Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations is a gold open access journal founded by Hindawi in 2007 and now published by Wiley, concerned with the engineering, operation and safety of power reactors, research reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 and a Q2 place at 17 of 42 in NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.《核设施科学与技术》是金色开放获取期刊，2007 年由 Hindawi 创办，现由 Wiley 出版，内容围绕动力堆，研究堆与核燃料循环的工程，运行与安全。2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在 SCIE 核科学与技术类目列 Q2，排名 17/42。

Scope

• The aims page sets a broad remit, making available knowledge tied to the nuclear industry and promoting development across nuclear science and technology, with a stated wish to support the renaissance of nuclear power in countries whose programmes have not yet matured.宗旨页给出的范围很宽，发布与核工业相关的知识，推动核科学与技术的整体发展，并明确提出要为核计划尚未成熟的国家提供支持。
• Readers are named as precisely as subjects, since the journal addresses reactor and utility designers, regulatory bodies, and researchers in government and academic institutions rather than one narrow scholarly circle.刊物点明的读者与选题同样具体，面向反应堆与电力公司的设计人员，监管机构，以及政府与高校的研究者，而非某一狭窄的学术圈子。
• Coverage is drawn as a chain from mining to waste and incineration, so uranium extraction and processing sit at one end of the territory the journal claims.覆盖范围画成一条从采矿到废物与焚烧的链条，铀的开采与加工位于这条链条的起点。
• Fuel performance and the industrial installations of the fuel cycle follow, taking in cladding behaviour, burnup limits and both ends of the cycle.燃料性能与燃料循环的工业装置紧随其后，包壳行为，燃耗上限，循环的前端与后端，都在其中。
• Design and construction of power reactors and research reactors form the engineering core of the list, and special purpose reactors including sub-critical facilities are written into it.动力堆与研究堆的设计与建造构成清单的工程核心，特殊用途堆连同次临界装置也一并写入。
• Control and operation of those plants are treated apart from their design, which keeps operating experience, load following and maintenance strategy from being folded into design papers.这类电厂的控制与运行同设计分开处理，运行经验，负荷跟踪，维修策略，因此不会被设计类稿件吞掉。
• Safety and licensing carry the heaviest weight in practice, covering deterministic and probabilistic assessment, accident analysis and the regulatory case that a new build has to make.安全与许可在实务中分量最重，确定论与概率论评价，事故分析，新建机组必须提交的取证材料，都归这一块。
• Transport of radioactive materials, radiation protection, and the design and management of waste and repositories extend the remit past the plant fence.放射性物质运输，辐射防护，废物与处置库的设计与管理，把范围延伸到厂区之外。
• Decommissioning and instrumentation each get a line of their own, matching the age profile of the world fleet and the move to digital systems in control rooms.退役与仪控各有独立条目，对应世界在运机组的年龄结构，以及主控室向数字系统过渡的现实。
• Conventional aspects of nuclear installations are named explicitly, meaning the civil, mechanical and electrical engineering that a plant shares with any large industrial site.核设施的常规方面被单列出来，指土建，机械与电气这类与任何大型工业厂址共通的部分。
• Innovative nuclear technologies and innovative computational and numerical methods close the subject list, which leaves room for small modular reactors and for the next generation of codes.创新核技术与创新的计算与数值方法为清单收尾，小型模块堆与新一代程序因此有位置。
• Papers are asked to keep industrial application in view, with quality assurance, liability, safeguards, international cooperation, and training and management treated as proper subjects rather than housekeeping.刊物要求论文盯住工业应用，质量保证，责任，保障监督，国际合作，培训与管理，都被当作正题而非附属事务。
• Experimental results on reactor safety and design are welcomed alongside analysis, so loop tests, separate effects facilities and integral test data all find a place in the journal.反应堆安全与设计的实验结果与计算分析并列，台架试验，单项效应装置，整体试验数据，在刊物里都有版面。

