Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology

Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology is a peer reviewed Elsevier journal founded in 2002 that treats respiration as one integrated problem, running from brainstem rhythm generation through airway and lung mechanics to gas exchange. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, ranking 73 of 107 in Respiratory System (Q3) and 69 of 89 in Physiology (Q4).《呼吸生理学与神经生物学》是 Elsevier 于 2002 年创办的同行评议期刊，把呼吸当作一个整体问题来处理，讨论范围从脑干节律发生经气道与肺力学一直延伸到气体交换。2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，呼吸系统类目排 73/107（Q3），生理学类目排 69/89（Q4）。

Scope

• The journal defines its remit as the physiology and pathophysiology of respiration in the broadest sense, and it publishes original research beside reviews commissioned by the editors.刊物把自身范围界定为最广泛意义上的呼吸生理学与病理生理学，发表原创研究，也发表由编辑约请的综述。
• Neurobiology is named as the special focus, so central rhythm generation, chemoreception and the reflex control of breathing take a large share of the pages, alongside work on neural plasticity.神经生物学被列为特别关注的方向，中枢节律发生与化学感受，以及呼吸的反射性控制，占据了相当篇幅，神经可塑性研究同样在视野之内。
• Papers in respiratory molecular and cellular biology are explicitly welcomed, which keeps work on airway epithelium, ion transport, transcriptional responses and epithelial repair inside the reach of the journal.呼吸分子与细胞生物学论文同样受欢迎，气道上皮、离子转运与转录反应方面的研究，连同上皮修复课题，因此留在刊物视野之内。
• Mechanics of breathing forms a standing category, covering respiratory muscle function, chest wall kinematics, airway calibre and the pressure-volume behaviour of the lung under load and at rest.呼吸力学是常设方向，涵盖呼吸肌功能与胸壁运动，也包括气道口径和肺在负荷与静息状态下的压力容积行为。
• Gas exchange and acid-base balance are treated together, an arrangement that suits work on diffusion limitation and shunt as well as the renal and erythrocyte side of metabolic compensation.气体交换与酸碱平衡放在一处处理，这种编排适合扩散限制与分流研究，也容纳肾脏与红细胞一侧的代谢代偿机制。
• Respiration at rest and during exercise is covered as a single topic, linking ventilatory control to metabolic demand, to the fatigue of locomotor muscle and to the limits of oxygen delivery.静息与运动中的呼吸被当作一个题目处理，把通气控制同代谢需求、运动肌疲劳以及氧输送上限联系起来。
• Unusual conditions get their own place, including high and low ambient pressure, changed temperature and the low oxygen of altitude, of hibernation or of confined environments such as submarines.特殊环境另有一席之地，包括高压与低压、温度剧变，以及高原、冬眠或潜艇等密闭环境中的低氧。
• Embryonic and adult respiration are both in scope, so developmental trajectories running from fetal breathing movements to the ageing respiratory system can be followed here across whole lifetimes.胚胎期与成年期呼吸同属范围，从胎动呼吸到衰老呼吸系统的发育轨迹，都可以在此跨越整个生命周期来追踪。
• Comparative respiratory physiology remains central, drawing on fish gills, amphibian skin, reptilian lungs, the avian air sac system and the diving responses of marine mammals and birds.比较呼吸生理学仍居中心，鱼鳃、两栖类皮肤、爬行类肺、鸟类气囊系统，以及海洋哺乳动物与潜水鸟类的潜水反应都在取材之列。
• Clinical material is admitted on condition that it advances physiological understanding, so case series, imaging studies and trials sit beside mechanism work instead of replacing it on the page.临床稿件在能推进生理学理解的前提下可以录用，病例系列、影像研究与临床试验因此与机制研究同处版面，并未取代后者。
• Original methods earn a place of their own, which has kept detailed reports on plethysmography, oximetry, nerve recording and small-animal ventilators in the journal for several decades.原创方法单独成类，体积描记、血氧测量、神经记录与小动物呼吸机方面的详细报告，因此得以在刊内延续数十年。
• Theoretical papers are considered as well, and modelling of chemoreflex loops, of ventilation-perfusion distribution or of airway collapse counts as substantive physiological work rather than as decoration.理论文章同样受理，化学感受反射环路、通气灌注分布或气道塌陷的建模被视为实质性的生理学工作，而不是装点。
• Neural control runs through the whole scope, from pontomedullary network architecture and synaptic plasticity to carotid body signalling, vagal afferent traffic and the descending drive to phrenic motor pools.神经调控贯穿整个范围，从脑桥延髓网络结构与突触可塑性，一直到颈动脉体信号、迷走传入活动以及通往膈肌运动神经元池的下行驱动。
• Sleep and the upper airway belong here too, so papers on obstructive events and arousal thresholds, and on the stability of respiratory rhythm during sleep, always find a home.睡眠与上气道也在其中，阻塞事件与觉醒阈值，以及睡眠中呼吸节律的稳定性方面的论文，总能在此找到位置。
• Pulmonary circulation and airway biology close the list, covering hypoxic vasoconstriction, bronchial blood flow, epithelial immunity and the inflammatory response to inhaled insults and to infection of the airway wall.肺循环与气道生物学补足其余部分，低氧性血管收缩、支气管血流、上皮免疫以及对吸入刺激与气道壁感染的炎症反应都包含在内。

