Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering is a gold open access journal from Frontiers Media SA that began publishing in 2022 and covers fission and fusion technology, nuclear materials, reactor design, safety analysis, radiation measurement and radioactive waste management, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 and a CiteScore of 2.5.《核工程前沿》是 Frontiers Media SA 出版的金色开放获取期刊，2022 年开始出版，内容覆盖裂变与聚变技术，核材料，反应堆设计，安全分析，辐射测量与放射性废物管理。2025 年影响因子为 1.9，CiteScore 为 2.5。

Scope

• The scope statement calls the title multidisciplinary and puts it across nuclear science, technology and engineering, not inside one branch of reactor physics.宗旨把刊物定为跨学科刊物，位置横跨核科学，核技术与核工程，不限于反应堆物理这一个分支。
• Nuclear engineering is described as an area whose applications have grown quickly and now cross conventional subject boundaries, and submissions that join research to practice are invited.宗旨页写到核工程的应用近年扩张很快，不断越过传统的学科边界，把研究与工程实践接起来的稿件受到欢迎。
• Advanced modelling and simulation of processes, materials and systems heads the list of interests, which keeps computational work inside the remit rather than beside it.过程，材料与系统的先进建模与仿真排在兴趣清单首位，计算类工作在刊物里是正题而非配角。
• Applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence are named as an area of their own, so data driven methods for inspection, control or materials discovery have a place.机器学习与人工智能的应用被单列成一块，用于检测，控制或材料发现的数据方法因此在刊物里有位置。
• Reactor and power plant design forms one block, and nuclear systems engineering forms another, the second covering how components are integrated into a working facility.反应堆与电厂设计构成一块范围，核系统工程构成另一块，后者关心部件如何集成为可运行的设施。
• Radiation effects on materials, components and systems are claimed explicitly, and structural integrity with nuclear safety analysis follows, which ties damage studies to the licensing case.辐射对材料，部件与系统的影响被明确写入，结构完整性与核安全分析紧随其后，损伤研究与取证论证由此连在一起。
• Fission and fusion materials and power generation share one line of the scope, so the operating fleet and the fusion programme sit under the same editorial roof.裂变与聚变的材料及发电写在同一行里，在运机组与聚变计划因此同在一个编辑屋檐下。
• Fundamentals and applications of plasmas are listed as well, a line that carries the remit into the physics behind magnetic and inertial confinement.等离子体的基础与应用也在清单上，这一行把范围带进磁约束与惯性约束背后的物理。
• Waste management holds a line of its own, and decommissioning with spent fuel management is named separately, a pairing that follows the age of the world fleet.废物管理自成一题，退役与乏燃料管理另列，这一搭配对应世界在运机组的年龄结构。
• Nuclear materials takes in cladding, structural alloys, fuel and the ceramics used to immobilise high level waste, subjects that run through several sections at once.核材料涵盖包壳，结构合金，燃料以及用于固化高放废物的陶瓷，这些题目同时穿过好几个分部。
• Three exclusions draw the boundary hard: papers on nuclear medicine are out, as are military applications of nuclear energy and the effects of radiation on living tissue.三条排除把边界划得很硬，核医学的稿件不在范围，核能的军事应用与辐射对活体组织的影响也不在范围。
• Five specialty sections give the scope a skeleton, and every manuscript must be aimed at one of them: Nuclear Materials, Nuclear Reactor Design, Nuclear Safety, Radiation Measurements, and Radioactive Waste Management.五个专业分部为范围搭起骨架，稿件必须投向其中之一，即核材料，反应堆设计，核安全，辐射测量与放射性废物管理。
• Access is the last clause of the scope. The journal promises unrestricted reading for researchers and for the public, so plant engineers and regulators are as much its audience as academic groups.阅读权限写在宗旨末段，刊物向研究者与公众同时开放，电厂工程师与监管人员同属它的读者。

