Foot & Ankle International

Foot & Ankle International is the flagship journal of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society, published by SAGE, and its volume numbering runs back to 1980.《Foot & Ankle International》是美国骨科足踝学会（American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society）的旗舰刊，由 SAGE 出版，卷号可以一直追到 1980 年。

It prints clinical and biomedical research on the foot and ankle, from reconstructive surgery and trauma care to the sports injuries that occupy a large share of the specialty.刊物登足踝的临床与生物医学研究，从重建手术、创伤救治，到占据本学科很大一部分的运动损伤。

The 2025 impact factor is 2.3, the five-year figure 2.6, and the title holds 10,271 citations with a cited half-life of 12.2 years.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年值 2.6，名下累计被引 10,271 次，被引半衰期 12.2 年。

Scope

• Reconstructive surgery is the largest block. Hallux valgus, adult flatfoot, ankle arthroplasty and the salvage of a failed fusion all fall inside it, with the radiographic measurement that goes with each.重建手术是最大的一块。拇外翻、成人平足、踝关节置换、融合失败后的补救，都在其中，与之配套的影像测量也在。

• Trauma is treated as its own field, covering ankle and pilon fractures, Lisfranc injuries, talar neck fractures and the soft-tissue envelope that decides whether the bone heals.创伤单成一域，踝部与 pilon 骨折、Lisfranc 损伤、距骨颈骨折，以及决定骨头能否长好的软组织条件，都归这里。

• Sports injury takes up a good share of the file: Achilles tendon rupture, peroneal tendinopathy, osteochondral lesions of the talus and the return-to-play question that follows each.运动损伤占去不少篇幅，跟腱断裂、腓骨肌腱病、距骨骨软骨损伤，以及随之而来的重返赛场问题。

• Clinical outcomes form the spine of the journal rather than a sideline, so registry data, patient-reported scores and complication rates are read as the substance of a paper.临床结局是刊物的主干，不是边角。登记库数据、患者自评评分、并发症发生率，都被当作论文的实质来看。

• Basic science is accepted, on condition that the clinical relevance is stated in the paper, which keeps a biomechanics study from drifting away from the operating room.基础研究可以投，条件是文中写明临床相关性，这条要求让生物力学研究不至于飘离手术室。

• Clinical research must carry a level of evidence, and authors are expected to say plainly what that level is rather than leave readers to infer it.临床研究必须标注证据等级，作者要把等级明写出来，不能让读者自己去猜。

• Clinical and biomedical manuscripts run to 3,000 words with a 300-word abstract, eight figures, four tables and no cap on references.临床与生物医学类稿件上限 3,000 词，摘要 300 词，图 8 幅、表 4 张，参考文献不设上限。

• Short scientific reports take 1,200 words, a 225-word abstract, three figures or tables in total and ten references, the format for one finding that does not need a long build-up.短篇科学报告 1,200 词，摘要 225 词，图表合计 3 个，参考文献 10 条，适合一条不需要长铺垫的结果。

• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are capped at 3,000 words with a 250-word abstract, four figures and four tables, and they are read as evidence rather than as commentary.系统综述与荟萃分析上限 3,000 词，摘要 250 词，图 4 幅、表 4 张，刊出的是证据，不是评论。

• Contemporary reviews run to 4,000 words with no abstract and up to ten figures, which makes them the longest format the journal offers and the one closest to a teaching text.当代综述可到 4,000 词，不附摘要，图最多 10 幅，是刊物最长的体裁，也最接近教材。

• Letters to the editor are held to 400 words, one figure or table and five references, a form kept short so that replies to published work stay pointed.致编辑信压到 400 词、1 个图表、5 条参考文献，篇幅短，回应已刊文章的批评才够锋利。

• Several categories are refused outright. Case reports and technique tips are not taken, and neither are bibliography studies or papers that only translate an outcome instrument into another language.有几类稿件直接拒收。病例报告与技巧提示不收，文献计量研究不收，只把结果量表译成另一种语言的稿子也不收。

• Qualitative and mixed-methods work is excluded as well, along with learning-curve papers, evaluations of language models and studies built on publicly obtained sports data.质性研究与混合方法研究同样不在范围内，学习曲线类论文、语言模型评测，以及依赖公开获取的赛事数据的稿件也一并排除。

• Statistics are held to a written standard, with authors referred to the JAMA Network guidance and to the CONSORT, STROBE, MOOSE and PRISMA checklists for the design they used.统计有明文标准，作者被指向 JAMA Network 的指引，并按所用设计对照 CONSORT、STROBE、MOOSE 与 PRISMA 清单。

• Peer review is double anonymized, so the reviewers do not see author names and the authors do not see who judged them, a policy that suits a small specialty where most people know each other.评审采用双盲，审稿人看不到作者姓名，作者也不知道稿子落在谁手里，这个做法适合人少而彼此熟识的学科。

