Basic and Clinical Andrology

Basic and Clinical Andrology is an open access journal of BioMed Central, the Springer Nature imprint, and the official journal of the French Society of Andrology.基础与临床男科学是施普林格·自然旗下 BMC 出版的开放获取期刊，也是法国男科学会的会刊。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3, the five-year figure is 2.4 and the citation indicator is 0.78.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 2.4，期刊引文指标 0.78。

One volume appears each year as a single continuous issue, so volume 35 covers 2025 and volume 36 covers 2026.每年一卷，全年合成一个连续的期号，第 35 卷对应 2025 年，第 36 卷对应 2026 年。

All content is open access under CC BY 4.0, and the data policy asks authors to release supporting data under CC0.全部内容以 CC BY 4.0 开放获取，数据政策要求作者按 CC0 释放支撑数据。

In 2025 Clarivate placed it fourth of eight titles in andrology, a Q2 position, with the same rank on the article influence score.2025 年科睿唯安在男科学 8 种刊中把它排在第 4 位，属 Q2，论文影响分值的位次相同。

Scope

• Male reproductive and sexual health is the subject, in humans and in animal models alike.刊物以男性生殖与性健康为题，人体研究与动物模型研究一并接收。

• Clinical advances and research developments from the international community are both in scope.国际学界的临床进展与研究进展都在范围之内。

• Basic work on reproductive physiology sits beside clinical papers, which is what the two words in the title announce.生殖生理的基础研究与临床论文并列，刊名里的两个词说的就是这件事。

• Research articles form the main type, and case reports have their own slot.研究论文是主要类型，病例报告另有专门的栏目。

• Review articles and short reports cover work that does not need a full article to make its point.综述与短篇报告用于容纳不必写成整篇论文也能说清的工作。

• Commentaries and letters to the editor give readers room to argue with what has been published.评论与读者来信给读者留出与已发表文章辩论的空间。

• Guidelines are published as a separate type, which matters in a field where practice recommendations shape referral.指南单独作为一种稿件类型，在实践推荐会左右转诊路径的领域里这一点很重要。

• Manuscripts are typed with double line spacing and with line numbers and page numbers switched on.稿件要求双倍行距，并打开行号与页码。

• Units follow the SI system throughout, including in tables and figure axes.全文一律使用国际单位制，表格与图的坐标轴也不例外。

• Figures are supplied at about 300 dots per inch at the size they will print, and a single file stays under 10 megabytes.插图按成印尺寸提供，分辨率约每英寸 300 点，单个文件不超过 10 兆字节。

• Tables are built without colour, since colour carries no information in a printed grid and costs the reader legibility.表格不用彩色，彩色在网格里不承载信息，反而影响辨认。

• Additional files may run to 20 megabytes, which leaves room for video and for large data tables.附加文件可达 20 兆字节，视频与大表都有地方放。

• References use the Index Medicus abbreviations for journal titles.参考文献里的刊名按《医学索引》的缩写书写。

• Every paper carries a data availability statement, and the statement is checked rather than taken on trust.每篇论文都要有数据可得性声明，这份声明会被核查，而不是照单全收。

• Articles are published under CC BY 4.0, so reuse is allowed with attribution and no further permission is needed.文章以 CC BY 4.0 发布，注明出处即可复用，无需另行取得许可。

• The article processing charge is 2,390 pounds, 3,090 dollars or 2,690 euros, with local taxes added where they apply.文章处理费为 2390 英镑，3090 美元或 2690 欧元，另按当地规定加征税费。

• Authors in the lowest-income countries pay nothing, and a discretionary waiver can be requested at submission.最低收入国家的作者免缴，其他作者也可在投稿时申请酌情减免。

• There is no submission charge, so a declined paper costs the author nothing.投稿不收费，被拒的稿件不会让作者产生支出。

• Papers that fit another Springer Nature title better can be passed to that journal through a transfer desk, with the reviews travelling along.更适合施普林格·自然旗下其他刊物的稿件，可经转投通道送过去，评审意见一并移交。

• The subject covers fertility investigation and assisted reproduction as well as sexual function, since the society's remit runs across both.选题既包括生育力评估与辅助生殖，也包括性功能，学会的职责范围横跨这两块。

• Paediatric and adolescent andrology, and ageing in men, are part of the same field and are accepted as such.儿童与青少年男科学，以及男性老龄化的课题同属这一领域，同样接收。

• Animal models are judged on what they show about human reproductive biology, not on the species alone.动物模型看的是它对人类生殖生物学说明了什么，而不只是用了哪个物种。

History

• The journal began in June 1991 as Andrologie, the journal of the French-language andrology society.本刊 1991 年 6 月以《男科学》之名创刊，当时是法语男科学会的刊物。

• It was published in French with English summaries, three times a year at first and quarterly later.文章用法语发表并附英文摘要，最初一年三期，后来改为季刊。

• The first twenty-two volumes carried the ISSN 1166-2654, later replaced by 1760-5377.前 22 卷使用 ISSN 1166-2654，后来换成 1760-5377。

• Volume 22 number 4, December 2012, was the last issue under the French title.2012 年 12 月的第 22 卷第 4 期是法语刊名下的最后一期。

