Medical Engineering & Physics

Medical Engineering & Physics is a peer-reviewed journal of biomedical engineering, built around the point where physical and engineering principles meet the design and evaluation of medical devices.《医学工程与物理学》是一份生物医学工程领域的同行评审期刊，落点在物理学与工程学原理同医疗器械设计与评价相接的地方。

It carries critical reviews, research papers and technical notes for readers on both sides of that divide, the laboratory engineer and the hospital clinician who puts an instrument into service.刊物刊登深度综述，研究论文与技术简报，读者横跨这道分界的两侧，既有实验室里的工程师，也有把仪器用到病房中的临床医师。

Scope

• The remit is drawn by function rather than by organ system, and work qualifies when a physical principle or an engineering method has been turned into a device, a measurement or a treatment.收录范围按功能划定，不按器官系统切分，只要把某条物理原理或某种工程方法变成器械，测量手段或治疗方式，就落在范围之内。
• Everything the journal prints sits under one sentence of purpose, the application of basic physics and engineering to medical devices and technology with the aim of improving the quality of health care.刊物所载内容都服从一句宗旨，即把基础物理学与工程学用于医疗器械与技术，最终改善医疗服务的质量。
• Biomechanics supplies a large share of the papers, covering the loads carried by bone and joint, the deformation of soft tissue, and the way an implant redistributes stress inside the body.生物力学占去相当篇幅，涉及骨骼与关节承受的载荷，软组织的变形，以及植入物如何重新分配体内的应力。
• Biomaterials papers appear alongside, from the surface chemistry that decides whether tissue accepts a material to the slow loss of strength that ends the working life of a resorbable implant.生物材料论文紧随其后，从决定组织能否接受某种材料的表面化学，到可吸收植入物强度缓慢流失直至失效的过程。
• Mechanobiology is one of the topics named in the aims, asking how cells sense and answer mechanical cues such as the shear of flowing blood or stretch in a beating ventricular wall.机械生物学在宗旨里被单列为选题，追问细胞如何感知并回应力学信号，例如血流带来的剪切力或搏动心室壁上的牵张。
• Rehabilitation engineering covers prosthetics, orthotics and assistive devices, with attention to how a limb or a seat behaves over months of daily use rather than in a single laboratory session.康复工程涵盖假肢，矫形器与辅助器具，关注点落在肢体或坐具在数月日常使用中的表现，而非一次实验室测试的结果。
• Biomedical signal processing papers take electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, electromyograms and similar records, and look for markers that hold up across patients, across recording sites and across equipment of different makes.生物医学信号处理论文取材于心电，脑电，肌电一类记录，试图找出在不同患者，不同记录点位与不同机型上都站得住的标记。
• Medical device development is the applied end of the list, taking in design iteration, bench testing, usability work and the clinical evaluation that follows a prototype into its first patient studies.医疗器械开发是这份选题清单的应用端，涵盖设计迭代，台架测试，可用性工作，以及原型进入首次人体研究后必须跟进的临床评价。
• Three formats carry the content. In-depth critical reviews survey a field, scientific papers report original results, and technical notes describe an instrument, a method or a measurement trick in a few pages.三种体裁承载刊物内容。深度综述梳理一个领域，研究论文报告原创结果，技术简报用几页篇幅描述一件仪器，一种方法或一个测量诀窍。
• The intended readership joins two professions that seldom read the same page, and a paper is expected to explain its physics to the clinician and its clinical problem to the engineer.目标读者把两个很少读同一页纸的行业拉到一起，一篇论文既要向临床医师讲清其中的物理，也要向工程师讲清背后的临床问题。
• Computational and physical models run through most topics, whether a finite element mesh of a femur, a lumped parameter model of the circulation or a bench rig that reproduces a gait cycle.计算模型与实体模型贯穿多数选题，股骨的有限元网格，循环系统的集中参数模型，或复现一个步态周期的台架装置，都算在内。
• Read together, the topics trace a route from a physical idea to something a hospital can use, and the journal keeps the whole route in view instead of only its laboratory end.这些选题合起来描出一条从物理设想走到医院可用的路径，刊物把整条路径都留在视野里，不只盯着实验室那一端。

