Obesity Reviews

Obesity Reviews (commonly abbreviated as Obes. Rev.) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley on behalf of the World Obesity Federation, issued monthly. Founded in 2000, it is the federation's official reviews journal and the highest-cited obesity journal.《肥胖评论》（Obesity Reviews，常用缩写为 Obes. Rev.）是一份由世界肥胖联盟（World Obesity Federation）主办、威立出版代为出版的同行评审学术期刊，月刊。该刊创刊于 2000 年，是世界肥胖联盟的官方综述刊物，也是肥胖领域被引最高的期刊。

Scope

The journal's editorial stance restricts it to review as the sole article type and requires that reviews offer new insights, so that no original research is published and every review, whether systematic narrative, quantitative meta-analytic or narrative in form, must present a new insight, critical or novel perspective. The journal plainly plans pro and con reviews to stage opposing views on current controversies. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的取稿立场是「以综述为唯一体裁，且须提供新洞见」，即不发表原创研究论文，并要求综述无论采取系统叙述、定量荟萃或叙述形式，都必须提出新的洞见、批判性或新颖视角。刊物明确规划正反方评论栏目，用以就当前争议组织对立观点的交锋。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Basic obesity science: adipose tissue biology, the regulation of energy metabolism, and the pathophysiological mechanisms of obesity.肥胖基础科学： 脂肪组织生物学、能量代谢调控与肥胖的病理生理机制。
• Behavioural and psychological aspects: eating behaviour, the control of food intake, and psychosocial factors related to obesity.行为与心理： 饮食行为、进食调控与肥胖相关的心理社会因素。
• Clinical treatment and outcomes: pharmacological and surgical weight loss, weight loss maintenance, and the appraisal of treatment outcomes.临床治疗与结局： 药物与手术减重、减重维持与治疗结局评价。
• Epidemiology and prevention: trends in obesity prevalence, its determinants, and population-level prevention strategies.流行病学与预防： 肥胖的流行趋势、决定因素与人群层面的预防策略。
• Comorbidities and public health: mechanisms and management of obesity-related comorbidities, together with obesity policy and public health intervention.共病与公共卫生： 肥胖相关共病的机制与管理，以及肥胖政策与公共卫生干预。

The journal is a hybrid title. The subscription route charges authors nothing, while open access carries an article processing charge. The publisher states an official acceptance rate of 35 per cent and a median of 101 days from submission to first decision. The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and carries a 2025 impact factor of 7.4 and a CiteScore of 17.4, making it the highest-cited obesity journal.该刊属混合出版模式：订阅路线不向作者收费，选择开放获取需支付文章处理费。出版方官方公布录用率为 35%，投稿至首次决定中位 101 天。该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，2025 年影响因子 7.4、引用分数 17.4，是肥胖领域被引最高的期刊。

