Photosynthesis Research

Photosynthesis Research (commonly abbreviated as ''Photosynth. Res.') is the official journal of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research, published by Springer. Founded in 1980, it carries photosynthesis research at every level from the molecular to the ecosystem, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.8.Photosynthesis Research（常用缩写 Photosynth. Res.）是国际光合作用研究学会的机关刊，由 Springer 出版，1980 年创刊，刊载从分子到生态系统各个层面的光合作用研究，2025 年影响因子为 3.8。^[1]

Scope

• Disciplinary focus: the journal publishes research in all areas related to photosynthesis and discusses both its basic and its applied aspects. Work on every photosynthetic system is welcome, natural organisms and biomimetic systems alike, and the readership consists of researchers in plant physiology, biochemistry, biophysics and ecology.学科定位： 期刊刊发光合作用一切领域的原创研究，同时讨论基础与应用两个方面，凡涉及自然生物与仿生系统的光合作用研究都在考虑之列，读者为从事植物生理、生物化学、生物物理与生态学的研究者。
• Subject coverage: the topics listed officially include photophosphorylation, carbon assimilation, regulatory phenomena, molecular biology, environmental and ecological aspects and photorespiration, and further back the light absorption and emission, excitation energy transfer, primary photochemistry, model systems, membrane components, protein complexes and electron transport, as well as bacterial and algal photosynthesis.选题范围： 官方列举的题目包括光磷酸化、碳同化、调控现象、分子生物学、环境与生态学面向以及光呼吸，更细的上溯到光的吸收与发射、激发能传递、初级光化学、模型体系、膜组分、蛋白复合体与电子传递，以及细菌和藻类的光合作用。
• Levels of organisation: authors are invited to report research at all levels of plant organisation, running from the molecular and subcellular through the cellular and whole-plant level to canopy, ecosystem and indeed global scales. The subject of study is not confined to model plants.研究尺度： 期刊鼓励在植物组织的各个层级上报告研究，从分子、亚细胞、细胞、整株、冠层一路延伸到生态系统乃至全球尺度，并不要求研究对象局限于模式植物。
• Interdisciplinary stance: the editors welcome photosynthesis research conducted from any discipline, among them biochemistry, biophysics, cellular and molecular biology, genomics and theoretical modelling, and they encourage interdisciplinary methods together with a broad spread of experimental and theoretical techniques.跨学科取向： 编辑部欢迎运用任何学科开展光合作用研究，包括生物化学、生物物理学、细胞与分子生物学、基因组学以及理论与建模，并鼓励采用跨学科的方法和广泛的实验与理论技术。
• Content types and open access: the journal publishes research papers, reviews, methodological articles, historical and biographical pieces, commentaries and editorials, and it runs topical collections and special issues. It is a hybrid title, so subscribers read the full text free of charge and authors may opt for paid immediate open access.体裁与开放获取： 期刊刊发研究论文、综述、方法学文章、历史与传记文章、评论与编者按，并设有专题集与专刊，属混合开放获取刊物，订阅用户可免费阅读全文，作者也可选择付费立即开放。
• Place in the field: this title presents itself as the official journal of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research. The same field also carries Photosynthetica, published by the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The three have distinct emphases, and prospective authors should compare their official scope statements before submitting.学科坐标： 本刊以国际光合作用研究学会官方会刊自居，同领域另有由捷克科学院出版的 Photosynthetica 与由英国皇家化学会出版的 Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences，三者各有侧重，投稿前宜对照各自的官方范围说明。

