Interface Focus
Interface Focus is an interdisciplinary journal published by the Royal Society, issued bimonthly and online only since 2019. It works by theme issue, each number gathering a full issue around a topic crossing the interface of the physical, biological and social sciences under a guest editorial team, and is the newest member of the society's interface family of journals.《界面聚焦》（Interface Focus）是皇家学会（The Royal Society）出版的跨学科学术期刊，双月刊发行，自二〇一九年起仅出网络版。该刊采用主题专辑制，每期围绕一个跨越物理、生物与社会科学界面的专题，由客座编辑组织全文，是皇家学会「界面」期刊家族中最新的一员。
Scope
Interface Focus takes an unusual stance among the society's journals: it does not accept unsolicited stand-alone papers, all of its content being invited, and each issue is a self-contained interdisciplinary theme. The directions in which themes have run include:Interface Focus 的取稿立场在皇家学会诸刊中相当独特：它不接收独立投稿的常规论文，全部内容均为约稿，每期是一个自足的跨学科专题。官方列举过的专题方向包括：
- Biophysics and bioengineering: biophysics, biomechanics, biomaterials, bioengineering and tissue engineering.生物物理与生物工程： 生物物理学、生物力学、生物材料、生物工程与组织工程。
- Biocomputation and complexity: biocomputation, biocomplexity, bioinformatics and systems biology.生物计算与复杂性： 生物计算、生物复杂性、生物信息学与系统生物学。
- Chemistry and nanoscience interfaces: chemical biology, bionanoscience and medical physics.化学与纳米科学界面： 化学生物学、生物纳米科学与医学物理。
- Theoretical and synthetic biology: theoretical biology and synthetic biology, understanding living systems through modelling and engineering design.理论与合成生物学： 理论生物学与合成生物学，即用建模与工程设计理解生命系统。
Each issue typically combines new research, reviews and opinion pieces, introduced by the guest editors, with the author line-up settled between the journal and the guest team. Long subscription-based with a hybrid open-access option, the journal moved to open access from January 2026 under the society's Subscribe to Open scheme, carrying no article processing charge for that year.每期通常包含新研究、综述与观点文章，由客座编辑撰写导读，作者团队由编辑部与客座编辑共同商定。该刊长期为订阅制加混合开放获取，二〇二六年一月起经皇家学会「订阅转开放」计划转为开放获取，当年投稿不收文章处理费。[1]
History
- Supplement period (2008-2010): the journal began life as a supplement to the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, published alongside it for three years, preparing both content and an author community for independence.增刊时期（二〇〇八至二〇一〇年）： 本刊最初是《皇家学会界面杂志》的增刊，随该刊出版三年，为独立成刊作了内容与作者群的准备。[2]
- Independent journal (2011): it became an independent journal in January 2011, described in the society's catalogue as launched as an independent journal in 2011独立成刊（二〇一一年）： 二〇一一年一月起成为独立期刊，官方目录称其「作为独立刊创办于二〇一一年」；首篇社论已于二〇一〇年十二月在线发表，故官方页面亦有「二〇一〇年作为独立刊创办」的表述。 the first editorial appeared online in December 2010, which accounts for the official page's alternative phrasing of a 2010 launch.[3]
- Print ceased (2019): after volume nine the journal stopped its print edition and moved to online-only publication, in step with the society's wider move to digital.停办纸版（二〇一九年）： 第九卷之后本刊停止印刷版，转为纯网络出版，与皇家学会其余刊物同步推进数字化。[2]
- Subscribe to Open (2026): the society announced that eight of its subscription journals, this one included, would be supported as open access from 2026 under the Subscribe to Open scheme, with no article processing charge in the launch year, reverting to hybrid should annual support fall short.转入订阅转开放计划（二〇二六年）： 皇家学会宣布旗下八种订阅刊自二〇二六年起经订阅转开放计划支持开放获取，本刊在列，投稿当季不收文章处理费；若年度支持不足则回归混合模式。[1]
- Metric standing: the 2025 impact factor is 4.0, placing the journal in the first quartile of biology and zone three of biology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking.指标走势： 二〇二五年影响因子四点〇，在生物学小类列一区，在中科院分区中列生物学三区。[4]
Editors
The journal is run by a single editor-in-chief, with no co-editors or deputy editors, supported by an international editorial board of ten and two professional publishing editors本刊实行单一主编制，不设共同主编与副编辑，配十人国际编委会与两名专职出版编辑；创刊编辑为牛津大学的丹尼斯·诺布尔。皇家学会不公布本刊录用比例与审稿时长。 the founding editor was Denis Noble of the University of Oxford. The society publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for the title.[5]
- Russell Foster (editor-in-chief, January 2018 to December 2027): professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxford and director of the Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, known for the discovery of a third class of photoreceptor in the eye beyond rods and cones, with the society's official biography confirming his editorship of the journal.拉塞尔·福斯特（二〇一八年一月起任，任期至二〇二七年十二月）： 牛津大学昼夜神经科学教授、朱尔斯·索恩睡眠与昼夜神经科学研究所所长，因发现眼中视锥视杆之外的第三类光感受器而闻名，皇家学会官方简历明确其兼任本刊主编。[5]
- Denis Noble (founding editor): professor in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford and a foundational figure in systems biology, whose computational models of cardiac electrophysiology are early classics of biological modelling.丹尼斯·诺布尔（创刊编辑）： 牛津大学生理、解剖与遗传学系教授，系统生物学奠基性学者，其构建的心脏电生理计算模型是生物学建模的早期经典。[3]
- Editorial board: the ten board members sit in the United Kingdom, the United States, China, France, Australia and Israel, covering chemistry, biophysics, engineering and cell biology, a size proportionate to the commissioning needs of the theme-issue model.编委构成： 十人编委会分驻英国、美国、中国、法国、澳大利亚与以色列等地，覆盖化学、生物物理、工程与细胞生物学，规模与主题专辑制的约稿需求相称。[6]