History

• The title descends from Respiration Physiology, which Elsevier began publishing in Amsterdam in 1966 for a field then dominated by comparative work and by the physiology of extreme environments.本刊脱胎于《Respiration Physiology》，Elsevier 于 1966 年在阿姆斯特丹开始出版那份刊物，当时的领域以比较研究与极端环境生理为主。
• That earlier journal ran for thirty-six unbroken years and closed with volume 129, having built the readership and the referee pool that the present title inherited almost intact.旧刊延续了三十六年，以第 129 卷收尾，积累的读者群与审稿人队伍几乎原样转入新刊。
• Volume 130, number 1 appeared in March 2002 under the new name, and that opening issue carried a statement of aims which still governs what the journal accepts from authors today.2002 年 3 月，第 130 卷第 1 期以新刊名面世，首期所载的宗旨说明至今仍决定刊物收什么稿。
• Because the volume count continued without a single break, bibliographers treat 2002 as a renaming rather than as the birth of an unrelated journal with its own numbering.卷号未曾中断地延续下来，文献学界因此把 2002 年视为更名，而不是一份另起编号的新刊诞生。
• Indexing followed the same logic, and MEDLINE and PubMed coverage opens at volume 130, number 1, exactly where the predecessor record stops after an unbroken run of thirty-six years.收录也遵循同一逻辑，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 的记录从第 130 卷第 1 期开始，正好接上旧刊三十六年之后的终点。
• Adding Neurobiology to the masthead was a deliberate signal, since the field had turned toward brainstem physiology, the neural handling of blood gases and the pharmacology of respiratory control.刊名中加入“Neurobiology”一词是有意的信号，领域重心已转向脑干生理、血气的神经处理以及呼吸控制的药理学。
• Elsevier has held the title throughout, first as Elsevier Science and later as Elsevier B.V., with the editorial office remaining at the Amsterdam address recorded by NLM.出版方始终是 Elsevier，早期名义为 Elsevier Science，后来改为 Elsevier B.V.，编辑部地址始终在阿姆斯特丹，未随出版方名义变更而迁移。
• Publication rhythm changed over the years, and recent volumes appear about a dozen times annually with one or two issues each, close to the fifteen issues a year that NLM records.出版节奏逐年变化，近年每年约出十余卷，每卷一到两期，接近美国国家医学图书馆所记的每年十五期。
• Volume 300 arrived in 2022, twenty years after the relaunch, a pace that reflects steady output of roughly eighty research papers a year spread across a dozen slim volumes.第 300 卷在 2022 年出齐，距改刊二十年，这个速度对应每年约八十篇研究论文分装进十余薄卷。
• Access stayed subscription based, with a gold open access option added later, and JCR records about 28 percent of 2025 output as gold open access, a figure consistent with its hybrid model.获取方式长期以订阅为主，后来加入金色开放获取选项，JCR 记录 2025 年约 28% 的论文走金色开放获取，与其混合出版模式相符。
• Impact has drifted rather than climbed, falling from a 2022 peak of 2.821 to 1.6 in 2024, while the five year average holds at 1.8 and lifetime citations in JCR still exceed 6300.影响因子起伏下行，从 2022 年的 2.821 降到 2024 年的 1.6，五年影响因子为 1.8，累计被引超过 6300 次。
• Scope widened along the way, and molecular and cellular respiratory biology, once marginal, now shares the page comfortably with the organ-level physiology that defined the parent title in 1966.范围一路拓宽，曾经边缘的呼吸分子与细胞生物学，如今与 1966 年奠定旧刊的器官层面生理学共享版面。
• Volumes in 2026 run through the 340s, and the archive of this title alone holds more than four thousand registered articles, most of them from the past two decades.2026 年的卷号已推进到 340 卷以后，仅本刊名下登记的论文就超过四千篇，其中多数出自最近二十年。

