Explore

Explore is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier in New York since January 2005, subtitled The Journal of Science and Healing and given to evidence-based healing practice drawn from conventional, alternative and cross-cultural medicine, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《探索》是 Elsevier 在纽约出版的双月刊，同行评审，2005 年 1 月创刊，副题为“The Journal of Science and Healing”，内容面向来自常规医学、替代医学与跨文化医学的循证疗愈实践，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The aims statement starts from the scientific principles behind healing practice and then follows them into application across conventional, alternative and cross-cultural medicine.宗旨说明先从疗愈实践背后的科学原理写起，再把这些原理带入常规医学、替代医学与跨文化医学的应用层面。

• Five territories are claimed as the journal's own, namely the healing arts, consciousness, spirituality, eco-environmental issues and basic science, each read through its relation to health.宗旨把五块疆域划归本刊，即疗愈艺术、意识、灵性、生态环境议题与基础科学，每一块都放在与健康的关联中考察。

• Mind and body practice forms the largest single cluster, running from meditation, yoga and tai chi to biofeedback, clinical hypnosis and guided imagery.身心实践构成其中最大的一束，从冥想、瑜伽与太极，延伸到生物反馈、临床催眠与引导想象。

• Manual and needling traditions are treated as clinical methods in their own right, so osteopathic manipulation, chiropractic, massage, acupuncture and acupressure all appear in research reports.手法与针刺传统被当作独立的临床方法对待，整骨手法、脊椎矫正、按摩、针灸与指压都出现在研究报告里。

• Natural products and food traditions get steady room, with botanical studies and supplement trials sitting beside papers on whole-diet counselling and the medicinal history of everyday foods.天然产物与饮食传统长期有位置，植物药研究与补充剂试验，和整体膳食咨询、日常食物的药用史并列。

• Consciousness research is pushed further than most medical titles would allow, taking in meditation states, prayer, placebo and nocebo response, and occasionally psi claims argued on evidential grounds.意识研究走得比多数医学刊物更远，涉及冥想状态、祈祷、安慰剂与反安慰剂反应，偶尔也收以证据为基础的超常现象主张。

• Spirituality in clinical care is handled as a subject with methods of its own, covering chaplaincy, meaning-making, suffering and care at the end of life.临床照护中的灵性被当作有自身方法学的题目处理，涵盖院牧工作、意义建构、苦难与临终照护。

• Eco-environmental health ties the clinic to climate, environmental contaminants and contact with nature, a thread that has thickened in recent volumes.生态环境健康把诊室同气候、环境污染物与自然接触连在一起，这条线索在近几卷里变粗了。

• The healing arts bring in music-thanatology, poetry, visual art and narrative writing, with the humanities read as a particular kind of clinical evidence.疗愈艺术引入音乐临终照护、诗歌、视觉艺术与叙事写作，人文学科被当作一类特殊的临床证据来读。

• Basic science papers ask how healing works physiologically, touching psychoneuroimmunology, placebo mechanisms, circadian regulation and the recovery of homeostasis.基础科学论文追问疗愈在生理层面如何发生，触及心理神经免疫学、安慰剂机制、昼夜节律调节与稳态恢复。

• Health services research covers integrative care models, hospital-based complementary clinics, cost-effectiveness, workforce training and whole-health delivery systems.卫生服务研究覆盖整合照护模式、医院内的补充医学门诊、成本效果、人员培训与整体健康服务体系。

• The format list is wide for a medical journal, since original research, brief reports, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, hypotheses, reflections, case reports and research letters all run in its pages.文体清单对一本医学刊物而言相当宽，原创研究、简报、系统综述与元分析、假设、反思、病例报告与研究通信都在其版面之内。

• Shorter humanistic pieces are standing features rather than filler, with personal essays, columns, interviews and book reviews scattered through every issue.较短的人文类文字是常设栏目而非补白，个人随笔、专栏、访谈与书评散落在每一期里。

