Science

Science is a multidisciplinary weekly academic journal sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and one of the most heavily cited academic journals in the world. It publishes original research across physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy and the earth sciences under famously strict selection criteria, carrying the most consequential advances in those fields within a dozen issues a year.《科学》（''Science''''，无固定缩写）是美国科学促进会（American Association for the Advancement of Science 简称 AAAS）主办的综合性学术周刊，也是世界范围内引用量最高的学术期刊之一。该刊以极严格的筛选标准刊载物理、生物、化学、天文与地学等各学科的原创研究，并以每年十二期的篇幅承载这些领域最重要的进展。

Scope

Science holds that a paper should alter how a field perceives a problem rather than add local data inside an existing framework, and accordingly requires both a reproducible experimental basis and a conclusion its readers would not have anticipated. Its principal subject areas include:Science 的取稿立场是「一篇论文应当改变一个领域对某个问题的认知」，而非在既有框架内补充局部数据，因此稿件既要具备明确的可重复实验基础，也须指向读者尚未预见的结论。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Physics and astronomy: quantum information and quantum computing, new phases of condensed matter, cosmological observation and dark matter searches, elementary particle experiments and high-energy astrophysics.物理与天文学： 量子信息与量子计算、凝聚态物理新相态、宇宙学观测与暗物质搜寻、基本粒子实验与高能天体物理。

• Life sciences: genome and transcriptional regulation, protein structure and function, developmental and regenerative biology, immunology, neuroscience and the study of consciousness.生命科学： 基因组与转录调控、蛋白质结构与功能、发育与再生生物学、免疫学、神经科学与意识研究。

• Chemistry and materials: catalytic reaction mechanisms, single-molecule and surface science, new methods in synthetic chemistry, and energy and battery materials.化学与材料： 催化反应机制、单分子与表面科学、合成化学新方法、能源与电池材料。

• Earth and planetary sciences: climate dynamics, paleoenvironments and the carbon cycle, seismology and planetary interiors, and deep-ocean and polar research.地球与行星科学： 气候动力学、古环境与碳循环、地震学与行星内部结构、深海与极地研究。

• Science and public policy: public health policy, energy and climate policy, and research on science communication and the organization of research.科学与公共政策： 公共卫生政策、能源与气候政策、科学传播与科研体制研究。

• Interdisciplinary and emerging fields: bioinformatics and computational biology, synthetic biology, neuromorphic engineering, cryptography and information science.交叉与新兴领域： 生物信息学与计算生物学、合成生物学、神经形态工程、密码学与信息科学。

The journal runs recurring special issues assembled by the editorial board, normally appearing in step with the associated feature articles. Research articles predominate, alongside reviews, short data reports and policy commentary. The journal publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration, and competition for its pages has always been exceptionally severe.本刊常设主题专辑，由编辑部约请编委组织、通常与相关专题论文同期出版。稿件类型以研究论文为主，另收综述、数据短报告与政策评论。本刊不公布录用比例与审稿时长，选稿竞争历来极为激烈。^[1]

History

• Founding, interruption and revival (1880–1883): the journal was founded in New York on 3 July 1880 by the journalist and science writer John Michels, with some of the initial backing coming from Thomas Edison. Michels died within months of the launch, the journal ceased publication in March 1882, and in February 1883 Alexander Graham Bell and Gardiner Greene Hubbard bought the rights and resumed publication with Samuel Harding Scudder in the editorial chair.创刊与停刊（1880—1883年）： 本刊于 1880 年 7 月 3 日在纽约创刊，由记者兼科学作家约翰·米切尔斯创办，初期的部分启动资金来自托马斯·爱迪生。创刊后仅数月米切尔斯即去世，本刊于 1882 年 3 月停刊，1883 年 2 月由亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔与加丁纳·格林·哈伯德购入版权，延请塞缪尔·哈丁·斯卡德复刊。^[1]

• Entry into the society (1900–1944): the journal was sold in 1894 to James McKeen Cattell for five hundred dollars, and by an agreement between Cattell and the society secretary Leland O. Howard became the association's official journal in 1900进入学会体系（1900—1944年）： 1894 年本刊以五百美元售予詹姆斯·麦基恩·卡特尔；1900 年经卡特尔与学会秘书利兰·霍华德达成协议，成为该会的官方刊物；1944 年卡特尔去世后，所有权正式转予学会。 on Cattell's death in 1944 ownership passed formally to the association.^[2]

• Circulation expansion (1958): in 1958 the journal absorbed The Scientific Monthly, raising its circulation from roughly 38,000 to some 61,000 copies and fixing the scale it has held since.发行量扩张（1958年）： 本刊于 1958 年吸收《科学月刊》，发行量由约三万八千份增至六万一千余份，从此确立综合性期刊的体量。^[3]

• Still not fully open access: the journal remains subscription-based and opens its content free of charge only twelve months after publication至今未转为完全开放获取： 本刊始终维持订阅制，并仅提供发表满十二个月后的免费阅读；同一学会体系中真正采取完全开放获取的是姊妹刊《科学进展》，本刊并非如此。 the fully open-access title in the same society family is the sister journal Science Advances, not this one.^[2]

• Metric standing: the impact factor has long been among the highest across all disciplines, reaching 47.3 in 2025指标水平： 影响因子长期居于各学科前列，二〇二五年为 47.3；学会未公布该刊的引用分数、录用比例与首决时长。 the association publishes neither a CiteScore nor an acceptance rate or time to first decision for the title.^[4]

Editors

The journal is edited by an editor-in-chief assisted by an executive editor and a senior executive editor, with the association deliberately concentrating editorial responsibility across the Science family of titles. Tenures of individual editors-in-chief have typically run about three years, making the post one of high turnover.本刊实行主编统筹、执行主编与高级执行编辑分工的编辑架构，学会有意将编辑事务集中于 Science 系列期刊的整体出版物之上。历任主编任期多在三年上下，是一份公认高流动性的职位。^[5]

• H. Holden Thorp (editor-in-chief since October 2019): the twenty-first editor-in-chief of the journal, who holds an academic position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has since taken charge of editorial affairs across all of the association's publications. His predecessor Jeremy M. Berg took office in July 2016 and served about three years and three months, and before him came Marcia McNutt.霍尔登·索普（2019年10月起任）： 本刊第二十一任主编，学术身份为北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校化学系教授，任后更统管学会全部出版物的编辑事务；其前任杰里米·伯格于 2016 年 7 月上任，任期约三年三个月，更早一任为玛西娅·麦克努特。^[6]

• Current editorial layer: the same masthead also names an executive editor and a senior executive editor, who together carry the day-to-day manuscript flow and the publishing business.当前编辑层： 同期刊头另署执行主编瓦尔达·文森与高级执行编辑劳伦·克梅茨，两人负责日常稿件流程与出版事务。^[6]

• Founding and early editors: the first editor-in-chief was the founder John Michels himself创办与早期编辑： 首任主编即创办者约翰·米切尔斯；其去世后由贝尔与哈伯德延请的塞缪尔·哈丁·斯卡德主持，直至十九世纪末。 after his death the journal was run by Samuel Harding Scudder, retained by Bell and Hubbard, into the closing years of the nineteenth century.^[1]

• Standing in the sciences: for decades one of the most heavily cited academic journals anywhere, its papers routinely form the base citations of later reviews and textbooks, and it acts as a coordinator of the research agenda across otherwise unrelated disciplines.学科地位： 本刊长期是世界范围内引用量最高的学术期刊之一，其论文常成为后续综述与教科书的基础引用来源，也在多学科之间充当学术议程的协调者。^[4]