Glycobiology

Glycobiology is a journal on the biology of sugars in living systems, published by Oxford University Press for the Society for Glycobiology.《Glycobiology》是一份聚焦生命系统中糖类生物学的期刊，由牛津大学出版社为糖生物学学会出版。

It was founded in 1990 as the field's leading journal, and it takes the functions of glycans and of the proteins that read them as its subject.该刊于 1990 年创办，是这一领域的领军刊物，以聚糖以及读取聚糖的蛋白之功能为题材。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3, and it stands in the third quartile of biochemistry and molecular biology.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在生物化学与分子生物学类目列第三区。

Scope

• The journal takes the biological functions of glycans as its subject, and it asks what a sugar chain does in a living system.该刊以聚糖的生物学功能为题材，追问糖链在生命系统中起何作用。

• Glycoproteins are named, and the journal carries work on how a protein bearing a sugar chain is built and recognised.糖蛋白被点名，该刊刊载带有糖链的蛋白如何构成与被识别的工作。

• Glycolipids are treated, and the journal admits work on how a sugar is attached to a lipid and what follows.糖脂得到处理，该刊收载糖如何系于脂质、其后又如何的工作。

• Proteoglycans are part of the remit, and the journal carries work on how such a molecule shapes the space around a cell.蛋白聚糖属于收稿范围，该刊刊载这类分子如何塑造细胞周围空间的工作。

• Free oligosaccharides are named, and the journal takes work on sugars that stand on their own.游离寡糖被点名，该刊收载独立存在的糖类方面的工作。

• Lectins are treated, and the journal admits work on how a protein specifically binds a sugar.凝集素得到处理，该刊收载蛋白如何特异性结合糖的工作。

• Glycosyltransferases are named, and the journal carries work on how a sugar is added to a chain.糖基转移酶被点名，该刊刊载糖如何被加到链上的工作。

• Glycosidases are treated, and the journal takes work on how a sugar is cut from a chain.糖苷酶得到处理，该刊收载糖如何自链上被切下的工作。

• Structural analysis is a subject, and the journal carries work on how the sequence and the shape of a glycan are solved.结构分析是一选题，该刊刊载聚糖的序列与形状如何被解析的工作。

• Synthesis is part of the remit, and the journal admits work on how a glycan or a mimic is made in the laboratory.合成属于收稿范围，该刊收载聚糖或其模拟物如何在实验室中被做出的工作。

• Cellular recognition is named, and the journal takes work on how a cell reads a glycan to tell self from other.细胞识别被点名，该刊收载细胞如何读取聚糖以分辨自我与他者的工作。

• Development and disease are treated, and the journal carries work on how a change in glycosylation bears on both.发育与疾病得到处理，该刊刊载糖基化的改变如何关系到二者的工作。

• Glycan binding in an infection is admitted, and the journal takes work on how a microbe or a toxin uses a sugar to enter.感染中的聚糖结合受到收载，该刊收载微生物或毒素如何借助糖进入的工作。

• Methods are weighed as much as findings, and the journal carries work on how a glycan is detected or profiled.方法与发现受到同等权衡，该刊刊载聚糖如何被检测或描绘的工作。

• The journal is meant to serve a field that joins chemistry, biochemistry and cell biology, and it takes work from any of the three.该刊意在服务一个联结化学、生物化学与细胞生物学的领域，收载三者中任意一方的工作。

History

• The journal was founded in 1990, and its first issue appeared in September of that year.该刊创办于 1990 年，其首期于当年 9 月出版。

• It was issued at first by a press in Oxford and New York, and it has been published from Oxford since.该刊最初由设在牛津与纽约的一家出版社发行，此后在牛津出版。

• A society for the study of sugars in biology was founded alongside the field, and the journal serves as its official publication.一个研究生物学中糖类的学会与该领域一同成立，该刊作为其官方刊物。

• Electronic submission and rapid online publication were taken up early, with the help of the publisher.在该出版方的帮助下，电子投稿与快速在线发表很早就被采用。

• The pair of numbers has stayed with the title, and the print and electronic editions share the same strings of digits.该对刊号一直伴随题名，印本与电子版共用同样的数字串。

• Twelve issues are gathered into a year in the present arrangement, and the journal keeps a monthly rhythm.按现行安排该刊每年汇集十二期，保持月刊节奏。

