Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes is the membrane-science title of the BBA family published by Elsevier in Amsterdam, and it has run as a section of the BBA project in its own right since 1967.《BBA - 生物膜》是 Elsevier 在阿姆斯特丹出版的 BBA 系列中的膜科学刊物，自 1967 年起作为 BBA 的一个独立分辑出版。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, the five-year figure is 3.1, and the publisher reports a CiteScore of 5.9 for the title.该刊 2025 年影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 3.1，出版方为其给出的 CiteScore 是 5.9。

Scope

• The stated focus is membrane structure, membrane function and the biomolecular organisation that connects the two, a wording broad enough to hold both physical and cell-biological papers.该刊声明的核心范围是膜结构，膜功能以及把二者联系起来的生物分子组织，这一措辞宽到足以同时容纳物理取向与细胞生物学取向的论文。

• Membrane proteins take the largest share, with receptors, channels and membrane anchors all named in the journal's own description.膜蛋白占据最大份额，受体，通道与膜锚定结构都在该刊自己的描述中被逐一点名。

• Lipid composition and membrane fluidity are treated as subjects in their own right rather than as background variables.脂质组成与膜流动性被当作独立课题来处理，而不只是为其他研究提供背景的变量。

• Model membranes and liposomes give the title a strong physical-chemistry strand, and much of its quantitative work is done on bilayers of defined composition.模型膜与脂质体为这份刊物带来浓厚的物理化学脉络，许多定量工作都在组分明确的双层体系上完成，便于重复与比较。

• Membrane surface studies and ligand interactions cover the binding events that come before signalling, uptake or pore formation.膜表面研究与配体相互作用涵盖信号传导，摄取或成孔之前的那些结合事件。

• Transport studies reach from ion channels and solute carriers to the permeability of peptides and small drugs across a bilayer.转运研究从离子通道与溶质载体延伸到肽类和小分子药物穿越双层的通透性，跨度相当宽。

• Membrane dynamics, including lipid diffusion, domain formation and fusion, completes the list of named interests.膜动力学包括脂质扩散，结构域形成与融合，补足了该刊列出的兴趣清单。

• Three article types are accepted, namely regular papers, full reviews and shorter mini-reviews, and reviews are pitched at readers who need the state of a membrane field in one place.该刊接收三类稿件，即常规论文，完整综述与篇幅更短的迷你综述，其中综述面向需要一次读完某个膜领域现状的读者。

• Submissions should add mechanistic understanding and new measurements, and the publisher describes the title as encouraging high-quality, novel work.投稿应当带来机制层面的理解与新的测量结果，出版方称该刊鼓励高质量且有新意的工作。

• Experimental papers in its pages lean on solid-state NMR, calorimetry, fluorescence spectroscopy, electron microscopy and molecular simulation.其版面上的实验论文多倚重固态核磁共振，量热学，荧光光谱，电子显微镜与分子模拟这几类手段。

• Readers are membrane biophysicists, biochemists and structural biologists who want quantitative descriptions of how bilayers behave.读者是膜生物物理学家，生物化学家与结构生物学家，他们需要关于双层行为的定量描述而非定性印象。

• Themed collections, grouped by the publisher as BBA Research Collections, gather papers on one membrane topic across several issues.出版方以 BBA Research Collections 之名组织的主题合集，把同一膜课题的论文汇集到若干期里，方便一次读完。

• Authors are told that editors and referees work with them to bring a manuscript to publication, a phrasing that sets the tone of the review.该刊告诉作者，编辑与审稿人会与他们一同把稿件推进到发表，这种措辞定下了整个评审过程的基调。

History

• The parent journal, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, was founded in 1947 and counts as the first international journal that Elsevier launched.母刊《生物化学与生物物理学报》创刊于 1947 年，被视为 Elsevier 推出的第一份国际期刊。

• Its early volumes were issued in cooperation with Interscience of New York, a partnership that gave the young title an American outlet alongside its Dutch base.其早期卷次与纽约的 Interscience 合作出版，这一合作关系让年轻的刊物在荷兰本部之外又有了美国的发行渠道。

• Membrane work appeared in the parent volumes for two decades before a section of its own was carved out.在划出专属分辑之前，膜研究在母刊各卷中已经存在了二十年。

• The Biomembranes section opened in 1967, and its earliest indexed paper, a study of milk fat globule membranes, sits in volume 135.生物膜分辑于 1967 年开设，其最早被索引的论文研究乳脂球膜，收在第 135 卷。^[1]

• For the next fifty years the section took its volume numbers from the common BBA sequence, so its volumes alternated with those of sibling sections such as Bioenergetics and Molecular Cell Research.此后五十年间，该分辑从 BBA 共用的卷号序列中取号，其卷次因此与生物能学，分子细胞研究等兄弟分辑交错排列。

