Information Visualization

Information Visualization is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal issued by SAGE Publications that publishes work on the theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations of information visualization together with their applications.《信息可视化》是 SAGE Publications 出版的一份季刊，刊登信息可视化理论、方法、技术与评估方面的研究及其应用。

Founded in 2002, the title occupies an interdisciplinary space where computing, human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology meet, with visual analytics and evaluation methodology now among its central concerns.刊物 2002 年创刊，处在计算机科学、人机交互与认知心理学的交汇处，视觉分析现已成为其核心议题之一。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, a figure that places the title in Q3, rank 78 of 128, within the JCR category COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING.2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，在 JCR 计算机科学（软件工程）类目内位列 Q3，排名 78/128。

Scope

• The journal presents itself as a dedicated forum for the theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations of information visualization, and for the applied work built on those foundations.刊物把自己定位为专门论坛，讨论信息可视化的理论、方法、技术与评估，以及建立在这些基础之上的应用工作。
• Editors frame the title as a vehicle for a generic research agenda, one that isolates the distinctive and significant aspects of the field rather than treating visualization as a toolbox.编辑方针把刊物视作通用研究议程的载体，着力辨识本领域独特而重要的侧面，避免把可视化当成一套工具集合。
• Visual analytics forms a large share of recent content, joining interactive interfaces to statistical and machine learning computation so that analysts can reason about large and changing data.近年的内容里有相当比例属于视觉分析，把交互界面与统计计算、机器学习计算接在一起，让分析人员应对不断变化的大规模数据。
• Interface design and usability evaluation belong to the core remit, with papers reporting task performance, error rates, learning effects and the fit between tools and professional workflows.界面设计与可用性评估属于核心范围，论文会报告任务完成情况、错误率与学习效果，也会讨论工具与专业工作流程之间的契合度。
• Perceptual and cognitive foundations are treated as first class material, covering visual encoding, attention, working memory, change blindness and the way readers build mental models from displays.知觉与认知基础被当作一等议题，涵盖视觉编码、注意力、工作记忆、变化盲视，以及读者借助视图建立心智模型的方式。
• Graph and network drawing attracts steady attention, from force directed and hierarchical layouts to edge bundling, matrix views and methods that keep readability as node counts rise.图与网络的绘制长期受到关注，从力导向布局与层次布局到边捆绑、矩阵视图，以及节点数量增长后仍能维持可读性的排布方法。
• Evaluation methodology receives explicit coverage, including controlled experiments, longitudinal field studies, expert reviews and insight based measures that try to capture what a reader actually learned from a session.评估方法学有专门讨论，包括受控实验、现场纵向研究、专家评审，以及试图刻画读者在一次使用中真正获得什么的洞察度量。
• Text and document visualization covers topic models, citation and co authorship networks, science mapping and the visual reading of large corpora such as patents and news archives.文本与文献可视化覆盖主题模型、引文网络与合作网络、科学图谱，也覆盖专利与新闻档案这类大规模语料的视觉阅读。
• The boundary with scientific visualization is discussed rather than policed, since volume rendering, flow fields and abstract data displays increasingly share common interaction techniques and provenance tooling.刊物对科学可视化与信息可视化的分界持讨论态度，体绘制、流场与抽象数据视图在交互手法与溯源工具上已彼此借用。
• Biomedical and omics applications appear regularly, where pathway maps, cohort comparisons and clinical dashboards have to stay legible for domain specialists who are not visualization experts themselves.生物医学与组学应用时常出现，通路图、队列比较与临床看板要面向不熟悉可视化技术的领域读者保持可读。
• Security work addresses situational awareness, log and alert triage and attack graph exploration, settings where false negatives carry operational cost and displays must support rapid judgement under time pressure.安全方向涉及态势感知、日志与告警的分诊、攻击图探查，这些场景里漏报会带来实际代价，界面需要在时间压力下支持快速判断。
• Digital humanities and library science contribute archival browsing, collection comparison and the visualization of historical records, often with sparse and uncertain metadata that the design has to acknowledge.数字人文与图书馆学带来档案浏览、馆藏比较与历史记录的视觉呈现，元数据往往稀疏且不确定，设计必须对此作出交代。
• Uncertainty, provenance and model transparency are recurring themes, and papers increasingly ask how a display can show confidence, missing values and the reasoning behind a machine learning prediction.不确定性、数据溯源与模型透明是反复出现的题目，论文越来越多地追问视图如何呈现置信度、缺失值，以及机器学习预测背后的推理。
• Display environments range from wall sized installations and immersive headsets to tablets, and the journal tracks how layout, animation and direct interaction scale across those very different settings.显示环境从墙面式装置与沉浸式头显一直延伸到平板设备，刊物关注布局、动画与直接交互在这些差别很大的场景里如何伸缩。

