Cornea

Cornea is a monthly journal for the front of the eye, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of The Cornea Society, and it has carried that brief without interruption since 1982.《Cornea》是月刊，专管眼球前段，由 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 代表 The Cornea Society 出版，这份差事从 1982 年做到今天没断过。

The full title runs Cornea: The Journal of Cornea and External Disease, and the second half of the name is the part that decides what gets in.全称是「Cornea: The Journal of Cornea and External Disease」，后半截决定了什么样的稿子能进。

Forty-five volumes have appeared on a twelve-issue schedule, and accepted papers go online before they reach a printed issue.已经出了 45 卷，按一年 12 期的节奏走，录用的稿子先上网，再进纸本。

Scope

• The remit is corneal and external disease, taken literally. That covers the tissue itself and the whole apparatus that keeps its surface wet, clear and free of infection.范围按角膜与外眼病字面来定。组织本身算，让它保持湿润与透明、不被感染的那一整套条件也算。

• Laboratory work sits beside clinical series. A graft survival study and a paper on limbal epithelial stem cells can share an issue without either looking out of place.实验室的活儿与临床系列并排。植片存活率的研究和角膜缘上皮干细胞的文章可以同期刊出，谁也不显突兀。

• Keratoplasty is the oldest core. Technique, graft rejection, endothelial replacement and the logistics of donor tissue recur through four decades of the archive.角膜移植是最老的核心。术式、植片排斥、内皮替代、供体组织怎么调度，在四十多年的过刊里反复出现。

• Eye banking gets its own footing. Donor supply, preservation media and endothelial counts on stored tissue are treated as research subjects rather than as logistics.眼库有独立的位置。供体来源、保存液、库存角膜的内皮计数，在这里都算研究题目，不归后勤。

• Infection is handled as a clinical problem with a laboratory edge: bacterial, fungal, acanthamoeba and viral keratitis turn up as case series, as sensitivity tables and as treatment trials.感染按临床问题处理，同时带着实验室的一面。细菌性、真菌性、棘阿米巴与病毒性角膜炎，以病例系列、药敏表、治疗试验的形式出现。

• The ocular surface forms a second block: dry eye, limbal stem cell deficiency, cicatricial disease, and the conjunctival damage that follows graft-versus-host disease.眼表是第二块。干眼、角膜缘干细胞缺乏、瘢痕性眼表病，以及移植物抗宿主病带来的结膜损伤，都在其中。

• Refractive work is treated as corneal surgery. Ablation profiles, flap complications, cross-linking for ectasia and the biomechanics underneath all belong here.屈光按角膜手术来收。切削参数、角膜瓣并发症、用于角膜扩张的交联，以及底下的生物力学，都算在内。

• Contact lenses appear where they meet the cornea: orthokeratology, microbial keratitis traced to lens wear, and the fitting question of whether a cone tolerates a lens at all.接触镜只在贴近角膜的地方出现。角膜塑形、追到戴镜的微生物性角膜炎，以及圆锥角膜究竟能不能耐受镜片的验配问题，都归这里。

• Dystrophies and degenerations are a standing category. Genetic classification, confocal images of the deposits, and the judgement call between grafting and watchful waiting all fit.营养不良与变性是常设类别。基因分型、沉积物的共焦图像，以及移植还是继续观察的取舍，都放得下。

• Imaging runs through most of it. Scheimpflug tomography, anterior segment OCT and endothelial counts are used as measurements rather than as decoration.影像贯穿大半稿件。Scheimpflug 断层成像、前段 OCT、内皮细胞计数，都用作测量，不作装饰。

• The 2025 file shows the working mix. Of 313 Crossref records, 38 are letters or replies, 7 are case reports and 2 are guidelines or protocols.2025 年的档案能看出实际配比。313 条 Crossref 记录里，致编辑信与回复 38 条，病例报告 7 条，指南或方案 2 条。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 is dated 1982 and opens with an editorial called Trend toward Subspecialization, a title that reads like a case for the journal's own existence.第 1 卷第 1 期署 1982 年，开篇社论题为「Trend toward Subspecialization」，这个标题像在替刊物自己的存在辩护。

• Masson Publishing USA issued it from New York. The library record keeps that imprint for the early volumes and later switches to Hagerstown, Maryland, where Lippincott Williams & Wilkins prints it.最初由 Masson Publishing USA 在纽约出版。图书馆记录把这一印记留在早期各卷，后来换成马里兰州的 Hagerstown，由 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 承接。

• Volume numbering is a subtraction: take the year and remove 1981. Volume 44 covers 2025 and volume 45 covers 2026.卷号是一道减法，年份减去 1981。第 44 卷对应 2025 年，第 45 卷对应 2026 年。

• Twelve issues a year, a schedule the library record dates to 2010. The society's own page puts the same fact differently, saying the journal comes out each month.一年 12 期，图书馆记录把这个刊期定在 2010 年。学会页面换个说法讲同一件事，称它每月出刊。

• MEDLINE picked it up at volume 3, number 1, in 1984, with Index Medicus running alongside. Indexing therefore begins two years after the founding volume.MEDLINE 从 1984 年第 3 卷第 1 期开始收录，Index Medicus 同期并行。收录起点比创刊卷晚两年。

