Photoacoustics

Photoacoustics is an open access journal published by Elsevier GmbH, launched in 2013 to cover the fields of photoacoustics, optoacoustics and thermoacoustics, and edited by Alexander A. Oraevsky, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.9《光声学》（Photoacoustics）是（Elsevier GmbH）出版的开放获取期刊，2013 年创刊，覆盖光声学、光声成像与热声学领域，主编为（Alexander A. Oraevsky），2025 年影响因子为 6.9。

Scope

• The journal publishes original research and review contributions in the fast growing field of photoacoustics, also known as optoacoustics, and thermoacoustics期刊在快速发展的光声学（亦称光声成像）与热声学领域发表原创研究与综述。
• Research in this area exploits optically and electromagnetically excited acoustical and thermal phenomena for visualisation and characterisation of materials and biological tissues该领域研究利用光与电磁激发的声学与热学现象，对材料与生物组织进行可视化与表征。
• Imaging based on photoacoustic techniques, including biomedical optoacoustic imaging, sensing and microscopy, is a core subject基于光声技术的成像，包括生物医学光声成像、传感与显微，是核心主题。
• Classical photoacoustic spectroscopy and ultrasensitive detection of gases and liquids are covered收录经典光声光谱学以及气体与液体的超灵敏检测。
• Nondestructive evaluation applications are within scope无损评价类应用属于其范围。
• Novel light sources, advanced ultrasonic detectors, novel contrast generation approaches and data processing and inversion methods are addressed内容涉及新型光源、先进超声探测器、新型对比度生成方法以及数据处理与反演方法。

History

• The journal was launched by Elsevier with its first volume in 2013, announced in November of that year该刊由（Elsevier）于 2013 年创办首卷，当年 11 月对外发布创刊消息。
• It was created through the efforts of Vasilis Ntziachristos and Daniel Razansky, then colleagues at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen in Germany期刊由当时任职于德国慕尼黑工业大学的（Vasilis Ntziachristos）与（Daniel Razansky）推动创办。
• Its tenth anniversary was marked with a celebratory editorial in 20222022 年期刊以纪念性社论迎来创刊十周年。
• It is published in Munich by Elsevier GmbH under the single ISSN 2213-5979 and appears quarterly期刊由慕尼黑的（Elsevier GmbH）出版，仅有 ISSN 2213-5979，按季出版。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 8.484 in 2021 through 9.656 in 2022 and 6.8 in 2024 to 6.9 in 2025, ranking 6th among 81 instruments and instrumentation journals其影响因子由 2021 年的 8.484 经 2022 年的 9.656 与 2024 年的 6.8 变为 2025 年的 6.9，在 81 种仪器与仪表期刊中列第 6 位。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Alexander A. Oraevsky, a pioneer of biomedical optoacoustic imaging and sensing主编（Alexander A. Oraevsky）是生物医学光声成像与传感领域的先驱。
• His work includes developing one of the first optoacoustic imaging systems for preclinical and clinical breast cancer imaging其工作包括开发用于乳腺癌临床前与临床成像的早期光声成像系统之一。
• He also developed one of the first gold nanorod based optoacoustic contrast agents and later extended the work to organic nanoparticles他还开发了早期基于金纳米棒的光声造影剂，其后把研究扩展到有机纳米颗粒。
• A key current direction of his research is quantitative optoacoustic tomography其当前的关键研究方向之一是定量光声断层成像。
• Manuscripts are peer reviewed, and the journal publishes both research and review content in an open access model稿件经同行评审，期刊以开放获取模式同时发表研究与综述内容。