Science China-Life Sciences

Science China Life Sciences is a monthly peer-reviewed journal co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China and published by Science China Press and Springer, tracing its life-sciences lineage to 1996 and covering biology medicine agriculture and ecology, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.6《中国科学：生命科学》（Science China-Life Sciences）是由中国科学院与国家自然科学基金委员会共同主办、科学出版社（Science China Press）与施普林格（Springer）出版的同行评审月刊，其生命科学系列可追溯至 1996 年，覆盖生物学、医学、农业与生态学，2025 年影响因子为 9.6。

Scope

• The journal publishes significant, innovative and cutting-edge research results across a wide range of life-science areas该刊发表生命科学广泛领域内重要、创新且前沿的研究成果。
• It features authoritative reviews, original research papers, insights, letters to the editor, research highlights and news and views其栏目包括权威综述、原创研究论文、洞见、读者来信、研究亮点与新闻评论。
• Its coverage ranges across biology, medicine, agriculture and ecology其内容跨越生物学、医学、农业与生态学。
• Subject areas include cell biology, structural biology, epigenetics and non-coding RNA, omics, biochemistry and biophysics, computational and systems biology, developmental biology and signal transduction学科领域包括细胞生物学、结构生物学、表观遗传学与非编码（RNA）、组学、生物化学与生物物理学、计算与系统生物学、发育生物学与信号转导。
• Further areas are microbiology, botany, zoology, applied biology, ecology and environmental biology, and genetics, population biology and evolutionary biology其他领域还有微生物学、植物学、动物学、应用生物学、生态与环境生物学，以及遗传学、种群生物学与进化生物学。
• All papers are strictly peer reviewed before publication, and review articles are considered by invitation only所有论文发表前均经严格同行评审，其中综述文章仅接受邀稿。

History

• The journal traces its life-sciences lineage to 1996, when the Science in China series was reorganized into separate subject series该刊生命科学系列可追溯至 1996 年，当时（Science in China）系列重组为多个学科分辑。
• Its predecessor title was Science in China Series C: Life Sciences, and the present English title was adopted in 2010, beginning with volume 53其前身刊名为（Science in China Series C Life Sciences），现用英文刊名自 2010 年起采用，从第 53 卷开始。
• The wider Science China series has been published since 1950 to accompany the founding of the Chinese Academy of Sciences更广的（Science China）系列自 1950 年起出版，以配合中国科学院的成立。
• It is supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China该刊由中国科学院主管，并由中国科学院与国家自然科学基金委员会共同主办。
• Its print ISSN is 1674-7305 and its online ISSN is 1869-1889, and the DOI registry counts 5038 articles, the earliest from 1997其纸本刊号为 1674-7305，网络刊号为 1869-1889，（DOI）注册机构计得 5038 篇文章，最早为 1997 年。
• One of its most cited articles modeled the spike protein of the novel coronavirus from the early Wuhan outbreak to assess the risk of human transmission其被引最多的文章之一，通过建模早期武汉疫情中新型冠状病毒的刺突蛋白，评估人间传播风险。^[1]

Editors

• Xiaofeng Cao, PhD, is the editor-in-chief and a professor at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（Xiaofeng Cao）博士任主编，为中国科学院遗传与发育生物学研究所研究员。
• Her research addresses epigenetic regulation mechanisms and RNA metabolism in higher plants其研究关注高等植物中的表观遗传调控机制与（RNA）代谢。
• Executive vice editors-in-chief include Yuxian Zhu of Wuhan University, Chen Dong of Renji Hospital and Erwei Song of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital执行副主编包括武汉大学（Wuhan University）的（Yuxian Zhu）、仁济医院（Renji Hospital）的（Chen Dong）与中山大学孙逸仙纪念医院（Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital）的（Erwei Song）。
• Vice editors-in-chief include Caixia Gao of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chengyu Jiang of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Keping Ma of the Institute of Botany and Xiao-Fan Wang of Duke University副主编包括遗传与发育生物学研究所的（Caixia Gao）、中国医学科学院（Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences）的（Chengyu Jiang）、植物研究所的（Keping Ma）与杜克大学（Duke University）的（Xiao-Fan Wang）。
• The editorial director is Kexing Hu, and Weimin Zhong of Yale University and Mofang Liu of the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science also serve as vice editors-in-chief编辑部主任为（Kexing Hu），耶鲁大学（Yale University）的（Weimin Zhong）与中国科学院分子细胞科学卓越创新中心的（Mofang Liu）亦任副主编。
• Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by expert referees selected by the editorial board, and the editorial board makes the final decision, with the review process usually taking 40 days投稿由编辑委员会遴选的专家评审人评审，最终决定由编辑委员会作出，整个评审流程通常需 40 天。