Molecular Biology

Molecular Biology is a peer-reviewed journal covering problems in molecular, cellular and computational biology, founded in 1967 and issued from Moscow and New York, carrying the imprint of the Russian Academy of Sciences.《分子生物学》是一份同行评议期刊，刊载分子、细胞与计算生物学领域的各类问题，创刊于 1967 年，出版地设在莫斯科与纽约，封面印有俄罗斯科学院的标识。

Research papers, reviews and thematic special issues fill its pages, and the title ranks in the fourth quartile of its subject category in the citation reports of the science index.研究论文、综述与专题专刊构成其版面内容，该刊在科学引文索引的引证报告中位列所属类目的第四区。

The journal appears in English, welcomes manuscripts from every country, accepts translated works as well, and keeps the peer review policy of the Springer Nature group unchanged for every submission.该刊以英文出版，面向各国来稿，也接收译稿，评审方针依循 Springer Nature 集团的既定政策，对所有投稿一视同仁。

Scope

• Coverage as stated reaches a wide range of problems in molecular, cellular and computational biology, with genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics placed at the centre of it.该刊自述的选题范围覆盖分子、细胞与计算生物学中的广泛问题，其中基因组学、蛋白质组学与生物信息学居于核心位置。

• Molecular virology and immunology fall inside the same frame, with viral replication, the host response and the defence mechanisms that surround them treated as recurring subjects.分子病毒学与分子免疫学同属这一框架，病毒复制、宿主应答以及围绕它们的防御机制都被当作反复出现的主题。^[1]

• Molecular development biology is named as well, and the developmental programmes of organisms are followed from their first description to their function inside the intact cell over the whole life cycle.发育生物学同样被点名，研究沿着生物体的发育程序自最初的描述一路追到完整细胞中的功能，覆盖其整个生活史。

• Molecular evolution occupies a place of its own, with phylogeny, the comparison of sequences and the dating of divergence treated as first-class subjects in every issue.分子进化自成一席，系统发生、序列比较与分化年代测定都被当作每期都会出现的一等主题。

• Both experimental and theoretical work is published, so that a paper setting out a computation sits beside one reporting bench work done in the laboratory, and both are read by the same audience.实验研究与理论工作都会刊出，一篇铺陈计算的论文与一篇报告实验台结果的论文并排出现，两类读者群相同。

• Reviews form a standing part of the offering, and the invited ones are written to place a field in front of readers who work outside it for a while.综述是该刊长期设置的内容之一，受邀综述的写法是把一个领域呈现在领域之外的读者面前。^[2]

• A dedicated special issue appears every year, each one concentrating on a domain of physicochemical biology that is changing quickly, and the 2026 volume carried one devoted to the computation of biological systems.每年都会推出一期专刊，每期都聚焦于一个变化迅速的物理化学生物学方向，2026 年的卷次里有一期专门讨论生物系统的计算。

• Memorial issues are another annual fixture, dedicated to scientists whose work left a lasting mark on the field and whose names stay attached to it long afterwards.纪念专刊是另一项年度安排，专门留给在工作领域留下长久印记的学者，其姓名此后长期与该刊相连。

• An international publication is the stated aim, and manuscripts submitted in English from all countries are accepted alongside works translated from the Russian original, which it also prints.该刊自述的目标是成为一份国际性出版物，各国作者以英文投来的稿件一律接收，同时也刊载由俄文原版译出的作品。

• Review rules are set independently of where a manuscript comes from, and the platform says this is meant to keep the assessment fair and free of prejudice.评审规则独立于稿件的来源地，平台说明此举旨在让评估保持公正而不带偏见。

• Readers named on the platform comprise researchers, university professors, graduate students and undergraduates, the last of them a considerable constituency in the field.平台列出的读者群体包括研究人员与大学教授，此外还有研究生，本科生同样占相当比重。