History

• The first issue appeared in January 1994 as volume 16, continuing the volume count of the Journal of Biomedical Engineering, which had closed at volume 15 in 1993 after fifteen years.创刊号于 1994 年 1 月问世，编为第 16 卷，接续 1993 年出到第 15 卷的《生物医学工程杂志》（Journal of Biomedical Engineering）。
• The succession is visible in the record, not just in intention. The opening issue is numbered 16 and 1, and the National Library of Medicine still carries the predecessor ISSN 0141-5425.这种接续在记录里看得见，不只是一句意图。开卷第一期标着第 16 卷第 1 期，美国国家医学图书馆至今仍挂着前身的 ISSN 0141-5425。
• Butterworth-Heinemann of Oxford brought out the early volumes, and its name survives in the National Library of Medicine catalogue as the publisher statement attached to the 1994 launch.早期各卷由牛津的 Butterworth-Heinemann 出版，美国国家医学图书馆的书目里仍保留这条 1994 年创刊时的出版者说明。
• Publication then ran on the Elsevier platform for three decades, and every article from 1994 through 2025 carries a DOI under the Elsevier prefix with the stem medengphy.此后三十年，出版一直在 Elsevier 平台上进行，1994 年至 2025 年的每一篇文章都带 Elsevier 前缀的 DOI，刊名代码为「medengphy」。
• Frequency settled at ten issues a year in 1998, a figure the National Library of Medicine still records and one that the 2026 volume matches, running through numbers one to ten.刊期在 1998 年稳定为每年十期，美国国家医学图书馆至今如此记录，2026 年的一卷也照此排到第 1 至第 10 期。
• Indexing kept pace from the start, with MEDLINE covering volume 16 number 1 onward, PubMed following the same span, and Index Medicus holding the earlier print record of the field.索引覆盖与创刊同步，MEDLINE 从第 16 卷第 1 期起收录本刊，PubMed 覆盖同一区间，更早的纸本记录则见于 Index Medicus。
• On 22 July 2025 IPEM and IOP Publishing announced an agreement that moved the journal onto the IOP platform, beside a new gold open access title, Medical Sensors & Imaging.2025 年 7 月 22 日，医学物理与工程学会（IPEM）与 IOP Publishing 宣布一项协议，把本刊迁到 IOP 平台，同时新办金色开放获取期刊 Medical Sensors & Imaging。
• The two organisations had worked together since 1972, when Physics in Medicine & Biology came under the same arrangement, and the new deal placed four IPEM journals in one publishing system.两家的合作可追到 1972 年 Physics in Medicine & Biology 创刊之时，这份协议把 IPEM 的四本期刊并进同一套出版体系。
• IOP counted twelve titles in biomedical physics and engineering after the move, and reported growth of 54 per cent in articles and 626 per cent in downloads from 2015 to 2024.迁入之后，IOP 的生物医学物理与工程刊群达到 12 本，并称该刊群 2015 年至 2024 年间发文量增长 54%，下载量增长 626%。
• The handover fell on a volume boundary. The last Elsevier issue came out in December 2025 as volume 146, and the first IOP issue opened volume 147 in January 2026.交接落在卷次的分界上。Elsevier 的最后一期于 2025 年 12 月出为第 146 卷，IOP 的第一期在 2026 年 1 月开启第 147 卷。
• Article identifiers changed with the platform. The Elsevier pattern gave way to 10.1088/1873-4030, a stem built on the electronic ISSN, and article pages now sit on iopscience.iop.org.文章标识随平台改变，从 Elsevier 的形态换成 10.1088/1873-4030，后者以电子刊号为根，文章页也迁到 iopscience.iop.org。
• The National Library of Medicine has already moved its imprint line to Bristol and dates IOP Publishing from 2026, while leaving the print and electronic ISSNs themselves unchanged.美国国家医学图书馆的出版地已改为布里斯托（Bristol），并注明 2026 年起由 IOP Publishing 出版，纸本与电子两个刊号本身没有变动。
• Impact has drifted rather than climbed. The journal impact factor stood at 2.356 in 2022, fell to 1.7 in 2023, recovered to 2.3 in 2024 and reached 2.4 in 2025.影响因子走的是起伏而非攀升。2022 年为 2.356，2023 年落到 1.7，2024 年回到 2.3，2025 年为 2.4。
• In the 2025 citation year the title published about 161 articles, drew 7446 citations and carried a cited half-life of eleven years, which suits a field that builds slowly on old measurements.2025 年度，本刊发表约 161 篇论文，累计被引 7446 次，被引半衰期为 11 年，这与一个靠旧测量慢慢积累的领域相称。
• Access stayed hybrid, with roughly 22 per cent of recent content appearing gold open access, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports place the title at 81 of 130 in biomedical engineering.访问模式维持混合制，近年约 22% 的内容以金色开放获取发表，2025 年的期刊引证报告把本刊放在生物医学工程类第 81 位，共 130 种。

