Life Sciences in Space Research

Life Sciences in Space Research is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier in Amsterdam since 2014, given to the biology and medicine of spaceflight and of the space environment.《空间生命科学研究》是 Elsevier 在阿姆斯特丹出版的同行评审期刊，2014 年创刊，专事航天飞行与空间环境中的生物学与医学问题。

Work in the title runs from radiation biology and gravitational physiology to bioregenerative life support, and its readership sits between space agencies, university laboratories and mission planners.刊物的内容从辐射生物学与重力生理学延伸到生物再生式生命保障，读者群介于航天机构、大学实验室与任务规划部门之间。

Clarivate placed it in two categories in the 2025 assessment, astronomy and astrophysics at Q2 (28 of 86) and biology at Q1 (26 of 106), with a Journal Impact Factor of 3.3.Clarivate 的 2025 年评估把它列入两个类目，天文学与天体物理为 Q2（86 种中第 28），生物学为 Q1（106 种中第 26），影响因子 3.3。

The journal grew out of the life-sciences section of COSPAR's Advances in Space Research, and the older title now redirects space life-science manuscripts to it.该刊脱胎于 COSPAR 旗下《空间研究进展》的生命科学部分，后者如今把空间生命科学稿件转投至此。

Scope

• Radiation biology holds the centre of the remit, and papers on galactic cosmic rays, solar particle events and heavy-ion beams appear in most volumes.辐射生物学居于范围的中心，银河宇宙线、太阳粒子事件与重离子束的论文几乎每卷都有。

• Relative biological effectiveness, track structure and the modelling of cancer risk for crews on long missions all belong to that strand.相对生物效能、径迹结构与长期任务乘员癌症风险的建模都属于这一支。

• Microgravity work is accepted in both flight and ground-based forms, with clinostats, random positioning machines and hindlimb unloading treated as legitimate analogues.微重力研究在飞行与地面两种形态下都被接收，回转器、随机定位仪与后肢悬吊都被视作合格的模拟手段。

• Gravitational physiology of the human body covers bone loss, muscle atrophy, cardiovascular deconditioning and the cephalad shift of fluid that greets a crew in orbit.人体的重力生理涵盖骨丢失、肌肉萎缩、心血管去适应与入轨后体液的头向转移。

• Sensorimotor and vestibular adaptation has its own following, from space motion sickness to the reweighting of postural control after landing.感觉运动与前庭适应自有其读者，从空间运动病到返回地面后姿势控制的重新加权都在其中。

• Immunology appears often, whether the subject is immune dysregulation in orbit, latent virus reactivation or the changed virulence of bacteria cultured in microgravity.免疫学的题目出现频繁，无论是在轨免疫失调、潜伏病毒再激活，还是微重力培养下细菌毒力的改变。

• Behavioural health and performance form a further strand, with sleep, circadian rhythm, team cohesion and the psychology of confinement studied in analogs such as Antarctic stations.行为健康与作业表现是另一支，睡眠、昼夜节律、团队凝聚力与封闭环境心理都在极地科考站一类模拟场所中被研究。

• Plant biology and space agriculture attract steady submissions, from seed-to-seed cycles in orbit to the photobiology of crops grown under LED lighting.植物生物学与太空农业持续吸引投稿，从在轨的种子到种子完整世代，到 LED 光照下作物的光生物学。

• Bioregenerative life support, known in the field as CELSS, brings air revitalisation, water recycling, waste processing and food production into a single engineering frame.生物再生式生命保障在业内简称 CELSS，把空气再生、水循环、废物处理与食物生产纳入同一工程框架。

• Dosimetry, shielding design and biological countermeasures are read together, since a radiation paper usually ends with what a vehicle or a crew can do about the dose.剂量学、屏蔽设计与生物学对抗措施被放在一起读，辐射论文的结尾往往落在飞行器或乘员对剂量能做些什么。

• Pharmacology in space is a smaller but persistent topic, covering drug stability under radiation, altered pharmacokinetics and the shelf life of a medical kit on a Mars transit.空间药理学是较小却持续存在的题目，涉及辐射下的药物稳定性、改变了的药代动力学与火星航行中医箱的保存期限。

• Astrobiology crosses into the remit at habitability, extremophiles and planetary protection, where the question is what biology can survive beyond Earth.天体生物学在宜居性、极端微生物与行星保护这些议题上与本刊交界，问的是生物能否在地球之外存活。

• Flight platforms named in submissions include the International Space Station and the Bion satellites, with bed-rest campaigns and parabolic flights in the ground-based column, and an analog study is judged on how well it mimics the orbital environment.投稿涉及的飞行平台包括国际空间站与 Bion 卫星，卧床实验与抛物线飞行归入地面一类，模拟研究按其复现轨道环境的程度来评判。

• Original research and review articles make up most of the content, and special issues drawn from COSPAR scientific assemblies gather themed sets of papers.原创研究与综述构成内容的主体，取自 COSPAR 科学大会的专辑把同一主题的论文聚成一束。

• Omics and systems-level modelling have grown more common, with transcriptomic and proteomic surveys of flown tissue appearing beside classical physiological measurement.组学与系统层面的建模日渐常见，飞行组织的转录组与蛋白质组调查如今与经典生理测量并列刊出。

History

• The first volume carried the year 2014 on its spine, and Elsevier has published the title from Amsterdam throughout.第一卷的书脊上印着 2014 年，刊物自始至终由 Elsevier 在阿姆斯特丹出版。

