MedComm
MedComm is a multidisciplinary, fully open access, peer-reviewed medical journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Sichuan International Medical Exchange and Promotion Association, established in 2020, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 14.1(MedComm)是由(Wiley)代表四川省国际医学交流促进会出版的同行评审、多学科完全开放获取医学期刊,2020 年创刊,2025 年影响因子为 14.1。
Scope
- It publishes pioneering works that provide novel insights into all aspects of medicine, judged on novelty, timeliness and significance for human health刊载为医学各领域带来新见解的开创性研究,以新颖性、时效性与对人类健康的重要性为取舍标准。
- It emphasizes original findings that advance the understanding of pathogenesis or improve the diagnosis and treatment of human disease该刊重视能推进对发病机制的理解、或改善人类疾病诊断与治疗的原创发现。[1]
- It particularly encourages interdisciplinary studies that use molecular biology, cell biology, chemistry, pharmacology or materials science to tackle clinical, basic and translational medicine该刊尤其鼓励运用分子生物学、细胞生物学、化学、药理学或材料科学等交叉方法解决临床、基础与转化医学问题的研究。
- Topics of interest include epigenetics and genomics, non-coding RNA in disease, cell senescence and cell death, and cellular signal transduction关注主题包括表观遗传学与基因组学、疾病相关非编码 RNA、细胞衰老与细胞死亡以及细胞信号转导。
- Other topics include gene therapy and gene editing, cancer immunology and immunotherapy, and structural biology, chemical genomics and drug discovery其他主题包括基因治疗与基因编辑、肿瘤免疫学与免疫治疗,以及结构生物学、化学基因组学与药物发现。
- It also covers high-definition imaging, artificial intelligence in medicine, stem cells and regenerative medicine, and nanomedicine and drug delivery该刊还涵盖高清晰度成像、医学人工智能、干细胞与再生医学,以及纳米医学与药物递送。[2]
- Further interests include early disease diagnosis and biomarkers, and clinical trials that evaluate new treatments for cancer and other diseases进一步关注疾病早期诊断与生物标志物,以及评估癌症等疾病新疗法的临床试验。
History
- It was founded in 2020, and its inaugural issue carried an announcement by the Editors-in-Chief该刊于 2020 年创刊,其创刊号刊载了主编撰写的创刊公告。[3]
- It is published by Wiley jointly with the Sichuan International Medical Exchange and Promotion Association, and its editorial office is based in Chengdu, China该刊由(Wiley)与四川省国际医学交流促进会共同出版,编辑部设在中国成都。
- It was accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals in August 2020该刊于 2020 年 8 月被(Directory of Open Access Journals)收录。
- In July 2021 it was accepted into PubMed Central and the Emerging Sources Citation Index2021 年 7 月,该刊被(PubMed Central)与(Emerging Sources Citation Index)接收。
- It is a fully open access journal, and its articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence该刊为完全开放获取期刊,文章以知识共享署名许可发表。
- Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 14.1, up from 10.7 in 2024其 2025 年影响因子为 14.1,高于 2024 年的 10.7。
- It publishes monthly issues and has led to sister journals including MedComm - Oncology and MedComm - Biomaterials and Applications该刊按月出版,并衍生出(MedComm - Oncology)与(MedComm - Biomaterials and Applications)等姊妹刊。
Editors
- Its Editors-in-Chief are James Henderson Naismith, Guangping Gao and Yu-quan Wei其主编为(James Henderson Naismith)、(Guangping Gao)与(Yu-quan Wei)。
- Naismith directs the Rosalind Franklin Institute and is a professor at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom(James Henderson Naismith)任(Rosalind Franklin Institute)主任,并为英国(University of Oxford)教授。
- Guangping Gao works on gene therapy and viral vectors at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the United States(Guangping Gao)在美国(University of Massachusetts Medical School)从事基因治疗与病毒载体研究。
- Yu-quan Wei leads the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy at West China Hospital of Sichuan University and is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Yu-quan Wei)领导四川大学华西医院生物治疗国家重点实验室,并为中国科学院院士。
- Its Associate Editors include Mohan Edirisinghe of University College London and Peter E Huber of the German Cancer Research Center其副编辑包括(University College London)的(Mohan Edirisinghe)与(German Cancer Research Center)的(Peter E Huber)。
- Other Associate Editors include J. Silvio Gutkind of the University of California, San Diego and Edouard Collins Nice of Monash University其他副编辑包括美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校的(J. Silvio Gutkind)与(Monash University)的(Edouard Collins Nice)。
- The editorial board draws members from many countries and spans cancer, gene therapy, immunology and translational medicine编委会成员来自多个国家,研究横跨肿瘤、基因治疗、免疫学与转化医学等领域。
References
- ^Zhang T, Ma C, Zhang Z, Zhang H, Hu H. NF-kappaB signaling in inflammation and cancer. MedComm, 2021, 2(4): 618-653. doi:10.1002/mco2.104
- ^Xuan L, Ju Z, Skonieczna M, et al. Nanoparticles-induced potential toxicity on human health: applications, toxicity mechanisms, and evaluation models. MedComm, 2023, 4(4): e327. doi:10.1002/mco2.327
- ^Naismith J H, Wei Y Q. MedComm announcement. MedComm, 2020, 1(1): 3-4. doi:10.1002/mco2.3