International Journal of Fracture

International Journal of Fracture (commonly abbreviated as ''Int. J. Fract.') is a journal in fracture mechanics published by Springer. Founded in 1967, it publishes original research and technical notes in fracture mechanics and maintains close ties to the International Fracture Conference series and its proceedings, with a 2025 impact factor of 2.8.International Journal of Fracture（常用缩写 Int. J. Fract.）是 Springer 出版的断裂力学类期刊，1967 年创刊，刊载断裂力学领域的原创研究与技术札记，与国际断裂会议系列会议及其论文集关系密切，2025 年影响因子为 2.8。^[1]

Scope

• Scope: the journal publishes original research papers and technical notes in fracture mechanics, covering the physical mechanisms of fracture, methods of fracture toughness assessment, fatigue crack growth, damage tolerance analysis, and the application of fracture mechanics in the reliability assessment of structures and components.学科定位： 刊发断裂力学领域的原创研究论文与技术札记，领域涵盖断裂的物理机制、断裂韧性评估方法、疲劳裂纹扩展、断裂损伤容限分析，以及断裂力学在结构与部件可靠性评估中的应用。
• Article types: alongside research papers and technical notes the journal prints book reviews and organises special issues on major events in fracture mechanics.体裁设置： 除研究论文与技术札记外，另刊书评，并针对断裂力学领域的重大事件组织特刊。
• Breadth of coverage: the official call for papers explicitly welcomes interdisciplinary submissions, including metals and non-metals, ceramics, cement and concrete, polymers and composites, electronic devices, and fracture mechanics applied to bone and skeleton.收录范围之广： 官方征稿说明明确欢迎跨学科投稿，包括金属与非金属材料、陶瓷、水泥与混凝土、聚合物与复合材料、电子器件，以及应用于骨折与骨骼的断裂力学工作。
• Link with the conferences: the journal is formally associated with the International Fracture Conference series and its proceedings. Work presented at those meetings may appear in a special issue here or be published separately in the journal, and both routes are open. The relationship is complementary rather than competitive: the conferences are the central scholarly occasions in fracture mechanics, while the journal takes on the systematic collation of their output and its publication outside those meetings.与会议的联动： 期刊与国际断裂会议系列及其论文集建立正式关联，会议所产成果既能以专刊形式在本刊发表，也能在本刊另行成文，两条路径并存；两者分工而非替代，会议本身是断裂力学界的核心学术场合，本刊承担的是会议成果的集中整理与常态化发表。
• Open access, indexing and metrics: the journal is a hybrid title. Subscribers read the full text free of charge and authors may opt for paid immediate open access. It is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, with a 2025 impact factor of 2.8 and a third-quartile position in the Mechanics category.开放获取与收录： 期刊属混合开放获取刊物，订阅者可免费阅读全文，作者可选择付费立即开放；期刊收录于科学引文索引扩展版，2025 年影响因子为 2.8，在力学类别中处于第三区。^[2]

History

• 1967: the journal was founded, published by the Elsevier subsidiary Meredith Corporation.1967年： 期刊创刊，出版方为 Elsevier 的子公司 Meredith Corporation。
• The 1980s: the journal established itself within fracture mechanics with an impact factor around 1, and became one of the most widely cited titles in the field.1980年代： 期刊在断裂力学界确立地位，影响因子维持在 1 上下，是该领域被引最广的刊物之一。
• The 1990s: the journal was published by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, a house assembled within the Elsevier group when Gordon and Breach acquired a number of publishing houses including Elsevier and Academic Press between 1991 and 1995.1990年代： 期刊由 Elsevier 体系内的 Gordon 与 Breach Science Publishers 出版，该社由 Gordon 与 Breach 在 1991 至 1995 年间收购了包括 Elsevier 与 Academic Press 在内的多家出版机构后形成。
• 2001: the journal was absorbed into the Springer publishing system, the publisher changing from Elsevier to Kluwer Academic Publishers, and from January 2003 it has been published by Springer.2001年： 期刊并入 Springer 出版体系，出版方由 Elsevier 转为 Kluwer Academic Publishers；自 2003 年 1 月起改由 Springer 出版。
• 1996 to 2005: Dr Alan T. Zehnder was editor-in-chief, and it was during his tenure that the change of publisher and the update of the journal's international standard serial numbers were carried through.1996年至2005年： 主编由 Alan T. Zehnder 担任，他在任期内完成了出版方的更替与刊名的国际标准连续出版物号变更。
• 2020: Professor Ryuichi Ishii succeeded as editor-in-chief.2020年： Ryuichi Ishii 接任主编。
• Change in frequency: the journal appeared with twelve issues a year in earlier years and moved to a single volume of eighteen issues a year in 2021. In recent years its articles have been published on the Discover Mechanical Engineering platform at Springer.刊期演变： 早期每年出版十二期，2021 年改为每年一卷十八期；近年已并入 Springer 的《Discover Mechanical Engineering》出版平台发表。^[3]

Editors

• Editor-in-chief: the journal is led by Professor Ryuichi Ishii of Tokyo University of Science in Japan, whose research concentrates on fracture mechanics, fatigue and structural integrity.现任主编： 主编为日本东京理科大学的石井龙一教授，其研究集中于断裂力学、疲劳与结构完整性问题。
• Associate editors: the associate editors are few in number, covering experimental fracture and fatigue research, numerical analysis and engineering assessment, and are drawn largely from Japan, South Korea, China and Europe.副编辑： 副编辑数位不多，分属断裂与疲劳的实验研究、数值分析与工程评估等方向，多为来自日本、韩国、中国与欧洲的学者。
• International composition of the board: board members come from a number of countries and span fracture mechanics, the mechanics of metals and ceramics, and structural integrity. The board is smaller than that of a comparable research journal, which matches the field's habit of using conferences as its main venue for scholarly exchange.编委的国际化程度： 编委成员来自多个国家，涵盖断裂力学、金属材料与陶瓷力学、结构完整性等方向，规模小于同领域的研究刊，与断裂力学以会议为主要学术交流场所的惯例一致。
• Submission system and technical notes: manuscripts are lodged through the publisher's online submission system, and the editors return a definite decision on both acceptances and rejections. The technical note is a category peculiar to this journal, carrying fracture assessment methods and computational results that are short but of practical engineering value. Its existence lets the journal absorb work from industry that cannot readily be written up as full papers.投稿系统与技术札记： 稿件通过出版方在线投稿系统递交，编辑部对录用稿与拒稿均给出明确决定；技术札记是本刊特有的体裁，用于刊载篇幅较短但具有工程价值的断裂评估方法与计算结果，这一栏目的存在使期刊能够承接工程界来不及写成完整论文的成果。^[4]