• Within that computational strand the recent volumes carry work on spatial transcriptomics, on the modelling of macromolecular structures and on the analysis of gene networks by clustering.在计算这一支上，近年的卷次刊有空间转录组、大分子结构建模以及用聚类方法分析基因网络的工作。

History

• The first issue carries the date January and February 1967 and the volume number 1, the catalogue recording the run as continuing from that point without interruption in its numbering.首期标着 1967 年 1 月与 2 月，卷号为第 1 卷，目录记载该刊自此连绵出版未曾中断。

• Founding imprint belongs to Consultants Bureau of New York, and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR stands behind the title through its early years and beyond.创刊时的出版者为纽约的 Consultants Bureau，苏联科学院在早年支撑着这份刊物，此后的很长时间里亦然。

• A Russian-language counterpart with its own number has been published from Moscow, and the medical catalogue indexes that title from 1975 onward, the English serial continuing in parallel all the while.另有一份自带独立刊号的俄文版在莫斯科发行，医学目录自 1975 年起为该俄文题名编目，英文版则始终并行。

• Frequency has moved more than once, a bimonthly start through 1976, a monthly spell from 1977, and a return to bimonthly in 2003 that holds to the present.刊期不止一次变动，最初的十年为双月刊，1977 年起转为月刊，2003 年又回到双月刊并保持至今。

• Volume numbering follows the calendar closely, so that volume 34 carries 2000, volume 37 carries 2003, volume 45 carries 2011, volume 59 carries 2025 and volume 60 opens 2026.卷号与年份基本对应，第 34 卷对应 2000 年，第 37 卷对应 2003 年，第 45 卷对应 2011 年，第 59 卷对应 2025 年，第 60 卷开于 2026 年。

• Articles of the years around 2003 carry the identifier prefix 10.1023 and name Springer as their publisher, the volume 37 papers being typical of the form in use.2003 年前后的论文带的是 10.1023 前缀，出版者标作 Springer，第 37 卷的论文正是这一形式的样本。^[3]

• From volume 40 in 2006 the prefix changes to 10.1134 and Pleiades Publishing is named as the publisher, an arrangement that still holds for the recent numbers.自 2006 年的第 40 卷起，前缀换成 10.1134，出版者标作 Pleiades Publishing，这一形式一直延续到近年的卷次。

• Current imprint details in the medical catalogue read Moscow and New York with Pleiades Publishing, distributed by Springer from 2010 onward in the record.医学目录对现行出版信息的记载是莫斯科与纽约，由 Pleiades Publishing 出版，自 2010 年起由 Springer 代理发行。

• The Russian edition is catalogued under its own transliterated title and carries a separate number, the medical catalogue noting that indexing of that Russian title begins in 1975.俄文版在目录中以自己的音译题名单独著录并拥有独立刊号，医学目录注明对该俄文题名的索引自 1975 年开始。

• Earlier indexing ran from volume 5 number 1 of 1971 through volume 8 number 6 at the close of 1974, a stretch the medical catalogue also records.早年索引的起止同样见于医学目录，自 1971 年的第 5 卷第 1 期延伸至 1974 年末的第 8 卷第 6 期。

• The medical catalogue treats that early run as fully indexed, and the entries for MEDLINE and PubMed both stop at the same boundary in 1974, marking the end of that coverage.医学目录把这段早期收录记为完整收录，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 两项的著录同样止于 1974 年的那个界点，标志着那段覆盖的终点。

• Platform listings put the title in the hybrid category, with the subscription route carrying no charge to publish and an open access route offered alongside it for authors who wish.平台把该刊列为混合开放获取模式，订阅路线不收版面费，另设开放获取路线供作者选择。

• Some fifty-two open access articles appear on the platform, and the citation report for 2025 puts the impact factor at 1.3 with a five year figure of 1.4 and a fourth quartile placing.平台上的开放获取论文约有五十二篇，2025 年版引证报告给出的影响因子为 1.3，五年指标为 1.4，位次列于第四区。

