Dysphagia carries a one-line brief under its name. The journal is dedicated to advancing the art and science of deglutology, the study of swallowing.《Dysphagia》刊名底下挂着一行说明。刊物致力于推进吞咽学这门技艺与科学，而这门学科研究的对象就是吞咽。
The subject is narrow and the journal keeps it narrow. Everything published concerns swallowing and its disorders, and nothing else gets in.题目很窄，刊物也守着这个窄。发表的东西都与吞咽及其障碍有关，别的进不来。
The publisher's summary is anatomical. It covers all aspects of normal and dysphagic ingestion involving the mouth, the pharynx and the esophagus.出版方的概括是按解剖写的。正常吞咽与吞咽障碍涉及口腔、咽与食管，这些方面都在范围内。
Disciplines are drawn in rather than fenced out. Gastroenterology, neurology and otolaryngology all supply readers and authors, and so do speech-language pathology and rehabilitation medicine.学科是往里拉的，不是往外挡的。消化内科、神经内科与耳鼻喉科都出读者也出作者，言语病理与康复医学同样如此。
Three societies treat the journal as their own. The Dysphagia Research Society, the European Society for Swallowing Disorders and the Japanese Society of Dysphagia Rehabilitation are all listed as partners.有三家学会把这份刊物当成自己的。吞咽研究学会、欧洲吞咽障碍学会与日本吞咽康复学会都列在合作方里。
Clinical measurement is the largest single subject. A 2026 paper sets a minimal clinically important difference for the pharyngeal total score of a modified barium swallow profile.临床测量是最大的单一主题。2026 年有篇论文为改良钡餐吞咽障碍剖面里的咽部总分定出了最小临床重要差值。
Practice variation gets studied as an object in itself. One 2026 article reports an international survey of how flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing is performed from centre to centre.实践差异本身被当成研究对象。2026 年有篇文章报告了一项国际调查，看柔性内镜吞咽评估在各中心之间怎么做。
Rehabilitation trials arrive with controls. Gamified rehabilitation for post-stroke dysphagia was assessed in a meta-analysis, and repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation was examined against age in another paper.康复试验带着对照来。卒中后吞咽障碍的游戏化康复做了一项元分析，另一篇把重复外周磁刺激与年龄放在一起看。
Instrumentation and physiology share the volume. Respiratory-swallow coordination was measured in head and neck cancer patients and again in Parkinson's disease, with bolus hold as the variable.器械与生理共用一卷。呼吸与吞咽的协调在头颈癌患者身上测过一回，在帕金森病患者身上又测一回，变量都是食团是否含住。
Scales travel between languages. The Japanese paediatric eating assessment tool was standardised in 2026 with age-based norms, which is how an instrument becomes usable outside the country that built it.量表在语言之间搬家。日本的儿童进食评估工具 2026 年做了标准化并给出按年龄的常模，一件工具就是这么走出原产国。
Basic questions still get asked. A systematic review on the role of saliva in swallowing appeared in the same year as a survey on oral health in older adults.基础问题仍有人问。一份系统综述专门看唾液在吞咽里起什么作用，老年人口腔健康的调查也在同一年。
Not all of it is a trial. Psychometric work on telling isolated pill dysphagia from general oropharyngeal dysphagia ran in 2026, and that is measurement development rather than outcome testing.并非每篇都是试验。把孤立性药片吞咽困难与一般口咽吞咽困难区分开的心理测量学工作也在 2026 年，那是量表开发，不是疗效检验。
Online-first is the normal state. Of the hundred latest records, 57 carry no volume or issue, so a paper is readable months before it lands in an issue.在线先发是常态。最新一百条记录里有 57 条没有卷号也没有期号，论文进期号之前几个月就能读。
Teams are large by the standard of a mathematics journal. The hundred latest average 5.8 authors, and one paper carries twenty-five.按数学刊物的标准，这里的队伍很大。最新一百条平均 5.8 位作者，有一篇挂了二十五个人。
Short items exist. Page ranges in the current volume run from two pages upward, so a technical note of one thousand words still finds a place.短文也有位置。现行卷里的页码范围从两页起，一千字的技术短记照样能登。
History
The first volume appeared in 1986 with two issues, and volume 41 in 2026 keeps the yearly count intact across four decades.首卷 1986 年出版，只出了两期，2026 年的第 41 卷把这个一年一卷的数法完整走了四十年。
The opening issue announced what the journal was for. A prevalence study of swallowing disorders in two teaching hospitals sat beside an overview of treatment for aspiration.创刊号把刊物的用途讲清楚了。两所教学医院里吞咽障碍患病率的研究，与误吸治疗的总论并排。
Anatomy came first and stayed. The pharynx pertinent to swallowing was dissected in volume 1, and pharyngeal electromyography with bipolar suction electrodes was described in the same issue.解剖先来，也没走。与吞咽相关的咽部解剖在第 1 卷里拆过，同期的另一篇讲的是用双极吸附电极做咽部肌电。
The first volume was a magazine as much as a journal. It carried an editorial, a book review, a digest of journal abstracts and a page of announcements.第 1 卷像杂志多过像学报。里面有社论、书评、期刊摘要摘编，还有一页通告。
Those auxiliary pages went away. In the hundred latest records every item is a journal article, and no book review or abstract digest appears among them.这些附属页面后来没有了。最新一百条记录全是论文，书评与摘要摘编一条也找不到。
