Electronic Structure covers one subject from end to end, and it takes both the theory and the measurement of how electrons sit in matter.《Electronic Structure》从头到尾只做一门学问，电子在物质里如何排布的理论与测量，两边都收。
The journal page describes itself as multidisciplinary, and the list behind that word runs through materials science, physics, chemistry and biology without treating any of them as the home field.刊页自称是多学科的，这个词背后那张单子横贯材料科学、物理、化学与生物学，没有把其中哪一门当作主场。
Method development is inside the scope rather than beside it. A paper that proposes a new functional, a new basis set or a new embedding scheme is as welcome as one that uses an established method on a new system.方法开发在范围之内，不在旁边。提出新泛函、新基组或新嵌入方案的稿子，与拿成熟方法去算新体系的稿子一样受欢迎。
Software is treated as a first-class subject, and the journal has run a focus collection on software in electronic structure research.软件被当作正经题目，这份刊为电子结构研究里的软件出过一期专题合集。
Density functional theory is the largest single stream, and a focus issue on the theory and its applications has gathered much of it in one place.密度泛函理论是最大的一股，一期讲理论及其应用的专题把其中相当一部分收拢在一处。
Machine learning entered the scope early. A focus collection on machine learning for electronic structure theory sits beside the older collections on fragmentation and embedding methods.机器学习很早就进了范围。一期讲电子结构理论中的机器学习，与更早的分块与嵌入方法合集并排放着。
Orbital-free density functional theory has a collection of its own, which is a fair sign of how far the journal will follow a narrow line of work.无轨道密度泛函理论单独有一期合集，一份刊肯跟到多窄的一条线上，这里看得清楚。
Quantum sensing materials and large systems, from macromolecules up to solids, are the two ends of a range the journal treats as one subject.量子传感材料与大体系，从大分子一直到固体，是同一门学问的两头，刊物不切开处理。
Experimental papers sit next to computational ones. Angle-resolved photoemission, scanning probe work and spectroscopy share the pages with calculations of the same systems.实验稿与计算稿并排。角分辨光电子能谱、扫描探针与各种谱学，跟同一批体系的计算文章共用版面。
The journal asks for work that can be reproduced. A numerical result without the parameters, the code or the convergence evidence behind it is not enough on its own.这份刊要的是能复现的工作。只给一个数值结果，不交代参数、代码与收敛证据，单凭这些不够。
Papers are short and the article is the unit. There are four numbers a year, dated March, June, September and December, and pieces are added to the current number as they are accepted.文章短，篇即是单位。一年四个期号，分别署三月、六月、九月与十二月，录用的稿子随到随进当期的目录。
Open access is the default route. Just under three quarters of the content is gold open access, and the journal is one of the IOP titles that supports the option openly.开放获取是主路。全部内容里有将近四分之三是金色开放获取，这份刊属于公开支持这条路子的 IOP 刊之一。
Review is handled by the publisher's own system, and the journal reports two figures that matter to an author. The median time to a first decision before peer review is two days.评审走出版方自己的系统，刊方公布两个作者最关心的数字。送外审之前的首次判定，中间是两天。
The other figure is 36 days, the median from submission to a first decision after peer review. For a quarterly methods journal that is quick rather than merely reasonable.另一个数字是 36 天，指送审之后到第一次决定的中间时间。对一份季刊性质的方法类刊物，这个速度算快，不只是过得去。
History
The first volume is dated 2019, and its opening piece was an introduction to the new journal written by Thomas Ian Sharp for IOP Publishing.第 1 卷署 2019 年，开卷那篇是 IOP 出版方的 Thomas Ian Sharp 为新刊写的介绍。
Eight of the papers that belong to volume 1 carry 2018 dates, which is what happens when a journal opens on continuous publication and counts the year of acceptance.归在第 1 卷的论文里有八篇署 2018 年，一份连续出版的刊开张时按录用年份入卷，就是这个样子。
The National Library of Medicine catalogues the title from 2019 and records the imprint as Bristol, where IOP Publishing has its office.国家医学图书馆从 2019 年起编目这个刊名，出版印记记为布里斯托尔，那是 IOP 出版方的所在地。
Four numbers a year have been the pattern throughout, and the archive runs from volume 1 of 2019 to volume 8 of 2026 without a missing volume.一年四期自始至终没有变过，存档从 2019 年的第 1 卷排到 2026 年的第 8 卷，中间不缺卷。
Output is modest and steady. Volumes have carried between 26 and 57 papers, with the peak at volume 4 in 2022 and the 2026 volume still open.产量不大而稳定。各卷在 26 到 57 篇之间，高点落在 2022 年的第 4 卷，2026 年这一卷还没收齐。
The Crossref deposit holds 333 records, which is the whole run rather than a recent slice of it.Crossref 的存缴有 333 条记录，是全部卷次，不是近年的切片。
