IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine is the magazine of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, and it is written for readers across the field rather than for the group already working on the problem in the title.《IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine》是 IEEE 纳米技术理事会的会刊，面向的是这一行里各个方向的读者，不是标题上那个课题的同行小圈子。
A feature has to be legible to an engineer in another subfield, which is the constraint that shapes everything else about the publication.一篇专题要能让另一个分支的工程师读懂，这个约束决定了这份刊其他方面的样子。
Reviews carry the weight. A typical issue opens with two or three survey pieces on a common theme and closes with the departments.综述承担主干。典型的一期开头是两三篇同一主题的综述，末尾放各个固定栏目。
Themed issues are the usual way a topic is gathered. The August 2026 number took nano-communications, with Lin Lin and Sasitharan Balasubramaniam as guest editors.专辑是聚拢一个课题的常用办法。2026 年 8 月号收的是纳米通信，客座编辑是 Lin Lin 与 Sasitharan Balasubramaniam。
The June 2026 issue collected radio-frequency, millimetre-wave and terahertz integrated circuits under Kiat Seng Yeo, and the April number gathered photoacoustic and ultrasonic work under James B. Spicer and Xiaoning Jiang.2026 年 6 月号由 Kiat Seng Yeo 组了射频、毫米波与太赫兹集成电路一组，4 月号由 James B. Spicer 与 Xiaoning Jiang 组了光声与超声一组。
Quantum-inspired computing turned up in the same year. One paper builds a digital solver for QUBO problems and another applies the approach to a portfolio problem across the G7 economies.受量子启发的计算也在这一年露面。一篇做 QUBO 问题的数字求解器，另一篇把同一思路用到七国集团的组合投资上。
Device work reaches down to measurement. A paper identifies antibiotic resistance at the microscale by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, another improves error resilience in nanoscale memories.器件工作一直做到测量这一层。一篇用微尺度电化学阻抗谱辨认细菌耐药，另一篇改善纳米存储器的容错能力。
Biological imaging appears regularly. The 2026 ultrasound set runs from laser-generated sound sources through Grüneisen relaxation photoacoustic imaging to chip-scale surface and bulk acoustic wave sensors.生物成像定期出现。2026 年那组超声文章从激光产生的声源，一路走到格吕奈森弛豫光声成像，再到芯片级体波与表面波传感器。
Departments hold the professional half of the magazine. Book reviews, notices of conferences, calls for papers and the president's message are all part of the package rather than filler.固定栏目承担杂志的职业那一半。书评、会议通告、征稿启事与主席致辞都是内容的一部分，不是填空。
Book reviews appear often enough to matter. Sixteen are deposited under that heading, enough for a reader to track what the field is publishing in monographs.书评出现得够勤，值得算一件事。存缴里挂在这个名目下的有十六篇，读者借此能跟上这一行出了哪些专著。
The council's own business is reported in the same pages. Chapter news, award announcements and standing committee reports sit alongside the technical articles.理事会自己的事情也报在同样几页里。分会动态、获奖公告与常设委员会的报告，与技术文章并排。
Commercialisation and patents get attention that a research journal would not give them. Patent abstracts and accounts of bringing a device to market are treated as news the readership needs.产业化与专利在这里得到的关注，研究型期刊不会给。专利摘要与把器件推向市场的经过，被当作读者需要知道的新闻。
The magazine is not open access. Gold open access accounts for about one per cent of the content, and the rest sits behind the IEEE subscription that most engineering departments already hold.这本杂志不是开放获取。金色开放获取大约只占百分之一，其余内容在 IEEE 的订阅墙后面，多数工科院系本来就有这份订阅。
History
The first volume is dated 2007 and ran to two issues. Twenty-five records are deposited for it, covers and mastheads included.第 1 卷署 2007 年，全年只有两期。存缴里为它记下二十五条，封面与刊头也在其中。
Four issues a year followed from volume 2 and held for eleven volumes. Volume 12 in 2018 was the last of the quarterly run.从第 2 卷起一年四期，这个节奏维持了十一卷。2018 年的第 12 卷是季刊时代的最后一卷。
The magazine went to six issues a year with volume 13 in 2019 and has stayed there. Volume 13 carried 53 records, volume 17 carried 71.2019 年第 13 卷起改成一年六期，此后没再变。第 13 卷记下五十三条，第 17 卷记下七十一条。
The National Library of Medicine still records the frequency as quarterly, which the deposit contradicts. Six issue numbers appear for every volume since 2019.美国国家医学图书馆仍把周期记作季刊，存缴与它相反。2019 年以后每一卷都出现六个期号。
The deposit holds 972 records, and the figure overstates the research content. Ninety front covers, 76 mastheads and 92 tables of contents are numbered as items.存缴里共 972 条，这个数字高估了研究内容。九十张封面、七十六个刊头与九十二份目录都算作条目。
Citable items in the citation report come to 27 for the latest year. The gap between that and the annual deposit is the front matter and the standing columns.引文报告里最近一年的可引文献是 27 篇。它与年度存缴之间的差额，就是前置页与固定栏目。
The impact factor went from 2.3 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024 and settled at 2.4 in 2025.影响因子 2023 年是 2.3，2024 年升到 2.7，2025 年落在 2.4。