• The English title started at volume 23 in 2013 and kept the volume count, so the numbering runs back to 1991 without a break.英文刊名从 2013 年第 23 卷开始，卷号沿用下来，编号可以一路不间断地回溯到 1991 年。

• PubMed and PMC have covered the journal from volume 23 onward.PubMed 与 PMC 从第 23 卷起收录本刊。

• DOAJ lists it as a fully open access title, and the journal is indexed in SCIE.DOAJ 把它列为完全开放获取期刊，SCIE 也收录本刊。

• The impact factor reached 2.688 in 2021 and 2.886 in 2022, its highest mark so far.影响因子 2021 年达到 2.688，2022 年升到 2.886，是目前最高的一次。

• It fell to 2.4 in 2023 and 2.0 in 2024 before recovering to 2.3 in 2025.2023 年降到 2.4，2024 年降到 2.0，2025 年回升到 2.3。

• The title is published in London, and the National Library of Medicine records England as the country of publication.刊物在伦敦出版，美国国家医学图书馆把出版国记为英格兰。

• Volume 35 spanned 2025 and volume 36 spans 2026, each as one continuous issue.第 35 卷贯穿 2025 年，第 36 卷贯穿 2026 年，每卷仍是一个连续期号。

• The society that founded the journal still owns it, which is why French andrology keeps a voice in an English-language title.创办刊物的学会至今仍是刊物的所有者，法语男科学因此在英文刊里保留了发言的位置。

• Gold open access takes the whole output, so the journal's citation record and its readership no longer depend on library subscriptions.金色开放获取覆盖全部产出，刊物的被引记录与读者规模不再取决于图书馆订阅。

• All back content from the Andrologie years is available online, which makes the 1991 to 2012 run readable today.从《男科学》时期起的全部旧内容都可在线获取，1991 至 2012 年那一段今天仍能读到。

Editors

• Florence Boitrelle of the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy shares the editor-in-chief post with Peter N. Schlegel of Weill Cornell Medicine.主编由普瓦西跨市医院的 Florence Boitrelle 与威尔康奈尔医学院的 Peter N. Schlegel 共同担任。

• Ricardo P. Bertolla of São Paulo and Peter Chan of McGill are associate editors.圣保罗大学的 Ricardo P. Bertolla 与麦吉尔大学的 Peter Chan 是副编辑。

• Mohit Khera of Baylor and Rupin Shah in Mumbai hold the same rank.贝勒医学院的 Mohit Khera 与孟买的 Rupin Shah 同为副编辑。

• Jeanne Perrin of Aix-Marseille, Hanae Pons-Rejraji of Clermont Auvergne and Geoffroy Robin of Lille are associate editors too.艾克斯-马赛的 Jeanne Perrin，克莱蒙奥弗涅的 Hanae Pons-Rejraji 与里尔的 Geoffroy Robin 也在副编辑之列。

• Catherine Racowsky of Harvard, Gianmaria Salvio of Marche Polytechnic, Armin Soave of Hamburg and Aminata Touré of Grenoble complete the associate editor list.哈佛的 Catherine Racowsky，马尔凯理工的 Gianmaria Salvio，汉堡的 Armin Soave 与格勒诺布尔的 Aminata Touré 补齐了副编辑名单。

• The editorial board includes John Aitken in Newcastle, Australia, and Monica Levy Andersen in São Paulo.编委会成员包括澳大利亚纽卡斯尔的 John Aitken 与圣保罗的 Monica Levy Andersen。

• Selahittin Çayan in Mersin, Safouane Hamdi in Toulouse and Dolores Lamb at Children's Mercy sit on the board as well.梅尔辛的 Selahittin Çayan，图卢兹的 Safouane Hamdi 与儿童慈爱医院的 Dolores Lamb 也是编委。

• Serge Nef in Geneva, Koji Shiraishi in Yamaguchi, Dorota Włoga in Warsaw and Jiuhong Yuan at West China Hospital complete it.日内瓦的 Serge Nef，山口的 Koji Shiraishi，华沙的 Dorota Włoga 与华西医院的 Jiuhong Yuan 构成名单的其余部分。

• Review is single-anonymous, so the referee knows who wrote the paper and the author learns nothing about the referee.评审采用单匿名制，评审人知道作者是谁，作者却得不到评审人的任何信息。

• Two or more independent experts judge each paper on scientific soundness, originality and clarity.每篇论文由两位或更多独立专家评审，看的是科学上的可靠性，原创性与表述是否清楚。

• Editors may call on board members for a further opinion when the reports disagree.评审意见不一致时，编辑可以再请编委出具意见。

• The reviewers' reports reach the author without the reviewers' names attached.评审报告送到作者手里时不带评审人的姓名。

• Because the journal judges soundness rather than anticipated interest, a negative or null result can be published if the methods hold up.刊物看的是研究是否站得住，而不是结果是否讨喜，方法过关的阴性结果同样可以发表。

• A paper sent to another Springer Nature journal keeps its reviews, which shortens the second round.转投施普林格·自然其他刊物的稿件可以带着原有评审意见，第二轮流程因此缩短。