Journal of Genetic Counseling

Journal of Genetic Counseling is the research forum of the genetic counseling profession, published by Wiley for the National Society of Genetic Counselors and carrying this title since 1992.《遗传咨询杂志》是遗传咨询专业的研究论坛，由 Wiley 代表 National Society of Genetic Counselors 出版，1992 年创刊以来沿用同名。

Its remit runs from laboratory genetics and risk communication to ethics, law, education and health policy, with practice-facing papers placed beside empirical studies.办刊范围从实验室遗传学与风险沟通延伸到伦理，法律，教育与卫生政策，面向实践的稿件与实证研究并列刊发。

The 2025 Journal Citation Reports list places the title in quartile three of GENETICS & HEREDITY and of its two social science categories, with an impact factor of 1.9.2025 年 JCR 把该刊列在 GENETICS & HEREDITY 与两个社会科学类目的第三分区，影响因子为 1.9。

Scope

• Officially the journal is described as a timely international forum addressing all aspects of the discipline and practice of genetic counseling.官网把刊物定位为即时的国际论坛，处理遗传咨询学科与实践的各个方面。
• The aims text names its central problem area, the questions that arise where rapidly advancing technology meets the concerns of individuals and communities at genetic risk.办刊宗旨点明核心议题，即快速发展的技术与遗传风险个体及群体的关切交界处出现的问题。
• Readers addressed are genetic counselors, other clinicians and health educators, laboratory geneticists, bioethicists, legal scholars and social scientists.目标读者为遗传咨询师，其他临床医师与健康教育者，实验室遗传学家，生物伦理学家，法学研究者与社会科学工作者。
• Work is solicited in national, international and cross-national settings, so a single-country survey and a comparative study share the same pages.征稿覆盖国内，国际与跨国三种情境，单一国家的调查与跨国比较研究同登一卷。
• Psychosocial inquiry has a long place here, and the series Psychological aspects of genetic counseling was already running in volume 1 in 1992 under Seymour Kessler.心理社会研究在该刊传统深厚，Seymour Kessler 主持的「Psychological aspects of genetic counseling」系列在 1992 年即收入第 1 卷。
• Cancer genetics occupies a large block, from the practice recommendations on risk assessment and counseling published in 2004 to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer work.肿瘤遗传是重要板块，2004 年该刊刊发过癌症风险评估与咨询的实践建议，此后遗传性乳腺癌与卵巢癌研究持续刊载。
• Prenatal screening, newborn and pediatric practice and developmental disabilities make up a third field, including counseling after an abnormal ultrasound finding.产前筛查，新生儿与儿科实践以及发育障碍构成第三个领域，包含超声发现异常后的咨询。
• Sequencing-era subjects include exome and genome results, variants of uncertain significance, insurance barriers to testing and the counseling of families with rare or undiagnosed disease.测序时代的议题有外显子组与基因组结果，意义未明变异，检测的保险障碍，以及罕见病或未确诊家庭的咨询。
• Delivery of the service is itself studied, with telegenetics, telephone counseling, chatbot education and digital pretest tools measured against in-person care.服务提供方式本身也是研究对象，远程咨询，电话咨询，聊天机器人与数字化咨询前教育工具都会与面对面服务对照评估。
• Education, training and supervision form a standing remit covering graduate curriculum, competency assessment, clinical placement and supervisor development.教育，培训与督导是常设范围，涉及研究生课程，能力评估，临床实习与督导者培养。
• Ethics, law and policy contributions take up direct-to-consumer testing, privacy, insurance discrimination, reproductive choices and the licensure of counselors.伦理，法律与政策类稿件处理直接面向消费者的检测，隐私，保险歧视，生育选择以及咨询师的执业许可。
• Health equity runs through the later volumes in work on cultural competence, language access for Spanish speakers and sign language users, and the experience of minoritized trainees.健康公平贯穿后期各卷，涉及文化能力，西班牙语使用者与手语使用者的语言可及性，以及少数群体学员的经历。
• Professional standards get published here, the standardized human pedigree nomenclature recommendations of 1995 being the clearest example.专业规范文件在此刊发，1995 年的标准化人类家系图谱命名建议是最明显的例子。^[1]
• That nomenclature was revised in 2008 and a 2025 letter asked for terms covering gestational carriers, so the paper trail of a working standard is visible across thirty years.该命名规范在 2008 年修订，2025 年又有来信要求补充代孕载体术语，一项工作标准三十年的演变轨迹因此可见。
• Papers appear as original research, reviews, editorials, invited commentaries, letters and society position statements, and guest edited collections gather one theme per issue.刊载体裁有原创研究，综述，社论，受邀评论，读者来信与学会立场声明，客座编辑的专号则每期聚焦一个主题。

