Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences is an English language journal confined to photonics applied to biology and medicine, with imaging, spectroscopy and laser-based intervention covered wherever they bear on human health.《创新光学健康科学杂志》是一份把光子学用于生物与医学的英语期刊，成像，光谱与激光介入凡关涉人体健康者皆在其范围内。

World Scientific Publishing in Singapore produces the title for Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which holds the editorial office and supplies the editors who take charge of submitted papers.该刊由新加坡的 World Scientific Publishing 承制，主办方为华中科技大学，编辑办公室设于该校，分管来稿的编辑亦由校方人员担任。

The title began in 2008, its earliest deposited papers carrying volume one number one and a June 2008 date, and the numbering has advanced by one volume per calendar year since, volume nineteen covering 2026.该刊 2008 年起步，最早入库的论文标注第 1 卷第 1 期与 2008 年 6 月，此后按自然年递进一卷，第 19 卷对应 2026 年。

Clarivate put the 2025 impact factor at 1.9 with a five-year figure of 1.8 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.63, and every item published in that report year was free to read.Clarivate 给出的 2025 年影响因子为 1.9，5 年影响因子 1.8，Journal Citation Indicator 为 0.63，该报告年度刊载的条目全部可免费阅读。

Scope

• The stated purpose is an international forum for the latest developments in all areas of photonics in biology and medicine, and original work from any discipline inside that span is eligible.办刊宗旨写明为光子学在生物与医学各领域的最新进展提供国际论坛，凡属此范围内的原创研究皆可投稿。
• Photonic therapeutics and diagnostics form the first named field, light-based treatment and light-based measurement of disease standing side by side within it.光子治疗学与光子诊断学列于内容清单首位，光基治疗与光基检测并列于同一条目之下。
• Optical clinical technologies and systems draw a separate line, the wording pointing to instruments and complete clinical setups rather than laboratory demonstrations alone.光学临床技术与系统另列一条，措辞所指为器械与成体系的临床配置，不止实验室演示。
• Tissue optics is treated as a field in its own right, with propagation, scattering and absorption of light inside biological tissue as its subject.组织光学自成一域，以光在生物组织内的传播，散射与吸收为研究对象。
• Laser-tissue interaction and tissue engineering are paired under one heading, tying ablation and photothermal effects to scaffold work and regenerative aims.激光与组织相互作用同组织工程合为一条，把烧蚀与光热效应连到支架制作与再生目标。
• Biomedical spectroscopy is solicited across modalities, from Raman and fluorescence reading of tissue to label-free molecular assessment.生物医学光谱学兼收各种手段，自组织的拉曼与荧光读数直至无标记分子检测。
• Advanced microscopy and imaging hold standing space, and the volumes show confocal, two-photon and super-resolution arrangements applied to living specimens.先进显微与成像常驻刊内，各卷可见共聚焦，双光子与超分辨装置在活体样本上的应用。
• Optical coherence tomography is named on its own line in the scope statement, one of the few techniques given individual status by the editors.光学相干断层扫描在范围声明中单列一行，属编辑方单独点名的少数技术之一。
• Nanobiophotonics and optical molecular imaging are joined, reaching from gold or silver particle probes to contrast generated optically at molecular scale.纳米生物光子学与光学分子成像并置，自金或银颗粒探针延伸到分子尺度的光学对比度。
• Multimodal and hybrid biomedical imaging forms a heading of its own, covering combinations of optical methods with ultrasound and other physical modalities.多模态与混合生物医学成像另立一条，涵盖光学方法与超声及其他物理手段的联用。
• Micro and nanofabrication together with medical microsystems close the official list, extending the declared range to devices made by lithographic and micro-machining routes.微纳加工与医学微系统为官方清单收尾，把声明范围延伸到以光刻与微机械工艺制成的器件。
• Photodynamic therapy appears as the last named topic, photosensitiser chemistry and light delivery both falling under it.光动力疗法是末尾点名的主题，光敏剂化学与给光方式均属其下。
• Photoacoustic imaging, retinal measurement, infrared thermography and digital holography recur through the record, giving the table of contents a diagnostic slant.光声成像，视网膜测量，红外热成像与数字全息在各卷反复出现，目录因此偏向诊断一侧。
• Endoscopic and needle-borne optical instruments are published, confocal miniscopes used inside the body among them.内镜式与穿刺式光学仪器亦在刊列，体内使用的共聚焦微型显微镜即属其一。
• Computation has its place beside instrumentation, image segmentation and machine learning applied to optical biomedical data being accepted as subjects.计算与仪器并列，光学生物医学图像的分割与机器学习本身即可作为投稿主题。
• Reviews run alongside original work and, as the instructions state, are generally commissioned rather than volunteered.综述与原创论文并行，投稿须知明言综述多为约稿而非自由来稿。