History

• The journal began in 1980 under a shorter name, Foot & Ankle, and the society that founded it has owned the title ever since.刊物 1980 年以更短的名字「Foot & Ankle」创刊，创办它的学会至今仍是这本刊的主人。
• Volume 1 is dated 1980 and volume 15 is dated 1994, which is the year the title changed to Foot & Ankle International. The volume count did not restart.第 1 卷署 1980 年，第 15 卷署 1994 年，改名就发生在这一年，卷号并没有从头再数。
• Volume numbering is a subtraction: take the year and remove 1979. Volume 46 covers 2025 and volume 47 covers 2026, and the tenth issue of volume 47 is dated October 2026.卷号是一道减法，年份减去 1979。第 46 卷对应 2025 年，第 47 卷对应 2026 年，该卷第 10 期署 2026 年 10 月。
• The early name change is legible in the indexing record. MEDLINE and PubMed start at volume 15, number 1, in January 1994, and Index Medicus covered it on the same footing.改名这件事在收录记录里看得很清楚。MEDLINE 与 PubMed 从 1994 年 1 月的第 15 卷第 1 期起收录，Index Medicus 按同一口径跟进。
• Williams & Wilkins published it from Baltimore in the 1994 era. By 2013 the imprint had moved to Thousand Oaks, California, under SAGE, which has held it since.1994 年前后，刊物由 Williams & Wilkins 在巴尔的摩出版。到 2013 年，出版地记录已迁到加利福尼亚州的千橡市，出版方换成 SAGE，此后未再变动。
• Twelve issues a year is the arrangement, and it has been for a long stretch, so a monthly cadence carries roughly 155 articles annually.一年 12 期是既定安排，持续时间很长，这个月度节奏每年大约承载 155 篇文章。
• Five impact factors read 2.827, 3.569, 2.4, 2.2 and 2.3. The 2022 peak is now more than a point away, and the last two filings have been flat.五个影响因子依次是 2.827、3.569、2.4、2.2、2.3。2022 年的高点已经拉开一分多，最近两次统计基本走平。
• The 2025 file places it 62nd of 147 titles in orthopaedics, at the 58.2nd percentile, with a JCI of 0.94 and 10,271 citations behind it.2025 年的表把它放在骨科类 147 种刊的第 62 位，百分位 58.2，JCI 0.94，身后累计被引 10,271 次。
• A cited half-life of 12.2 years is long for a surgical title, and it says something about the archive: implantation series and gait analyses stay cited well after publication.12.2 年的被引半衰期在外科刊里算长，说明过刊仍有人用，假体系列与步态分析在发表多年之后仍被引用。
• Gold open access covers 11.76 percent of the file. Most papers still arrive through subscription, with open access taken as an option at acceptance.金色开放获取占全部文章的 11.76%。多数稿子仍走订阅路线，开放获取在录用时作为选项提出。
• In July 2022 the journal published notice of a new editorial board, the filing that accompanies a change at the top of a masthead.2022 年 7 月，刊物登出一则新编委会的通告，这类通告通常伴随刊头最高位的人事变动。
• Federally funded work is handled for the author: papers supported by the NIH or the Wellcome Trust are deposited into PubMed Central on acceptance, without the author arranging it.政府资助的稿子由刊方代为处理，受美国国立卫生研究院或惠康基金会资助的论文在录用后直接存入 PubMed Central，不必作者自己张罗。

Editors

• Charles L. Saltzman holds the editor-in-chief post. He is a professor and chair of orthopaedics at the University of Utah, and he came to the journal in 2022.主编是 Charles L. Saltzman，他是犹他大学骨科学教授兼主任，2022 年接手这本刊。
• The same appointment put him in charge of Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics as well, so the society's two titles have answered to one editor since then.同一次任命让他同时执掌 Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics，此后学会的两本刊由同一位主编负责。
• The masthead is built in layers: an executive editor and associate editors sit under the chief, with specialty content editors attached to subject areas.刊头分层而建。主编之下设执行编辑与副编辑，各学科方向另配内容编辑。
• International editors are a separate line, which is how a journal owned by an American society keeps a reading bench outside the United States.国际编辑单列一行，一本由美国学会拥有的刊物，靠这一行维持美国之外的审读力量。
• Contemporary Review holds its own line on the masthead, which is how a section becomes a standing product rather than a slot for leftovers.当代综述在刊头独占一行，一栏内容由此成为常设产品，而不是收边角料的口袋。
• Manuscripts go through ScholarOne at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fai, and preprints are accepted, so a posted draft does not disqualify the paper.稿件走 ScholarOne（mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fai），刊物接受预印本，先把草稿挂出去不影响投稿。
• There is no fee to submit and no fee to publish. Color is free online, while the first color image in print costs 800 dollars and each further one 200.投稿不收费，发表也不收费。网络版彩图免费，印刷版第一幅彩图 800 美元，此后每幅 200 美元。
• Open access is optional through Sage Choice, an arrangement that leaves the subscription route intact for authors who cannot pay.开放获取经 Sage Choice 自愿选择，不愿付费的作者仍走订阅路线，这条路一直留着。
• The journal belongs to COPE and asks authors to work to the ICMJE recommendations, which is the standard pairing for a surgical society title.刊物是 COPE 成员，并要求作者按 ICMJE 建议行事，这是外科学会刊常见的双轨标准。
• Podcasts and surgical videos are produced beside the printed article, an editorial choice that treats a procedure as something to be shown as well as described.播客与手术视频作为纸本文章的配套产出，这个编辑选择等于承认，一项术式除了写清楚，还要看得见。
• The refusal list is editorial policy, not taste. Declining case reports and technique tips keeps the pages for work that carries a denominator and a follow-up interval.那份拒收清单是编辑政策，不是偏好。不收病例报告与技巧提示，是为了把版面留给有分母、有随访期的研究。