• The journal is hybrid, and an author may pay a charge to make a paper free to read or leave it behind a subscription.该刊为混合模式，作者可以缴费使论文免费阅读，也可以留其在订阅之后。

• A quarter century of the journal was marked in its pages, and the title set out its own early history in an editorial.该刊的二十五载在其页面上得到标记，该刊在一篇社论中陈述了自身的早期历史。

• The impact figure has eased in recent editions, standing at 3.4 for 2023 and reaching 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子在近期各版中回落，2023 年为 3.4，2025 年版为 3.3。

• The journal is indexed in the science citation index expanded, and it is carried in MEDLINE and in PubMed.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，并被 MEDLINE 与 PubMed 收录。

• It is also listed in the index medicus and in the usual chemical and biological abstracting services.该刊亦被医学索引以及惯常的化学与生物学文摘服务收录。

• A section on education was added in recent years, and the journal gathers teaching material as well as research.近年增设了一个教育栏目，该刊兼收教学材料与研究论文。

Editors

• Karen Colley of the University of Illinois Chicago is editor-in-chief, and her own field is the biology of sugars and their modifying enzymes.伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的（Karen Colley）担任主编，其本人领域为糖类生物学及其修饰酶。

• She has served the field's society as its president, and she leads the journal in a period of expansion into teaching material.她曾任该领域学会的会长，并带领该刊步入向教学材料扩展的时期。

• A body of associate editors is drawn by subject, and the journal names members from universities across several continents.一组副编辑按学科遴选，该刊列出数个大陆的大学成员。

• The journal sets out the classes of manuscript it takes, along with the length and structure each of them should follow.该刊列明所收稿件的类别，以及各类别应遵循的篇幅与结构。

• Each paper is sent to independent referees, and the review is anonymous on the side of the reviewer.每篇论文送交独立审稿人，评审在审稿人一侧为匿名。

• Authors must declare any competing interest, and the journal states its ethical requirements in full.作者必须声明任何利益冲突，该刊完整说明其伦理要求。

• Where a claim rests on a glycan structure, the journal asks that the data behind the assignment be made reachable.论断若依赖某项聚糖结构，该刊要求其归属判断背后的数据可供获取。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's system, and an enquiry may be made before a paper is written.稿件通过出版方的系统投递，在动笔之前可先行询问。

• Data sharing is encouraged, and the journal points to the publisher's policy that governs it.该刊鼓励数据共享，并指明出版方约束此事的政策。

• A standard for reporting a glycan structure is invoked, and the journal asks that a paper follow the community's convention.该刊援引一套报告聚糖结构的规范，要求论文遵循共同体的惯例。

• The journal is read by glycobiologists and by biochemists, by cell biologists and by chemists, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有糖生物学家与生物化学家，也有细胞生物学家与化学家，它为这几类人写作。

• Work that links a sugar chain to a disease is given room, and the journal asks what the link promises for treatment.把糖链与疾病相连的工作有篇幅可用，该刊追问这一联系对治疗寄予何种希望。

• Studies that report a negative result are taken, since a modification that proved dispensable is worth recording.报告阴性结果的研究也在收载之列，因为被证明可有可无的修饰同样值得记录。

• Work on the immune role of a glycan is named, and the journal carries papers on how a sugar shapes an immune response.聚糖的免疫作用被点名，该刊刊载糖如何塑造免疫应答的论文。

• Work on a glycan array appears among the subjects, and the journal admits papers on how many sugars are screened at once.聚糖阵列方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊收载一次筛选多种糖的论文。

• The journal keeps its reviews distinct from its original reports, and a reader can tell from the rubric which is which.该刊把综述与原始报告区分开来，读者可从栏目看出何者为何者。

• Work on the evolution of a glycosylation pathway is treated, and the journal asks how the pathway came to differ between species.糖基化通路的演化得到处理，该刊追问该通路如何在物种间产生差异。

• Work that couples a mass spectrum to a structure is named, and the journal carries papers on how an assignment is justified.把质谱与结构相耦合的工作被点名，该刊刊载归属判断如何被论证的论文。

• The journal follows the publisher's policy on research integrity, and it records corrections and withdrawals where they arise.该刊遵循出版方的研究诚信政策，出现更正与撤稿时予以记录。