History

• The journal was launched in 2008 by the Singapore house World Scientific Publishing together with a Chinese host, the university named in the host's own records being Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan.该刊 2008 年由新加坡的 World Scientific Publishing 与中方主办方共同创办，主办方在其自身记载中为武汉的华中科技大学。
• On the Chinese side the supervising body is the Ministry of Education, the title being one of the English language journals that university stages under that ministry.中方主管单位为教育部，该刊属这所大学在该部主管下举办的英文期刊之一。
• The editorial office was placed at the university's Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics from the outset, and the founding editor-in-chief, Qingming Luo, directed that laboratory while setting the journal's programme.编辑办公室自创刊即设于该校的武汉光电国家研究中心，首任主编 Qingming Luo 兼任该中心主任并奠定该刊的选题方针。
• Two physicists were appointed beside the editor-in-chief at the start, Colin Sheppard of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and Valery V Tuchin of Saratov State University in Russia.起步时主编两侧设有 2 位副主编，一是热那亚 Italian Institute of Technology 的 Colin Sheppard，二是俄罗斯萨拉托夫国立大学（Saratov State University）的 Valery V Tuchin。
• The opening issue of volume one collects papers on optical assessment of mitochondrial function and tissue vitality, on imaging and spectroscopy of superficial tissue, and on the passage of optical coherence tomography from animal study to bladder cancer diagnosis第 1 卷第 1 期收有以光学手段评估线粒体功能与组织活力的论文，浅表组织成像与光谱之篇，以及光学相干断层扫描由动物实验走向膀胱癌诊断之作。^[1][2]
• Access changed in 2013, the title turning open from January of that year, the directory of open access journals dating its entry to the same year, the publisher having worked on a subscription basis before then.获取方式在 2013 年变动，该刊自当年 1 月起开放，开放获取期刊目录记录的收录年份同为该年，此前出版方按订阅制运营。
• The licence carried by the open content is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, reuse with attribution being permitted and no limit set on commercial use.开放内容所附许可为知识共享署名 4.0，允许署名后复用，对商业使用不作限制。
• Volume numbering moves one volume to each calendar year from 2008 onward, volume seventeen covering 2024 and volume nineteen covering 2026, with 1138 records deposited under the two ISSNs.卷号自 2008 年起每自然年递进一卷，第 17 卷对应 2024 年，第 19 卷对应 2026 年，两个 ISSN 下共入库 1138 条记录。
• The rhythm of issues widened with time, the four-issue pattern still recorded in the National Library of Medicine catalogue giving way to six numbered issues within each recent volume.期数安排随时间变宽，美国国家医学图书馆目录仍记作每年 4 期，近年各卷实际出到 6 期。
• Reported impact factors read 1.136 for the 2017 citation year, 2.396 for 2022, 2.3 for 2023 and 2.2 for 2024, settling at 1.9 for 2025.影响因子在 2017 年引文年度记为 1.136，2022 年 2.396，2023 年 2.3，2024 年 2.2，2025 年落至 1.9。
• The 2025 citation report counts 1061 citations to material published in the two preceding years, 45 research articles, 55 citable items, an immediacy index of 0.9 and a cited half life of five years.2025 年引文报告记下前两年刊载内容被引 1061 次，研究论文 45 篇，可引条目 55 条，即时指数 0.9，被引半衰期 5 年。
• Two categories place the title in the 2025 edition, optics at rank 79 of 129 and radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging at rank 129 of 217, both in the third quartile, the Journal Citation Indicator percentile of each standing above the halfway mark.2025 年版给该刊两个类目，光学 129 种中列第 79，核医学与医学影像 217 种中列第 129，同属第三分区，两者的 Journal Citation Indicator 百分位均过半线。
• The wording of the title has stood unchanged since the first issue, no earlier form being registered with the citation infrastructure, J Innov Opt Health Sci serving as the cataloguing short form and JIOHS as the abbreviation the journal uses of itself.刊名用词自创刊号起未曾改动，书目基础设施未登记任何前身题名，编目短作 J Innov Opt Health Sci，JIOHS 为期刊自称的缩写。

