Autophagy

Autophagy is a peer-reviewed cell biology journal published by Taylor & Francis, launched in 2005 and devoted to autophagic processes, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 18.6《自噬》是由（Taylor & Francis）出版、2005 年创刊的同行评审细胞生物学期刊，专注自噬过程研究，2025 年影响因子为 18.6。

Scope

• It publishes peer-reviewed research on all aspects of autophagic processes, including macroautophagy, microautophagy and chaperone-mediated autophagy该刊刊载自噬过程各方面的同行评审研究，包括巨自噬、微自噬与分子伴侣介导的自噬。
• It focuses on the lysosome-dependent or vacuole-dependent degradation of intracellular material该刊聚焦细胞内物质的溶酶体依赖或液泡依赖降解。
• It covers links between autophagy and human health and disease such as cancer, neurodegeneration, aging, diabetes, myopathies and heart disease该刊涵盖自噬与人类健康和疾病的联系，例如癌症、神经退行性变、衰老、糖尿病、肌病与心脏病。
• It welcomes studies in all experimental systems from yeast to human该刊欢迎从酵母到人类等各类实验体系的研究。
• It accepts original research, reviews, technical papers, brief reports, addenda, letters and commentaries其收录原创研究、综述、技术论文、简报、附录、通讯与评论。
• It operates a single anonymized peer review policy该刊实行单盲同行评审政策。
• It published the widely used guidelines for monitoring autophagy assays, updated to a fourth edition in 2021该刊发表了被广泛使用的自噬检测方法指南，并于 2021 年更新至第四版。^[1]

History

• It began in 2005, with the first issue appearing as volume 1, issue 1该刊于 2005 年创刊，首期以第 1 卷第 1 期面世。^[2]
• It was first published by Landes Bioscience in Texas before moving to Taylor & Francis in 2015该刊最初由（Landes Bioscience）在得克萨斯出版，2015 年转由（Taylor & Francis）出版。
• It has been published monthly since 2011 and has passed more than 20 volumes自 2011 年起改为月刊，已出版二十余卷。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 18.6, its five-year Impact Factor is 18.8 and its CiteScore is 22.5其 2025 年影响因子为 18.6，五年影响因子为 18.8，CiteScore 为 22.5。
• It has an acceptance rate of about 19 percent and averages 39 days from submission to first post-review decision其录用率约为 19%，从投稿到首次评审后决定平均约 39 天。
• Its companion journal Autophagy Reports was launched in 2021其姊妹刊（Autophagy Reports）于 2021 年创刊。

Editors

• The co-Editors-in-Chief are Daniel J. Klionsky of the University of Michigan and Nicholas Ktistakis of the Babraham Institute联席主编为（University of Michigan）的 Daniel J. Klionsky 与（Babraham Institute）的 Nicholas Ktistakis。
• Klionsky works at the Life Sciences Institute and is a leading figure in autophagy researchKlionsky 任职于（Life Sciences Institute），是自噬研究的领军人物。
• Section editors cover cancer, cardiovascular disease, virology, mitophagy, neuroscience, immunology, metabolism and signalling栏目编辑涵盖癌症、心血管疾病、病毒学、线粒体自噬、神经科学、免疫学、代谢与信号传导。
• Wen-Xing Ding of the University of Kansas Medical Center is the Metabolism Section Editor（University of Kansas Medical Center）的 Wen-Xing Ding 担任代谢栏目编辑。
• Christian Munz of the University of Zurich is the Immunology Section Editor（University of Zurich）的 Christian Munz 担任免疫学栏目编辑。
• Simon Rudge of the Babraham Institute serves as Editorial Assistant（Babraham Institute）的 Simon Rudge 担任编辑助理。