Best Practice & Research - Clinical Anaesthesiology

Best Practice & Research - Clinical Anaesthesiology is a quarterly review journal that Elsevier publishes. Each issue is a topic-based volume of about 200 pages in paperback format that reviews current clinical practice and thinking in anaesthesiology, with chapters commissioned from an international team. Its 2025 impact factor is 3.3.《临床麻醉学最佳实践与研究》是 Elsevier 出版的一份季度综述期刊。每期是一个约 200 页的专题卷，以平装形式评述麻醉学临床实践与思想的现状，各章由国际团队约稿撰写。其 2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• Each topic-based issue of about 200 pages gives a comprehensive review of current clinical practice and thinking within the specialty of anaesthesiology.每期约 200 页的专题卷，对麻醉学专业当前的临床实践与思想作全面评述。

• All chapters are commissioned and written by an international team of practising clinicians.所有章节都由一支国际执业医师团队约稿并撰写。

• The guest editors for each issue are drawn from a pool of renowned experts and opinion leaders.每期的客座编辑都从知名专家与意见领袖的名单中选定。

• Chapters refer to the latest original research, to Cochrane reviews, to audits and confidential enquiries, to national and international conferences, to national and international guidelines and to personal communications.各章会引用最新原创研究，Cochrane 综述，审计与保密调查，国内外会议，国内外指南以及个人交流。

• All chapters take the form of practical, evidence-based reviews that address key clinical issues of diagnosis, treatment and patient management.所有章节都采用实用且循证的综述形式，讨论诊断，治疗与患者管理方面的关键临床问题。

• Each issue follows a problem-orientated approach that sets out the key questions, defines what is known and not known, and describes management in terms that can be applied to the individual patient.每期采用以问题为导向的写法，列出关键问题，界定已知与未知，并用可以落到具体患者身上的表述说明处理方式。

• Boxed and bulleted learning objectives and practice points highlight the core knowledge that helps the physician provide the best care.以方框与项目符号呈现的学习目标与实践要点，标出有助于医师提供最佳照护的核心知识。

• The series sets out to provide a continuous update for the busy clinician and researcher.该系列的目标是为忙碌的临床医师与研究者提供持续的更新。

• Recent issues have covered postoperative intensive care, point-of-care ultrasound, procedural sedation and preoperative evaluation for cardiac surgery.近期各期讨论过术后重症监护，床旁超声，程序化镇静以及心脏手术患者的术前评估。

• Authors may publish open access or by subscription, and the journal states that the choice has no effect on peer review or on acceptance.作者可以选择开放获取或订阅方式发表，该刊声明这一选择不影响同行评审，也不影响是否被接受。

• Open access publication carries an article publishing charge of 3770 US dollars, while the subscription route charges the author nothing.开放获取发表需支付 3770 美元的文章处理费，而订阅方式不向作者收费。

• Open access articles appear under a Creative Commons attribution licence or a non-commercial variant, and subscription authors may self-archive their accepted manuscript after a twelve-month embargo.开放获取文章以知识共享署名许可或非商业性变体发表，订阅方式的作者可在十二个月禁运期后自行存档其被接收的稿件。

• The publisher's journal page gives the subject area as anaesthesiology and pain medicine.出版方的刊物页面把该刊的学科领域列为麻醉学与疼痛医学。

• Each volume carries four numbered issues, one for each quarter of the year.每一卷包含四期，对应一年中的四个季度。

• Review articles make up the whole of the content, and the journal does not publish original experimental reports.综述文章构成该刊的全部内容，它不发表原始实验报告。

History

• The series traces back to Baillière's Clinical Anaesthesiology, which began in 1987.该系列可追溯到 1987 年创办的《Baillière 临床麻醉学》丛刊。

• For volumes 13 and 14, dated 1999 and 2000, the title read Baillière's Best Practice and Research in Clinical Anaesthesiology.在 1999 年与 2000 年的第 13 卷和第 14 卷，刊名改为带有最佳实践与研究字样的形式。

• From volume 15 in 2001 it took the present form of the title, and the earlier form appears in the records as a continuing title.自 2001 年第 15 卷起，它改用现行的题名，较早的题名在记录中标注为被延续的刊名。

• The early volumes were published by Baillière Tindall, and from 2002 the publisher is Elsevier, based in Amsterdam.早期各卷由 Baillière Tindall 出版，自 2002 年起出版方改为总部在阿姆斯特丹的 Elsevier。

• The current print number is 1753-3740 and the online number 1878-1608, while the earlier print and online numbers were 1521-6896 and 1532-169X.现行印本刊号为 1753-3740，电子刊号为 1878-1608，而较早的印本与电子刊号分别是 1521-6896 与 1532-169X。

• The linking number 9015-0821 ties the earlier and the current editions together in the serials network.连续出版物网络中的连接号 9015-0821 把旧本与现行本关联在一起。

• The journal is quarterly: volume 15 number 1 is dated March 2001, and volume 40 number 1 March 2026.该刊为季刊，第 15 卷第 1 期标注 2001 年 3 月，第 40 卷第 1 期标注 2026 年 3 月。

