Heritage Science

Heritage Science is a fully open-access journal published by Springer Nature for the scientific study of cultural and natural heritage, founded in 2013 and relaunched on 1 January 2025 as npj Heritage Science within the Nature Portfolio npj series, carrying a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.2.《遗产科学》（Heritage Science）是由（Springer Nature）出版的全开放获取期刊，专注以科学方法研究文化与自然遗产，2013 年创刊，2025 年 1 月 1 日改版为（npj Heritage Science）并纳入（Nature Portfolio）的（npj）系列，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.2。

Scope

• The journal considers original research on heritage grounded primarily in physical, chemical and biological measurement or computation, and expects work of international interest rather than purely local case studies.本刊刊载以物理、化学、生物测量或计算为主要依据的遗产原创研究，要求成果具国际意义，纯属地方性的案例不予考虑。
• Inorganic heritage materials such as ceramics, metals and glass, and organic materials including paper, papyrus, parchment, books, inks, wood, textiles and physical archives.无机遗产材料如陶瓷、金属与玻璃，有机材料如纸张、莎草纸、羊皮纸、书籍、墨迹、木材、纺织品与实体档案。
• Computing for digital representation, covering three-dimensional recording, building information modelling for heritage, lidar survey and virtual restoration.数字表征计算，涵盖三维记录、遗产建筑信息模型、激光雷达测绘与虚拟修复。
• Computing for modelling and communication, including artificial intelligence, expert systems, large language models, neural networks, and virtual or augmented reality.建模与传播计算，包括人工智能、专家系统、大语言模型、神经网络以及虚拟现实与增强现实。
• Digital humanities, meaning critical analysis of digitised collections, built and intangible heritage and computational textual analysis, together with epigraphy studied through imaging and computation.数字人文，指对数字化馆藏、建筑遗产与非物质遗产的批判性分析及计算文本分析，并以影像与计算方法研究铭文学。
• Conservation science, archaeological science and fine arts, with environmental effects on heritage such as pollution, climate change, storage conditions and biodeterioration.保护科学、考古科学与美术研究，以及污染、气候变化、储藏条件与生物劣化等环境因素对遗产的影响。
• Geography in heritage such as GIS and historical cartography, built heritage and structural stability, natural environmental heritage, and social science, economics and education in heritage where computational models are used.遗产地理学如地理信息系统与历史地图学、建筑遗产与结构稳定性、自然遗产，以及在运用计算模型前提下的遗产社会科学、经济学与教育研究。

History

• SpringerOpen launched the journal in 2013 as Heritage Science, with volume 1 opening in April 2013 and an editorial by Richard Brereton of the University of Bristol.（SpringerOpen）于 2013 年以（Heritage Science）之名创刊，第 1 卷自 2013 年 4 月起出版，创刊社论出自布里斯托大学的（Richard Brereton）。^[1]
• Its first remit was analytical, covering manufacturing and provenance studies, prediction of degradation, non-invasive imaging and assessment of treatment materials.早期定位偏重分析，涵盖制作工艺与产地研究、劣化预测、无损成像以及保护材料的评估。
• Twelve volumes appeared between 2013 and 2024 as an online-only journal publishing article by article rather than in fixed issues.2013 至 2024 年间共出版 12 卷，为纯在线期刊，按篇连续出版而不装订成固定刊期。
• On 1 January 2025 the title became npj Heritage Science, moved to the nature.com platform with the new ISSN 3059-3220, and volume numbering continued with volume 13.2025 年 1 月 1 日改名为（npj Heritage Science），迁移至（nature.com）平台并启用新刊号 3059-3220，卷号顺延至第 13 卷。^[2]
• The relaunch widened the scope towards digital humanities, artificial intelligence, geography, epigraphy and heritage economics, while Scopus kept a continuous CiteScore under the new name and Web of Science carried the 2025 Impact Factor with the old title.改版后范围扩展到数字人文、人工智能、地理学、铭文学与遗产经济；Scopus 以新刊名延续引用分，Web of Science 的 2025 年影响因子仍记于旧刊名之下。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.2, after 3.9 in 2024, 2.843 in 2022 and 2.517 in 2021, ranking 5 of 43 in spectroscopy and 27 of 110 in analytical chemistry.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.2，2024 年为 3.9，2022 年为 2.843，2021 年为 2.517；在光谱学类别列 5/43，在分析化学类别列 27/110。

Editors

• Richard Brereton, emeritus professor at the University of Bristol and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has led the journal as editor-in-chief from its early volumes through the relaunch.（Richard Brereton）为布里斯托大学荣休教授、英国皇家化学会会士，自早期卷次起担任主编并延续至改版之后。
• Some twenty associate editors handle the disciplines, among them Silvia Centeno of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe Colomban of the CNRS and Sorbonne, and Matija Strlic of the University of Ljubljana.约二十位副主编分掌各学科，包括大都会艺术博物馆的（Silvia Centeno）、法国国家科研中心与索邦大学的（Philippe Colomban），以及卢布尔雅那大学的（Matija Strlic）。
• Further associate editors work on degradation and conservation, among them Kaare Lund Rasmussen in Odense, Omid Oudbashi in Gothenburg, Sayed Hemeda at Cairo University and Francesco Gherardini at Modena.另有副主编负责劣化与保护方向，如欧登塞的（Kaare Lund Rasmussen）、哥德堡的（Omid Oudbashi）、开罗大学的（Sayed Hemeda）与摩德纳的（Francesco Gherardini）。
• A strong Asian group includes Yong Lei of the Palace Museum in Beijing, Tao Li of Wuhan University, Meng Wu in Xi'an, Yongqin Zhang in Zhengzhou and Zhanyun Zhu in Nanjing.亚洲编委阵容可观，包括北京故宫博物院的（Yong Lei）、武汉大学的（Tao Li）、西安的（Meng Wu）、郑州的（Yongqin Zhang）与南京的（Zhanyun Zhu）。
• All manuscripts go through single-anonymous peer review, in which reviewers know the authors but authors do not know the reviewers, and the editorial office is supported by an advisory editor from Springer Nature.全部稿件采用单盲同行评审，评审人知晓作者身份而作者不知评审人；编辑部由（Springer Nature）的一位顾问编辑协助。
• Content types are Article, Review, Perspective, Comment, Editorial and Matters Arising, with no strict word limits, and systematic reviews or meta-analyses are submitted as Articles.稿件类型包括论文、综述、视角、评论、社论与事项评议，不设严格字数上限，系统综述与元分析按论文类别投稿。