History

• The first volume is dated 2007, and the earliest Crossref record for the title is an article numbered 10.1155/2007/41641 under Hindawi's own prefix.第 1 卷标为 2007 年，该刊在 Crossref 的最早记录是一篇编号 10.1155/2007/41641 的文章，用的是 Hindawi 自有前缀。
• Volumes follow the calendar rather than a running count, so the earliest deposits run 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in an unbroken sequence of one volume a year.卷号跟年份走而不累计，最早的存档依次为 2007，2008，2009，2010，每年一卷没有中断。
• Hindawi Publishing Corporation started the title from Cairo and ran it through a London registered company, Hindawi Limited, whose Fitzroy Square address sits on the imprint.Hindawi Publishing Corporation 在开罗起家办起这份刊物，实际运营放在伦敦注册的 Hindawi Limited 名下，其菲茨罗伊广场的地址印在版本页上。
• The founding statement is plain about purpose, tying the journal's growth to the revival of nuclear technology worldwide and to countries where nuclear programmes had not yet been developed.创刊说明把目的写得很直白，把刊物的成长与世界核技术的复兴绑在一起，也指向核计划尚未发展起来的国家。
• Open access was never an option added later. Every article has been free to read since 2007, and gold open access still covers the whole of its output.开放获取不是后来补上的选项，2007 年起每篇文章都可免费阅读，金色开放获取至今覆盖全部发文。
• Publication is continuous. One volume carries each year, articles are posted as they are accepted, and no fixed issue calendar decides when a paper appears.出版是连续的，每年一卷，文章录用后即上线，没有固定的期号日历决定一篇论文何时露面。
• Hindawi grew through the 2010s into one of the largest open access publishers, and the title kept its name, its volume run and its subject remit through that expansion.Hindawi 在 2010 年代成长为规模最大的开放获取出版方之一，该刊在这一轮扩张中保住了自己的刊名，卷号序列与学科范围。
• Wiley agreed in January 2021 to buy Hindawi, and the title passed into the larger portfolio that year while keeping its editorial independence and its 10.1155 identifiers.Wiley 于 2021 年 1 月达成收购 Hindawi 的协议，该刊当年进入更大的出版组合，编辑独立性与 10.1155 标识都保留下来。
• The Hindawi imprint ran into trouble in 2023, when flaws in special issue handling led to the retraction of several thousand papers across the portfolio and a halt to special issue commissioning.Hindawi 在 2023 年遇到麻烦，特刊处理环节的漏洞导致整个组合里数千篇论文被撤回，特刊征稿一度叫停。
• Wiley announced in December 2023 that the Hindawi brand would be retired, and from 2024 the journal holds its own page on Wiley Online Library under the identifier 16876075.Wiley 在 2023 年 12 月宣布停用 Hindawi 品牌，2024 年起该刊在 Wiley Online Library 上有了自己的页面，编号 16876075。
• Neither identifier moved in the migration. The print number 1687-6075 and the electronic 1687-6083 are the same pair the journal has carried since its first volume.迁移没有改动刊号，印刷号 1687-6075 与电子号 1687-6083 与第 1 卷时所用的一致。
• Impact factors stayed below 1 for years, at 0.577 in 2021 and 0.849 in 2022, then crossed to 1.0 in 2023 and 0.9 in 2024 before reaching 1.9 in 2025.影响因子多年在 1 以下，2021 年为 0.577，2022 年为 0.849，2023 年升到 1.0，2024 年为 0.9，2025 年达到 1.9。
• The 2025 figures put it in the second quartile of NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY at 17 of 42, with a five-year impact factor of 1.4 and a JCI of 0.52.2025 年的数据把它放在核科学与技术类目的第二四分位，42 种刊中列第 17，五年影响因子 1.4，JCI 为 0.52。
• Output is small and the citation base is old. The 2025 count credits 13 articles, the whole run has drawn 852 citations, and the cited half-life stands at 8.7 years.发文量小，被引基础偏旧，2025 年统计为 13 篇，全刊累计被引 852 次，引用半衰期 8.7 年。
• The title has never been renamed, so the ISO abbreviation SCI TECHNOL NUCL INS has stood since 2007 and no former title has to be recorded.刊名自 2007 年以来从未更改，ISO 缩写 SCI TECHNOL NUCL INS 一直沿用，也不需要登记旧刊名。

Editors

• Handling rests with academic editors, and each manuscript goes to a researcher whose own work sits in the subject it belongs to.稿件由学术编辑分头处理，每一篇都交到研究方向与选题对口的学者手上。
• The editorial board is published as a standing list on the journal's pages, beside the aims and the submission guidance, so authors can see who stands behind the title.编委会以常设名单公布在刊物页面上，与宗旨和投稿指南并列，作者因此能看到这份刊物背后站着哪些人。
• The board is drawn from the communities the aims page names, with reactor designers, utility engineers, regulators and university groups all present on it.编委从宗旨页点明的几类人中产生，反应堆设计人员，电力公司工程师，监管人员，高校研究组，都在名单上。
• Membership is international by design, since the journal was set up to carry nuclear knowledge into countries whose programmes were still being built.编委按跨国配置，这份刊物本来就是为把核领域知识送到核计划仍在建设中的国家而设。
• Review is single-anonymized. Referees know who wrote the paper, authors never learn who reviewed it, and the academic editor weighs the reports before deciding.评审采用单盲，审稿人知道作者是谁，作者不知道审稿人是谁，学术编辑看完意见后作出裁决。
• Referees are chosen by the handling editor from outside the board as well as within it, and the decision is written once their reports are read together.审稿人由负责编辑从编委之外与编委之内一并挑选，裁决在通读各份意见之后写成。
• Acceptance turns on originality, scientific quality and ethical standing, the three tests the journal says its editorial board applies when sorting what arrives.录用看三条，原创性，科学质量，伦理状况，刊物自述编委会按这三项对来稿分类。
• Research papers and review articles are the two standing categories, and themed special issues with guest editors have long been a channel for collected work.常设栏目为研究论文与综述两类，由客座编辑主持的主题特刊长期是成组稿件的通道。
• The retraction episode of 2023 changed the guard rails, and guest editor vetting, reviewer checks and the handling of special issue proposals were tightened across the portfolio.2023 年的撤稿风波之后，把关环节收紧，客座编辑审核，审稿人核查，特刊提案的处理，都比从前严格。
• Submissions enter through the publisher's online system, with author guidelines and templates hosted on the Wiley Online Library page for the journal.投稿经出版方的在线系统提交，作者指南与模板挂在 Wiley Online Library 的刊页上。
• English is the only language of publication, the ISO form SCI TECHNOL NUCL INS is the one to cite, and every accepted article receives a DOI at the point of publication.刊物只发英文，引用时使用 ISO 缩写 SCI TECHNOL NUCL INS，每篇录用文章在出版时即分配 DOI。