History

• The first issue, volume one number one, appeared in March 2002 under Palgrave Macmillan, with the imprint listed as Basingstoke in Hampshire, England, then the publisher's base for its journals list.第 1 卷第 1 期于 2002 年 3 月问世，出版方为 Palgrave Macmillan，出版地记为英格兰汉普郡的 Basingstoke。
• The launch answered a demand created during the 1990s, when dedicated conferences, readers and toolkits turned visualization of abstract data into a recognisable research community with its own questions.创刊回应了 1990 年代积累起来的需求，专门的会议、读本与工具包让抽象数据的可视化成为有自身问题域的研究社群。
• Crossref records for the early volumes carry the DOI prefix 10.1057 with the palgrave ivs string, which marks the Palgrave years and still resolves for those papers.早期卷期的 Crossref 记录带有 10.1057 前缀，这一前缀标记出 Palgrave 时期，那些论文至今仍可解析。
• January 2011 marks the handover to SAGE, and the National Library of Medicine keeps both imprints on record, the earlier one at Basingstoke and the current one at Thousand Oaks, California.2011 年 1 月是移交 SAGE 的节点，美国国家医学图书馆把两条出版信息都留在档内，前者在 Basingstoke，现行的一条在加利福尼亚州千橡市。
• Volume ten straddles the two publishers, and its third issue is the first to carry the SAGE prefix 10.1177, a useful marker for dating the transfer itself.第 10 卷横跨两家出版方，该卷第 3 期是第一个带 SAGE 前缀 10.1177 的期号，可用来给交接本身定年。
• Publication place moved with the publisher, so the current record reads Thousand Oaks, California, while older catalogues that stopped updating in 2010 still show the Hampshire address.出版地随出版方一起迁移，现行记录写作加利福尼亚州千橡市，2010 年后停止更新的书目仍显示汉普郡地址。
• Four numbers make up a volume, and Crossref lists volumes 23 to 25 across 2024 to 2026, each with issues one through four rather than a continuous stream.每卷由 4 期组成，Crossref 列出 2024 年至 2026 年分别对应第 23 卷至第 25 卷，每卷都是第 1 期到第 4 期，而非连续编号。
• Combined numbers appear now and then, such as volume twelve numbers three and four in 2012 and volume twenty numbers two and three in 2021, usually when copy flow is uneven.合期偶有出现，例如 2012 年第 12 卷第 3 期与第 4 期合并，2021 年第 20 卷第 2 期与第 3 期合并，多与稿件流量不均有关。
• The arithmetic is steady, with volume one in 2002 and volume twenty four in 2025, which gives readers a quick way to date a paper from its volume number.卷号与年份的对应关系稳定，2002 年为第 1 卷，2025 年为第 24 卷，读者可据卷号快速推断论文年份。
• No rename or merger has occurred in more than two decades, and the title still carries the name chosen at launch, a rarity among visualization periodicals of that generation.二十多年间没有更名也没有并入其他刊物，刊名沿用创刊时的选择，这在同一代可视化刊物里并不常见。
• Coverage runs through Science Citation Index Expanded, and PubMed indexes only selected citations, a status the National Library of Medicine states plainly in its own brief record.收录范围包括 Science Citation Index Expanded，PubMed 只收录部分被引记录，这一状态在美国国家医学图书馆的条目里写得很清楚。
• Impact factors have drifted rather than climbed, from 2.174 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2023, 2.0 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025, with the five year figure at 2.7.影响因子多年在窄幅内摆动，2022 年为 2.174，2023 年 1.8，2024 年 2.0，2025 年 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.7。
• Output is modest, roughly twenty five articles a year, against 829 total citations in 2025, a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.6 and a cited half life of ten years.发文规模不大，每年约 25 篇，2025 年总被引 829 次，期刊引证指标 0.6，被引半衰期 10 年。
• Crossref holds 603 DOI records for the title, and the 2025 gold open access share of 42 percent points to a hybrid model rather than a fully open journal.Crossref 内该刊共有 603 条 DOI 记录，2025 年金色开放获取占比约 42%，说明它走混合模式，并非全开放刊物。

Editors

• Chaomei Chen, a professor of information science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, holds the editor in chief position and has held it through the journal's SAGE years.主编 Chaomei Chen 是费城 Drexel University 的信息科学教授，在 SAGE 接手的这些年里一直担任此职。
• His own research covers information visualization, visual analytics, citation analysis and the mapping of scientific frontiers, a profile that sits close to the material the journal publishes.他本人的研究覆盖信息可视化、视觉分析、引文分析与科学前沿图谱，与刊物日常刊登的选题相当接近。
• He also built CiteSpace, a bibliometric mapping tool, and that lineage explains why scientometric and knowledge domain visualization sit comfortably inside the journal's editorial remit rather than at its edge.他还开发了文献计量图谱工具 CiteSpace，这层渊源让科学计量与知识领域可视化稳稳落在刊物的编辑范围之内。
• The editorial board draws on computer science, information science and cognitive psychology, and members are asked to review across those borders instead of guarding the territory of a single discipline.编委会来自计算机科学、信息科学与认知心理学等领域，评审人需要跨过这些边界工作，各自守着一门学科的地盘并不合宜。
• Manuscripts pass an editorial screening first and then go to external referees, with revisions travelling through the SAGE Journals system until a final editorial decision is issued.稿件先经编辑初筛，再送外部评审，修改稿在 SAGE Journals 投稿系统里流转，直到编辑部给出最终决定。
• The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics, so corrections, expressions of concern and retractions follow a published code rather than ad hoc judgement.刊物是出版伦理委员会（COPE）的成员，更正、关注声明与撤稿依照公开规范处理，不靠临时判断。
• Guest edited collections appear from time to time, and combined numbers in the archive suggest that themed material is sometimes gathered into a double issue when submissions cluster.客座编辑组织的专辑不时出现，过刊里的合期提示专题稿件有时会凑成双期推出。
• Submissions may be research articles, methodological contributions, application case studies or review pieces, and each type faces the same demand for evidence about what a design actually achieves.来稿可以是研究论文、方法学贡献、应用案例或综述，各类稿件都要回答同一个问题，即某个设计究竟带来了什么效果。
• The stated stance favours interdisciplinary material and a tight coupling of theory with practice, which pushes authors to report both the mechanism and its use in the field.公开的编辑立场偏向跨学科材料，也强调理论与实践的紧密衔接，作者因此需要同时说明机制与它在实际场景中的用法。
• Papers arrive in English through the SAGE Journals portal, and the journal asks for a clear statement of contribution to visualization research rather than a tool announcement alone.稿件以英文经 SAGE Journals 平台提交，刊物要求作者说清对可视化研究的贡献，仅介绍一个工具并不够。