History

• Founding (2000): the journal was founded in 2000 as the World Obesity Federation's official reviews journal from the outset. The founding title is the current one, with no predecessor.创刊（2000年）： 本刊创刊于 2000 年，自创刊起即为世界肥胖联盟的官方综述刊物；创刊刊名即为现名，无前身刊。^[1]
• Society history: the World Obesity Federation, formerly the International Association for the Study of Obesity, is the principal academic organisation in global obesity research and publishes three other titles, Pediatric Obesity, Clinical Obesity and Obesity Science and Practice, with the present journal serving as its flagship in reviews.学会沿革： 世界肥胖联盟前身为国际肥胖研究学会，是全球肥胖研究领域的主要学术组织，旗下另办《儿童肥胖》《临床肥胖》与《肥胖科学与实践》三种刊物，本刊为其综述方向的旗舰。^[1]
• Current editor: Brian Oldfield serves as editor, a professor of physiology at Monash University and president of the Asia Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity, his appointment announced by the World Obesity Federation. The library's record of the editor agrees.现任主编： 布赖恩·奥尔德菲尔德（Brian Oldfield）任主编，为莫纳什大学生理学教授、亚太肥胖研究学会会长；其任命由世界肥胖联盟公告宣布。库内所记主编与其一致。^[2]
• Editorial vision: on taking office the current editor set out three aims, namely associate editors within the board covering preclinical translation, psychological aspects and paediatric and transgenerational obesity, guidance of the disciplinary agenda through thematic supplements and invited reviews, and pro and con reviews on areas where the literature carries a healthy diversity of viewpoints.编辑构想： 现任主编上任时提出三项构想：编委会设分领域副编辑以覆盖临床前转化、心理与儿童及代际肥胖等方向；以专题增刊与邀约综述引导学科议程；就文献中存在健康观点分歧的领域组织正反方评论。^[2]
• Official acceptance rate: the publisher states an official acceptance rate of 35 per cent and a median of 101 days from submission to first decision. The library's previous notes of relatively hard acceptance and about a month had no official basis and have been deleted.官方录用率： 出版方官方公布录用率为 35%，投稿至首次决定中位 101 天；库内原记录用率「相对较难」与审稿约一个月均无官方依据，已删除。^[3]
• Metric trend: the 2025 impact factor of 7.4, together with a CiteScore of 17.4, places the journal as the highest-cited title in obesity, its reviews routinely serving as base citations for obesity research and policy formulation.指标走势： 影响因子自 2025 年的 7.4 与引用分数 17.4 共同刻画该刊位置；该刊是肥胖领域被引最高的期刊，其综述常成为肥胖研究与政策制定的基础引用来源。^[3]

Editors

The journal operates under a single editor appointed by the World Obesity Federation, with an editorial board and subject-area associate editors in support, and manuscripts submitted through the publisher's own submission system. The publisher states an acceptance rate and time to first decision, and the composition of the editorial office is taken from the masthead.本刊实行主编负责制，主编由世界肥胖联盟任命并主持编辑部，另设编委会与分领域副编辑；稿件经出版方自有的投稿系统投递。官方公布录用率与首次决定时长，编辑部构成以刊头署名为准。

• Brian Oldfield (current editor): professor of physiology at Monash University and president of the Asia Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity, working on the biology of brown fat, the mechanism of weight loss surgery and the motivation to eat in anorexia nervosa. His appointment was announced by the society.布赖恩·奥尔德菲尔德（现任主编）： 莫纳什大学生理学教授、亚太肥胖研究学会会长，研究方向为棕色脂肪生物学、减重手术机制与神经性厌食的摄食动机；其主编任命由学会公告宣布。^[2]
• Former editor: David A. York, the previous editor, was based in the Department of Physiology and the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and the board structure formed during his tenure has been carried on by the current editor.前任主编： 戴维·约克（David A. York）任前任主编，供职于韦恩州立大学医学院生理学系与营养与食品科学系；其任内形成的编委会架构由现任主编延续。^[3]
• Board composition: the board's members are drawn from the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland, Brazil, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland, forming its international review capacity.编委会构成： 该刊编委会成员来自美国、荷兰、英国、芬兰、巴西、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰与瑞士等国，构成其国际化的评审力量。^[3]
• Acceptance and speed: the official 35 per cent acceptance rate and the 101-day median to first decision are the principal published evidence for understanding the journal's selection threshold. The two are measured differently, the first being an overall acceptance proportion and the second a duration from submission to first decision.录用与时效： 官方公布的 35% 录用率与 101 天首次决定中位数，是理解该刊取稿门槛的主要公开依据；两者口径不同，前者为总体录用比例，后者为投稿至首次决定的时长。^[3]
• Standing in the field: the highest-cited journal in obesity, its reviews bear directly on practitioners in endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology, obstetrics, psychology and bariatric surgery, and it is one of the principal channels through which obesity research reaches clinical practice and policy.学科地位： 该刊是肥胖领域被引最高的期刊，其综述对内分泌、心血管、消化、妇产、心理与减重外科等专业的从业者均有直接影响，是肥胖研究成果进入临床与政策的主渠道之一。^[1]