History

• The first volume carries the year 2022, and the earliest record under the journal's DOI stem is an article posted on 21 June 2022.第 1 卷标为 2022 年，该刊 DOI 前缀下最早的记录是一篇 2022 年 6 月 21 日上线的文章。
• Volume numbers follow the calendar. Volume one covers 2022, volume four covers 2025, and volume five is the year now running, with no cumulative count across the years.卷号跟日历走，第 1 卷对应 2022 年，第 4 卷对应 2025 年，第 5 卷是眼下这一年，历年卷号不累加。
• Frontiers Media SA, based in Lausanne, opened the title as one of the field journals it built in engineering and the physical sciences during the 2010s and 2020s.总部在洛桑的 Frontiers Media SA 把它作为一批领域刊物之一办起来，这批刊物是出版方在 2010 年代与 2020 年代向工程与物理科学扩张的产物。
• One name has served since launch. The short form Front. Nucl. Eng. is used in citations, the DOI stem is fnuen, and no earlier title or merger appears in the journal's file.刊名自创刊未变，引用时用短名 Front. Nucl. Eng.，DOI 前缀固定，档案里没有更早的刊名或合并记录。
• Open access was built in rather than bolted on. Articles appear under a CC BY 4.0 licence, authors keep copyright, and gold open access accounts for the whole output.开放获取自始即内置于模式，文章以 CC BY 4.0 许可发布，作者保留版权，金色开放获取覆盖全部发文。
• There is no issue calendar. Accepted papers are posted when they are ready, gather into the volume of the year, and are citable from the day they appear.刊物没有期号日历，录用论文备妥即上线，归入当年的卷，上线当天即可引用。
• Output rose from 22 papers in the launch year to 53 in 2023, held between 47 and 51 through 2024 and 2025, and runs at about the same pace in 2026.发文量从创刊年的 22 篇升到 2023 年的 53 篇，2024 年与 2025 年维持在 47 至 51 篇之间，2026 年至今节奏相近。
• Web of Science coverage came through the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports put the title at 17 of 42 in NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, in the second quartile.该刊经 Emerging Sources Citation Index 进入 Web of Science，2025 年期刊引证报告把它列在核科学与技术类目 42 种刊的第 17 位，属第二四分位。
• The 2025 impact factor is 1.9 and the five-year figure matches it, while a JIF percentile of 60.7 places the journal in the upper half of its category.2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子与之持平，百分位 60.7 把刊物放在类目的上半区。
• Citation traffic is still young. The 2025 count credits 36 articles, the journal has drawn 228 citations in total, and the cited half-life is 2.1 years.被引结构年轻，2025 年统计为 36 篇，累计被引 228 次，引用半衰期 2.1 年。
• CiteScore, the Scopus measure, is put at 2.5, and DOAJ records the journal with open access dating from 2022.Scopus 的 CiteScore 为 2.5，DOAJ 的档案把该刊的开放获取起始年记为 2022。
• The five specialty sections were part of the design from the start, each with its own chief editor, associate editors and pool of reviewers.五个专业分部从设计之初就在，各有分部主编，副编辑与审稿人队伍。
• Research Topics, the publisher's format for themed collections led by guest editors, appear from the early volumes and close with an editorial that introduces the collection.研究专题是出版方用来组织主题合集的形式，由客座编辑主持，早期卷次即有，收尾是一篇介绍合集的社论。
• The journal became a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics, and its pages state compliance with COPE and ICMJE guidance along with plagiarism screening on every submission.刊物加入出版伦理委员会，页面写明遵循 COPE 与 ICMJE 的规范，并对每篇投稿做重复率检测。