History

• 1980: the journal was founded in The Hague with Junk as its first publisher. It later passed to Nijhoff and then to Kluwer Academic Publishers before being absorbed into the Springer Science and Business Media Group.1980年： 期刊在海牙创刊，首任出版者为 Junk，其后经尼霍夫转至克鲁韦学术出版社，最终并入施普林格科学与商业出版集团。
• Official status: from volume 72 number 3 the title has carried the designation of official journal of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research and has been published on behalf of that society ever since.会刊身份： 自第 72 卷第 3 期起，刊名冠以国际光合作用研究学会官方会刊的副题，此后一直以该学会的正式机关刊物身份出版。
• Continuous article publishing: beginning with volume 162 in 2025 the journal moved to continuous article publishing. Accepted articles are placed in an issue immediately, the online-first mode for unpaginated articles is discontinued, and each article now starts at page 1 within its volume and carries its own article citation identifier, shortening overall publication time.连续出版改革： 自 2025 年第 162 卷起改用连续文章出版，录用文章即时编入当期，不再使用先行在线的无页码模式，全卷文章各自从第 1 页起排并配一个文章引用标识符，整体发表时间因此缩短。
• Annual volume: from 2025 the journal publishes one annual volume comprising six issues, a different arrangement from the three-issue units used before the change.年度卷期： 自 2025 年起每年出版一卷共六期，与改革前以三期为单位的旧有编排不同。
• Society and conference activity: the journal stays closely connected with congresses such as the International Conference on Photosynthesis Research, whose contributions often appear as topical collections, and it runs short editorial items alongside them.会议与学会活动： 期刊与国际光合作用研究大会等学术活动保持紧密联系，会议文集常以专集形式刊出，编辑部还专设编者寄语一类短栏目。
• Recent direction: in recent years the journal has carried a rising share of papers on artificial photosynthesis, crop yield improvement and the modelling of photosynthesis. Its 2025 impact factor recovered to 3.8 with a five-year impact factor of 3.9.近年走向： 近年该刊在人工光合作用、作物产量改良与光合作用建模等方向上的发文比重上升，2025 年影响因子回升至 3.8，五年影响因子 3.9。^[2]

Editors

• Editor-in-chief: the journal is led by Johannes Messinger PhD, who took over as editor-in-chief in 2023. He had taught and researched in Sweden for many years and since 2024 has been professor in the Department of Plant Physiology at Umeå University, with research interests in the biophysics of photosynthesis, the structural and functional study of photosynthetic enzymes, and water oxidation in photosystem II.主编： 现任主编为 Johannes Messinger 博士，2023 年出任本刊主编，他此前长期在瑞典从事教学与研究，2024 年起任乌默奥大学植物生理学系教授，研究兴趣集中于光合作用的生物物理、光合酶的结构与功能以及光合体系二中的水氧化。
• Associate editors: seventeen associate editors serve on the board, drawn from the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Washington University in St Louis, Louisiana State University, Washington State University, Monash University, Kyoto University, Paris-Saclay, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Tartu, the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Arizona State University, the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Wageningen University and Research and Henan University, each with expertise in areas such as photosynthetic bacteria, cyanobacteria, protein complex structure, photoprotection, redox regulation and artificial photosynthesis.副编辑： 副编辑十七位，分属俄罗斯科学院、加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学、圣路易斯华盛顿大学、路易斯安那立大学、华盛顿州立大学、澳大利亚莫纳什大学、京都大学、巴黎萨克雷大学、耶路撒冷希伯来大学、塔尔图大学、巴塞罗那光子科学研究所、亚利桑那州立大学、林茨约翰内斯开普勒大学、瓦赫宁根大学与河南大学，各自在光合细菌、蓝藻、蛋白复合体结构、光保护、红氧调节与人工光合作用等方向设有专长。
• Advisory board: a separate advisory board draws members from Turkey, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Israel, India, Japan, Australia, the United States and China. Composed largely of senior serving or retired scholars in the field, it supplies external judgement alongside the editors and associate editors.咨询委员会： 另设咨询委员会，成员来自土耳其、芬兰、瑞典、德国、法国、英国、意大利、荷兰、西班牙、以色列、印度、日本、澳大利亚、美国与中国等地，多为本领域资深的在任或退休学者，构成主编与副编辑之外的外部判断力量。
• Submission system: manuscripts are lodged through the publisher's online submission system, and the editors also solicit submissions for topical collections, with dedicated collections on light harvesting, photoprotection and methods in photosynthesis research.投稿系统： 稿件通过出版方的在线投稿系统递交，编辑部同时以专题集形式公开征稿，光捕获、光保护、光合作用方法学等方向均设有专集。
• Metrics: the 2025 impact factor is 3.8 and the five-year impact factor 3.9. The median time from submission to first decision is five days, and downloads in 2025 reached some 612,800.指标： 2025 年影响因子 3.8，五年影响因子 3.9，投稿至首次决定的中位数为五天，2025 年全年下载量约六十二万次。^[3]