British Journal of Nutrition

British Journal of Nutrition is a peer-reviewed nutrition journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society in the United KingdomBritish Journal of Nutrition（英国营养学杂志）是由 剑桥大学出版社（英国）代表 英国营养学会 出版的同行评议营养学期刊，创刊于 1947 年，现为每年二十四期的半月刊，每年编为两卷；它长期是营养学领域引用量最高的专业期刊之一，其稿件类型与学科边界的划定方式都直接体现了该刊对「营养学作为独立学科」的界定主张。 founded in 1947, it now appears as a twice-monthly journal of twenty-four issues per year arranged in two volumes per year, and it has long been among the most heavily cited specialist titles in nutrition, with both its article types and the way it draws the boundaries of the discipline reflecting the journal's insistence on treating nutrition science as a field in its own right.^[1]

Scope

The basic remit of the journal is to publish original papers and review articles across the full spectrum of nutritional science, with the common requirement that every submission increase knowledge in the nutritional science relevant to human or animal nutrition.期刊的基本定位是发表覆盖营养学全部谱系的原创论文与综述文章，所有投稿的共同要求是增进与人类或动物营养相关的营养学知识。

• The journal welcomes studies in nutritional epidemiology, nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body composition, energetics, appetite and obesity.该刊欢迎营养流行病学、营养素需要量、代谢研究、体成分、能量代谢、食欲与肥胖等方向的研究报告。
• It also welcomes manuscripts addressing interactions of nutrition with endocrinology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience and physiology, provided the reported outcomes are relevant to health, behaviour and well-being.同时欢迎探讨营养与内分泌学、遗传学、免疫学、微生物学、分子与细胞生物学、神经科学及生理学相互作用的稿件，前提是所报告的结局与健康、行为或福祉相关。
• As to article types, alongside research and review papers the journal accepts systematic reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, scoping reviews, protocol papers, a Horizons in Nutritional Science section, invited commentaries, workshop reports and policy-relevant papers.在稿型上，期刊除研究论文与综述外，还接收系统综述、系统综述与荟萃分析、范围综述、方案论文、营养科学前沿专栏、特邀评论、工作坊报告与政策性论文等多种体裁。
• It is worth noting that the journal draws explicit exclusions, covering case studies, work properly belonging to food technology or food chemistry, studies of only local interest, complementary medicine research, and studies whose principal object is a pharmaceutical agent or which compare nutrients against medicines.需要注意的是，期刊明确划出了不收稿件的边界，包括个案研究、单纯属于食品技术或食品化学的研究、仅具地方性意义的研究、补充替代医学研究，以及以药物为主要对象或把营养素与药物直接对比的研究。

This boundary deserves separate attention because nutrition science is itself a field in rapid cross-fertilisation with its neighbours, so the journal's decisions about which intersections to admit and which to shut are an ongoing answer to the question of how far nutrition should extend这套选题边界值得单独留意，因为营养学本身正处在与其他学科加速交叉的位置，期刊选择在哪些交叉方向敞开、在哪些方向关门，实际上是在持续回答营养学应当划定到多大范围这一问题。它对公共卫生导向的调查与系统综述较为宽容，对纯粹补充替代医学的证据则持保留态度，这一取舍使它在政策讨论频繁的营养学公共争议中保持了相对稳健的立场。 its relative openness to public-health oriented surveys and systematic reviews, combined with reserve toward purely complementary-medicine evidence, has kept it on a comparatively stable footing in the field's frequent public policy debates.

History

• 1941: The Nutrition Society was founded with the mission of advancing the scientific study of nutrition and its application to the maintenance of human and animal health, and the journal founded in 1947 was a direct product of that organisation.1941 年： 英国营养学会 成立，宗旨为推进营养学的科学研究及其在维持人类与动物健康中的应用，1947 年创刊的会刊正是这一组织推动的产物。
• 1947: the Society decided to launch a new quarterly journal to be called the British Journal of Nutrition, devoted to reports of original work in every branch of nutrition1947 年： 学会决定创办一本新的季刊，题为 British Journal of Nutrition，宗旨是发表营养学各个分支的原创工作，创刊号封面日期为同年九月，1947 年共出版三期。 the inaugural issue carried a September cover date and three issues appeared in that first year.
• 1948 to 1970: four issues appeared each year and formed a single volume within the year, and volumes 1 to 20 also carried the proceedings of the Society's meetings.1948 至 1970 年： 每年出版四期，一年内四期合为一卷；第 1 至 20 卷曾同时包含《营养学会会刊》的会议记录。
• 1971 to 1993: frequency rose to six issues a year arranged as two volumes, and from 1994: it rose again to twelve issues a year, likewise in two volumes.1971 至 1993 年： 出版频次加密至每年六期，并分为两卷编行；1994 年起： 进一步增至每年十二期，同样分两卷。
• From 2009: against a background of manuscripts greatly exceeding capacity, the Society's publications committee approved a further doubling to twenty-four issues every two weeks arranged in two volumes, which is where the journal's present frequency comes from.2009 年起： 在稿件供不应求的背景下，学会出版委员会批准再次加倍，改为每年两周一期的二十四期，编为两卷，这正是本刊现行频次的由来。^[2]

Editors

The editor-in-chief is an academic appointed by The Nutrition Society, with deputy editors grouped by subdiscipline, together with separate deputy editors for reviews, supplements and statistics, a division of editorial labour that is notably fine grained.期刊主编由英国营养学会聘用的学者担任，副主编团队按营养学的细分研究方向分组，另设综述副主编、增补副主编与统计编辑，编务分工相当细致。

• John C. Mathers, Professor of Human Nutrition at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, is the editor-in-chiefJohn C. Mathers，纽卡斯尔大学（英国）人类营养学教授，任本刊主编，其研究关注膳食模式如何影响心脏病、糖尿病、痴呆与肠癌等年龄相关疾病的风险。 his research concerns how eating patterns influence the risk of age-related diseases including heart disease, diabetes, dementia and bowel cancer.
• Patrick Connolly serves as the managing editor for the day-to-day flow of manuscriptsPatrick Connolly 任执行编辑，负责日常稿件流程；副主编中 Wendy Hall（国王学院伦敦，英国）负责脂肪酸与心血管方向，David W. L. Ma（圭尔夫大学，加拿大）负责细胞因子与脂肪酸代谢方向。 among the deputy editors Wendy Hall of King's College London in the United Kingdom covers fatty acids and cardiovascular work, and David W. L. Ma of the University of Guelph in Canada covers cytokines and fatty acid metabolism.
• Éric Doucet of the University of Ottawa in Canada covers body weight regulation, appetite, exercise and energy metabolism, while Kentaro Murakami of the University of Tokyo in Japan covers nutritional epidemiology and dietary assessment methodology.Éric Doucet（渥太华大学，加拿大）负责体重调节、食欲、运动与能量代谢方向；Kentaro Murakami（东京大学，日本）负责营养流行病学与膳食评估方法方向。
• Barbara Meyer of the University of Wollongong in Australia covers fatty acids, lipoproteins and clinical nutrition, and Gary Williamson of Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom covers polyphenolsBarbara Meyer（伍伦贡大学，澳大利亚）负责脂肪酸与脂蛋白及临床营养方向，Gary Williamson（贝尔法斯特皇后大学，英国）负责多酚类物质方向；另有统计编辑与综述副主编负责相应栏目的方法学把关，完整名单以期刊官网编委页面为准。 statistical editors and review deputy editors provide the corresponding methodological oversight, and the complete list is given on the journal's official editorial board page.