• The 2025 impact factor stands at 3.3 against a CiteScore of 5.2.该刊 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，CiteScore 为 5.2。

• The metrics page reports a median of 56 days from submission to a first decision, 72 days to a decision after review, 61 days to acceptance and two days from acceptance to online publication.指标页报告投稿至首次决定的中位数为 56 天，含评审的决定为 72 天，投稿至接收为 61 天，接收至在线出版为 2 天。

• The journal is abstracted and indexed in Medline and in the science citation index expanded.该刊被 Medline 与科学引文索引扩展版摘录与收录。

• Each issue has a distinctive title, and guest-edited collections have covered anaesthesia for ambulatory surgery and the perioperative care of the cancer patient.每期另有独立题名，客座编辑的合集讨论过门诊手术麻醉与癌症患者的围手术期照护。

• The 2026 volume is the fortieth, and the numbering has run without a break since volume 15 in 2001.2026 年出到第 40 卷，卷号自 2001 年的第 15 卷起连续未断。

• The online edition is archived with the keepers network and with Portico.该刊的电子本由保存者网络与 Portico 存档。

• Issues carry page ranges, and volume 40 number 1 runs to 148 pages.各期标注页码范围，第 40 卷第 1 期共 148 页。

• A preface in each issue introduces the theme and is usually written by the guest editors.每期都有一篇前言介绍当期的主题，通常由客座编辑撰写。

Editors

• (Michaela Farber) of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, is an editor-in-chief.（Michaela Farber）任职于马萨诸塞州波士顿的布列根和妇女医院，是该刊主编之一。

• (An Teunkens) of the University Hospital of Leuven in Belgium is the other editor-in-chief.（An Teunkens）任职于比利时鲁汶大学医院，是另一位主编。

• Each issue is guest edited, with the guest editors chosen from a pool of experts and opinion leaders in the field.每期都由客座编辑主持，人选从该领域的专家与意见领袖名单中产生。

• (Emily Naoum) and (Catherine Ingels) edited the March 2026 issue on postoperative intensive care.（Emily Naoum）与（Catherine Ingels）编辑了 2026 年 3 月讨论术后重症监护的那一期。

• (Peter Van de Putte) and (Pablo Perez d'Empaire) edited the December 2025 issue on point-of-care ultrasound.（Peter Van de Putte）与（Pablo Perez d'Empaire）编辑了 2025 年 12 月讨论床旁超声的那一期。

• (Nikhil Chawla) and (Layth Al Tmimi) edited the September 2025 issue on procedural sedation.（Nikhil Chawla）与（Layth Al Tmimi）编辑了 2025 年 9 月讨论程序化镇静的那一期。

• (Ludmil Mitrev), (Mathew Patteril) and (Subramaniam Kathirvel) edited the June 2025 issue on preoperative evaluation and prehabilitation for cardiac surgical patients.（Ludmil Mitrev），（Mathew Patteril）与（Subramaniam Kathirvel）编辑了 2025 年 6 月讨论心脏手术患者术前评估与预康复的那一期。

• (Juan P. Cata) and (Tobias Piegeler) edited the March 2025 issue on the perioperative care of the cancer patient.（Juan P. Cata）与（Tobias Piegeler）编辑了 2025 年 3 月讨论癌症患者围手术期照护的那一期。

• (An Teunkens) and (Arnaldo Valedon) edited an issue on anaesthesia for ambulatory surgery.（An Teunkens）与（Arnaldo Valedon）编辑过一期讨论门诊手术麻醉的专号。

• The journal belongs to the series of clinical review titles that the publisher runs across medical specialties.该刊属于出版方在多个医学专科中经营的一套临床综述刊物。

• The editorial office handles submissions through the publisher's online system, and guest editors are supported by the publisher's guidance for them.编辑部通过出版方的在线系统处理来稿，客座编辑另有出版方提供的专门指引。

• The publisher offers guest editors guidance and resources for the thematic issues they assemble.出版方为客座编辑组织专题各期提供指引与资源。

• The journal's publishing office can be reached through the publisher's journal article support centre.该刊的出版办公室可通过出版方的期刊文章支持中心联系。

• Guest-edited issues are announced in advance as calls for papers, and readers may browse all special issues and collections on the journal site.客座编辑的各期会提前以征稿启事的形式公布，读者可以在刊物网站上浏览全部专题与合集。

• The publisher provides editorial resources, among them a publishing ethics resource kit that the journal's editors use.出版方提供编辑资源，其中有供该刊编辑使用的出版伦理资源包。

• The publisher keeps a journal finder and a researcher academy to help authors decide where to submit their work.出版方设有期刊检索工具与研究者学院，帮助作者判断把稿件投往何处。

• Ethical oversight of the journal rests with its editors, who follow the publisher's editorial policies and its ethics guidance for studies involving patients.该刊的伦理监督由编辑承担，他们遵循出版方的编辑政策以及针对涉及患者研究的伦理指引。