约五十余篇可引文章。
• The journal joined the Directory of Open Access Journals and is listed there as a fully open title depositing to CLOCKSS and Portico, with its open record dated from 2018.该刊加入开放获取期刊目录，目录将其列为完全开放刊并向 CLOCKSS 与 Portico 存底，其开放记录自 2018 年计起。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and in Chemical Abstracts, and the Journal Citation Reports place it near the middle of the third quartile in Tropical Medicine.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版与化学文摘收录，《期刊引证报告》把它列在热带医学类目第三四分位、接近该区中位。
• Its impact factor rose from 1.514 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2023 and 2024 and reached 1.9 in 2025, alongside a five-year figure of 1.8.其影响因子从 2022 年的 1.514 升至 2023 年与 2024 年的 1.7，2025 年达 1.9，五年影响因子为 1.8。

Editors

• The masthead lists three editors-in-chief for the journal, named Jeffrey M. Bethony, Santiago Mas-Coma and Vanessa Steen.刊名页列出该刊的三位主编，分别记作 Jeffrey M. Bethony、Santiago Mas-Coma 与 Vanessa Steen。
• Santiago Mas-Coma is a specialist in medical parasitology whose long work on trematodes and their epidemiology matches the parasitological emphasis of the journal.Santiago Mas-Coma 专攻医学寄生虫学，长期研究吸虫及其流行病学，与该刊的寄生虫学取向相符。
• Jeffrey M. Bethony studies host-parasite relationships and schistosome immunology, fields that recur in the tropical biomedicine the journal publishes.Jeffrey M. Bethony 研究宿主与寄生虫的关系及血吸虫免疫学，这些主题常见于该刊刊发的热带生物医学。
• Vanessa Steen is linked to the systematics of snails and their parasites, a subject that joins the malacological and helminth coverage on the pages.Vanessa Steen 与螺类及其寄生虫的分类研究相关，这一主题串起刊中的软体动物学与蠕虫内容。
• The editorial function is anchored at the sponsoring institution in Haikou, whose correspondence address and journal mailbox appear throughout the journal's listings.编辑职能设于主办机构所在的海口市，该机构的通讯地址与期刊邮箱见诸刊物各处登记。
• Day-to-day production and online delivery rest with Wolters Kluwer Medknow, which registers each article and hosts the platform the journal now uses.日常出版与在线交付由 Wolters Kluwer Medknow 承担，它注册每篇论文并托管该刊现用的平台。
• Submissions are assessed through double-anonymous peer review, in which neither author nor referee is identified to the other before a decision issues.来稿经双匿名同行评审处理，作出决定之前作者与审稿人互不具名。
• The listed handling time for submissions runs to about twelve weeks, and authors are asked to keep reports concise rather than lengthening them into monographs.据登记，来稿处理时间约十二周，作者被要求保持报告简明，不宜将其拉长为专论。
• Work with clinical interest and practical implication is given editorial preference, while authors meet no processing charge under the open access model the journal follows.具临床意义与实际应用的成果获编辑优先，作者在该刊遵循的开放获取模式下无需缴纳处理费。
• The board drawn for the title spans several continents, pairing scholars based in China with colleagues in Europe and the Americas so that a tropical outlook stays international.为该刊延揽的编委跨越数大洲，由中国学者与欧洲及美洲同行共同组成，使热带视野保持国际化。