Molecular Pain
Molecular Pain is a fully open-access specialist journal of pain research, founded in 2005 by BioMed Central and published by SAGE Publications since 2016. It filled the gap of a dedicated forum for the molecular aspects of pain research, and is an electronic-only journal, appearing as one volume a year with articles published online first.《分子疼痛》（Molecular Pain）是一份完全开放获取的疼痛研究专科期刊，二〇〇五年由生物医学中心（BioMed Central）创办，二〇一六年起转由赛吉出版（SAGE Publications）出版。该刊补上了疼痛研究领域缺少分子层面专门论坛的空白，是纯电子刊，每年一卷、文章在线优先发表。
Scope
Molecular Pain takes pain research at the cellular, subcellular and molecular levels as its brief, its official scope stressing the integration of pain research with molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, modern electrophysiology and neurobiology. Its principal subject areas include:Molecular Pain 的取稿立场是「在细胞、亚细胞与分子层面研究疼痛」，官方范围说明强调把疼痛研究与分子生物学、基因组学、蛋白质组学、现代电生理学与神经生物学相结合。收文范围覆盖的主要方向包括：
- Physiological and pathological pain: the molecular mechanisms of physiological pain, together with peripheral and central mechanisms of chronic and neuropathic pain.生理性与病理性疼痛： 生理疼痛的分子机制，以及慢性疼痛、神经病理痛等病理性疼痛的外周与中枢机制。
- Molecular and genomic approaches: identification and functional study of pain-related genes, ion channels and receptors, and the application of genomic methods.分子与基因组学： 疼痛相关基因、离子通道与受体的鉴定和功能研究，以及基因组学方法的应用。
- Signalling and plasticity: pain signalling pathways, synaptic plasticity and the molecular basis of central sensitisation.信号转导与可塑性： 疼痛信号转导通路、突触可塑性及中枢敏化的分子基础。
- Electrophysiology and neurobiology: the application of modern electrophysiology to pain research, and the neurobiological mechanisms of pain.电生理与神经生物学： 现代电生理技术在疼痛研究中的应用，及疼痛的神经生物学机制。
- Methodology: the journal runs a dedicated section of short methodology articles, encouraging new techniques in pain research.方法学文章： 刊物专设简短方法学文章栏目，鼓励疼痛研究的新技术新方法。[1]
History
- Founding (2005): the journal was founded in London in 2005 by BioMed Central, explicitly to fill the gap of a forum for the molecular aspects of pain research创刊（二〇〇五年）： 本刊于二〇〇五年由生物医学中心创办于伦敦，创办时即明确以填补疼痛研究分子层面论坛的空白为宗旨；创办编辑为卓敏。 the founding editor was Min Zhuo.[2]
- Publisher transition (2016): the journal moved to SAGE Publications from 2016, volume twelve being the first SAGE volume, and has run on the SAGE platform since出版方易主（二〇一六年）： 自二〇一六年起本刊转由赛吉出版公司出版，赛吉卷十二即二〇一六年卷，此后一直在赛吉平台运营；本刊无学会背景。 it has no society affiliation.[2]
- Annual volumes: the present model is one volume a year, volume 21 for 2025 and volume 22 for 2026, with articles published online first on acceptance and the whole volume collected as a single issue.年卷制出版： 现行出版模式为每年一卷，二〇二五年为第二十一卷、二〇二六年为第二十二卷，文章录用后在线优先发表，整卷作为单期结集出版。[3]
- Open access and charges: the journal has been fully open access since its founding, with article processing charges now of US3,000 for regular articles and US2,400 for short methodology articles.开放获取与费用： 本刊自创刊即为完全开放获取，现文章处理费常规文章三千美元、简短方法学文章二千四百美元。[4]
- Metric standing: the 2025 impact factor is 3.8, placing the journal in the second quartile of neuroscience and zone three of medicine in the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking.指标走势： 二〇二五年影响因子三点八，在神经科学小类列二区，在中科院医学大类列三区。[5]
Editors
The journal is run by two co-editors-in-chief, supported by five deputy editors, a managing editor and an editorial board of about fifty, with an advisory board including such figures of pain research as Borsook, Burnstock and Porreca. Official peer-review policy expects the review period not to exceed three weeks, and no acceptance rate is published.本刊实行双主编制，配五名副编辑、一名管理编辑与约五十人的编辑委员会，另设由多布克、伯恩斯托克与波雷卡等疼痛研究名家组成的顾问编委会。官方同行评审政策预期评审周期不超过三周，出版方未公布录用比例。[6]
- Min Zhuo (founding editor and co-editor-in-chief): professor at the University of Toronto, founding editor of the journal, long working on the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and pain memory.卓敏（创办编辑、共同主编）： 多伦多大学教授，本刊创办编辑，长期研究突触可塑性与疼痛记忆的分子机制。[1]
- Jianguo Gu (co-editor-in-chief): professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, directing the journal's present editorial affairs jointly with Zhuo.顾建国（共同主编）： 美国亚拉巴马大学伯明翰分校教授，与卓敏共同主持现行编辑事务。[1]
- Deputy editors: the five deputy editors sit in Texas in the United States, Japan, Taiwan and Suzhou, covering molecular nociception, electrophysiology and neural circuits.副编辑构成： 五名副编辑分驻美国德州、日本、中国台湾与苏州等地，覆盖分子痛觉、电生理与神经环路方向。[7]