Journal of Solution Chemistry

Journal of Solution Chemistry is a monthly journal of physical chemistry published by Springer, and it has appeared without a break since July 1972 under a stated purpose of publishing research on every aspect of the physical chemistry of liquid solutions.《溶液化学杂志》是一份由 Springer 出版的物理化学月刊，自 1972 年 7 月起未曾中断，其立刊宗旨是发表液态溶液物理化学各个方面的研究。

The title was founded by Robert L. Kay, and the editorship passed in 2003 to Donald A. Palmer and Joseph A. Rard before Earle Waghorne and Magdalena Bendova took over as joint editors in chief.该刊由（Robert L. Kay）创办，主编一职在 2003 年转到（Donald A. Palmer）与（Joseph A. Rard）手中，之后由（Earle Waghorne）与（Magdalena Bendova）出任共同主编。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report the journal sits in the physical chemistry category of chemistry in the fourth quartile, with an indicator of 1.3.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊列入化学的物理化学类目，列第四区，期刊引证指标为 1.3。

Scope

• The founding statement named liquid solutions as the object of the title, and the treatment of a solvent as an active part of a system rather than a passive background has stayed with the journal throughout its run.创刊时的陈述把液体溶液定为该刊的研究对象，而把溶剂看作体系中主动的一方而非被动的背景，这一取向贯穿了该刊的整个历史。

• Phase equilibria occupy a central place, with ternary and quaternary systems, excess Gibbs energies and activity coefficients worked out over long series.相平衡在刊物中居于核心位置，三元与四元体系、超额吉布斯能以及活度系数都沿着长系列被系统研究。

• The thermodynamic properties of ionic liquids have become a subject of their own, and a joint editor in chief built her career on the thermophysical behaviour of these fluids and on their use in thermal storage.离子液体的热力学性质已自成一门课题，一位共同主编的职业生涯正是建立在这些流体的热物理行为及其在热能储存中的用途之上。

• Solubility and equilibrium data carry a long-standing place in the programme, and the journal has stayed close to the subcommittee on solubility and equilibrium data of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.溶解度与平衡数据在刊物的布局中占有长久的位置，该刊与国际纯粹化学和应用化学联合会的溶解度与平衡数据分委员会保持着密切往来。

• A sweeping review of dilute solutions of non-electrolytes appeared in 2022, a subject whose foundation lies in measured properties of solvent systems rather than in theory alone.2022 年出了一篇全面回顾非电解质稀溶液的综述，这一主题的根基在于溶剂体系被实测的性质，而非单靠理论。

• Specific ion theory and its extension are developed in the journal alongside the theoretical treatment of Harned's rule and its application to measured data.比离子理论及其扩展形式在该刊不断推进，Harned 法则的理论处理与它在实测数据上的应用并见于同一版面。

• The experimental side forms a substantial part of the contents, with isopiestic measurements, conductivities, viscosities, enthalpies, standard state entropies, diffusion coefficients and densities all represented over the decades.实验研究在刊物中占相当比重，等渗测量、电导率、黏度、焓、标准态熵、扩散系数与密度在几十年间都有涉及。

• Spectroscopic study of solutions is a long strand, running from the aggregation state of dyes in water to the speciation of metal complexes with multidentate ligands.溶液的光谱研究是一条长线，从水中染料的聚集状态一直延伸到多齿配体与金属配合物的形态分析。

• Molecular simulation appears beside the measurements, and the theory of self diffusion in electrolytes is a subject the journal has carried since the early decades.分子模拟与测量比邻出现，电解质中的自扩散理论是该刊自早期数十年起便承载的题目。

• Thermophysical properties of binary and ternary mixtures form a further line, with partial molar volumes, isentropic compressibilities, heat capacities and speeds of sound treated with care.二元与三元混合物的热物理性质构成又一条线索，偏摩尔体积、等熵压缩性、热容与声速都得到仔细处理。

• Geochemical problems reach the journal through the study of brines and of the solubility of minerals under pressure, a line that was central to one of the founding era editors.地球化学的问题经由卤水研究与矿物在压力下的溶解度进入该刊，这条线索在创刊初期的一位主编那里居于中心位置。

• Work on gas solubilities in aqueous electrolyte solutions keeps the journal in contact with the engineering study of reservoir fluids.气体在水溶液电解质中的溶解度研究，使该刊与储层流体的工程研究保持接触。

• Papers on proteins and on biological media appear from time to time, and a thermodynamic study of the interaction of copper ions with human growth hormone is a case in point.有关蛋白质与生物介质的论文不时出现，一篇关于铜离子与人体生长激素相互作用的热力学研究即是其一。