Editors

• Sergei Dudarev of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in Abingdon leads the field as Field Chief Editor.领域主编是英国原子能管理局的（Sergei Dudarev），机构位于阿宾登。
• Edgar C. Buck of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, heads the Nuclear Materials section.核材料分部由太平洋西北国家实验室的（Edgar C. Buck）主持，实验室位于华盛顿州里奇兰。
• Bernd Grambow of SUBATECH in Nantes, France, heads Radioactive Waste Management.放射性废物管理分部由法国南特 SUBATECH 实验室的（Bernd Grambow）主持。
• Wenxi Tian of Xi'an Jiaotong University in China heads Nuclear Reactor Design, and Nuclear Safety and Radiation Measurements have specialty chiefs of their own.反应堆设计分部由西安交通大学的（Wenxi Tian）主持，核安全与辐射测量两个分部同样设有分部主编。
• Associate editors carry the review. Each manuscript goes to one of them, and that editor invites referees, reads the reports and takes the acceptance decision.评审由副编辑承担，每篇稿件交给其中一位，由这位编辑邀请审稿人，通读意见并作出录用决定。
• Review is single anonymized. Referees see the authors' names, authors do not see the referees during the process, and the names of editors and reviewers are printed on the published article.评审采用单盲，审稿人看得到作者姓名，作者在流程中看不到审稿人，编辑与审稿人的姓名都会印在成稿上。
• Two stages follow. Referees first work independently through a standard questionnaire, then the handling editor opens a forum where authors and referees argue the revisions in real time.流程分两段，审稿人先用统一问卷独立评审，随后由负责编辑开启论坛，作者与审稿人在其中实时讨论修改。
• Acceptance needs unanimity. Every referee and the handling editor must agree before a paper is taken, and a referee who is not satisfied can still recommend rejection during the interactive stage.录用需要一致同意，每一位审稿人与负责编辑都点头之后稿件才被接收，互动阶段仍不满意的一位仍可提议拒稿。
• Authors may name a preferred associate editor at submission. The choice does not bind, the editor may decline, and the chief editor can replace a handler at any point.作者投稿时可以点名一位中意的副编辑，这一选择不具约束力，对方可以婉拒，主编也可在任何阶段更换负责编辑。
• Referees come from a community pool. Volunteers pick manuscripts through a self-assignment tool, and each volunteer is vetted by an associate, specialty or field chief editor before reviewing.审稿人从社区人才池中产生，志愿者通过自主认领工具挑选稿件，每位志愿者都要先经副编辑，分部主编或领域主编审核。
• The platform suggests referees by matching expertise to the manuscript, and if none has accepted after a set interval it issues invitations on its own.平台按研究方向与稿件的匹配度推荐审稿人，若一段时间内无人应允，系统会自行发出邀请。
• Integrity screening runs before review. The publisher's AIRA tool performs more than fifty checks for plagiarism, image manipulation and fabricated content, and an in-house team handles what it flags.完整性筛查在评审之前进行，出版方的 AIRA 工具执行五十余项检查，涵盖重复率，图像篡改与内容伪造，命中项由专职团队处置。
• Fourteen article types are open. Original Research, Review, Methods and Technology and Code run up to 12,000 words, Mini Review and Perspective stop at 3,000, and Opinion at 2,000.可投文体共十四种，原创研究，综述，方法与技术及代码类上限 12000 词，小型综述与观点类止于 3000 词，评论类 2000 词。
• Fees are tiered by format. Long formats fall in the higher band and short ones in the lower, and authors at institutions holding a publishing agreement can have the charge met in part or in full.费用按文体分档，长篇落在高档，短篇落在低档，作者所在机构若与出版方签有协议，版面费可获部分或全额承担。
• Submissions go through the publisher's own platform and must be aimed at one specialty section, where that section's editors and community reviewers take them up.投稿走出版方自建平台，须指明投给某一个分部，由该分部的编辑与社区审稿人接手。
• Commenting stays open after publication, and the publisher keeps a community retraction protocol for papers whose flaws are established after they appear.文章发表后仍可公开评论，出版方另设社区撤稿规程，处理发表后被证实有问题的论文。