The impact factor was 2.9 in 2023, then 2.4 in both 2024 and 2025, so the journal has settled rather than declined.影响因子 2023 年是 2.9，2024 与 2025 两年都是 2.4，看作走稳比看作下滑更贴切。
The five-year figure of 2.7 is above the two-year figure, which is what a journal sees when its methods papers go on being used after the systems they were tested on have been forgotten.五年影响因子 2.7 高过两年值，方法论文在当初用来试手的体系被忘掉之后仍被使用，一份刊看到的就是这个形状。
Total citations stand at 740 and the cited half-life at 3.4 years, both small numbers for a title this young and both consistent with a methods journal read while the method is current.总被引 740 次，引用半衰期 3.4 年。对这个年纪的刊来说两个数字都小，也都与一份方法在热门期内被读的方法刊相称。
The Journal Citation Indicator is 0.33. The title is in Q4 of Physical Chemistry at 145 of 191, in Q3 of Multidisciplinary Materials Science at 326 of 472 and in Q3 of Condensed Matter Physics at 47 of 81.期刊引文指标 0.33。它在物理化学门类列 Q4，191 种刊中排第 145，在多学科材料科学列 Q3，472 种刊中排第 326，在凝聚态物理列 Q3，81 种刊中排第 47。
Scopus puts the CiteScore at 5.4, which is more than twice the impact factor and reflects how heavily a methods journal is cited by the fields that borrow the methods.Scopus 给的 CiteScore 是 5.4，比影响因子高出一倍不止，方法刊被借用方法的领域大量引用，差别就在这里。
The title is in the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than in the science edition, and PubMed takes selected citations only.这个刊名进的是新兴来源引文索引，不在科学版正编里，PubMed 只做选择性收录。
Gold open access is 73.53 per cent of the content, high enough that the subscription route is the exception for a reader.金色开放获取占全部内容的百分之七十三点五三，比例高到对读者来说订阅反倒是例外。
Editors
Caroline Lynn Kamerlin of the Georgia Institute of Technology is editor-in-chief, and she took the post in 2026 after the journal's first seven volumes.主编 Caroline Lynn Kamerlin 在佐治亚理工学院，2026 年接任，此前这份刊已经出了七卷。
Her doctorate came from Birmingham in 2002. She worked with Stefan Boresch in Vienna and with Arieh Warshel at the University of Southern California before a post in Stockholm.她 2002 年在伯明翰拿到博士学位，先后在维也纳的 Stefan Boresch 与南加州大学的 Arieh Warshel 门下做博士后，之后在斯德哥尔摩任职。
She taught at Uppsala from 2011 to 2022 and then moved to Georgia Tech, where she holds the Georgia Research Alliance chair in molecular design.2011 到 2022 年她在乌普萨拉任教，随后转到佐治亚理工，持有佐治亚研究联盟的分子设计讲席。
Her own work uses electronic structure to explain why chemical and biological reactions go the way they do, which is the journal's subject seen from the biological end.她自己的研究用电子结构解释化学反应与生物反应为何如此进行，那是这门学问从生物学那一端看过去的样子。
An executive editorial board of ten sits under her. Volker Blum of Duke, Steffen Duhm of Soochow and Shin-ichi Fujimori of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency are on it.她之下有十人的执行编委会。杜克大学的 Volker Blum、苏州大学的 Steffen Duhm 与日本原子能研究开发机构的 Shin-ichi Fujimori 在列。
The rest of that board covers density functional theory, photoemission and quantum chemistry at once. Lucia Reining of Palaiseau, Hong Jiang of Peking and Andre Schleife of Illinois are among them.这张名单同时覆盖密度泛函理论、光电子能谱与量子化学。帕莱索的 Lucia Reining、北京大学的 Hong Jiang与伊利诺伊的 Andre Schleife 都在其中。
Two of the ten come from Berkeley Lab, Sinéad Griffin and Sung-Kwan Mo, which puts a national laboratory's instrument people at the table rather than at a distance.十人里有两位来自伯克利实验室，Sinéad Griffin 与 Sung-Kwan Mo，国家实验室管仪器的人因而坐在桌上，不在桌外。
A wider editorial board of about thirty handles refereeing policy by subject. Nicola Gaston of Auckland, Paolo Giannozzi of Udine and Matt Probert of York are on it.再往外是约三十人的编委会，按学科分担审稿事务。奥克兰的 Nicola Gaston、乌迪内的 Paolo Giannozzi 与约克的 Matt Probert 在这张名单上。
The board reflects the two halves of the field. Silke Biermann and Lucia Reining stand for the many-body side, while Shin-ichi Fujimori and Sung-Kwan Mo work with the spectrometers that test it.编委会照着这门学问的两半分。Silke Biermann 与 Lucia Reining 代表多体这一侧，Shin-ichi Fujimori 与 Sung-Kwan Mo 则摆弄检验它的谱仪。
Editorial board members also act as guest editors for focus collections, and Hong Jiang, Shuhua Li and Xin Xu edited a collection on electronic structure theory in China together.编委会成员也出来做专题合集的客座编辑，Hong Jiang、Shuhua Li 与 Xin Xu 三人合编过一期讲中国电子结构理论的合集。
The journal leans on its board for scope decisions as well, since a new method often has no obvious field to be judged by and needs a reader who knows the code behind it.范围上的判断也靠这张名单，新方法常常找不出该归哪一门，需要懂那套代码的人来读。