• What unites these subjects is a treatment of the liquid phase as a thermodynamic system in its own right, with the measurement and the calculation kept in view of each other.把这些题目连在一起的是把液相当作自成一体的热力学体系来处理，测量与计算彼此参照。

History

• The first issue appeared in July 1972 from New York, published by Plenum Press under the editorship of Robert L. Kay, who had set out to give the physical chemistry of solutions a journal of its own.创刊号于 1972 年 7 月在纽约出版，由 Plenum Press 刊行，主编是（Robert L. Kay），他当时打算为溶液物理化学创办一本属于自己的刊物。^[1]

• Kay remained the only editor until 30 June 2003, when he retired for reasons of health, having held the post for thirty one years.（Robert L. Kay）一直独自担任主编到 2003 年 6 月 30 日，其间因健康原因退休，在位三十一年。^[1]

• Palmer and Rard took over on 1 July 2003 and were answerable for the August 2003 issue and every issue after it, one from the solution chemistry group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and one from the geochemistry group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.（Donald A. Palmer）与（Joseph A. Rard）于 2003 年 7 月 1 日接任，负责 2003 年 8 月号及其后各期，一位来自橡树岭国家实验室的溶液化学组，另一位来自劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室的地化组。^[1]

• In those first years a manuscript travelled by post as a paper copy, went out for review the same way and came back on a floppy disk, so a decision on a submission commonly took three or four months.在最初几年里，稿件以纸质副本走邮路寄达，同样以这种方式外送评审，接受的稿件再用软盘寄回，一份投稿的答复因此常常要三四个月。^[1]

• The move to an editorial management system, with submissions, reviews and proofs passing by electronic mail, cut the waiting time by a good deal, and the staff of the journal office was rearranged around it.改用一套以电子邮件传递投稿、评审与校样的编辑管理系统之后，等待时间缩短了许多，期刊办公室的人员也随之调整。^[1]

• The earlier publisher was brought together with Springer during the same period, which is why the imprint in the catalogue of the national medical library runs from Plenum Press to Springer with the year 2004.同一时期原有的出版社同 Springer 合并，这正是美国国立医学图书馆目录里的出版信息自 2004 年起由 Plenum Press 改为 Springer 的缘由。^[1]

• Palmer retired on 30 June 2009 and was named consultant editor, and Earle Waghorne of University College Dublin took the editorship on 1 July, sharing the July to September issues with Palmer because the monthly issues were prepared three months in advance.（Donald A. Palmer）于 2009 年 6 月 30 日退休并改任顾问编辑，（Earle Waghorne）自 7 月 1 日起接掌编辑之职，由于月刊提前三个月编稿，7 月至 9 月各期由两人共同负责。^[1]

• The page length of the journal in the years around 2009 was about sixty per cent greater than in 2003, a growth the editors attributed to the wider range of methods then being brought to bear on solution chemistry.2009 年前后该刊的篇幅比 2003 年增加约六成，编辑们把这一增长归因于当时用于溶液化学的方法范围更宽。^[1]

• A special issue in 2017 carried the proceedings of the seventeenth international symposium on solubility phenomena and related equilibrium processes, a meeting for which the journal has published a dedicated issue before and since.2017 年的一期专刊收录了第十七届溶解度现象及相关平衡过程国际研讨会的内容，这一会议该刊此前与此后都曾刊出过专刊。

• Rard gave up the editorship in 2021 after eighteen years in the post, and the farewell written for him recalled his precision in experimental practice and his care over the analysis of data.（Joseph A. Rard）这一职位上满十八年后于 2021 年卸任，为他写的告别文字追述了他在实验操作上的精确与对数据分析的审慎。^[2]

• Magdalena Bendova, an associate editor of the journal since 2014 and an acknowledged expert on the properties of ionic liquids, was appointed joint editor in chief in September 2023.（Magdalena Bendova）自 2014 年起担任该刊副主编，是离子液体性质的公认专家，2023 年 9 月获任共同主编。^[3]

• The print edition carries ISSN 0095-9782 and the online edition ISSN 1572-8927, and the catalogue of the national medical library records the country as the United States with a monthly frequency.印刷版使用 ISSN 0095-9782，电子版使用 ISSN 1572-8927，美国国立医学图书馆的目录所记国家为美国，刊期为月刊。

• The run of volumes has no gap, from volume 1 in 1972 to volume 55 in 2026, one volume a year throughout, and the journal is indexed by the national medical library with a note that only selected citations are carried.卷号自 1972 年的第 1 卷一路排到 2026 年的第 55 卷，整个系列每年一卷，从未中断，该刊也被美国国立医学图书馆收录，目录注明只收载其中部分文献。

