Nature Reviews Bioengineering

Nature Reviews Bioengineering is an online-only review journal published by Nature Portfolio that was launched in January 2023, covering the full breadth of bioengineering with a focus on application, translation and technology, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 42.7《自然综述：生物工程》（Nature Reviews Bioengineering）是由 Nature Portfolio 出版的纯在线综述期刊，2023 年 1 月创刊，覆盖生物工程全领域，聚焦应用、转化与技术，2025 年期刊影响因子为 42.7。

Scope

• It publishes commissioned Reviews, Perspectives and Comments covering the full breadth of bioengineering, with a particular focus on application, translation and technology刊载覆盖生物工程全领域的约稿综述、观点与评论，尤重应用、转化与技术。
• Its scope is built on three pillars, namely biomedicine and health, environment and biology, and devices and technology其范围建立在三大支柱之上，即生物医学与健康、环境与生物学、器件与技术。
• Covered topics range from cell and tissue engineering, artificial organs, implants, medical devices, vaccines, delivery technologies, diagnostics and nanomedicine涵盖主题从细胞与组织工程、人工器官、植入物、医疗器械、疫苗、递送技术、诊断到纳米医学。
• It also covers synthetic biology, plant biotechnology, bioreactors, applied microbiology and bioplastics还涵盖合成生物学、植物生物技术、生物反应器、应用微生物学与生物塑料。
• Further topics include wearable devices, bioelectronics, robotics, assistive devices, microfluidics and machine learning其他方向包括可穿戴器件、生物电子学、机器人学、辅助器械、微流控与机器学习。
• It publishes Down to Business articles in which experts describe taking research from idea to product, including regulatory, intellectual property, scale-up and manufacturing considerations刊载「Down to Business」文章，由专家讲述如何将研究从构想推向产品，包括监管、知识产权、放大与制造等考量。
• Articles address low-resource settings and discuss commercial, ethical, legal and societal aspects of bioengineering research文章兼顾低资源环境，并讨论生物工程研究的商业、伦理、法律与社会层面。
• As an online-only journal it encourages authors to include a citation diversity statement作为纯在线期刊，该刊鼓励作者附上引文多样性声明。

History

• Nature Reviews Bioengineering was launched in January 2023 as an exclusively online journal published by Nature Portfolio该刊于 2023 年 1 月创刊，是由 Nature Portfolio 出版的纯在线期刊。
• It is the first engineering-focused title in the Nature Reviews portfolio and fills a gap left by the absence of a dedicated high-impact review journal for bioengineering它是 Nature Reviews 系列中首个聚焦工程学的期刊，填补了生物工程领域缺乏专门高影响力综述期刊的空白。
• Its launch was announced by Springer Nature in 2022 as one of three new Nature Portfolio journals for 2023Springer Nature 于 2022 年宣布其创刊，作为 2023 年新增的三本 Nature Portfolio 期刊之一。
• Its founding Chief Editor is Christine-Maria Horejs, who headed the launch from January 2022 after leading Nature Reviews Materials创刊主编为 Christine-Maria Horejs，她此前执掌 Nature Reviews Materials，自 2022 年 1 月起主持该刊创刊工作。
• It remains a subscription-based hybrid journal rather than a fully open-access title该刊仍为订阅制混合期刊，并非完全开放获取。
• Its electronic international standard serial number is 2731-6092, and the correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing is Nat. Rev. Bioeng.其电子国际标准连续出版物号为 2731-6092，用于文摘与索引的规范缩写为 Nat. Rev. Bioeng.。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 37.6 in 2024 and rose to 42.7 in 2025, ranking first in Biomedical Engineering and in Biomaterials其期刊影响因子 2024 年为 37.6，2025 年升至 42.7，在生物医学工程与生物材料领域均排名第一。^[1]

Editors

• Like other Nature Reviews titles, the journal has no external academic editors, and all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of full-time professional editors holding PhDs and based in Berlin与其他 Nature Reviews 期刊一样，该刊不设外部学术编辑，所有编辑决定均由常驻柏林的专职全职专业编辑团队（均具博士学位）作出。
• The Chief Editor is Christine-Maria Horejs, who holds an MSci and a PhD in nanobiotechnology from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna主编为 Christine-Maria Horejs，拥有维也纳自然资源与生命科学大学（University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences）纳米生物技术硕士与博士学位。
• She has edited Nature Reviews Materials, served as a locum senior editor at Nature Nanotechnology, and became chief editor of Nature Reviews Materials in January 2021她曾任 Nature Reviews Materials 编辑，并在 Nature Nanotechnology 担任代理高级编辑，2021 年 1 月出任 Nature Reviews Materials 主编。
• Senior Editors include Sadra Bakhshandeh, trained in mechanical and biomedical engineering, who joined in March 2022 for the journal's launch and is also a senior consulting editor for Nature Biomedical Engineering高级编辑包括 Sadra Bakhshandeh，其专业背景为机械工程与生物医学工程，2022 年 3 月为创刊加入，同时担任 Nature Biomedical Engineering 的高级顾问编辑。
• Senior Editor Caroline Beyer holds an MS in cellular neuroscience from Tulane University and joined as an Associate Editor in July 2024高级编辑 Caroline Beyer 拥有杜兰大学细胞神经科学硕士学位，2024 年 7 月以助理编辑身份加入。
• The team commissions Reviews, Perspectives and Comments, edits manuscripts, organizes peer review and works with authors line by line to make articles accessible across fields该团队负责约稿综述、观点与评论，编辑稿件，组织同行评审，并与作者逐行打磨，使文章能跨越不同领域被读懂。
• Editors also promote interaction across the field by attending conferences and visiting labs and institutions编辑还通过出席学术会议、走访实验室与机构，促进该领域的交流。