Sleep Medicine: X

Sleep Medicine: X is a gold open access journal that Elsevier publishes in Amsterdam as the companion title to Sleep Medicine, a subscription journal founded in 2000. Volume 1 carries a December 2019 date, and the journal collects clinical work on sleep from neurology, respiratory medicine, psychology and paediatrics. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, placing it in the third quartile of clinical neurology.《睡眠医学 X》是 Elsevier 在阿姆斯特丹出版的金色开放获取期刊，也是 2000 年创刊的订阅刊《睡眠医学》的姊妹刊。第 1 卷标注为 2019 年 12 月，收载神经病学，呼吸医学，心理学与儿科学等方向的睡眠临床研究。该刊 2025 年影响因子为 2.4，在临床神经病学类目位列第三象限。

Scope

• The journal sets out to treat the human aspects of sleep, and its stated aim is to be a title that no one working in clinical sleep medicine can do without.该刊着眼于睡眠的人类层面，其自述目标是成为临床睡眠医学工作者不可或缺的刊物。

• Neurology and clinical neurophysiology head the list of disciplines it integrates.在其整合的学科清单里，神经病学与临床神经生理学排在首位。

• Internal medicine follows, with pulmonology and cardiology named in particular.内科学紧随其后，肺病学与心脏病学被特别点名。

• Psychology and psychiatry appear on the same list, as do sleep technology, paediatrics, neurosurgery, otorhinolaryngology and dentistry.心理学与精神病学同列，睡眠技术，儿科学，神经外科学，耳鼻咽喉科学与口腔医学亦然。

• Reviews are meant to bridge basic sleep research and clinical relevance, a purpose the journal states outright.综述意在沟通基础睡眠研究与临床实践，这一用意由该刊明文写出。

• Original research articles and full-length papers fill most of each volume, beside brief communications, controversies, case reports and letters to the editor.原创研究论文与全文论文占每卷多数篇幅，短篇通讯，争鸣，病例报告与致编辑的信并列其间。

• The Directory of Open Access Journals files the title under sleep medicine, internal medicine, neuroscience, neurophysiology, psychology and psychiatry.开放获取期刊目录把该刊归入睡眠医学，内科学，神经科学，神经生理学，心理学与精神病学。

• Its Library of Congress class is RC581-951, the range for specialties of internal medicine.其美国国会图书馆分类号为 RC581-951，属内科学各专科的类目。

• Obstructive sleep apnoea supplies the largest single clinical topic, and a randomised trial of continuous positive airway pressure in sleep-disordered breathing appeared in volume 2.阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停是最大的单一临床主题，一项关于持续气道正压在睡眠呼吸障碍中的随机试验刊于第 2 卷。

• Paediatric sleep has shaped the contents from the start, from infant sleep duration and the Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children to school-based sleep education and melatonin for delayed sleep-wake phase disorder.儿科睡眠自创刊起就塑造了刊物内容，涵盖婴儿睡眠时长，儿童睡眠障碍量表，学校睡眠教育，以及用于睡眠觉醒时相延迟障碍的褪黑素研究。

• Work and fatigue form another strand, with studies of effort-reward imbalance, rotating shift workers and the parents of children in intensive care.工作与疲劳构成另一条线索，涉及付出回报失衡，轮班作业者，以及子女住进重症监护室的父母。

• Circadian rhythm and melatonin research recurs, as do papers on sleep spindles, disorders of consciousness and sleep-related eating disorder linked to zolpidem.昼夜节律与褪黑素研究反复出现，睡眠纺锤波，意识障碍，唑吡坦相关的睡眠相关进食障碍也有论文。

• Systematic reviews appear as well, among them one on sleep spindle activity and cognitive function in psychosis.系统综述同样在列，其中一篇讨论睡眠纺锤波活动与精神病性障碍中的认知功能。

• Papers from the first pandemic year reported insomnia among physicians and infection risk among hospital staff.疫情第一年的论文报告了医师的失眠状况与院内员工的感染风险。

• Every article is free to read on publication, under a CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND licence that the author chooses.每篇文章刊出即免费阅读，许可在 CC BY，CC BY-NC 与 CC BY-NC-ND 之间由作者选定。

• Article numbers run from 100001 upward, so no paper needs a page range to be located.文章编号自 100001 起递增，因此无需页码范围即可定位一篇论文。

History

• Sleep Medicine, the parent title, began in 2000 under Elsevier, and Sleep Medicine: X was built as its open access counterpart.母刊《睡眠医学》由 Elsevier 于 2000 年创办，《睡眠医学 X》则作为其开放获取对应刊而建立。

• The decision was taken in November 2018, while a European mandate requiring open access for funded work from 2020 was taking shape.这一决定作出于 2018 年 11 月，当时欧洲一项要求受资助成果自 2020 年起开放获取的规定正在成形。

• Elsevier had started a series of such mirror journals, and Sleep Medicine was among the first of its titles to accept the challenge.Elsevier 已陆续推出多份此类镜像刊，《睡眠医学》是其最早接受这一尝试的刊物之一。

• Volume 1 is dated December 2019, which is also where the National Library of Medicine begins its PubMed coverage of the title.第 1 卷标注 2019 年 12 月，美国国立医学图书馆的 PubMed 收录亦自这一卷起算。

