PNAS Nexus

PNAS Nexus is a gold open access multidisciplinary science journal launched in 2022 by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in partnership with Oxford University Press, publishing research across the biological, medical, physical, social and political sciences as well as engineering and mathematics, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.8.「PNAS 连结」是美国国家科学院与（Oxford University Press）合作、于 2022 年创办的金色开放获取综合性科学期刊，发表生物、医学、物理、社会与政治科学以及工程与数学领域的研究，2025 年影响因子为 4.8。

Scope

• Biological, health and medical sciences run from biochemistry, cell biology and genetics to public health, nursing, surgery and veterinary medicine.生物、健康与医学科学覆盖从生物化学、细胞生物学、遗传学到公共卫生、护理、外科与兽医学。
• Physical sciences and engineering cover chemistry, physics, materials, mechanical and aerospace engineering, computer science, mathematics and statistics.物理科学与工程涵盖化学、物理、材料、机械与航空航天工程、计算机科学、数学与统计学。
• Social and political sciences include demography, economic sciences, political science, psychology and sustainability science.社会与政治科学包括人口学、经济科学、政治学、心理学与可持续性科学。
• The journal's distinctive remit is work at the intersection of two or more disciplines, including transdisciplinary research that defines new or emerging fields.该刊最具特色的定位是两个及以上学科的交叉研究，包括开辟新领域或新兴领域的跨学科工作。
• Convergence research that integrates engineering, physical sciences, computation and life sciences for medicine, health, energy and the environment is a priority.融合工程、物理科学、计算与生命科学以服务医学、健康、能源与环境的会聚研究是重点。
• It publishes original research articles and perspectives, together with editorials.期刊发表原创研究论文与观点文章，并刊载社论。
• Manuscripts reviewed at PNAS and judged better suited to the sibling journal can be transferred to PNAS Nexus.在（PNAS）评审后被判断更适合本刊的稿件，可转投至「PNAS 连结」。

History

• The journal was announced in 2021 and its inaugural issue opened on 2 March 2022, making it the first fully open access journal published by the National Academy of Sciences.该刊于 2021 年公布，创刊号于 2022 年 3 月 2 日上线，是美国国家科学院出版的第一本完全开放获取期刊。
• It was also the academy's first publishing partnership with Oxford University Press, and the first NAS journal whose board draws on the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.它也是该院与（Oxford University Press）的首个出版合作项目，并且是第一本编委会同时吸纳美国国家工程院与美国国家医学院成员的院刊。
• The inaugural issue carried editorials by the presidents of the three academies, Marcia McNutt, John Anderson and Victor Dzau, alongside a launch editorial by founding Editor-in-Chief Karen Nelson.创刊号刊载了三家学院院长（Marcia McNutt）、（John Anderson）与（Victor Dzau）的社论，以及创刊主编（Karen Nelson）的创刊词。^[1]
• At launch issues appeared every two months with accepted papers posted as advance articles, and the journal now publishes monthly, with volume 5 in 2026.创刊时每两个月出版一期，录用稿件先以预出版形式上线，现按月出版，2026 年为第 5 卷。
• It is indexed in DOAJ, Scopus, the Emerging Sources Citation Index and PubMed Central.该刊被（DOAJ）、（Scopus）、（Emerging Sources Citation Index）与（PubMed Central）收录。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.8, against 3.8 in 2024, and Journal Citation Reports places it in Q1 both in Multidisciplinary Sciences (23 of 140) and in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary (9 of 275), the second reflecting its social science content rather than a social science remit.2025 年影响因子为 4.8，2024 年为 3.8，（Journal Citation Reports）将它在综合性科学（140 种期刊中列第 23）与社会科学跨学科（275 种期刊中列第 9）两个类别均列为（Q1），后者反映其社会科学内容，而非以社会科学为定位。
• As a gold open access journal it charges an article processing charge, offers CC BY and CC BY-NC licences, and operates a waiver policy.作为金色开放获取期刊，它收取文章处理费，提供（CC BY）与（CC BY-NC）两种许可，并设有减免政策。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Yannis C. Yortsos, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.现任主编为（Yannis C. Yortsos），美国国家工程院院士，任职于南加州大学（Viterbi School of Engineering）。
• Four deputy editors lead the three subject domains, with David Brenner of Sanford Burnham Prebys and Patrick Stover of Florida State University for biological, health and medical sciences, Cristina Amon of the University of Toronto for physical sciences and engineering, and Michele Gelfand of Stanford University for social and political sciences.四位副主编分管三大领域：生物、健康与医学科学由（David Brenner）（Sanford Burnham Prebys）与（Patrick Stover）（佛罗里达州立大学）负责，物理科学与工程由（Cristina Amon）（多伦多大学）负责，社会与政治科学由（Michele Gelfand）（斯坦福大学）负责。
• Associate editors include Charles Branas of Columbia University, Gerhard Hummer of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Ian Wilson of Scripps Research, Derek Abbott of the University of Adelaide, Barbara Romanowicz of Berkeley and David Rand of Cornell University.副编辑包括哥伦比亚大学的（Charles Branas）、马克斯·普朗克生物物理研究所的（Gerhard Hummer）、（Scripps Research）的（Ian Wilson）、阿德莱德大学的（Derek Abbott）、伯克利的（Barbara Romanowicz）与康奈尔大学的（David Rand）。
• The Board of Reviewing Editors draws on the three academies and on nonmembers in emerging fields, with members based in the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Italy, China, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Canada, Brazil and France.评审编辑委员会由三家学院的院士与新兴领域的非院士专家组成，成员分布在美国、英国、以色列、意大利、中国、印度、沙特阿拉伯、新加坡、加拿大、巴西与法国。
• Unlike PNAS, the journal has no Academy member submission track, and authors may propose reviewers where a research area is under-covered.与（PNAS）不同，该刊不设院士投稿通道，作者可就覆盖不足的领域推荐评审编辑。
• Daniel H. Salsbury is Executive Editor, and Diane M. Sullenberger is Publisher on the academy side.（Daniel H. Salsbury）任执行编辑，（Diane M. Sullenberger）为学院方面的出版人。