History

• The journal was launched in 1992 in New York by Human Sciences Press, with the National Society of Genetic Counselors as the profession standing behind it.该刊 1992 年在纽约由 Human Sciences Press 创办，背后的专业组织即 National Society of Genetic Counselors。
• NLM cataloguing still records that first imprint, and the Crossref journal entry preserves the compound house name Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press from the DOI registration years.NLM 编目仍记录创刊时期的出版标记，Crossref 的期刊条目则留有注册 DOI 时期的复合社名 Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press。
• Kluwer's science and medicine list was folded into Springer Science+Business Media during the consolidation of 2003 and 2004, and the title travelled with it.Kluwer 的科学与医学书目在 2003 至 2004 年的合并中并入 Springer Science+Business Media，该刊随之转手。
• Under Springer the journal used the DOI prefix 10.1007 with the site code s10897, depositing its last Springer articles in volume 27 of 2018.Springer 时期该刊用 DOI 前缀 10.1007 与站点代码 s10897，在 Springer 名下注册的最后文章出自 2018 年的第 27 卷。
• Wiley took the title over from volume 28 in 2019, moving new DOIs to 10.1002 under the code jgc4 and giving Hoboken, New Jersey as the imprint place.Wiley 自 2019 年第 28 卷起接手，新 DOI 迁到 10.1002 名下（站点代码 jgc4），版权地记为新泽西州 Hoboken。
• Four numbers made up a year through volume 6 in 1997, and six numbers a year have appeared since volume 7 in 1998.到 1997 年第 6 卷为止每年出 4 期，自 1998 年第 7 卷起每年出 6 期，卷号则从 1992 年的第 1 卷连贯到 2026 年的第 35 卷。
• The NLM frequency note reads Bimonthly from 1999, the same six-issue rhythm the journal keeps in its current numbering.NLM 的频率著录自 1999 年记为双月刊，与现行 6 期节奏一致。
• Bibliographic visibility came late. MEDLINE and PubMed indexing began with volume 13 issue 1 in February 2004, leaving the first twelve volumes outside the index.书目可见度来得较晚，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 收录自 2004 年 2 月第 13 卷第 1 期开始，此前十二卷未进索引。
• Early issues acted as a record room for a young profession, printing its code of ethics in 1992 and the argument over pedigree nomenclature in 1993.早期各卷充当年轻行业的档案室，1992 年刊出其伦理守则，1993 年刊载家系图谱命名的争论。
• A 2011 editorial marked twenty years of the title and retraced its first two decades.2011 年的社论为刊物二十周年作结，回顾了前二十年的历程。^[2]
• Themed collections became a fixture in the 2010s, on diversity in 2011, direct-to-consumer testing in 2012, a global perspective in 2013, next-generation sequencing in 2014 and public health genetics in 2015.专号在 2010 年代成为常例，2011 年的多样性，2012 年的直接面向消费者检测，2013 年的全球视角，2014 年的新一代测序与 2015 年的公共遗传学各有专辑。
• Later sets covered the Second World Congress on Genetic Counseling in 2021, genetic counseling education in 2023 and research methods in 2026.此后的专辑涵盖 2021 年第二届世界遗传咨询大会，2023 年的遗传咨询教育与 2026 年的研究方法。
• By the 2025 assessment the journal carried 161 publishable items in a year and 3940 citations in hand, with a cited half-life of 6.5 years and an immediacy rate of 0.4.按 2025 年的评估，该刊年发文 161 篇，总被引 3940 次，被引半衰期 6.5 年，即时指数 0.4。
• Its impact factor read 2.717 for 2022 and then held at 1.9 for 2023, 2024 and 2025, while gold open access covered 51.66 percent of 2025 papers.影响因子 2022 年为 2.717，随后 2023，2024 与 2025 年停在 1.9，2025 年的金色开放获取文章占比为 51.66%。