The imprint moved once. The medical library records Springer-Verlag in New York from the start and still carries that city as the place of publication.出版项搬过一次。医学图书馆从创刊起就记 Springer-Verlag 在纽约，出版地至今写的还是那座城市。
Indexing began almost immediately and has not lapsed. MEDLINE covers the title from volume 1 issue 2 in 1986, and Index Medicus took it from the same point.收录几乎紧接着创刊就开始了，而且一直没断。MEDLINE 从 1986 年第 1 卷第 2 期起全收，《医学索引》从同一处起收。
One indexing list closed early. The Index to dental literature carried the journal from volume 1 issue 2 to volume 3 issue 4 in 1989, and then stopped covering it.有一份索引早早收尾。《牙科文献索引》从第 1 卷第 2 期收到 1989 年第 3 卷第 4 期，之后就停了。
The impact factor has run between two and three and a half. It read 3.438 in 2021, 2.733 in 2022, 2.2 in 2023, 3 in 2024 and 2.3 in 2025.影响因子一直在二到三点五之间走。2021 年是 3.438，2022 年 2.733，2023 年 2.2，2024 年 3，2025 年 2.3。
The five-year figure is 3.1, higher than any single year, and the cited half-life is nine years. Clinical papers age slowly and keep being cited.五年影响因子 3.1，高于任何一个单年值，半衰期九年。临床论文老得慢，引用一直来。
Ranking is first quartile in otorhinolaryngology at 13 of 67, with a citation base of 6,504 and 97 articles in the 2025 volume.在耳鼻喉科里排第一四分位，67 种中第 13，2025 年一卷的引用基数是 6,504 次，论文 97 篇。
Access is hybrid. The gold share is 34.81 percent, so about a third of recent work is free at publication and the rest waits.访问是混合模式。金色比例 34.81%，近作约三分之一在出版时即可免费读到，其余要等。
The medical library still calls the journal a quarterly. The current volume runs six issues a year, sometimes with supplements attached, and the old entry has not been revised.医学图书馆还把它著录成季刊。现行卷一年六期，有时还带增刊，那条旧著录没人改。
Download counts give the size of the readership. The journal reported 813.9 thousand downloads in 2025, a figure that sits well above its article output.下载量说明了读者的规模。刊物公布 2025 年下载 81.39 万次，这个数字远高于它的论文产量。
Editors
Two editors-in-chief share the title and they are meant to balance each other. Yoko Inamoto comes from speech-language pathology and rehabilitation medicine, Reza Shaker from gastroenterology.主编两人并列，配置上就是互相补位。Yoko Inamoto 出自言语病理与康复医学，Reza Shaker 出自消化内科。
Inamoto works at Fujita Health University in Toyoake, Japan. Shaker works at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.Inamoto 在日本丰桥的藤田保健卫生大学，Shaker 在密尔沃基的威斯康星医学院。
Under the two sit 27 associate editors, each listed with a declared specialism rather than a bare name.两位主编之下是 27 位副编辑，每个人后面写着自报的专长，而不是光一个名字。
Specialisms range from paediatric otolaryngology and dentistry to radiology, biomechanics and neuromodulation. A paper on tongue strength and a paper on esophageal motility can both find a reader on the same list.专长从儿童耳鼻喉与牙科一直排到放射、生物力学与神经调控。讲舌肌力的论文与讲食管动力的论文，在同一张名单上都能找到对口的人。
A further 19 people sit on an editorial advisory board, and the advisory list is where the long-serving names concentrate.另有 19 人组成编辑顾问委员会，资历最长的那些名字集中在这一栏。
The board is North American by weight. Thirty entries point at United States institutions and seven at Canadian ones, with Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and a handful of European countries filling the rest.名单的重心在北美。三十条指向美国的机构，七条指向加拿大的机构，其余由日本、香港、澳大利亚与少数几个欧洲国家补上。
A journal manager runs the office. Andrea Schaffeler, working from Bowmanville in Ontario, is the name authors correspond with.编辑台由一位期刊经理管。Andrea Schaffeler 在安大略省的鲍曼维尔办公，作者通信找的是这个名字。
Three societies share one editorial board, and the arrangement shows in what gets published. European and Japanese rehabilitation work appears beside North American gastroenterology at the same rate.三家学会共用一张编委会，这个安排反映在发表上。欧洲与日本的康复工作，与北美的消化内科工作以同样的密度出现。
One collection is permanent. Clinical Conundrum takes case-based papers on diagnostic and therapeutic problems in swallowing, and submissions stay open without a closing date.有一个合集是常设的。Clinical Conundrum 收以病例为基础的论文，讲吞咽诊断与治疗中的难题，投稿常年开放，没有截止日。
Decisions come quickly by medical standards. The publisher quotes a median of twenty days from submission to first decision, which covers desk decisions as well as refereed ones.按医学界的标准，决定来得快。出版方公布从投稿到第一个决定的中位数是二十天，这个数字把编辑台直接退稿也算了进去。
Review is by clinicians who publish in the same pages. A referee asked to judge a swallowing trial has usually run one, and the specialisms on the masthead are the journal's way of saying so.评审由在同样版面上发文的临床医生来做。被请去评一项吞咽试验的人，通常自己做过一项，编委名单上的专长栏就是刊物在说明这件事。
Nobody on the list is a full-time editor. The two editors-in-chief hold hospital and university posts, and the journal runs on the hours they and the associate editors give it.名单上没有专职编辑。两位主编各自在医院与大学任职，刊物靠他们与副编辑挪出来的时间运转。