Physics of Life Reviews

Physics of Life Reviews is a quarterly review journal published by Elsevier, founded in 2004 and devoted to the physics of living systems, indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and MEDLINE, with a 2025 impact factor of 11.8Physics of Life Reviews 是由 Elsevier 出版的季刊综述期刊，2004 年创刊，聚焦生命系统的物理学，被科学引文索引扩展版、Scopus 与 MEDLINE 收录，2025 年影响因子为 11.8。

Scope

• The physics of living systems across scales from molecules to populations从分子到种群各个尺度上生命系统的物理学。
• Complex phenomena in biological systems and their physical modelling生物系统中的复杂现象及其物理建模。
• Artificial life and robotics人工生命与机器人学。
• Mathematical biolinguistics and the modelling of language数学生物语言学与语言建模。
• Artificial intelligence and the modelling of human-machine systems人工智能与人机系统建模。

History

• The journal was founded in 2004 by Elsevier as a forum for the physics of life该刊 2004 年由 Elsevier 创办，作为生命物理学的论坛。
• Its founding editor-in-chief was Leonid Perlovsky, who led the journal from 2003 until 2024创刊主编为 Leonid Perlovsky，自 2003 年执掌该刊直至 2024 年。
• José F. Fontanari of the University of São Paulo succeeded him as editor-in-chief其后由圣保罗大学的 Jose F. Fontanari 接任主编。
• Its impact factor peaked at 14.3 in 2024 before easing to 11.8 in 2025其影响因子在 2024 年达到 14.3 的高位，2025 年回落至 11.8。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is José F. Fontanari of the University of São Paulo in Brazil现任主编为巴西圣保罗大学的 Jose F. Fontanari。
• Associate editors include Cristina Becchio of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany副编辑包括德国汉堡-埃彭多夫大学医学中心的 Cristina Becchio。
• Further associate editors include Dipshikha Chakravortty of the Indian Institute of Science and Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii of Boston University其他副编辑包括印度科学研究院的 Dipshikha Chakravortty 与波士顿大学的 Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii。
• The editorial board lists about fifteen members from eight countries, and the journal is hybrid open access with a charge of about 4530 US dollars编委会约有 15 位成员，来自八个国家；该刊为混合开放获取，版面费约 4530 美元。