Journal of Urology

Journal of Urology, published under the full title The Journal of Urology, is the official journal of the American Urological Association, described as the most widely read and highly cited journal in its field, issued by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, founded in 1917 by Hugh Hampton Young who edited it for twenty-eight years, and covering the whole of clinical and investigative urology, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.7《泌尿学杂志》（正式刊名带定冠词 The Journal of Urology）为美国泌尿协会（AUA）官方期刊、并被描述为该领域阅读最广、引用最多的刊物，由（Lippincott Williams & Wilkins）出版，1917 年由（Hugh Hampton Young）创办且由其实任主编 28 年，内容覆盖泌尿外科临床与研究全领域，2025 年影响因子为 9.7。

Scope

• The journal presents investigative studies on critical areas of research and practice, survey articles giving short condensations of the best and most important urology literature worldwide, and practice-oriented reports on significant clinical observations该刊发表针对关键研究与实践领域的调查性论文、对全球最优最重要的泌尿文献作简要概括的评述文章，以及面向重要临床观察的实践导向报告。
• It also serves as the print record of Association policy, guideline documents of the American Urological Association appearing in its pages, among them the 2026 guideline series on the medical management of kidney stones该刊同时是美国泌尿协会诊疗政策的纸质载体，协会指南即刊于其页，2026 年肾结石药物治疗指南系列即为一例。
• Its content types include original articles, editorial comments, replies by authors, letters to the editor and annual meeting abstract material published in supplements其刊物体裁包括原创论文、编者评论、作者回应、致信编辑以及以增刊形式刊出的年会论文摘要材料。
• Material is organised by subspecialty, and the 2026 volumes carry sections on male infertility and stone disease alongside urologic oncology content内容按亚专业板块组织，2026 年各卷在泌尿外科肿瘤内容之外另设男性不育与结石疾病板块。
• Association members may reach the full text by signing in at the Association website, and the backfile runs to the founding year, with 1917 articles registered with electronic identifiers协会会员可在协会官网登录阅读全文，其电子回溯建档至创刊之年，1917 年的文章亦已登记电子标识符。
• It is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, MEDLINE and Scopus, and it holds the first quartile in urology and nephrology with a rank of 5 out of 134 titles该刊被（SCIE）、（MEDLINE）与（Scopus）收录，在泌尿学与肾脏学类居第一四分位、排名为 134 种刊中的第 5 位。

History

• The journal was established in 1917 and the first issue of volume 1 is dated February of that year, opening with a two-page foreword by the founding editor该刊创刊于 1917 年，第 1 卷第 1 期标注为该年 2 月，开篇为创刊主编所撰两页前言。^[1]
• Over time it absorbed three earlier urological titles, namely Transactions of the American Urological Association from 1907 to 1920, Investigative Urology from 1963 to 1981 and Urological Survey from 1951 to 1981, the last having appeared as Quarterly Review of Urology between 1946 and 1950该刊历年吸收三份先行刊物，即 1907 至 1920 年的（Transactions of the American Urological Association）、1963 至 1981 年的（Investigative Urology）与 1951 至 1981 年的（Urological Survey），后者在 1946 至 1950 年间曾以（Quarterly Review of Urology）为名。
• A centennial supplement accompanied volume 197 in February 2017 to mark one hundred years of publication, and it carried a centennial appendix beside the commemorative articles2017 年 2 月的第 197 卷随出百年纪念增刊，以志创刊百年，增刊内附百年附录。
• For most of its recorded history the journal was deposited with the Elsevier prefix, and from 2019 its articles carry the Wolters Kluwer prefix as publication passed to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins该刊长期以来以（Elsevier）前缀登记电子标识，2019 年起文章改用（Wolters Kluwer）前缀，出版权随之移交（Lippincott Williams & Wilkins）。
• Its editors in succession were Hugh Hampton Young from 1917 to 1945, J. A. Campbell Colston from 1946 to 1965, Hugh J. Jewett from 1966 to 1977, William W. Scott from 1977 to 1983, Herbert Brendler from 1983 to 1985, John T. Grayhack from 1985 to 1994, Jay Y. Gillenwater from 1994 to 2004 and William D. Steers from 2007 to 2015其历任主编依次为（Hugh Hampton Young）（1917 至 1945 年）、（J. A. Campbell Colston）（1946 至 1965 年）、（Hugh J. Jewett）（1966 至 1977 年）、（William W. Scott）（1977 至 1983 年）、（Herbert Brendler）（1983 至 1985 年）、（John T. Grayhack）（1985 至 1994 年）、（Jay Y. Gillenwater）（1994 至 2004 年）与（William D. Steers）（2007 至 2015 年）。
• Since 2019 the journal has issued two volumes a year of six issues each, so that 2026 runs as volume 215 in the first half and volume 216 from July自 2019 年起该刊每年出两卷、每卷六期，2026 年上半年为第 215 卷、7 月起为第 216 卷。

Editors

• The American Urological Association announced D. Robert Siemens as the next Editor in October 2020, his three-year term having begun on 1 January 2022 after a year served as incoming Editor, and he is the first Canadian to edit the journal美国泌尿协会于 2020 年 10 月宣布由（D. Robert Siemens）出任下任主编，其在担任候任主编一年后自 2022 年 1 月 1 日起开始三年任期，且为该刊首位加拿大籍主编。
• At the time of his appointment he was professor and chair of the Department of Urology at Queen's University School of Medicine in Ontario and had previously been Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Urological Association Journal, the search committee being led by Raju Thomas受任之时他是加拿大安大略省女王大学医学院泌尿外科教授兼主任（Queen's University），此前曾任加拿大泌尿协会期刊主编，主编遴选委员会由（Raju Thomas）主持。
• As Editor he is responsible for the editorial integrity of the journal and advises associate, section, assistant and feature editors as well as the Editorial Board on matters of policy so that its science reflects the latest advances in the dissemination of urologic research主编负责维护该刊的编辑诚信，并就政策事项向副主任编辑、板块编辑、助理编辑、专题编辑与编委会提供建议，使刊载科学反映泌尿研究传播的最新进展。
• His predecessor Joseph A. Smith was selected by the Board of Directors in October 2014 and assumed the role on 1 July 2015 from Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he held the William L. Bray professorship and chaired the department of urologic surgery前任主编（Joseph A. Smith）于 2014 年 10 月经协会理事会遴选、2015 年 7 月 1 日就任，其时任范德堡大学医学中心（Vanderbilt University Medical Center）泌尿外科讲座教授并任该系主任。
• The Editor continues to write the journal's standing front-matter essays, in 2026 questioning whether the letter to the editor will survive as a genre主编仍为该刊撰写卷首常设评论，2026 年即撰文追问致信编辑这一体裁能否存续。^[2]