Current Opinion in Physiology

Current Opinion in Physiology is an Elsevier review journal published from London, and it carries invited short reviews gathered into themed volumes.《生理学新见》是 Elsevier 在伦敦出版的综述刊物，刊登特邀短综述，按主题成卷。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 and the five-year figure is 3.0.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 3.0。

Clarivate puts it 59th of 89 in physiology, which is Q3, while the article influence score of Q2 at 26th of 88 tells a better story.科睿唯安在生理学 89 种刊里排第 59，属 Q3，论文影响分值却排到第 26，属 Q2。

Volumes 47 to 50 carry the 2026 output, and the journal runs four to six volumes a year rather than numbered issues.2026 年的内容落在第 47 到第 50 卷，刊物一年出四到六卷，不编期号。

It was launched in 2018, and submission is by invitation only.刊物 2018 年创刊，投稿只接受邀请。

Scope

• The journal publishes invited short reviews in a special issue format, so each volume gathers one theme.刊物以专刊形式发表特邀短综述，每一卷聚拢一个主题。

• Those reviews cover developments of the past two to five years rather than the whole history of a field.综述盯的是过去两到五年的进展，而不是一个领域的全部历史。

• Each article also annotates a handful of individual papers chosen as especially significant.每篇文章还要挑选若干篇特别重要的单篇论文，逐条加注。

• Annotated references must come from the past two years, and the annotation explains the finding and its importance.加注的文献必须出自近两年，注解要写清发现与其重要性。

• The main text runs to about 2,000 words, with roughly 50 references behind it.正文约 2000 词，身后大约 50 条参考文献。

• Abstracts stop at 250 words, and the article can carry one to seven keywords.摘要以 250 词为限，文章可带一到七个关键词。

• A graphical abstract and a short highlights file are encouraged at submission.投稿时鼓励附上图形摘要与一份简短的要点文件。

• Highlights go in as a separate file, and the file name has to carry the word highlights.要点单独成一个文件，文件名里必须带上要点一词的英文写法。

• The source file must be a Word document, since a PDF is not accepted as the submission copy.源文件须是 Word 文档，PDF 不能当作投稿本。

• The subject has to sit within physiological research that reaches a broad audience, not in a narrow specialty alone.题目须落在能触及广泛读者的生理学研究里，不能只在窄小专科内。

• A special issue is meant to review a theme, name what has not been addressed and propose new approaches.一期专刊要梳理一个主题，点出尚未处理的问题并提出新路子。

• Exchanging perspectives and seeding new lines of research are part of the stated purpose.交换视角与催生新研究方向也写在宗旨里。

• Original research reports do not belong here, which keeps the title a review venue rather than a mixed one.原创研究报告不在此列，刊物因此是纯粹的综述平台。

• Guest editors propose the theme and build the list of authors to invite.客座编辑提出主题，拟定要邀请的作者名单。

• The editorial board reviews that list and adds names before the invitations go out.编委会先审这份名单，补齐人选，邀请才发出去。

• A guest editor may also open a call for papers alongside the invited list.客座编辑也可以在邀请名单之外开放征稿。

• The board's own coverage runs through cardiac, molecular, sensory, renal and neural physiology.编委自身的覆盖范围包括心脏，分子，感觉，肾脏与神经生理学。

• That breadth is what lets one volume on cardiac mitochondria and another on sensory biophysics sit in the same series.正是这份广度，让讲心脏线粒体的一卷与讲感觉生物物理的一卷能排在同一系列里。

• The readership is physiologists who want the recent literature digested rather than listed.读者是那些希望把近期文献消化掉而不只是列出来的生理学家。

History

• The first volumes appeared in 2018, six of them in that opening year.最初几卷在 2018 年面世，开张那年就出了六卷。

• Six volumes a year held through 2024, when volumes 37 to 42 came out.一年六卷的节奏一直维持到 2024 年，那年出的是第 37 到第 42 卷。

• The pace slowed in 2025, with four volumes numbered 43 to 46.2025 年慢了下来，只出四卷，编号 43 到 46。

• Crossref holds 782 DOIs for the title, and none of them carry an issue number.Crossref 名下这个刊名有 782 个 DOI，没有一个带期号。

• Volume-based numbering means a citation points to a volume and a page rather than to an issue.按卷编号意味着引用指向卷与页码，而不是期。

• The volumes run from 1 without a break, so volume 50 in 2026 marks the ninth year of the title.卷号从 1 起连续走，2026 年的第 50 卷正好是这份刊物的第九个年头。