• Print number 0005-2736 belonged to the section from the start, and the electronic number 1879-2642 was added for the online edition.印本刊号 0005-2736 自始属于该分辑，电子刊号 1879-2642 则为网络版另行配置。

• Citations from the late 1990s already use the short form BBA - Biomembranes, while library catalogues kept the parent-style key title.1990 年代末的引文已使用 BBA - Biomembranes 这一简称，图书馆编目却仍沿用母刊式的主标题。

• A structural change came in 2017, when Elsevier turned the BBA sections into separate journals with their own titles, teams and volume sequences.2017 年出现结构性变化，Elsevier 把 BBA 各分辑改为独立期刊，各自拥有刊名，团队与卷号序列。

• Biomembranes opened volume 1859 that January, and the National Library of Medicine started a record for the title with indexing from volume 1859 number 1.该年 1 月，生物膜分辑启用第 1859 卷，美国国家医学图书馆也为它另立记录，自第 1859 卷第 1 期起收录。

• One volume has covered one year ever since, so volume 1867 belongs to 2025 and volume 1868 to 2026.自此每年一卷，第 1867 卷对应 2025 年，第 1868 卷对应 2026 年。

• Twelve issues filled a volume up to 2022, and eight issues have done so from volume 1865 in 2023 onward.2022 年及以前每卷十二期，自 2023 年第 1865 卷起改为每卷八期。

• Publishing follows a hybrid model with a subscription track and an open access option, and gold open access made up 26.38 per cent of the 2025 output.出版采用混合模式，既有订阅通道也有开放获取选项，2025 年的产出中金色开放获取占 26.38%。

• The impact factor fell from 4.019 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2025, while total citations reached 15941 and the cited half-life stood at 12.5 years.影响因子从 2022 年的 4.019 降至 2025 年的 2.4，总被引达到 15941 次，被引半衰期为 12.5 年。

• About 68 research items appeared in 2025, and the title sits in the third quartile of both biochemistry and biophysics in the Journal Citation Reports.2025 年约发表 68 篇研究条目，该刊在《期刊引证报告》的生物化学与生物物理两个类目中都落在第三四分位。

Editors

• Two executive editors run the title, Burkhard Bechinger and Roslyn Bill, according to the publisher's own listing of the BBA journals.按出版方给出的 BBA 刊物名录，该刊由两位执行编辑主持，即（Burkhard Bechinger）与（Roslyn Bill）。

• Bechinger works at the University of Strasbourg, where his group applies solid-state NMR to membrane peptides, antimicrobial peptides and the topology of membrane proteins.（Burkhard Bechinger）任职于斯特拉斯堡大学，其团队以固态核磁共振研究膜肽，抗菌肽以及膜蛋白的拓扑。

• Bill holds a chair in biotechnology at Aston University in Birmingham and studies the production and functional assay of membrane proteins, aquaporins among them.（Roslyn Bill）在伯明翰的阿斯顿大学担任生物技术讲席教授，研究膜蛋白的表达与功能测定，水通道蛋白是其中一类。

• Above the pair sits Daniel Erik Otzen of Aarhus University, Editor-in-Chief for the whole BBA family of ten titles.在两位之上是奥胡斯大学的（Daniel Erik Otzen），他担任 BBA 全部十份刊物的系列主编。

• Otzen is Professor of Nanobiotechnology at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and has worked on protein folding, misfolding and aggregation throughout his career.（Daniel Erik Otzen）是交叉纳米科学中心的纳米生物技术教授，整个职业生涯都在研究蛋白折叠，错误折叠与聚集。

• Board members are listed on the journal's pages, beside the executive editors who take the decisions.编委名单与作出决定的执行编辑一并列在期刊页面上。

• The BBA titles advertise transparent peer review, an arrangement under which referees' reports can be published alongside the accepted article.整套 BBA 刊物以透明评审为号召，在这一安排下审稿人的报告可以与录用文章一并公布。

• Manuscripts enter through Editorial Manager, the submission system the publisher uses across the BBA list, and the guide for authors sits beside the same portal.稿件经由 Editorial Manager 投递，这是出版方在整套 BBA 刊物中通用的投稿系统，作者指南也放在同一入口旁。

• Every second year the family names BBA Rising Stars, early-career researchers picked by the executive editors whose papers appear together in a special issue.该系列每两年评选一次 BBA Rising Stars，由执行编辑选出的青年学者，其论文会集中刊于同一期专刊。

• The next round of those awards is set for 2026, a sign of how far special issues are used to bring younger authors into the journal.下一轮奖项定于 2026 年公布，可见专刊在吸引更年轻作者方面被用到了何种程度。

• The two executive editors work in France and the United Kingdom, while the family editor-in-chief sits in Denmark, so the editorial centre of gravity spans three countries.两位执行编辑分别在法国与英国工作，系列主编则在丹麦，编辑重心因此横跨三个国家。