Editors

• The board page of the Wiley era names Christina G.S. Palmer (PhD, CGC) of the University of California Los Angeles as editor-in-chief.Wiley 时期的编委页把 University of California Los Angeles 的 Christina G.S. Palmer（PhD，CGC）列为该刊主编。
• Her own published work covers risk perception, genetic testing in newborn hearing screening and access to genetic services for Deaf communities.她本人的研究涉及风险感知，新生儿听力筛查中的基因检测，以及聋人社群获得遗传服务的路径。
• Melanie F. Myers (MS, PhD), who works at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center with the University of Cincinnati, is listed as deputy editor.同一页面把 Melanie F. Myers（MS，PhD）列为副主编，她在 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 与 University of Cincinnati 任职。
• Two associate editors carry named methodological remits, Robin Grubs (MS, PhD) for qualitative work at the University of Pittsburgh and Ian MacFarlane (PhD) for statistics at Elizabethtown College.两名副编辑分管方法学，Robin Grubs（MS，PhD）在 University of Pittsburgh 负责质性研究，Ian MacFarlane（PhD）在 Elizabethtown College 负责统计。
• Below these standing editors the same page groups section editors, so topical handling is distributed across desks rather than centered on one.编委页在常任编辑之下另列分区编辑，按主题分担审稿，处理权不集中在单一编辑桌。
• The editorial chair changed hands early. Deborah L. Eunpu signed the issue editorials through 1995, and Robert G. Resta took the desk from 1996 into 2001.主编席位早期即有交接，Deborah L. Eunpu 的刊首社论署名止于 1995 年，Robert G. Resta 自 1996 年接掌至 2001 年。
• Allyn McConkie-Rosell then opened the issues with Jennifer A. Sullivan from 2002 to 2007, and Bonnie S. LeRoy wrote with Patricia McCarthy Veach from 2008 onward.其后 Allyn McConkie-Rosell 与 Jennifer A. Sullivan 在 2002 至 2007 年合署刊首文字，Bonnie S. LeRoy 自 2008 年起与 Patricia McCarthy Veach 共同署名。
• Eunpu, Resta, McConkie-Rosell and LeRoy together signed the anniversary editorial of volume 21, a record of the succession in their own hands.Eunpu，Resta，McConkie-Rosell 与 LeRoy 四人共同署名第 21 卷的周年社论，接续谱系由他们亲笔留下。
• Manuscripts enter through the Editorial Manager site set up for the title, where authors register, upload files and follow each record to a decision.稿件经该刊的 Editorial Manager 系统提交，作者在此注册，上传文件并跟踪每一稿件记录直至决定发出。
• Editorial correspondence in the Wiley period is directed to a journal mailbox at the publisher, given as （jogc@wiley.com）in bibliographic guides.Wiley 时期的编辑部通信指向出版商名下的期刊邮箱（jogc@wiley.com）。
• Invited commentaries are a standing feature, a published paper drawing a second reading from another author, as in the exchanges over telephone counseling in 2000 and over psychotherapeutic framing in 2016.受邀评论是常设栏目，一篇文章会引来另一位作者的再解读，2000 年的电话咨询往返文字与 2016 年的心理治疗取向讨论即属此例。
• An editorial of 2024 set out what should count as genetic counseling research, a definitional brief aimed at future submissions rather than at praise of what had already appeared.2024 年的一篇社论界定何种工作算作遗传咨询研究，这份定义性文字指向后续来稿。^[3]