Collagen and Leather

Collagen and Leather is a fully open access journal published by Springer Nature and owned by Sichuan University, founded in 2019 as Journal of Leather Science and Engineering and renamed in 2023, devoted to research and technological development in collagen science and leather manufacture, supervised by the Ministry of Education of China and co-sponsored by Sichuan University with the China Leather Association, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.1《胶原与皮革》（Collagen and Leather）是由（Springer Nature）出版、四川大学主办的完全开放获取期刊，2019 年以（Journal of Leather Science and Engineering）之名创刊，2023 年更为现名，专注胶原科学与皮革制造的研究与技术进展，由中华人民共和国教育部主管、四川大学与中国皮革协会主办，2025 年影响因子为 10.1。

Scope

• The journal is dedicated to publishing innovative research and technological developments in collagen science and leather manufacturing, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to advance both theoretical understanding and practical applications该刊致力于发表胶原科学与皮革制造领域的创新性研究与技术发展，推动跨学科合作，以促进理论认知与实际应用的共同进步。
• It focuses on new findings and innovative scientific advances in all aspects of collagen, the main component of animal skin, and of leather, aiming to give scientists and engineers a platform to address and discuss the theoretical and practical problems met in leather manufacture and in novel utilizations of collagen该刊聚焦动物皮主要成分胶原以及皮革各方面的新发现与创新性科学进展，为科学工作者与工程技术人员搭建讨论制革实践与胶原新型利用中理论与实际问题的平台。
• Its listed subject areas run from fundamental research on collagen, collagen biomaterials, collagen functional materials and collagen use in the food industry to tanning chemistry, leather chemicals, novel technology of leather manufacture, cleaner production, environmental management and biomass conversion into renewable materials其列明的主题领域从胶原基础研究、胶原生物材料、胶原功能材料与胶原在食品工业中的应用，延伸到鞣制化学、皮革化学品、制革新技术、清洁生产与环境管理，以及生物质转化为可再生材料。
• It also reports progressive achievements in chemistry, materials science, biotechnology, biomaterials, environmental protection and chemical engineering that can promote the leather industry and the fabrication of collagen materials该刊同时报道化学、材料科学、生物技术、生物材料、环境保护与化学工程等可推动皮革产业与胶原材料制备的进展性成果。
• Four manuscript types are published, namely high-quality original research papers, short communications, perspectives and invited reviews该刊刊发四类稿件，即高质量原创研究论文、短通讯、观点文章与受邀综述。
• Publication carries no cost to authors and no cost to readers, and the archived content is preserved by（CLOCKSS）under a（CC BY）licence该刊对作者与读者均免费，存档内容由（CLOCKSS）长期保存，并按（CC BY）许可开放。

History

• The origin of the journal lies in 1988, when the Chinese-language title Leather Science and Engineering was created at Sichuan University on the initiative of professor He Xianqi to serve the rising leather industry of the country该刊的源头可追溯至 1988 年，当年四川大学在何先祺教授推动下创办中文期刊《皮革科学与工程》，服务迅速崛起的国内皮革产业。
• To keep domestic work and its intellectual property at home, the team launched an English edition in 2019 under the name Journal of Leather Science and Engineering, the first English journal of the leather field in China, backed from the start by the national high-start new journal programme为使国内成果与知识产权留在本土，团队于 2019 年以（Journal of Leather Science and Engineering）之名创办英文刊，成为中国皮革领域首本英文期刊，创刊即获中国科技期刊高起点新刊项目支持。
• Its earliest registered articles appeared in volume 1 on 29 July 2019 and carry the article series of the same publisher identifier that still numbers the journal其注册最早的论文于 2019 年 7 月 29 日刊载于第 1 卷，沿用该刊至今的文章标识系列。^[1]
• From volume 5 in 2023 the title was broadened and renamed Collagen and Leather, keeping the same volume numbering, and one volume is now released for each calendar year with volume 8 dated December 2026自 2023 年第 5 卷起刊名拓展并改为（Collagen and Leather），卷号延续不变，现按自然年出版一卷，第 8 卷的出版日期为 2026 年 12 月。
• The electronic and print standard serial numbers of the present title are 2731-6998 and 2097-1419, while the Chinese registration code CN 51-1397/TS and the earlier pair of numbers inherited from the former title remain on the sponsor record现刊名的电子与印刷国际标准刊号分别为 2731-6998 与 2097-1419，而国内刊号 CN 51-1397/TS 以及承自原刊名的旧刊号仍保留在主办单位记录中。
• It was listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals in 2023 and is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index,（EI Compendex）,（Scopus）,（CAS）,（CNKI）and（Wanfang）, with a Journal Impact Factor of 9.2 for 2024 rising to 10.1 for 2025 and 386.9 thousand downloads recorded in 2025该刊于 2023 年被开放获取期刊目录收录，并被（ESCI）、（EI Compendex）、（Scopus）、（CAS）、（CNKI）与（Wanfang）等数据库收录，影响因子由 2024 年的 9.2 升至 2025 年的 10.1，2025 年下载量记录为 38.69 万次。

Editors

• Bi Shi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor at Sichuan University, is the lead editor-in-chief中国工程院院士、四川大学教授（Bi Shi）担任主编（Lead Editor-in-Chief）。
• Anthony Dale Covington, emeritus professor at the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, serves as the other editor-in-chief, so that the journal is led by one Chinese and one British editor英国北安普顿大学（University of Northampton）荣休教授（Anthony Dale Covington）任另一位主编，该刊由一位中方与一位英方主编共同主持。
• Xin Huang and Yanan Wang of Sichuan University hold the post of executive associate editor-in-chief, while Qixian Zhang is lead managing editor and Ying Song managing editor四川大学的（Xin Huang）与（Yanan Wang）任执行副主编，（Qixian Zhang）任管理编辑负责人，（Ying Song）任管理编辑。
• Twelve associate editors cover the community, among them Nishad Fathima of the CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute in India, Shuangxi Nie of Guangxi University, Philip Soladoye of the Lacombe Research and Development Centre in Canada, Yue Yu of Sichuan University and Hui Zhang of Zhejiang University12 位副主编覆盖该学术共同体，包括印度（CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute）的（Nishad Fathima）、广西大学的（Shuangxi Nie）、加拿大（Lacombe Research and Development Centre）的（Philip Soladoye）、四川大学的（Yue Yu）与浙江大学的（Hui Zhang）。
• More than fifty editorial board members drawn from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, India and Romania support the board, together with a separate group of young editorial board members, and the representative of the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Society sits among them50 余位编委来自中国大陆、美国、英国、德国、意大利、西班牙、日本、韩国、澳大利亚、新加坡、印度与罗马尼亚，另设青年编委分组，国际皮革技术家与化学家学会联合会（IULTCS）的代表亦在编委之列。