The five-year figure of 2.5 is a tenth above the two-year figure, which is the opposite of the usual pattern. The magazine's older papers are cited more than the recent ones.五年影响因子 2.5 比两年值高出十分之一，与常见的走向相反。这份杂志早年的论文比近年的更常被引。
The journal citation indicator is 0.28 and the percentile is 24. In nanoscience and nanotechnology the title stands at 113 of 148.期刊引文指标 0.28，百分位 24。在纳米科学与纳米技术门类里，这本刊排 148 种中的第 113 位。
Total citations are 463 with a cited half-life of 4.2 years, longer than a letters journal and shorter than a review series.总被引 463 次，引用半衰期 4.2 年，比快报类刊物长，比综述丛刊短。
The magazine sits in the emerging sources list. It is not in the science citation index expanded, and it is not in the directory of open access journals either.这本杂志列在新兴来源名单里。它不在自然科学引文索引扩展版，也不在开放获取期刊目录中。
PubMed takes selected citations only, which for a magazine of this shape means the review articles. The departments fall outside the indexing.PubMed 只做选择性收录，对这样一份杂志来说，收进去的是综述文章。固定栏目落在收录范围之外。
Volume 20 in 2026 has four of its six issues deposited so far, holding 46 records. The rest of the year is still to come.2026 年的第 20 卷六期中已存缴四期，共四十六条记录。这一年的其余部分还没到。
The magazine is carried on the IEEE platform, where the archive runs back to the first issue and the landing page states the scope in the council's own words.杂志挂在 IEEE 的平台上，存档回溯到创刊号，落地页用理事会自己的说法交代收稿范围。
Editors
Every issue opens with the Editors' Desk, a signed column that sets out what is in the number and why it was put together that way.每一期都以编辑桌开篇，那是一篇署名短文，说明这一期里有什么，为什么这样组。
Jin-Woo Kim signs the column from the August 2026 issue. The same issue carries his solo message under the heading of the Editors' Desk, with Xiaoning Jiang and Shanshan Liu beside him on the column that follows.2026 年 8 月号起，这个栏目由 Jin-Woo Kim 署名。同一期里他以编辑桌为题单独写了一篇，紧随其后的栏目上还有 Xiaoning Jiang 与 Shanshan Liu。
Before him the column was Bing J. Sheu's, usually with Shao-Ku Kao. Through the first three issues of 2026 the pair still signed it.在他之前这个栏目归 Bing J. Sheu，通常与 Shao-Ku Kao 合署。2026 年前三期仍是这两人签名。
John T. W. Yeow held the desk from 2014 to 2019. A university seminar notice from 2018 names him as editor-in-chief of the magazine, which is the kind of outside confirmation an editor's title rarely gets.John T. W. Yeow 从 2014 年到 2019 年坐这张桌子。2018 年一份大学讲座通告写明他是这本杂志的主编，编辑头衔很少能得到这样的外部印证。
Wen J. Li opened the run in 2007 and stayed until 2013. The earliest bylines are his alone, and the magazine was finding its shape under them.Wen J. Li 在 2007 年开了头，一直做到 2013 年。最早的署名只有他一个，杂志的样子是在他手上定下来的。
Guest editors run the themed numbers, and they are named on the editorial rather than in the masthead. Thirty-nine such editorials are deposited, most of them from 2018 onward.专辑由客座编辑主持，名字写在专号的那篇引言上，不进刊头。这样的引言存缴里有三十九篇，多数出自 2018 年以后。
The pattern is one guest editorial per themed issue. Volumes 12 and 13 in 2018 and 2019 each carried four or five, which is when the practice settled.惯例是一期专辑配一篇客座引言。2018 与 2019 年的第 12 卷与第 13 卷各带四五篇，这个做法就是那时候定下来的。
The president of the council writes in the magazine too. Kremena Makasheva signed the message in February 2026, and Jin-Woo Kim signed the one in December 2025 while he held that office.理事会主席也在杂志上写文章。Kremena Makasheva 在 2026 年 2 月署名致辞，Jin-Woo Kim 在 2025 年 12 月任上时署名写过一篇。
That sequence is worth reading twice. An office holder writes the president's message and later takes the editors' desk, which is how the council moves people between its roles.这个次序值得再看一眼。同一个人先以主席身份写致辞，随后坐进编辑桌，理事会就是在自己的几个角色之间调人。
The desk belongs to the council rather than to a publisher. Editorial decisions and the technical programme of the magazine come out of the same committee structure that runs the field's conferences.这张桌子属于理事会，不属于出版方。编辑决定与杂志的技术选题，出自统管这一行会议的那套委员会结构。
A magazine of this kind has no referee queue in the sense a research journal does. Reviews are invited or agreed with the guest editor first, and the author writes to a length and a reading level.这类杂志没有研究型期刊那种排队送审的流程。综述先由客座编辑约或议定，作者按给定篇幅与阅读难度来写。
Articles are commissioned with the issue in mind. That is why a themed number reads as a set, with the guest editorial explaining the connections the individual authors do not make.文章是按期来约的。专辑因此读起来像一组，其中各篇作者没有挑明的关联，由客座编辑那篇引言负责串。
The result is a magazine whose editing is visible in the table of contents. Whoever holds the desk decides what a field looks like to the people outside it, one issue at a time.结果是这份杂志的编辑痕迹在目录上就能看见。谁坐这张桌子，谁就一期一期地决定这一行在外人眼里是什么样子。