Editors

• Qingming Luo holds the editor-in-chief post, an imaging scientist who built the editorial programme of the title in Wuhan and later took the presidency of Hainan University.现任主编 Qingming Luo 是成像学者，在武汉主持该刊编辑方针的制定，其后出任海南大学校长。
• Named with him in the host's records are Colin Sheppard of the Italian Institute of Technology, occupied with image formation in microscopy, and Valery V Tuchin of Saratov State University, whose subject is the penetration of light into tissue.与主编并列见于主办方记录的是 Italian Institute of Technology 的 Colin Sheppard，治显微成像中的图像形成，以及 Saratov State University 的 Valery V Tuchin，治光向组织内的穿透。
• Manuscripts enter through Editorial Manager, a web system that also carries the review stages, and a first-time author must register before uploading anything.稿件经 Editorial Manager 在线系统提交，评审各环节亦在该系统内流转，首次投稿者须先注册方可上传。
• Screening precedes review, the journal office returning papers that disregard the house style or lie outside the declared range.初审先于评审，编辑部把不合刊物体例或不属声明范围的稿件径行退回。
• Every submission is matched against the CrossCheck database for overlapping text before a reviewer sees it, after which the editor-in-chief assigns a handling editor.来稿在送审前先与 CrossCheck 数据库比对重复文字，随后由主编指派一位处理编辑。
• Two referee reports are the usual basis for a decision and the handling editor may reject outright. Where no suitable referee is found or all invitations are declined, the manuscript goes back to the authors rather than being held.判定通常以两份审稿报告为据，处理编辑有权直接退稿，找不到合适审稿人或受邀审稿人全部辞审时稿件退回作者而不滞留。
• A recommendation to accept, to revise or to reject travels from the handling editor to the editor-in-chief, who alone makes the final decision and notifies the authors of it.处理编辑提出录用，修改或退稿的建议并上呈主编，终局决定由主编一人作出并通知作者。
• An author whose paper is rejected may ask for review by a different referee or lodge an appeal, the appeal going to the original handling editor with a copy to the editor-in-chief, and the closing word resting with the editor-in-chief in consultation with the other editors.被退稿的作者可要求另换审稿人复审或提出申诉，申诉递交原处理编辑并抄送主编，最后定夺仍由主编会商其他编辑作出。
• Review articles are commissioned rather than volunteered, invitations coming from the editor-in-chief, from board members, from guest editors or from the journal office, and an author wishing to offer one is told to write to the office first.综述一般为约稿而非自由来稿，约稿可出自主编，编委，专题客座编辑或编辑部，拟投综述者被要求先致函编辑部询价。
• The office answers at a university address in Wuhan while production and hosting stay with the Singapore publisher at Toh Tuck Link, editorial judgement sitting in China and copy-editing, typesetting and online delivery in Singapore.编辑部问讯地址为武汉的高校邮箱，印制与平台托管留在新加坡 Toh Tuck Link 的出版社，形成编辑裁决归中方，文字加工，排版与在线发布归新方的分工。
• Ethics rules name an approval committee for animal and human work, require evidence of informed consent and observance of patient privacy, and ask for a conflict of interest form uploaded as a separate item, any paper missing these being open to rejection.伦理规定要求动物与人体研究写明批准委员会名称，提交知情同意证据并遵守患者隐私，利益冲突表作为独立条目上传，缺项者编辑可退稿。
• The house style sets the abstract at no more than 250 words, asks for three to five keywords that avoid words already in the title, mandates standard international units, numbers tables in Roman numerals and requires reference lists to give every author.刊物体例限定摘要不超过 250 词，要求 3 至 5 个避开题名用词的关键词，通篇用国际单位制，表格以罗马数字编号，参考文献须列出全部作者。
• Refereeing runs identically for invited and unsolicited work, the instructions stating that all articles, invited ones included, pass through the same process.约稿与自由来稿适用同一评审流程，须知写明所有文章包括约稿均须经同一程序。