Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Augmentative and Alternative Communication is the official journal of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, known as ISAAC, and Taylor & Francis has published it quarterly since 1985.《Augmentative and Alternative Communication》是国际增强与替代沟通学会（ISAAC）的机关刊，自 1985 年起由 Taylor & Francis 按季出版。

It is a research journal devoted to people who use or may need augmentative and alternative communication, covering assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and education, with the theory and technology that support them.这本研究刊物面向使用或可能需要增强与替代沟通的人，涵盖评估、治疗、康复与教育，也收支撑这些工作的理论与技术。

The 2025 impact factor is 2.3 with a five-year figure of 2.8, and CiteScore stands at 4.0 in the first quartile. About a third of submissions are accepted.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年值 2.8，CiteScore 4.0，落在第一四分位。投稿的接受率约为三分之一。

Scope

• Developmental disability is one half of the field: children with cerebral palsy, autism, intellectual disability or a genetic syndrome that limits speech, and the systems that give them a voice.发展性障碍是这一领域的一半，脑瘫、孤独症、智力障碍，或因遗传综合征而难以开口的儿童，以及为他们提供表达手段的系统。

• Acquired conditions are the other half, which is where amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aphasia after stroke and severe traumatic brain injury enter the literature.后天获得性病症是另一半，肌萎缩侧索硬化、卒中后失语、重度颅脑外伤，由此进入文献。
• Assessment is treated as a subject in its own right. Matching a person to a symbol set, a vocabulary size and an access method is a decision with a literature behind it.评估本身就是一个题目。把一个人与某套符号、某种词汇量、某种操作方式配上，这个决定背后有一整套文献。
• Intervention studies ask whether a device change alters what a person can do in daily life, and they are read against single-case designs as often as against group trials.干预研究问的是换一套设备能否改变一个人在日常生活里做得到的事，评判时用单被试设计的机会不亚于用组间试验。
• Aided and unaided communication are both covered, so a manual sign vocabulary and a speech-generating application belong to the same conversation.辅助性与非辅助性沟通都收，手语词汇与语音生成应用因此属于同一场讨论。
• Technology has its own share: speech-generating devices, eye-gaze access, switch scanning, symbol libraries and the vocabulary organisation that decides how fast a sentence gets built.技术占自己的一份，语音生成设备、眼动操作、开关扫描、符号库，以及决定一句话拼得多快的词汇组织方式。
• Education runs through the file, from literacy instruction for students who do not speak to the classroom support that keeps an inclusive placement working.教育贯穿整份档案，从为不会说话的学生做读写教学，到维持融合安置运转的课堂支持。
• Communication partners get attention too. A well-chosen system fails if the adults around it answer for the user, and the journal publishes work on that failure.沟通伙伴同样受关注。选得再好的系统，若身边的人替使用者把话说了，也会失效，刊物就登这方面的研究。
• Systems development is named in the aims, which admits engineering and design work on the interface between a person's intent and a machine's output.宗旨里点名系统开发，于是在人的意图与机器输出之间做接口的工程与设计工作也收。
• Research articles and review articles are allowed 35 pages. Research notes get 25, tutorials, forum notes and case reports 20 each.研究论文与综述上限 35 页，研究札记 25 页，教程、论坛札记与病例报告各 20 页。
• Page limits are the formal constraint on length, so the difference between a research article and a research note is scope rather than ambition.页数是篇幅上的形式约束，研究论文与研究札记的差别因此落在范围上，不在野心大小。
• International comparison has a place, since symbol sets, service models and funding rules differ by country and the choice of system is often decided by them.国际比较有位置，符号集、服务模式与经费规则因国而异，选哪套系统往往由这些因素定下。
• The journal sits in two subject lists at once, audiology and speech-language pathology, and rehabilitation, which is a fair description of who reads it.这本刊同时属于两个学科列表，听力学与言语病理学，以及康复，这也大致说清了谁会读它。

