Sleep and Breathing

Sleep and Breathing is an international journal of the science and practice of sleep medicine, founded in 1996, published by Springer since 2005, and carrying a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《Sleep and Breathing》是一本面向睡眠医学科学与实践的国际期刊，1996 年创刊，2005 年起由 Springer 出版，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• A single sentence on the journal page fixes the standard the editors set themselves: the state of the art in the international science and practice of sleep medicine.刊页上的一句话定下了编辑部自设的标准，即国际睡眠医学科学与实践的最新水平。

• That standard rests on a premise stated just as plainly, since the management of sleep disorders is taken to require a multi-disciplinary approach and diverse perspectives.这条标准立在一个同样直白的前提上，睡眠障碍的管理需要多学科路径与不同视角。

• Original studies came first in the founding brief, and the upper airway during sleep supplied their subject, whether the work collects data, intervenes in care or informs practice.创刊宗旨把原创研究放在首位，睡眠期间的上气道提供了主题，采集数据的研究与干预照护的实践都在其中。

• Four readerships were named from the start: medicine, dentistry and oral surgery, otolaryngology, and epidemiology, each approaching the sleeping airway from its own side.读者对象从一开始就写明四类，包括内科、牙科与口腔外科，以及耳鼻咽喉科和流行病学，各自从不同角度看睡眠中的气道。

• Insomnia and shift work head the list of common sleep disorders and disruptions that the title promises to follow as understanding of them develops.失眠与倒班被列为常见睡眠障碍及睡眠节律紊乱的代表，宗旨承诺随认识的推进跟踪这些方向。

• Physiology and pathophysiology keep a place of their own, so papers built on mechanism appear beside trials and cohort studies.生理学与病理生理学有独立位置，讲机制的文章与试验、队列研究同栏出现。

• Novel routes to diagnosis and treatment are invited by name, which leaves room for device work, imaging and new scoring schemes.诊断与治疗的新途径被明确征集，器械研究、影像工作与新的判读方案因此都有位置。

• Patient-oriented and cost-benefit outcome research forms a category of its own, and health economics reads there as clinical evidence.以患者为中心的成本效益结局研究单列一类，卫生经济学在这一栏里被当作临床证据。

• Peer review by an international editorial board, coupled with prompt English-language publication, is presented as the route to rapid dissemination of clinical findings.国际编委会的同行评审加上快速的英文发表，被写成临床结果快速传播的通道。

• The later half of the aims turns to practice, promising that important developments in sleep disordered breathing will reach the clinicians who treat apnea in well-chosen and highly organized form.宗旨的后半段转向实务，睡眠呼吸障碍的重要进展要以精选且组织有序的形式送到治疗睡眠呼吸暂停的医生手中。

• Free use of color and rapid online publication are held out to authors, terms that matter where polysomnographic traces and airway images carry much of the argument.作者可免费使用彩色图，稿件也能快速上线，多导睡眠图与气道影像本就靠图说话，这两项条件很实在。

• Length rules separate the article types: original research allows 3000 words and 30 references, and reviews or series articles allow 5000 words and 150.篇幅规则把文章类型分开，原创研究限 3000 词与 30 条参考文献，综述和专题文章限 5000 词与 150 条。

• Short communications and editorials stop at 1500 words, and letters to the editor at 1200 with no more than five references.短篇通讯与社论各限 1500 词，致编辑的信限 1200 词且参考文献不超过 5 条。

• Structured abstracts of 150 to 250 words are required for original articles and short communications, divided into Purpose, Methods, Results and Conclusions, with four to six keywords beneath.原创研究与短篇通讯须附 150 至 250 词的结构式摘要，按目的、方法与结果及结论分节，下附 4 至 6 个关键词。

• Meta-analyses and systematic reviews must follow PRISMA for interventional work or MOOSE for observational studies, authors confirm adherence at submission, and manuscripts judged not to adhere are returned to the author immediately.荟萃分析与系统综述须循 PRISMA 或 MOOSE 清单，前者用于干预性研究，后者用于观察性研究，作者投稿时须确认已照此办理，经判定不合规的稿件当即退回作者。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in March 1996 as a single issue, and the imprint then was Druckbild GmbH of Titisee-Neustadt in Germany.第 1 卷在 1996 年 3 月以单期问世，当时的出版方署名为德国 Titisee-Neustadt 的 Druckbild GmbH。

• Springer took over with volume 9 in 2005, the year from which the National Library of Medicine records a Heidelberg and New York imprint.第 9 卷（2005 年）起改由 Springer 出版，美国国家医学图书馆也正是从这一年起把出版地记为 Heidelberg 与 New York。

• Four issues to a volume became the pattern, and it held for close to two decades.每卷四期成为定式，此后近二十年一直照此施行。

• MEDLINE, PubMed and Index Medicus coverage opens with volume 5, issue 1 of 2001, which leaves the volumes printed between 1996 and 2000 outside those indexes.MEDLINE、PubMed 与 Index Medicus 的收录自 2001 年第 5 卷第 1 期开始，1996 年至 2000 年间印出的各卷不在其中。

• No volume carries the date 1998 on the publisher's list, where volume 2 covers 1997 and volume 3 opens in 1999.出版社的卷次清单里没有 1998 年的卷号，第 2 卷对应 1997 年，第 3 卷从 1999 年起算。