Editors

• Editorial work is anchored at the Amsterdam office of Elsevier, which also runs production, and the NLM imprint records that address for every volume of the title.编辑事务以 Elsevier 的阿姆斯特丹办公室为依托，制作环节也设在那里，美国国家医学图书馆的出版项逐卷记录该地址。
• Manuscripts enter through Editorial Manager, the web system of the publisher, where the journal is listed under the short code respnb that authors select from a menu.稿件经出版社的网页系统 Editorial Manager 进入，刊物在该系统菜单中以代码“respnb”列出。
• Review articles are commissioned rather than volunteered, which is why unsolicited syntheses are seldom sent out to external referees at all in their original form or length.综述由编辑部约请，作者主动投来的综述很少能以原来的篇幅与框架直接进入外审。
• Research papers go to external referees chosen for the specific problem, so reports on animal preparation, chemosensitivity or lung mechanics draw different reviewers with quite different questions.研究论文送给按具体问题选定的外部评审，动物制备、化学敏感性与肺力学方面的稿件会指派关注点不同的审稿人。
• A handling editor weighs those reports and carries the decision, with the final call resting on the science rather than on novelty alone or on the citation record of the authors.责任编辑权衡这些意见并作出裁决，最终取舍取决于科学内容，而不只看新颖程度或作者的引用记录。
• Accepted work is posted online before it is assigned to a volume, so the version of record often precedes the printed issue by several weeks or longer.录用稿在编入卷次之前先在线发布，正式版本常常比纸质期早数周甚至更久与读者见面。
• There is no submission charge, and authors who stay on the subscription route pay nothing at acceptance, while gold open access carries an article processing charge set by the publisher.投稿不收费，走订阅路径的作者在录用时不付费，只有选择金色开放获取才需支付出版社设定的文章处理费。
• Gold open access articles appear under Creative Commons licences, whereas subscription articles stay under Elsevier copyright and are read through ScienceDirect, PubMed or an institutional library subscription.金色开放获取文章采用知识共享许可，订阅文章仍归 Elsevier 版权所有，读者经 ScienceDirect、PubMed 或机构订阅取用。
• Studies on animals or human subjects must arrive with ethics approval and, where people are involved, with documented consent, a requirement that the publisher applies without exception.涉及动物或人体的研究须附伦理批准，涉及人的还须有知情同意记录，出版社对这一要求不作例外。
• Revisions are expected to answer each referee point in a numbered response letter, and criticisms left unaddressed usually send the paper back for another round of review.修回稿须用编号的答复信逐条回应审稿意见，未处理的质疑通常会让稿件再走一轮评审。
• Article types are kept few, with original research, commissioned review and short methodological or theoretical contributions covering almost everything the journal prints in any given calendar year.栏目数量不多，原创研究、约稿综述以及方法与理论短文，几乎覆盖了刊物每年印出的全部内容。