• The indicator has moved from 1.677 in 2021 to 2 in 2022, then down to 1.4 in 2023 and 1.3 in the two following years, while the cited half life stands at 14.7 years.这一指标从 2021 年的 1.677 升至 2022 年的 2，2023 年回落到 1.4，其后两年保持 1.3，被引半衰期为 14.7 年。

• A minority of articles are published as gold open access, the proportion standing at 11.74 per cent in the 2025 report, and the title carries 3607 citations in total with 108 articles in the year.少部分论文以金色开放获取方式发表，2025 年报告中的比例为 11.74%，该刊累计被引 3607 次，年发文 108 篇。

Editors

• The founding editor was Robert L. Kay, who ran the title alone for thirty one years and gave it a standing in the measurement of solution properties.创刊编辑是（Robert L. Kay），他独自主持该刊三十一年，使其在溶液性质的测量上立住了脚跟。

• Palmer brought an extensive background in experimental techniques, especially those for aqueous solutions at high temperature, and he and Rard published five papers together in the journal.（Donald A. Palmer）带来了广博的实验技术积累，尤其是高温水溶液的测量方法，他与（Joseph A. Rard）在该刊合著了五篇论文。

• Rard was an authority on isopiestic measurements, and many of his own determinations became the accepted standards against which other work in the field is checked.（Joseph A. Rard）是等渗测量方面的权威，他本人的许多测定数据成为该领域其他工作对照的公认标尺。

• Both men were full time research chemists at United States national laboratories until 2007, and their six years in charge were also the years in which the journal moved from paper to electronic handling of manuscripts.两人在 2007 年之前都是美国国家实验室的全职研究化学家，他们主持的六年也是该刊从纸质走向电子化处理稿件的六年。

• Waghorne was already known to readers for his publications in mixed solvent solution chemistry and for his long standing involvement with the subcommittee on solubility and equilibrium data, and he was then head of the school of chemistry and chemical biology at University College Dublin.（Earle Waghorne）此前已因混合溶剂溶液化学方面的发表以及与溶解度与平衡数据分委员会的长期往来而为读者熟知，当时任都柏林大学化学与化学生物学学院院长。

• He had previous editorial experience with the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, and his own papers had made him a familiar name to the readers of solution chemistry.他此前在爱尔兰化学学会担任过编辑工作，他自己的论文也使他在溶液化学读者中颇为熟悉。

• Bendova studied physical chemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, taking her master's degree in 2000 and her doctorate in 2003, and she has worked since in the thermodynamics laboratory founded by Eduard Hala.（Magdalena Bendova）在布拉格化工与工艺大学修读物理化学，2000 年取得硕士学位，2003 年获博士学位，此后在（Eduard Hála）所创立的热力学实验室从事研究。

• She received the Franzellini award of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 2014, has served on its subcommittee on solubility and equilibrium data for more than fourteen years and sits on the working party on fluid separations of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.她于 2014 年获国际纯粹化学和应用化学联合会的 Franzellini 奖，在该联合会的溶解度与平衡数据分委员会任职逾十四年，并在欧洲化学工程联合会的流体分离工作组任职。

• One practice of the journal has been that the editors in chief read every submitted manuscript and edit all those accepted for publication, and manuscripts assigned to associate editors always went out with the comments of the editor who had assigned them.该刊有一项做法，即共同主编亲读每一份投稿，并亲自编辑所有获准发表的稿件，交给副主编处理的稿件也总随有分派编辑写下的意见。^[2]

• Two further colleagues have stayed close to the editorial work, Luigi Paduano of the University of Naples and Johan Jacquemin of the University of Tours, the latter now at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco.另两位同事长期贴近编辑工作，分别是为那不勒斯大学的（Luigi Paduano）与图尔大学的（Johan Jacquemin），后者现任于摩洛哥穆罕默德六世理工大学。

• Guest editors are drawn from the thermodynamic community, and the special issue on the Eduard Hala symposium that appeared in 2022 was edited by Magdalena Bendova together with Johan Jacquemin.客座主编多出自热力学界，2022 年关于（Eduard Hála）学术讨论会的专刊由（Magdalena Bendova）与（Johan Jacquemin）共同主编。

• That issue also carried a review of dilute solutions of non-electrolytes and a further treatment of the specific ion theory, which shows the kind of review work the journal expects of a guest editor.那一期专刊还收入了一篇非电解质稀溶液的综述与一篇比离子理论的新探讨，可见该刊对客座主编所期待的综述类工作。