• Topical collections show where the editors think the field is heading, among them Indigenous healing, acupressure from bench to bedside, and the long-running SchwartzReport series.专题合辑显示编者判断的领域走向，包括原住民疗愈、从实验台到病床的指压研究，以及延续多年的 SchwartzReport 系列。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 appeared in January 2005 under the Elsevier imprint in New York, carrying print ISSN 1550-8307 and electronic ISSN 1878-7541.第 1 卷第 1 期于 2005 年 1 月在纽约以 Elsevier 的名义出版，带印刷版刊号 1550-8307 与电子版刊号 1878-7541。

• The opening pages set the tone, with Larry Dossey's welcome essay and David Riley's argument about what a medical journal could do for the field.开篇几页定下基调，（Larry Dossey）写欢迎辞，（David Riley）随后论述一本医学刊物能为这一领域做些什么。^[1][2]

• Six numbers made up the first volume, and the bimonthly rhythm has held ever since, with Crossref recording six issues in every volume from 1 in 2005 to 22 in 2026.首卷共六期，双月节奏此后一直保持，Crossref 记录显示 2005 年第 1 卷到 2026 年第 22 卷每卷都是六期。

• Volume numbering follows the calendar exactly, one volume a year, which makes 2005 volume 1 and the current year volume 22.卷号严格跟随日历，一年一卷，2005 年即第 1 卷，本年度为第 22 卷。

• The National Library of Medicine catalogues the title as “Explore: the journal of science and healing”, with the abbreviation Explore (NY) and New York as place of publication.美国国家医学图书馆把刊名著录为“Explore: the journal of science and healing”，缩写为 Explore (NY)，出版地记为纽约。

• MEDLINE and PubMed coverage begins with that first issue at full treatment rather than selected citations, and the NLM abbreviation has stayed Explore (NY) for two decades.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 自创刊号起即为全量收录，而非选摘，NLM 缩写二十年来一直是 Explore (NY)。

• The first volume already mixed registers, carrying a trial of a complex homeopathic remedy against paracetamol, a paper on the biodynamic model of cranial osteopathy, and an audit of a hospital alternative medicine clinic.首卷已混编多种路数，一项复方顺势疗法药物对照扑热息痛的试验、一篇颅骨整骨生物动力模型的论文，还有一份医院替代医学门诊的审计。

• Subtitle wording has drifted, since NLM keeps the plain conjunction while the publisher's site now prints The Journal of Science & Healing with an ampersand.副题写法有漂移，NLM 保留连词形式，出版方网站如今印作带连接符的“The Journal of Science & Healing”。

• Impact factors moved from 2.358 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2023, recovered to 2.2 in 2024 and reached 2.4 in 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.4.影响因子 2022 年为 2.358，2023 年降到 1.9，2024 年回到 2.2，2025 年为 2.4，五年影响因子同为 2.4。

• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports place it 22nd among 48 titles in integrative and complementary medicine, a second-quartile slot with a JCI of 0.55.2025 年期刊引证报告把刊物排在整合与补充医学 48 种期刊中的第 22 位，属第二四分位，JCI 为 0.55。

• Total citations reached 2,157 with a cited half-life of 4.6 years, and the title publishes roughly 92 articles a year from a citable base near 103.总被引达到 2157 次，被引半衰期 4.6 年，刊物每年发表约 92 篇文章，可引文献基数接近 103 篇。

• The business model has stayed subscription-led with an open-access option, and the 2025 reports put the gold open-access share at 20.1 percent of papers.经营模式一直以订阅为主并附开放获取选项，2025 年的报告把金色开放获取论文的占比记为 20.1%。

• Scopus assigns a CiteScore of 3.6 on a four-year citation window, which sits above the two-year Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.Scopus 按四年引用窗口给出 CiteScore 3.6，高于按两年窗口计算的期刊影响因子 2.4。

• Recent collections mark anniversaries rather than relaunches, among them Indigenous Healing in 2024 and the acupressure and SchwartzReport collections opened in February 2026.近年的合辑多为纪念性质而非改版，2024 年的原住民疗愈专辑，以及 2026 年 2 月开办的指压与 SchwartzReport 专辑，都在其中。

Editors

• Ben Kligler, MD, MPH, holds the editor-in-chief chair, and his editorials in the journal have dealt with whole-health care, clinician burnout and the pain epidemic.主编为（Ben Kligler），他在本刊的社论涉及整体健康照护、临床医师职业倦怠与疼痛流行。