• The indicator itself has travelled, reading 1.374 in 2021, 1.54 in 2022, 1.5 in 2023, 1.2 in 2024 before the rise to 1.3 in 2025.该指标本身也有起落，2021 年为 1.374，2022 年为 1.54，2023 年为 1.5，2024 年降至 1.2，2025 年回到 1.3。

• Usage figures on the platform come to 104.9 thousand downloads for 2025, with a CiteScore of 1.7, an H index of 33 and a usage factor of 138.平台的使用数据为 2025 年下载量 10.49 万次，另有 CiteScore 1.7、H 指数 33 与使用因子 138。

Editors

• Editor-in-chief is Alexander A. Makarov, a doctor of biological sciences and professor, and the scientific director at the Engelhardt Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.主编是（Alexander A. Makarov），俄罗斯科学院恩格尔哈特研究所学术主任，生物学博士，教授。

• Two deputy editors-in-chief stand beside the chief, Vadim L. Karpov who heads a laboratory at the same institute and Alexey V. Morozov a chief research scientist there.两位副主编陪在主编一侧，一位是同所实验室负责人（Vadim L. Karpov），另一位是该所首席科研人员（Alexey V. Morozov）。

• An executive editor handles the flow of work, Tatiana A. Pronina of the State Scientific and Technical Library of Russia, a senior research scientist based in the same capital.执行编辑（Tatiana A. Pronina）来自俄罗斯国家科学技术图书馆，是该国首都的一名高级科研人员，负责日常稿件流程。

• The editorial board proper numbers seventeen names, drawn mostly from institutes in Moscow, among them the Engelhardt institute, the Kurchatov centre and two universities of the capital.编辑委员会本身列有十七人，多数出自莫斯科的研究机构，恩格尔哈特研究所与库尔恰托夫中心都在其中，该国的两所大学同样有人入选。

• Overseas members sit among them, Ancha Baranova directing a school of systems biology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where the board holds a member outside Russia.编委中也有海外成员，其中一位（Ancha Baranova）在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯的乔治梅森大学主持系统生物学学院。

• The advisory board runs to thirteen names drawn from the United States, Germany, Russia and France, among them scholars at Yale, at Tufts and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.顾问委员会列有十三人，成员来自美国与德国，也有来自俄罗斯和法国的学者，其中既有耶鲁大学的研究者，也有来自斯隆凯特琳纪念癌症中心的学者。

• A staff editor at the united editorial office of Akademkniga in Moscow keeps the correspondence moving, and the office for the title runs on a single address.编辑部设有一名事务编辑，隶属莫斯科的 Akademkniga 联合编辑部，该刊的事务往来集中于一个邮箱地址。

• Peer review policy follows the Springer Nature guidance and the codes of conduct of its editors, together with the ethical guidelines issued for reviewers across the platform.评审政策遵循 Springer Nature 的流程指引与编辑行为准则，并参照面向审稿人发布的伦理守则。

• About seventy per cent of submissions are turned away before review on formal grounds, and each paper that does go out is given to at least two referees.约七成投稿在送外审之前便因形式不合要求被退回，真正送出的每篇稿件至少交给两位审稿人。

• Reviewing is single blind, and the first decision is promised within thirty five days of a submission arriving at the desk, where the papers are logged on arrival.评审采用单盲方式，稿件送达编辑部后三十五天内给出第一轮决定，送达稿件会逐一登记在册。

• Final acceptance rests with the responsible editor or with a meeting of the board, and anyone on the editorial team who appears as a co-author steps away from that decision.最终决定由责任编辑或编委会会议作出，编辑团队中若有人被列为论文合著者，该稿的决定便由其回避。

• Special issues travel through the same route, and unless the contributors say otherwise they are assembled by members of the board without outside guest editors in charge of them.专刊走的也是同一条流程，除非另作说明，专刊由编委成员自行筹办，不另设客座主编。