• The sponsoring society predates the journal by seven years. It formed in 1975 as the Castroviejo Cornea Society, met that autumn in Dallas, and chose Losada as chair, Cardona as vice chair and Polack as secretary-treasurer.主办这本刊的学会比刊物早七年。它 1975 年以 Castroviejo Cornea Society 之名成立，当年秋天在达拉斯开会，选出 Losada 任主席、Cardona 任副主席、Polack 任秘书兼司库。

• The name shortened in 2002. The council turned Castroviejo Cornea Society into The Cornea Society, and that is the body the journal is published for today.名字在 2002 年缩短。理事会把 Castroviejo Cornea Society 改为 The Cornea Society，刊物今天仍是为这个学会出的。

• Ramon Castroviejo, the surgeon the society was named for, died in 1987. His obituary ran in volume 6, number 1.Ramon Castroviejo 于 1987 年去世，学会的名字取自他。讣告登在第 6 卷第 1 期。

• Anniversary and election notices followed. A 1990 item announced new officers in volume 9, number 3, and the twenty-five-year history of the Castroviejo Cornea Society ran in volume 19, number 5, in 2000.改选与周年也进了版面。1990 年第 9 卷第 3 期登了改选干事的消息，2000 年第 19 卷第 5 期登了 Castroviejo Cornea Society 二十五年史。

• Crossref holds 10,578 records, 9,713 in the backfile and 865 current. That is a deep archive for a specialty title with a single organ in its name.Crossref 存着 10,578 条记录，过刊 9,713 条，现刊 865 条。对一本只写一个器官的专科刊来说，这份存档很厚。

• Annual output has thinned. From 401 records in 2019 the count fell to 260 in 2022 and 239 in 2023, then recovered to 309 in 2024 and 313 in 2025.年发量收窄过。2019 年 401 条，2022 年 260 条，2023 年 239 条，2024 年回到 309 条，2025 年 313 条。

• Five impact factors read 2.651, 3.152, 1.9, 2.1 and 2.3. The 2022 peak gave way to a fall of more than a point, and three years of slow recovery have not restored it.五个影响因子依次是 2.651、3.152、1.9、2.1、2.3。2022 年的高点之后掉了一分多，随后三年慢慢回升，还没回到原处。

• The 2025 file places it 40th of 98 in ophthalmology, with 12,106 citations and a cited half-life of 10.1 years. A long half-life suits a journal whose readers keep the back volumes.2025 年的数据把刊物放在眼科 98 种里的第 40 位，总被引 12,106 次，被引半衰期 10.1 年。半衰期长，正合读者留着过刊的那类刊物。

• DOI strings changed generation inside one prefix. Old items read 00003226-198201030-00007, current ones read ico.0000000000004352, and both resolve under 10.1097.DOI 的构型在同一个前缀下换过一代。老条目形如（00003226-198201030-00007），现在的形如（ico.0000000000004352），都解析到 10.1097 之下。

Editors

• The desk works for a society. The Cornea Society calls the journal its monthly and runs a quarterly newsletter, Cornea Society News, beside it.这张编辑桌为学会干活。The Cornea Society 称它是学会的月刊，旁边还办一份季刊 Cornea Society News。

• Minutes had a place from the first issue: pages 93 to 95 of volume 1, number 1 carry the record of the society's seventh meeting.会议纪要从创刊号就有位置。第 1 卷第 1 期的 93 至 95 页，登的是学会第七次会议的记录。

• A named lecture runs on a yearly cycle. Mishima gave the Castroviejo Lecture on biomicroscopy with polarized light in 1982, and the 2009 address appeared in volume 29, number 10.有一个以人名命名的讲座按年循环。Mishima 1982 年讲了偏振光活体显微镜检查，2009 年的讲演登在第 29 卷第 10 期。

• Organizational reporting has its own slot. The Eye Bank Association of America's 1980-81 report and Medical Eye Bank Inc.'s 1981 report both ran in volume 1, number 2.机构报告有专门的位置。Eye Bank Association of America 1980 至 1981 年度的报告与 Medical Eye Bank Inc. 1981 年的报告，同登第 1 卷第 2 期。

• Recognition runs through the society as well. It confers the Castroviejo Award and the Dohlman Award, and it holds the Lindstrom Lecture and Prize and the Troutman Cornea Prize for young clinician investigators.表彰也走学会这条线。它颁 Castroviejo 奖与 Dohlman 奖，另设 Lindstrom 讲座与奖，以及面向青年临床研究者的 Troutman 角膜奖。

• Accepted manuscripts go up before the issue does. The platform's contents page states that papers appear electronically ahead of their printed slot.录用稿比整期先上线。平台的目录页写明，文章先以电子形式刊出，再进纸本的位置。

• Some articles carry a one-page plain-language summary, produced automatically rather than by the authors. The journal labels the origin instead of passing it off as author prose.部分文章附一页通俗摘要，由机器自动生成，刊方标明来源，不冒充作者正文。

• JCR counts 219 citable articles for the year while Crossref holds 313 records, so nearly a third of the file is material the citation index does not count.JCR 这一年数到 219 篇可引文章，Crossref 里却有 313 条记录，将近三分之一的篇幅是引文索引不计数的那种稿子。

• The 2026 volume was on its eleventh issue by November, in step with a twelve-issue year.2026 年到 11 月已出到第 11 期，与一年 12 期的步子对得上。