• Volume 14 ran from February to December 2010, and volume 15 opened in January 2011 with a dental special issue as its second number.第 14 卷从 2010 年 2 月排到 12 月，第 15 卷在 2011 年 1 月开卷，其中第 2 期是牙科专辑，由（Fernanda R. Almeida）客座主编。

• The quarterly run ended with volume 26 in 2022. Volume 27 carried six issues in 2023, and the National Library of Medicine dates the bimonthly frequency from that year.季刊止于 2022 年的第 26 卷，2023 年第 27 卷改为六期，美国国家医学图书馆的频率记录也从这一年起写作双月刊。

• Volume 30 corresponds to 2026, with issues dated March, May, June, August, October and December.第 30 卷对应 2026 年，六期分别落在 3 月、5 月与 6 月，以及 8 月、10 月和 12 月。

• The electronic ISSN 1522-1709 sits beside the print number 1520-9512, and the publishing model is hybrid, so subscription and open access articles share the same issues.电子刊号 1522-1709 与印刷刊号 1520-9512 并存，出版模式为混合型，订阅文章与开放获取文章同刊并行。

• The platform counts 505 open access articles, and the 2025 citation reports put gold open access at 26.9 percent of the content.平台现有 505 篇开放获取文章，2025 年的引证报告把金色开放获取记为 26.9%。

• Impact factors have stayed within a narrow band: 2.655 in 2022, 2.1 in 2023, 2 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.8.影响因子的波动不大，2022 年为 2.655，2023 年 2.1，2024 年 2，2025 年 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.8。

• In the 2025 reports the title holds the third quartile in clinical neurology at 168 of 296 and in respiratory system at 57 of 107, with 6948 citations and 273 articles in the year.2025 年的分区结果把刊物放在临床神经病学的第三四分位（168/296）与呼吸系统的第三四分位（57/107），年内总被引 6948 次，刊文 273 篇。

• The National Library of Medicine registers the title as Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung, setting a German parallel title beside the English name.美国国家医学图书馆把题名登记为“Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung”，英文名旁挂着德文并列题名，Schlaf 是睡眠，Atmung 是呼吸。

Editors

• Nikolaus Netzer, whose base is the Hermann Buhl Institut in Bad Aibling, Germany, holds the chair, and the same name appears under founding editors.主编为（Nikolaus Netzer），任职于德国 Bad Aibling 的 Hermann Buhl Institut。

• The research group he leads is listed under hypoxia and sleep medicine, a pairing that suits a journal long occupied with the airway and with oxygen handling at night.他的研究组以缺氧与睡眠医学为名，与刊物长期关注气道和夜间氧合的方向相当合拍。

• Kingman P. Strohl of Case Western Reserve University shares the founding credit, and the board page keeps both names under one heading.（Kingman P. Strohl）来自凯斯西储大学（Case Western Reserve University），创刊主编的头衔由两人共享，编委会页面把两个名字放在同一标题之下。

• Sanjay R Patel of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center works as deputy editor.副编辑为（Sanjay R Patel），任职于匹兹堡大学医学中心（University of Pittsburgh Medical Center）。

• The journal office is run by Diana Epstein through Di-Ep Biomedical Editorial Services in Glasgow, the address authors use for correspondence.编辑部办公室由（Diana Epstein）主持，她所在的 Di-Ep Biomedical Editorial Services 位于格拉斯哥，作者通信即寄此处。

• Around fifty associate editors and more than forty board members are listed, with institutions spread across the United States and Germany as well as Britain, Italy and Austria.副编辑约五十位，编委会另有四十余人，机构分布在美国与德国，也见于英国、意大利和奥地利。

• China and Brazil are represented too, and bodies in Iran, Norway and Sweden also appear on the roster.中国与巴西同样有学者在列，伊朗、挪威与瑞典的机构也出现在名单里。

• Dentistry keeps a visible presence, with Xuemei Gao of the Peking University Stomatological Hospital among the associate editors and Peter Cistulli of Royal North Shore Hospital on the board.牙科在名单上分量不小，北京大学口腔医院的（Xuemei Gao）任副编辑，悉尼皇家北岸医院的（Peter Cistulli）在编委会。

• Sleep physiology, neurology and pulmonology each have representatives, from Mayo Clinic and Emory University to Charité in Berlin and the University of Cologne.睡眠生理、神经病学与呼吸病学各有代表，Mayo Clinic 与 Emory University 的学者在名单上，柏林 Charité 与科隆大学同样如此。

• Two dental sleep societies appear under societies and partnerships, the Korean Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.学会与合作栏目列出两个牙科睡眠学会，即韩国牙科睡眠医学会（KADSM）与美国牙科睡眠医学会。

• Manuscripts arrive through the Springer Nature submission portal, and the publisher reports a median of 14 days from submission to first decision.稿件经 Springer Nature 的投稿平台进入编辑部，官方给出的初审中位时间为 14 天。

• Case reports are not taken at present, and the guidelines say an open call will come later, pointing authors to sister titles in the meantime.病例报告目前不收，作者指南写明开放征稿要等到以后，并建议作者改投同类刊物。

• A roll of honorary former board members records those who helped found the title, and the journal updates carry notices such as the 2026 Editor of Distinction awards.平台设有名誉前编委名录，记录参与创刊的人，期刊动态里也会刊出 Springer Nature 编辑奖这类消息。