• Kligler's byline predates his editorship by years, with contributions to the Ask the Experts column and a 2006 piece on why the journal published the olive leaf report.（Ben Kligler）的署名早于他出任主编多年，他为“Ask the Experts”专栏写过稿，2006 年还著文说明刊物为何发表橄榄叶报告。

• Belinda J. Anderson, PhD, MA(Ed), LAc, is deputy editor, bringing acupuncture scholarship and health-professions education into the editorial core.副主编为（Belinda J. Anderson），其学术背景是针灸研究与卫生专业教育。

• Five associate editors carry the subject load, namely Angela Smith Lillehei, Natasha Tassell-Matamua, Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Alison Whitehead and Lisa Susan Wieland.五位副编辑分担学科领域，分别是（Angela Smith Lillehei）、（Natasha Tassell-Matamua）、（Lisa Taylor-Swanson）、（Alison Whitehead）与（Lisa Susan Wieland）。

• Tassell-Matamua co-edited the Indigenous Healing collection with Pikihuia Pomare and Melissa Lewis, one of the journal's most visible recent editorial projects.（Natasha Tassell-Matamua）与（Pikihuia Pomare）、（Melissa Lewis）共同主编原住民疗愈专辑，那是刊物近年最受注目的编辑项目之一。

• Taylor-Swanson and Anderson jointly edited the 2026 acupressure collection, which gathers mechanism, efficacy and translational papers around a single technique.（Lisa Taylor-Swanson）与（Belinda J. Anderson）共同主编 2026 年的指压专辑，把围绕单一技术的机制、疗效与转化研究收在一处。

• Stephan A. Schwartz writes as the journal's columnist, and the SchwartzReport series carries his long interest in consciousness, climate and social foresight.（Stephan A. Schwartz）以专栏作者身份撰稿，SchwartzReport 系列承载他长期关注的意识研究、气候与社会预见。

• Victor Sierpina is listed as a contributing editor, and Lisa Susan Wieland appears under that heading as well as among the associate editors.（Victor Sierpina）列为供稿编辑，而（Lisa Susan Wieland）同时出现在供稿编辑与副编辑两份名单里。

• The masthead carries 49 editors and board members in four countries, 46 of them in the United States and single members in Germany and Italy.编委名单共 49 位编辑与委员，分布于四个国家，其中 46 位在美国，德国与意大利各一位。

• Credentials across the list run from nursing and medicine to chiropractic, naturopathy, acupuncture and psychology, so referees can judge technique as well as study design.名单上的资历从护理与医学延伸到脊椎矫正、自然疗法、针灸与心理学，审稿人因此既能判断技术细节，也能判断研究设计。

• Named members include Wayne Jonas, Victoria Maizes, Kathi Kemper, Tieraona Low Dog, Amit Sood, David Riley, Dean Radin and Barbara Dossey.列名委员有（Wayne Jonas）、（Victoria Maizes）、（Kathi Kemper）、（Tieraona Low Dog）、（Amit Sood）、（David Riley）、（Dean Radin）与（Barbara Dossey）。

• Review is double anonymized, with an initial editorial screen followed by at least two external referees whose reports feed the editor's decision.评审采用双匿名制，先经编辑初筛，随后至少两位外部审稿人出具意见，供编辑作出决定。

• Three formats skip external refereeing by design, since hypotheses, reflections and case reports go to the editorial team, which is how subjective and single-patient material enters a peer-reviewed title.三类稿件按设计不走外部评审，假设、反思与病例报告交由编辑团队处理，主观文字与单例材料由此进入一本同行评审刊物。

• Case reports must follow the CARE checklist, randomised trials must arrive with a CONSORT checklist, and editors stand aside from papers by themselves, family or close colleagues.病例报告须遵循 CARE 清单，随机试验须附 CONSORT 清单，编辑遇到自己、亲属或密切同事的稿件须回避。

• Manuscripts enter through Elsevier's online submission system, and the author guidelines keep brief reports near 1,600 words and reviews under 7,000.稿件经 Elsevier 的在线投稿系统进入，作者指南把简报控制在 1600 词上下，综述不超过 7000 词。