• Launch answered a gap left in the COSPAR portfolio, because Advances in Space Research had stopped taking life-science manuscripts and sent them elsewhere.创刊填补了 COSPAR 刊物组合中的空缺，因为《空间研究进展》已停止接收生命科学稿件，把这类来稿另作指引。

• A line in that sister journal's scope statement still tells authors that space life-science work belongs with Life Sciences in Space Research.姊妹刊范围说明中的一句话至今仍在告诉作者，空间生命科学的工作应投《空间生命科学研究》。

• Three volumes carried the 2014 date, 1 to 3, and the three-a-year rhythm of that opening year is still what the National Library of Medicine catalogue gives as the journal's frequency.第 1 卷到第 3 卷都署 2014 年，创刊那年一年三卷的节奏，至今仍是美国国家医学图书馆目录为该刊记下的刊期。

• MEDLINE took the journal from volume 4 number 1 in January 2015, while PubMed had carried selected citations from the opening year.MEDLINE 自 2015 年 1 月的第 4 卷第 1 期起收录，PubMed 则从创刊那年起就择要收录部分文章。

• Volume numbers climbed as the field expanded, and the four-volume year had arrived as early as 2015, when volumes 4 to 7 all carried that date, and volumes 24 to 27 carried 2020.随着领域扩张，卷次稳步上升，一年四卷的格局早在 2015 年便已成形，第 4 卷到第 7 卷都署那一年，第 24 卷到第 27 卷则署 2020 年。

• The sequence has run on without a break, 36 to 39 in 2023, 40 to 43 in 2024 and 44 to 47 in 2025.此后的序列未曾中断，2023 年为第 36 卷到第 39 卷，2024 年为第 40 卷到第 43 卷，2025 年为第 44 卷到第 47 卷。

• Six volumes have already carried the 2026 date, running from 48 to 53, a sign of how much material the field now sends in.已有六卷署上 2026 年，从第 48 卷到第 53 卷，可见领域如今的来稿量。

• Access is hybrid, with subscription content beside open-access papers, and Clarivate put the gold share of the 2025 output at 35.79 per cent.刊物采取混合模式，订阅内容与开放获取论文并存，Clarivate 记录 2025 年金色开放获取的比例为 35.79%。

• The impact factor moved from 2.73 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023, eased to 2.8 in 2024 and reached 3.3 in 2025.影响因子 2022 年为 2.73，2023 年为 2.9，2024 年微降至 2.8，2025 年升至 3.3。

• Output is modest, about 50 articles a year, while total citations of 1427 and a cited half-life of 4.6 years describe a young literature that turns over quickly.年发文量不大，约 50 篇，总被引 1427 次与被引半衰期 4.6 年描绘的是一个年轻而更替很快的文献群。

• Its two categories pull in different directions, Q1 in biology at 26 of 106 against Q2 in astronomy and astrophysics at 28 of 86, since the same paper is cited by clinicians and by mission scientists alike.两个类目指向并不一致，生物学 Q1 列 106 种中第 26，天文学与天体物理 Q2 列 86 种中第 28，同一篇论文常被临床医生与任务科学家分别引用。

Editors

• Editorial direction rests with a board drawn from the space radiation community, the group the publisher names when it describes the journal's team.编辑方向由取自空间辐射界的编委会掌握，出版方描述刊物团队时点名的正是这一群体。

• Associate editors divide the remit by subject, so a dosimetry paper and a plant photobiology paper reach different handling editors.副编辑按学科分工，剂量学论文与植物光生物学论文会送到不同的责任编辑手中。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's Editorial Manager installation, and the file set is checked against the scope before review begins.稿件经出版方的 Editorial Manager 系统提交，送审之前先核对其是否落在范围之内。

• Reviewers stay anonymous while authors are named, the single-anonymised arrangement that Elsevier applies as its default across the portfolio.评审人保持匿名而作者具名，这是 Elsevier 在整个刊群中默认采用的单盲安排。

• Two reports are the usual complement for a research paper, and a third opinion is sought when the two disagree on a point of substance.研究论文通常凑齐两份评审报告，若两份在实质问题上相左，再另请第三位评审。

• The publisher states that the interval from submission to first decision is short, a point that carries weight in a field where mission timelines are fixed years ahead.出版方称从投稿到初审决定的间隔很短，在任务时间表提前数年锁定的领域里这一条颇要紧。

• Revised versions normally return to the reviewers who saw the first draft, which keeps the standard of evidence steady across rounds.修改稿通常回到读过初稿的评审人手中，各轮对证据的要求因此保持一致。

• Themed issues tied to COSPAR assemblies are handled by guest editors working under a member of the standing board.与 COSPAR 大会相关的主题专辑由客座编辑经办，其工作接受常设编委中某位成员的监督。

• Reviews are welcome without invitation, though the board prefers a short outline in advance so that two surveys of the same topic do not collide.综述无需约稿即可投递，编委会仍希望作者先寄一份简短提纲，免得同一题目撞上两篇综述。

• Ethical clearance for human and animal work is required at submission, and a radiation study must state the dose and the source that produced it.人体与动物研究须在投稿时提供伦理批件，辐射研究还要写明剂量与产生该剂量的源。

• Papers from space agencies and from university groups are read alike, and no preference is given to work flown in orbit over work done in a ground analog.来自航天机构与大学课题组的论文一视同仁，在轨飞行的工作相对地面模拟并不占先。