History

• The first volume is dated 1985, the year ISAAC put its name to a journal of its own, and volume numbering has run without a break since.第 1 卷署 1985 年，正是 ISAAC 挂名办起自己刊物的那一年，卷号此后没有中断。
• Williams and Wilkins printed the early volumes in Baltimore. By 2015 the imprint had moved to Abingdon, Oxford, under Taylor & Francis, where it remains.早期各卷由 Williams and Wilkins 在巴尔的摩印行。到 2015 年，出版地记录已迁到牛津郡的阿宾顿，出版方换成 Taylor & Francis，至今未变。
• Volume numbering is a subtraction: take the year and remove 1984. Volume 41 covers 2025, and the third issue of 2026 falls in volume 42.卷号是一道减法，年份减去 1984。第 41 卷对应 2025 年，2026 年的第 3 期落在第 42 卷。
• Four issues make a volume, and the society's own page describes a quarterly schedule, so a volume takes exactly one calendar year to complete.一卷 4 期，学会页面写的是季刊，一卷正好用满一个日历年。
• MEDLINE and PubMed reach back only to volume 22, number 1, in March 2006, which leaves twenty-one founding years searchable in print alone.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 只回溯到 2006 年 3 月的第 22 卷第 1 期，创刊后的二十一年只能在纸本里找。
• Five impact factors read 2.214, 3.87, 2.1, 1.6 and 2.3. The 2022 peak was nearly double the year before, and the 2024 trough was the low point of the run.五个影响因子依次是 2.214、3.87、2.1、1.6、2.3。2022 年的高峰接近前一年的两倍，2024 年的谷底是这一串里的最低点。
• The 2025 file credits it with 1,865 citations, 43 articles in the year and a cited half-life of 10.3 years, a long tail for a field this small.2025 年的表记下 1,865 次被引，当年 43 篇文章，被引半衰期 10.3 年，对一个这么小的领域来说，尾巴很长。
• Its percentile of 74 comes from a rehabilitation list of 175 titles rather than from a narrow specialty list.它的百分位 74 出自 175 种刊的康复类列表，不是一张窄口径的专科表。
• Gold open access covers 15.13 percent of the file, and the rest sits behind the subscription that ISAAC membership includes.金色开放获取占全部文章的 15.13%，其余在订阅之后，而这份订阅是 ISAAC 会员资格自带的。
• Editorial speed is measured and published. A first decision takes 89 days on average, a first post-review decision 93, and acceptance to online publication 58.编辑流程的速度被测量并公布。首次决定平均 89 天，首次评审后决定 93 天，从录用到上线 58 天。
• The abstracting services say what kind of journal it is. Linguistics Abstracts, Ergonomics Abstracts, PsycINFO, CINAHL, BIOSIS and Scopus all index it, a list no single discipline would produce.文摘服务说明了这是怎样一本刊。Linguistics Abstracts、Ergonomics Abstracts、PsycINFO、CINAHL、BIOSIS 与 Scopus 都收，这样一份名单不是哪一个学科单独能开出的。

Editors

• Rose Sevcik and MaryAnn Romski are co-editors-in-chief, both at Georgia State University, and they have run the journal as a pair rather than as a single desk.主编由 Rose Sevcik 与 MaryAnn Romski 共同担任，两人都在佐治亚州立大学，刊物按双人案头运作，不是一人独掌。
• Stijn Deckers of Radboud University in Nijmegen serves as co-editor, which places a European hand on a title whose editors sit in Atlanta.奈梅亨 Radboud 大学的 Stijn Deckers 任共同编辑，让一本编辑桌设在亚特兰大的刊物有了一只欧洲的手。
• Anastazia Csegeny is editorial assistant and Byron Robinson, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, serves as statistical and design consultant.Anastazia Csegeny 任编辑助理，美国疾病控制与预防中心的 Byron Robinson 任统计与设计顾问。
• Twenty-seven associate editors carry the subject load, from Malta and Manchester to Pretoria, São Paulo and Wellington, so the map is wider than the masthead's first two names.二十七位副编辑分担学科事务，从马耳他与曼彻斯特，到比勒陀利亚、圣保罗与惠灵顿，地图比刊头前两个名字要宽得多。
• Named units on that list include Florida State, Vanderbilt, Penn State, the University of Minnesota, San Francisco State and the Bridge School in California.名单上的机构包括佛罗里达州立、范德堡、宾州州立、明尼苏达大学、旧金山州立，以及加利福尼亚的 Bridge School。
• Others sit at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Cardiff Metropolitan, Massey, the University of South Florida, Oregon Health and Science University and Jönköping in Sweden.另一些人在全国儿童医院、卡迪夫都会大学、梅西大学、南佛罗里达大学、俄勒冈健康与科学大学，以及瑞典的延雪平。
• Review is masked, and the journal says most papers are seen by three reviewers, which for a field of 43 articles a year is a heavy load per accepted paper.评审为盲审，刊方称多数稿件会经过三位审稿人，对一个一年只发 43 篇的领域来说，每篇录用稿背的活很重。
• An editor screens first and assigns the paper to an associate editor, who gathers the reports, synthesises them and makes a recommendation rather than a decision.先由编辑初筛，把稿子分给一位副编辑，后者汇总各份意见、加以综合，给出的是建议而不是决定。
• The editor then decides, and the journal gives authors two to three months for a first decision, 30 days to revise and about a week of proofs.决定权在编辑手里。刊物给作者的时间是首次决定两到三个月，修回 30 天，校样约一周。
• Proof corrections are due within 48 hours of receipt, and manuscripts run through ScholarOne with proofs handled on the CATS system.校样须在收到后 48 小时内改回，稿件走 ScholarOne，校样在 CATS 系统上处理。
• Membership of ISAAC includes the subscription, a model that keeps a quarterly with 43 papers a year in the hands of practitioners as well as researchers.ISAAC 的会员资格包含订阅，这个模式让一年只出 43 篇的季刊，能同时落到从业者与研究者手里。