Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research is a fully open access journal on foot and ankle care, and it serves as the official publication of the Australian Podiatry Association and the Royal College of Podiatry in the United Kingdom.《足与踝研究杂志》是一本全面开放获取的刊物，主题是足踝照护，同时是澳大利亚足病协会与英国皇家足病学院的正式出版物。

Wiley has published it since 2024, when the title moved over from BioMed Central.2024 年起由 Wiley 出版，此前这本刊挂在 BioMed Central 名下。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3, while the five-year figure reaches 3.3, one of the widest gaps in this batch.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子却到 3.3，是本批里两个数值差距最大的之一。

Clarivate ranks it 62nd of 147 in orthopaedics, a Q2 position, and the publisher lists a CiteScore of 4.3.科睿唯安在骨科 147 种刊里把它排到第 62，属 Q2，出版方给的 CiteScore 是 4.3。

The 2026 volume is the 19th and it comes in four quarterly issues dated March, June, September and December.2026 年是第 19 卷，全年四期，分别标三月，六月，九月与十二月。

Scope

• Scope reaches policy, organisation, delivery and clinical practice, which means the journal takes health services work as readily as bedside studies.范围涵盖政策，组织，服务供给与临床实践，意思是卫生服务类研究与床边研究同等受理。

• Subject areas named on the page begin with diabetology and paediatrics and run through sports medicine to gerontology and geriatrics.页面上点到的学科从糖尿病学与儿科起步，经运动医学一直排到老年学与老年医学。

• Foot surgery, physical therapy, dermatology and wound management sit alongside radiology in the same list.足部外科，物理治疗，皮肤病学与创面管理同放射学并列在同一份清单里。

• Biomechanics and bioengineering appear with orthotics and prosthetics, which puts device design inside the remit.生物力学与生物工程同矫形器假肢并列，器械设计因此也在受理范围内。

• Epidemiology, policy and service organisation close the list, so a paper on waiting lists can sit in the same volume as a gait analysis.流行病学，政策与服务组织收尾，一篇讲候诊名单的稿子可以和步态分析同卷。

• The journal invites submissions from every profession that manages lower limb conditions, naming podiatrists and nurses first.刊物向所有处理下肢病况的职业征稿，名单头两个是足病师与护士。

• Physiotherapists, orthopaedic surgeons, manual therapists, general practitioners and health service researchers are all named as welcome.物理治疗师，骨科医师，手法治疗师，全科医生与卫生服务研究者也都写在欢迎之列。

• Research Articles carry 3,500 words and a structured abstract of up to 300, and that abstract limit applies to most of the research tracks.研究论文限 3500 词，结构化摘要不超过 300 词，这一摘要上限对多数研究类稿件通用。

• Reviews are set at 3,000 words with the same 300-word structured abstract and are meant to give authoritative coverage of a mature subject.综述定在 3000 词，摘要格式与上限相同，要求对一个成熟题目给出权威覆盖。

• A Study Protocol may describe proposed or ongoing work and runs to 3,500 words, which lets a trial enter the record before it reports results.研究方案可以写拟议中或正在进行的工作，篇幅 3500 词，试验因此在出结果之前就能进档案。

• Methodology papers need a demonstrable advance over existing practice and the method should already have been tested.方法学论文必须相对现有做法有可证明的推进，且方法本身应当已经过检验。

• Commentaries run 800 to 1,200 words, and Letters 300 to 800, with no abstract required for the letter.评论类 800 到 1200 词，读者来信 300 到 800 词，来信不要求摘要。

• A Letter may re-analyse an article published here or elsewhere, raise a general issue, or report brief findings with a narrow claim.来信可以重析本刊或其他刊物发表的文章，可以提出普遍性问题，也可以报告结论有限的小型发现。

• Up to seven keywords are allowed, references are numbered in order of appearance with bracketed citations in the text.关键词最多七个，参考文献按出现顺序编号，正文用方括号标注。

• LaTeX is accepted through the publisher's template, and a PDF of the compiled manuscript must accompany the source files.LaTeX 稿可用出版方模板提交，源码之外还要附一份编译好的 PDF。

• Proofs come back within 48 hours, a window the guide states without any allowance for extension.校样须在 48 小时内退回，须知写这个时限时没有留出延期的余地。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in 2008 under BioMed Central in London, which is where the journal's National Library record still points.第 1 卷 2008 年在伦敦由 BioMed Central 出版，国家医学图书馆的记录仍指向这个出处。

• Volume numbering has run one a year since, so 2026 is volume 19 and the sum is year minus 2007.此后卷号一年一卷，2026 年是第 19 卷，算法为年份减 2007。

• The title was open access from the first issue, which makes it older than most of the fully open journals it now sits beside.这本刊从第一期起就是开放获取，比它现在并列的多数全开放刊物都要早。

