Biophysical Journal
Biophysical Journal is the journal of the Biophysical Society, published by Cell Press on the society's behalf and appearing twenty-four times a year. Founded in 1960, it was prepared as a society journal immediately after the Biophysical Society's establishment in 1958, and is among the longest-established titles in quantitative biology.《生物物理学报》（Biophysical Journal）是生物物理学会（Biophysical Society）的机关刊，由细胞出版社（Cell Press）代表学会出版，每年二十四期。该刊创刊于一九六〇年，是生物物理学会一九五八年成立后即行筹办的会刊，也是定量生物学领域历史最悠久的刊物之一。
Scope
Biophysical Journal looks for work that elucidates important biological, chemical or physical mechanisms and provides quantitative insight, and requires that papers be of general interest to quantitative biologistsBiophysical Journal 的取稿立场是「阐明重要的生物、化学或物理机制并提供定量洞见」，且论文须对定量生物学家具有普遍兴趣，纯描述性或现象学、缺乏理论或机制基础的工作不适合本刊。收文范围覆盖的主要方向包括： purely descriptive or phenomenological work lacking a theoretical or mechanistic basis does not fit. Its principal subject areas include:
- Cell biophysics: cell mechanics, cell motility and the physical basis of the cytoskeleton.细胞生物物理： 细胞力学、细胞运动与细胞骨架的物理基础。
- Proteins and membranes: protein folding and dynamics, membrane protein structure and membrane deformation.蛋白质与膜： 蛋白质折叠与动力学、膜蛋白结构与膜形变。
- Molecular machines and nanoscale biophysics: molecular motors, nanoscale biophysics and single-molecule techniques.分子机器与纳米生物物理： 分子马达、纳米尺度生物物理与单分子技术。
- Channels and transporters: structure, gating and regulation of ion channels and transporters.通道与转运体： 离子通道与转运体的结构、门控与调控机制。
- Systems and computational biophysics: systems biophysics, computational biophysics, and genome biophysics and nucleic acids.系统与计算生物物理： 系统生物物理、计算生物物理，以及基因组生物物理与核酸。
Theoretical work must offer new insight into experimental results or pose testable hypotheses, and papers reporting major methodological or technical advances are equally suitable. The journal is subscription-based with a hybrid open-access option, opens its full text twelve months after publication, and is free online to society members.理论研究须为解释实验结果提供新见解或提出可检验假设；报道重大方法学或技术进步的文章同样适合。该刊为订阅制加混合开放获取选项，全文十二个月后免费开放，学会会员在线免费阅读。[1]
History
- Founding (1960): the society prepared its journal immediately after its 1958 establishment创刊（一九六〇年）： 学会一九五八年成立后即筹办会刊，学术出版社一度入选后于一九五七年解约，一九五九年八月改定洛克菲勒大学出版社出刊，首期一九六〇年九月出版；首任主编为小弗兰克·布林克。 Academic Press was first selected but dropped out in 1957, and in August 1959 publication was settled with Rockefeller University Press, the first issue appearing in September 1960 the founding editor was Frank Brink, Jr.[2]
- Self-publication period (1993-2008): after 1992 the journal moved to self-publication by the society in Bethesda, with Waverly Press assisting, until the handover to a commercial publisher.学会自办时期（一九九三至二〇〇八年）： 一九九二年后本刊转由学会在贝塞斯达自行出版，韦弗利出版社协办，直至移交商业出版社。[3]
- Handover to Cell Press (January 2009): the society chose Cell Press to publish its flagship journal with effect from January 2009, an arrangement that continues移交细胞出版社（二〇〇九年一月）： 学会选定细胞出版社出版其旗舰刊物，自二〇〇九年一月起生效并延续至今；期刊始终由学会所有，细胞出版社一九九九年起属爱思唯尔。 the journal has always been owned by the society, and Cell Press has been part of Elsevier since 1999.[1]
- Editorial succession: Leslie Loew (2012-2017) was followed by Jane Dyson (2017-2021).主编更迭： 莱斯利·洛（二〇一二至二〇一七年）之后由简·戴森接任（二〇一七至二〇二一年）。[4]
- Metric standing: the 2025 impact factor is 3.7, placing the journal in the second quartile of biophysics, with recent years in zone three of biology.指标走势： 二〇二五年影响因子三点七，在生物物理小类列二区，近年稳定在生物学大类三区。[5]
Editors
The journal runs an academic editor-in-chief with nine subject-area associate editors and an editorial board of more than one hundred, a fully academic editing system. Cell Press's official metrics page posts a median of five weeks to first decision and under eight days to rejection, with an acceptance rate of about forty-six per cent本刊实行学术型主编制，配九名按方向分工的副编辑与百余人的编辑委员会，为典型学术编辑体系。细胞出版社官网指标区公布本刊首次决定中位五周、拒稿中位七天余，录用率约四成六；上述数值转引自第三方快照，引用时宜以官网实时值为准。 these figures were read from a third-party snapshot and should be checked against the live page before citation.[6]
- Vasanthi Jayaraman (editor-in-chief since January 2022): professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the McGovern Medical School in Houston, working on the structure and function of ligand-gated ion channels, and president-elect of the society from 2026.瓦桑蒂·贾亚拉曼（二〇二二年一月起任）： 美国休斯顿卫理公会研究所生物化学与分子生物学教授，研究方向为配体门控离子通道的结构与功能，二零二六年当选学会候任主席。[4]
- Associate editors: the nine associate editors each take one subject area, covering the protein, membrane, molecular machine, systems biophysics, genome biophysics and computational biophysics sections.副编辑分工： 九名副编辑各管一个方向，覆盖蛋白质、膜、分子机器、系统生物物理、基因组生物物理与计算生物物理等版块。[4]