Carbon Balance and Management

Carbon Balance and Management is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal published by BioMed Central that covers research on the global carbon cycle, launched in 2006 with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.0《碳平衡与管理》（Carbon Balance and Management）是（BioMed Central）出版的开放获取同行评审在线期刊，刊载全球碳循环相关研究，2006 年创刊，2025 年影响因子为 7.0。

Scope

• The journal encompasses all aspects of research aimed at developing a comprehensive policy relevant to understanding the global carbon cycle期刊涵盖旨在形成有助于理解全球碳循环的综合性政策所需的各方面研究。
• The global carbon cycle involves important couplings between climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide and the terrestrial and oceanic biospheres全球碳循环涉及气候、大气二氧化碳以及陆地与海洋生物圈之间的重要耦合。
• Monitoring, understanding and predicting the evolution of the carbon cycle in the context of the whole biosphere is the journal's central challenge在整个生物圈背景下监测、理解与预测碳循环演变是该刊的核心命题。
• Interdisciplinary research and new methods for studying the geographical and temporal distribution of carbon stocks and fluxes are welcomed期刊欢迎跨学科研究以及研究碳储量与碳通量时空分布的新方法。
• Control and feedback mechanisms of the carbon-climate system are within scope碳-气候系统的控制与反馈机制属于其范围。
• Windows of opportunity for managing the carbon-climate-human system are also addressed管理碳-气候-人类系统的机会窗口亦在讨论之列。

History

• The journal's first introductory editorial article was published on 27 June 2006 by BioMed Central in London该刊首篇导论性社论于 2006 年 6 月 27 日由伦敦的（BioMed Central）发表。
• It is published online only under electronic ISSN 1750-0680, and in 2026 the journal marked twenty years of continuous publication该刊仅在线出版，电子 ISSN 为 1750-0680，2026 年迎来连续出版二十周年。
• It has grown into a leading hub at the front of global carbon cycle research该刊已成长为全球碳循环研究前沿的领先平台。
• Publication is funded by an article processing charge of 1690 US dollars or 1340 euros with waivers available出版由 1690 美元或 1340 欧元的文章处理费支持并设有减免政策。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 3.0 in 2021 through 4.356 in 2022 and 5.8 in 2024 to 7.0 in 2025, ranking 72nd among 395 environmental sciences journals其影响因子由 2021 年的 3.0 经 2022 年的 4.356 与 2024 年的 5.8 升至 2025 年的 7.0，在 395 种环境科学期刊中列第 72 位。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief since the beginning of 2025 is Yiping Wu, a professor of ecohydrology at the Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University in China自 2025 年初起的主编为（Yiping Wu），是中国（Xi'an Jiaotong University）全球环境变化研究院的生态水文学教授。
• Under his leadership the journal reports a shift in the field from measuring stocks and fluxes towards research that informs decision making在其主持下，期刊见证该领域从测量碳储量与通量转向能够支撑决策的研究。
• Manuscripts undergo anonymous peer review and are checked for plagiarism稿件实行匿名同行评审并进行重复率检查。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）、（Scopus）与（Directory of Open Access Journals）收录。
• It publishes under an open access model with continuous publication rather than fixed issues期刊以开放获取模式连续出版，而非按固定期次发行。