• Clarivate files the title under ESCI rather than SCIE, so the impact factor is recent in origin.科睿唯安把它归在 ESCI 而非 SCIE，影响因子的资历因此较浅。

• The impact factor was 2.5 in 2023, fell to 1.9 in 2024 and came back to 2.3 in 2025.影响因子 2023 年为 2.5，2024 年跌到 1.9，2025 年回到 2.3。

• The five-year figure of 3.0 sits well above the annual one, which points to a small but well cited back catalogue.五年影响因子 3.0 明显高于年度值，说明存量不多却颇受引用。

• Gold open access covers 46.32 percent of the output, so roughly half the papers are free at publication.金色开放获取覆盖 46.32% 的发文，约有一半论文在出版时即免费。

• Clarivate counts 18 articles and 36 citable items in the window, with 1,633 citations behind them.科睿唯安的统计窗口里有 18 篇文章与 36 条可引项，背后是 1633 次被引。

• The 2025 citation indicator is 0.80, and the article influence score reaches Q2.2025 年期刊引文指标 0.80，论文影响分值达到 Q2。

• Elsevier prints the CiteScore of 4.6 beside the impact factor on the journal page.Elsevier 在刊物页上把 CiteScore 4.6 与影响因子并排印出。

• The title is registered in England, and the National Library of Medicine dates it from 2018.刊名注册在英格兰，美国国家医学图书馆把起始年记为 2018。

• Medline does not index it, so the catalogue entry carries no current indexing status.它不在 Medline 收录范围内，目录条目的收录状态因此为空。

• A small annual output paired with a rising five-year figure is the pattern of a selective review series.年发文量小而五年值走高，这正是精选型综述系列的样子。

• The name follows the themed-volume pattern of the Current Opinion titles, without issue numbers to interrupt the sequence.刊名沿袭 Current Opinion 各刊按主题成卷的做法，卷号之间没有期号打断。

• Articles are commissioned, so the archive grows by invitation rather than by open submission.文章靠约稿得来，存档因此按邀请增长，而不是按自由投稿增长。

Editors

• Åsa Gustafsson of the University of California at San Diego is editor-in-chief, working on cardiac physiology and mitochondrial function.主编 Åsa Gustafsson 来自加州大学圣迭戈分校，研究心脏生理与线粒体功能。

• Four associate editors serve with her, from Minnesota, Oregon Health and Science University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Huntington Medical Research Institutes.四位副编辑与她共事，分别来自明尼苏达大学，俄勒冈健康与科学大学，香港中文大学与亨廷顿医学研究所。

• James McCormick works on blood pressure regulation and sodium homeostasis, and Sang-Bing Ong on cardiac mitochondrial dynamics.James McCormick 研究血压调节与钠稳态，Sang-Bing Ong 研究心肌线粒体动力学。

• Nicole Purcell brings cardiac signalling and ischaemia to the board, and Julia Liu covers clinical physiology.Nicole Purcell 带来心脏信号与缺血方面的专长，Julia Liu 负责临床生理方向。

• The board has 70 members across 18 countries, with 20 in the United States, 16 in Britain and 5 in China.编委共 70 人，分布在 18 个国家，美国 20 人，英国 16 人，中国 5 人。

• Elsevier publishes a gender breakdown of the board alongside the roster.Elsevier 在名单旁边一并公布编委的性别构成。

• Review is single anonymised, and each submission goes to at least two independent experts.评审采用单匿名，每篇稿子至少送两位独立专家。

• Editorial staff check that a paper follows the guidelines before it goes out for review.编辑部先核对稿件是否合于须知，再送出去评审。

• A guest editor cannot handle the review of a paper they have written.客座编辑不能处理自己撰写的稿件。

• Where a guest editor is an author, the referee names stay hidden from that editor as well.客座编辑本人是作者时，评审人姓名对他同样保密。

• Guest editors must declare a conflict of interest and let the editors-in-chief decide the course.客座编辑须申报利益冲突，由主编决定如何处理。

• The editors-in-chief give every accepted article a final reading before publication.每篇录用稿在出版前都由主编做最后一遍审读。

• Guest editors handle the mechanics of a special issue while the journal keeps the standard of review.专刊的具体事务由客座编辑跑，评审标准仍由刊物把关。

• Readers can reach the board through the publisher's journal page, where names, affiliations and research terms are listed together.读者可以在出版方的刊物页上找到编委，姓名，单位与研究关键词列在一处。