Editors

• Stephen Payne holds the post of Editor-in-Chief, listed on the society journal page as Stephen Payne DPhil, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.主编由 Stephen Payne 担任，学会的刊物页把他的 DPhil 学位与国立台湾大学（National Taiwan University）的任职单位并列写出。
• That mandate suits a journal whose authors sit in biomechanics laboratories, materials groups, rehabilitation workshops and hospital medical physics departments, often on projects that cross two of those settings.这项职责与本刊作者分布相合，他们身在生物力学实验室，材料课题组，康复工程车间与医院医学物理科室，常常在做横跨两类机构的工作。
• Peer review is double anonymous under the arrangements announced in 2025 for all IPEM titles, so reviewers do not see author names and authors do not see reviewer names.同行评审采用双向匿名，这是 2025 年为 IPEM 各刊统一宣布的安排，评审人看不到作者姓名，作者也看不到评审人姓名。
• Submission runs through one system shared with Physics in Medicine & Biology and Physiological Measurement, which puts every IPEM author on the same tracking and production path.投稿走一套与 Physics in Medicine & Biology，Physiological Measurement 共用的系统，IPEM 各刊作者因此处在同一条稿件跟踪与生产流程上。
• The publisher promises fast publication, constructive referee reports and checks on research integrity, commitments listed for the whole IPEM list rather than for this title alone.出版方承诺快速发表、建设性的审稿意见与科研诚信核查，这些承诺按整个 IPEM 刊群列出，并非只面向本刊。
• Editorial judgement settles the format, since a submission may run as a review, a standard paper or a short technical note depending on what it claims and how much evidence it brings.体裁也由编辑判断，一份稿件可以按完整综述，常规论文或简短技术简报处理，取决于它主张什么，证据支撑到什么程度。
• Ownership stays with the society, which sets the mission and holds the subscription rights of its members, while the publisher handles production, hosting and the submission platform on its behalf.刊物所有权留在学会，由学会确定办刊使命并保有会员的订阅权益，出版方代为承担生产，托管与投稿平台。
• Members of the society reach current and back issues without charge through the publisher platform, a benefit advertised on the same page that carries the editor's name.学会会员可经出版方平台免费取阅现刊与过刊，这项权益与主编姓名登在同一页面上。
• The editor is named beside the aims statement rather than buried in a separate masthead, which gives an author one address for a scope question before a manuscript is written.主编姓名与宗旨说明并列，没有被埋进另设的编委页，作者在动笔之前就能找到问一句收录范围的地址。