EXCLI Journal

EXCLI Journal is a platinum open-access journal for the interdisciplinary biological sciences, founded in 2002 at Mainz University and now run from the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.2《EXCLI 期刊》（EXCLI Journal）是跨学科生物科学的铂金开放获取期刊，2002 年创办于美因茨大学，现由多特蒙德的莱布尼茨劳动环境与人类因素研究中心运营，2025 年影响因子为 6.2。

Scope

• The journal keeps a deliberately broad view of science and technology and welcomes papers that bridge disciplines and may not suit the narrow specialism of other journals该刊对科学与技术保持刻意的宽视野，欢迎跨越学科、可能不适合其他期刊窄专业范围的论文。
• Although the general emphasis is on the biological sciences, sixteen fields are explicitly encouraged, including aging research, cell biology and clinical and preclinical research尽管总体侧重生物科学，其明确鼓励的领域有十六个，包括衰老研究、细胞生物学与临床及临床前研究。
• Drug development, environmental health, ergonomics, gastroenterology and hepatology, and genetics, epigenetics and genomics are among them药物研发、环境健康、人因工程学、胃肠病学与肝病学以及遗传学、表观遗传学与基因组学亦在其列。
• Immunology, neuroscience and behavioral sciences, oncology and cancer research, pharmacology and toxicology are further listed fields免疫学、神经科学与行为科学、肿瘤学与癌症研究、药理学与毒理学亦在列举之中。
• Physiology, biochemistry and metabolomics, psychology, regenerative medicine and stem cell research, and systems biology complete the list生理学、生物化学与代谢组学、心理学、再生医学与干细胞研究以及系统生物学补全了该清单。
• The journal levies no charges on either authors or readers and publishes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence该刊对作者与读者均不收费，以知识共享署名 4.0 许可发布。
• Submissions are reviewed either by independent experts or by the editors投稿由独立专家或编辑进行评审。
• In the Journal Citation Reports it ranks 7th of 106 biology journals, in the first quartile在《期刊引证报告》中，该刊在 106 种生物学期刊中列第 7 位，居第一分区。

History

• The journal was founded in 2002 in Germany, at Mainz University, by M.A. von Mach and J.G. Hengstler该刊 2002 年由（M.A. von Mach）与（J.G. Hengstler）创办于德国美因茨大学。
• The journal was transferred from Mainz to Dortmund, to the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, in 20072007 年该刊由美因茨迁往多特蒙德的莱布尼茨劳动环境与人类因素研究中心。
• It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and PubMed Central, EBSCO and other services该刊收录于开放获取期刊目录、《科学引文索引》、Scopus、PubMed 与 PubMed Central、EBSCO 等服务。
• Published articles are deposited at the German National Library in Frankfurt已发表文章存缴于法兰克福的德国国家图书馆。
• The journal appears as one volume per year, with volume 25 in 2026该刊每年出版一卷，2026 年为第 25 卷。
• Its electronic ISSN is 1611-2156, shared with the print version其电子版 ISSN 为 1611-2156，与印刷版同号。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 4.068 in 2021 through 4.022 in 2022 and 4.9 in 2024 to 6.2 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 4.068 经 2022 年的 4.022 与 2024 年的 4.9 至 2025 年的 6.2。

Editors

• The journal is led by three editors: J.G. Hengstler and W. Albrecht of the Dortmund centre and A. Sachinidis of the University of Cologne该刊由三位编辑主持：多特蒙德研究中心的（J.G. Hengstler）与（W. Albrecht），以及科隆大学的（A. Sachinidis）。
• J.G. Hengstler is one of the two founders and has served as an editor since the founding in 2002（J.G. Hengstler）是两位创办人之一，自 2002 年创刊起持续担任编辑。
• The co-founder M.A. von Mach of Mainz University belongs to the journal's founding history另一位创办人是美因茨大学的（M.A. von Mach），属于该刊的创刊史。
• The editorial board has nineteen members from about eleven countries, with four from Germany, four from the United States and three from Egypt编辑委员会有十九位成员，来自约十一个国家，其中德国四位、美国四位、埃及三位。
• Further board members are based in India, Italy, the United Kingdom, Austria, Sweden, Thailand and the Netherlands其余编委分驻印度、意大利、英国、奥地利、瑞典、泰国与荷兰。