• PubMed carries it from volume 1 in 2008, while MEDLINE waited until volume 9 in 2016 before taking the title.PubMed 从 2008 年第 1 卷就收了，MEDLINE 则等到 2016 年第 9 卷才把刊名纳入。

• Every article is deposited in PubMed Central, and the publisher states that deposit as a standing practice rather than an option.每篇文章都存入 PubMed Central，出版方把这写成常规做法而不是可选项。

• Ownership changed hands in 2024, when the title moved from BioMed Central to Wiley, and the editor list was rebuilt around that transfer.2024 年出版方换了手，刊物从 BioMed Central 转到 Wiley，编委名单也随之重排。

• The imprint now reads Hoboken, New Jersey, and the move changed the submission system as well as the publisher.出版地如今写作新泽西州霍博肯，这次搬迁连带把投稿系统也换掉了。

• Impact factors across five years are 2.303 in 2021, 3.05 in 2022, 2.5 in 2023, 2.2 in 2024 and 2.3 in 2025, a series that peaked early.五年影响因子为 2021 年 2.303，2022 年 3.05，2023 年 2.5，2024 年 2.2，2025 年 2.3，高点出现在前段。

• Total citations are 2,656 with a cited half-life of 6.4 years, and annual output is about 66 articles, the smallest in this batch.总被引 2656 次，引用半衰期 6.4 年，年发文约 66 篇，是本批里最少的。

• The 2025 JCI is 0.88 at percentile 58.2, and the journal is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Embase and DOAJ.2025 年 JCI 为 0.88，百分位 58.2，刊物同时进《科学引文索引》扩展版，Scopus，Embase 与 DOAJ。

• All of its output is open access, which the metrics record as a gold ratio of 100 percent.所发文章全部开放获取，指标记录里的金色开放比例因此是 100%。

• Four issues a year have been the rhythm for the recent volumes, and the 2026 volume closes with a December number.近几卷都是每年四期，2026 年这一卷以十二月号收尾。

Editors

• Sarah Curran of Cardiff Metropolitan University shares the chief editorship with Andrew Buldt of La Trobe University.主编由卡迪夫城市大学的 Sarah Curran 与拉筹伯大学的 Andrew Buldt 共同担任。

• Curran is a professor of podiatric medicine and rehabilitation, and she holds an honorary chair at the National University of Ireland in Galway.Curran 是足病医学与康复方向的教授，另在爱尔兰国立大学高威分校挂荣誉教席。

• Her research interest is musculoskeletal pathology of the lower limb, from patellofemoral pain and chronic ankle instability to the effect of limb dominance.她的研究兴趣在下肢肌骨病理，从髌股疼痛与慢性踝关节不稳一直做到肢体优势侧的影响。

• Stewart Morrison at King's College London carries the deputy editor role and sits between the two chiefs and the associate editors.伦敦国王学院的 Stewart Morrison 任副编辑，位置在两位主编与副编辑群之间。

• Thirteen associate editors are listed, ten of them in Britain or Australia, with others in New Zealand and at Auckland University of Technology.名单上有十三位副编辑，十位在英国或澳大利亚，其余在新西兰等地，奥克兰理工大学也在其中。

• The group includes clinicians from the National Health Service as well as university researchers, among them Him Shun Kei and Priya Anand.这批人里既有大学研究者，也有英国国家医疗服务体系的临床人员，Him Shun Kei 与 Priya Anand 都在内。

• Six editors emeriti are named, among them Keith Rome, Hylton Menz, Karl Landorf, Catherine Bowen and Mike Potter.另有六位荣休编辑，Keith Rome，Hylton Menz，Karl Landorf，Catherine Bowen 与 Mike Potter 都在名单上。

• Those emeriti carried the journal through most of its BioMed Central years, and their names stay on the page after the publisher change.这批荣休编辑陪刊物走过 BioMed Central 时期的大半，换了出版方之后名字仍留在页面上。

• Both founding societies hold reserve funds to cover article processing charges for papers submitted by their members.两家创办学会都留有准备金，用来支付会员投稿的文章处理费。

• A member writes to the society for a code and enters it during submission, which is how the charge is waived rather than refunded.会员向学会索取一个代码，在投稿时填入，费用因此是直接免掉，而不是事后退还。

• Median submission to first decision is 17 days, and the publisher reports a 26 percent acceptance rate.从投稿到首次决定的中间值 17 天，出版方报告的录用率是 26%。

• The charge for a non-member paper is 3,080 dollars, 2,370 pounds or 2,590 euros before tax, and the licence is CC BY without exception.非会员的文章处理费为 3080 美元，2370 英镑或 2590 欧元，税前计，许可协议一律是 CC BY。

• No submission fee or page charge is levied, and the office answers at jfa.office@wiley.com with submissions going in under the code JFA2.刊物不收投稿费与版面费，编辑部信箱是 jfa.office@wiley.com，投稿经简称 JFA2 的入口递交。