Journal of Hepatology

Journal of Hepatology is the official journal of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, published by Elsevier, founded in 1985 and indexed in MEDLINE, the Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus with a 2025 impact factor of 40.1Journal of Hepatology 是欧洲肝病学会的官方期刊，由爱思唯尔出版，1985 年创刊，被 MEDLINE、科学引文索引扩展版与 Scopus 收录，2025 年影响因子为 40.1。

Scope

• Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and alcohol-related liver disease涵盖代谢功能障碍相关脂肪性肝病与酒精相关肝病。
• Viral hepatitis, drug-induced liver injury, and autoimmune, cholestatic, and genetic liver diseases涵盖病毒性肝炎、药物性肝损伤以及自身免疫性、胆汁淤积性与遗传性肝病。
• Acute liver failure, cirrhosis and its complications, and acute-on-chronic liver failure涵盖急性肝衰竭、肝硬化及其并发症与慢加急性肝衰竭。
• Hepatobiliary cancers, liver transplantation, and experimental and translational hepatology涵盖肝胆肿瘤、肝移植以及实验与转化肝病学。
• Innovative diagnostics, modelling and digital hepatology, and paediatric hepatology涵盖创新诊断、建模与数字肝病学以及儿科肝病学。

History

• The journal was founded in 1985 as the official publication of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, which had itself been established in 1966该刊 1985 年创刊，是成立于 1966 年的欧洲肝病学会的官方出版物。^[1]
• Its founding editor was Sheila Sherlock, a British hepatologist who served from 1985 to 1989创始主编为英国肝病学家 Sheila Sherlock，任期为 1985 年至 1989 年。
• It was first published by Munksgaard International Publishers in Copenhagen and has been published by Elsevier in Amsterdam since 2001该刊最初由哥本哈根的 Munksgaard International Publishers 出版，2001 年起改由阿姆斯特丹的爱思唯尔出版。
• The journal has appeared monthly since 1993 and launched the open access companion title JHEP Reports in 2019该刊自 1993 年起改为月刊，并于 2019 年创办开放获取姊妹刊 JHEP Reports。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Vlad Ratziu of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, appointed around 2024现任主编为 Vlad Ratziu（Pitié-Salpêtrière 医院，巴黎），约 2024 年上任。
• He is supported by co-editors including Annalisa Berzigotti in Bern, Tom H. Karlsen in Oslo, and Frank Tacke in Berlin共同主编包括伯尔尼的 Annalisa Berzigotti、奥斯陆的 Tom H. Karlsen 与柏林的 Frank Tacke 等。
• Editorial leadership has passed through a line of European hepatologists, from Sheila Sherlock and Jean-Pierre Benhamou to Rajiv Jalan and Didier Samuel历任主编均为欧洲肝病学家，从 Sheila Sherlock、Jean-Pierre Benhamou 到 Rajiv Jalan 与 Didier Samuel。
• Authors may publish open access through the Elsevier hybrid option by paying an article processing charge作者可支付版面费后通过爱思唯尔的混合模式发表开放获取论文。