Nutrients

Nutrients is an open access journal published by MDPI in Basel since 2009, covering human nutrition and its effects on health, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.8.《营养素》（Nutrients）由（MDPI）在巴塞尔出版，2009 年创刊，为开放获取期刊，刊载人类营养及其对健康影响的研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8。

Scope

• Macronutrients, micronutrients, essential nutrients and bioactive nutrients are the basic categories the journal works with.常量营养素、微量营养素、必需营养素与生物活性营养素，是期刊处理的基本类别。
• Nutrient requirements, nutrient sources and the assessment of nutritional status, including body composition, are covered.营养需求、营养来源以及营养状况评估，包括身体成分测定，均在范围内。
• Human nutrition across the lifespan, from pregnancy and infancy to ageing and sarcopenia, is a recurring theme.贯穿生命周期的人类营养，从妊娠、婴儿到衰老与肌肉减少症，是反复出现的主题。
• Diet-related disorders, metabolic syndrome, obesity, malnutrition and bariatric surgery are addressed in both research and review formats.饮食相关疾病、代谢综合征、肥胖、营养不良与减重手术，在研究论文与综述两种形式中均有讨论。
• Functional foods, nutraceuticals, supplements and health claims sit alongside nutritional physiology and nutrigenomics.功能性食品、营养品、膳食补充剂与健康声称，与营养生理学及营养基因组学并列。
• Public health nutrition, nutritional epidemiology and sport nutrition are handled by dedicated sections.公共卫生营养、营养流行病学与运动营养由专门分栏负责。
• Animal studies are considered when the findings are relevant to human health, and manuscripts must offer novel insight rather than confirmation alone.动物研究在结果与人类健康相关时才被考虑，稿件须提供新见解而非仅作验证。

History

• MDPI launched the title in 2009 as an online-only journal, and it has since appeared monthly with twelve issues a year.（MDPI）于 2009 年创办本刊，仅在线出版，此后按月发行，每年 12 期。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, PubMed, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Scopus and Embase, among other databases.本刊被科学引文索引扩展版、PubMed、MEDLINE、PubMed Central、Scopus 与 Embase 等数据库收录。
• Output has grown to several thousand articles a year, making it one of the largest nutrition journals by volume.年发文量已增至数千篇，使其成为按篇幅计规模最大的营养学期刊之一。
• The journal works with a group of learned societies, among them the Spanish Nutrition Foundation, the Spanish Nutrition Society, the European Sport Nutrition Society and the Nutrition Society of New Zealand.期刊与多个学术团体合作，其中包括西班牙营养基金会、西班牙营养学会、欧洲运动营养学会与新西兰营养学会。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.8, against 5.0 in 2024, 6.706 in 2022 and 5.717 in 2021.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8，2024 年为 5.0，2022 年为 6.706，2021 年为 5.717。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it ranks 19th of 114 titles in nutrition and dietetics, in the first quartile.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，本刊于营养与饮食学类 114 种期刊中位列第 19，属第一四分位。

Editors

• Lluis Serra-Majem of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Maria Luz Fernandez of the University of Connecticut are editors-in-chief.拉斯帕尔马斯大学的 Lluis Serra-Majem 与康涅狄格大学的 Maria Luz Fernandez 任共同主编。
• Serra-Majem works on the Mediterranean diet, nutritional epidemiology and obesity, while Fernandez works on lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease.Serra-Majem 研究地中海饮食、营养流行病学与肥胖，Fernandez 研究脂质代谢与心血管疾病。
• Each of the 21 sections has its own editorial board, and an early career editorial board brings in younger researchers.21 个分栏各设编委会，另设青年编委会吸纳年轻研究者。
• Median time to first decision is about 15 days, and acceptance to publication about 2.4 days.初审中位时间约 15 天，录用到出版约 2.4 天。
• Review is single blind and conducted by external experts, and authors pay an article processing charge with discounts through the MDPI institutional programme.评审为单盲，由外部专家承担；作者支付文章处理费，可通过（MDPI）机构计划获得折扣。
• The journal publishes reviews, original research and short communications, with no restriction on paper length.期刊发表综述、原创研究与短篇通讯，对论文篇幅不设限制。