• The launch editorial, article 100004, came from Sudhansu Chokroverty and explained the twin-journal arrangement to authors.创刊社论列为第 100004 号文章，由（Sudhansu Chokroverty）执笔，向作者说明双刊安排。^[1]

• Under that arrangement a manuscript entered review without a chosen destination, and the author decided after acceptance, with Sleep Medicine as the default.按此安排，稿件进入评审时并不指定投往哪一刊，作者在录用之后作出选择，未作选择者归入《睡眠医学》。

• Charges on an invited first batch were waived at the editor's discretion while the title established itself.刊物立足之际，首批受邀论文的费用由编辑酌情免除。

• The first virtual special issue, Pediatric Sleep around the world, opened with Canada and was guest edited by Oliviero Bruni and Reut Gruber.首个虚拟专题《世界各地的儿科睡眠》以加拿大开篇，客座编辑为（Oliviero Bruni）与（Reut Gruber）。

• Its opening paper described the Niagara project, which carried evidence-based paediatric sleep interventions across a Canadian region.专题首篇论文记述尼亚加拉项目，该项目把循证的儿科睡眠干预带到加拿大一个地区。^[2]

• Volume 1 carried nine papers, among them a Norwegian survey of insomnia among university students and Brazilian studies of children's sleep.第 1 卷收录九篇论文，其中有针对挪威大学生失眠状况的调查，也有关于巴西儿童睡眠的研究。

• One volume appeared each year from 2019 to 2022, and two have appeared every year since 2023, so 2026 carries volumes 11 and 12.2019 年至 2022 年每年一卷，2023 年起每年两卷，2026 年因此对应第 11 卷与第 12 卷。

• No volume has been divided into issues, and continuous article numbers take the place of page ranges.各卷从未划分期号，连续文章编号取代了页码范围。

• The electronic number 2590-1427 is the only one the journal holds, and no print edition exists.2590-1427 是该刊唯一的刊号，且为电子刊号，并无印本。

• PubMed has carried the journal from the first volume, PubMed Central lists it, and Clarivate places it in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.PubMed 自首卷起收录该刊，PubMed Central 亦在列，Clarivate 将其收入新兴来源引文索引。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, with 287 citations and 24 articles in the window and a cited half-life of 2.8 years.2025 年影响因子为 2.4，统计窗口内有 287 次被引与 24 篇论文，被引半衰期为 2.8 年。

• Crossref holds 190 deposited DOIs, 101 of them current, and yearly output rose from 9 in 2019 to 37 in 2024.Crossref 存有 190 个登记 DOI，其中 101 个为当前记录，年发文量从 2019 年的 9 篇增至 2024 年的 37 篇。

• The Directory of Open Access Journals gives 2019 as the open access start year, and the gold share of output is complete.开放获取期刊目录把开放获取起始年记为 2019，金色开放获取占比为全部。

Editors

• Sleep Medicine: X shares its editorial board and its peer review with the parent journal, as the publisher's description states.《睡眠医学 X》与母刊共用编委会与同行评审，出版方的刊物说明写明了这一点。

• Winfried Randerath, a pneumologist at the Bethanien Hospital in Solingen, Germany, is editor-in-chief.主编为（Winfried Randerath），德国索林根 Bethanien 医院的呼吸病学专家。

• His own work runs through central sleep apnoea, sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure and the clinical use of positive airway pressure.其本人的研究围绕中枢性睡眠呼吸暂停，心力衰竭中的睡眠呼吸障碍，以及气道正压的临床应用展开。

• Sudhansu Chokroverty, founding editor of the parent journal, signed the 2019 editorial that introduced the new title.母刊创刊主编（Sudhansu Chokroverty）签署了 2019 年那篇介绍新刊的社论。^[1]

• The board is arranged in tiers, from the editor-in-chief through field editors and associate editors to section editors.编委会分层设置，自主编而下依次为领域编辑，副编辑与栏目编辑。

• The board the publisher lists for the parent journal includes editors in Baltimore, Houston, Rome, Bern, Solingen, Gothenburg, Fukushima and Montreal.出版方为母刊列出的编委分布于巴尔的摩，休斯敦，罗马，伯尔尼，索林根，哥德堡，福岛与蒙特利尔。

• Review is single anonymous, so referees remain unnamed to authors.评审采用单匿名方式，评审人身份对作者保密。

• Manuscripts are handled on the publisher's Editorial Manager site, which carries the journal's own name.稿件经出版方的 Editorial Manager 站点处理，该站点以本刊名义单独设立。

• Plagiarism screening forms part of the editorial checks, and the author picks one of three Creative Commons licences at acceptance.重复度检测属编辑流程的一环，作者在录用时从三种知识共享许可中选定其一。

• Because the mirror model left the destination open until acceptance, the editors read one stream of manuscripts for two titles.镜像模式把去向留到录用之后，编辑因而为两份刊物处理同一批稿件。

• The title carries a colon and is written Sleep Medicine: X, which the National Library of Medicine shortens to Sleep Med X.刊名带冒号，写作 Sleep Medicine: X，美国国立医学图书馆将其简写为 Sleep Med X。