Solar Physics

Solar Physics is a monthly journal from Springer, based in Dordrecht and founded in 1967 for research on the Sun from its interior to the solar wind, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《太阳物理学》由 Springer 出版，编辑部设在 Dordrecht，1967 年创刊，月刊，刊登从太阳内部到日冕与行星际太阳风的研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The aims statement takes in all aspects of solar physics, from the internal structure of the Sun and its evolution to the outer corona and the solar wind in interplanetary space.宗旨声明覆盖太阳物理学的全部方面，范围从太阳的内部结构与演化延伸到外层日冕与行星际空间中的太阳风。
• Solar-terrestrial physics is admitted only where the results bear clearly on the physics of the Sun, or where terrestrial phenomena are used as indicators of solar activity.太阳-地球物理只在结果与太阳物理直接相关时收录，或者把地球上的现象用作太阳活动的指标。
• Stellar research enters when its results have a direct impact on the understanding of the Sun and its activity, or when solar observations help interpret stellar data.恒星研究在成果直接影响对太阳及其活动的理解时收录，借助太阳观测解释恒星数据的工作也在其列。
• Proceedings of conferences are not published at all, though the editors may assemble Topical Collections around a subject of their choosing, sometimes drawing on papers from a monothematic meeting.会议论文集一概不出，编辑可以围绕自选主题组织专题集（Topical Collections），有时会收入单主题会议上的报告。
• Papers sent to a Topical Collection are handled and refereed in the same way as regular research papers, and no length ceiling applies to what a collection carries.投往专题集的稿件按常规研究论文的方式处理与评审，集内文章的篇幅不受任何上限约束。
• A collection may also take in papers on the same subject that were never presented at the meeting, so one call can gather work from groups that stayed away.专题集也可以收入同一主题但未在会议上报告过的稿件，一次征稿因此能汇集未与会课题组的工作。
• Three article types are open, namely Research, a complete and comprehensive report of original work, Review, an authoritative and balanced survey for a broad readership, and Perspective.可投的稿件类型有三种，研究论文（Research）要求完整而全面地报告原创工作，综述（Review）要求权威、平衡并面向广泛读者，展望（Perspective）则留给文献评述。
• Reviews are expected where a field has seen recent and important advances, and they must survey that literature in a scholarly and balanced way for readers outside the speciality.综述针对近期出现重要进展的领域，须以学术化的平衡笔法梳理文献，让本领域之外的读者也能读懂。
• A Perspective discusses the primary literature on a subject that falls short of the review criteria, and it aims to provoke debate on a contested position, a speculative hypothesis or an alternative reading.展望讨论尚未达到综述门槛的题目，用意在挑动对争议立场、思辨假说或既有结果另类解读的辩论。
• Three open collections were taking submissions in the second half of 2026, among them PADRE, which is framed around a NASA CubeSat mission and closes to new papers on 30 November 2026.2026 年下半年在征稿的开放专题集有三个，其中 PADRE 围绕 NASA 的一颗立方星任务设立，2026 年 11 月 30 日之后不再收新稿。
• Solar Wind 17 and a collection tied to the NASA Heliophysics Summer School both close on 31 December 2026, and papers sent to either one follow the ordinary review path.Solar Wind 17 与配合 NASA 太阳物理暑期学校设立的专题集同在 2026 年 12 月 31 日截止，两处稿件都走常规评审流程。
• An abstract occupies a single paragraph, averages about 150 words and never exceeds 300, while the body is cut into numbered sections and subsections down to the third level.摘要为单段，平均 150 词，上限 300 词，正文按编号划分章节与小节，层级最深到第三级。
• The reference list is ordered alphabetically by author under the IAU Style Book of 1988 rather than in citation order, which keeps a given source in one place however often it recurs.参考文献按 1988 年的国际天文学联合会样式手册（IAU Style Book）以作者字母序排列，不按正文引用的先后排序。
• Authors must supply an editable manuscript source file in Word or LaTeX, and the current journal template refreshed on 22 October 2026 is shared through both Overleaf and GitHub.作者须提交 Word 或 LaTeX 的可编辑源文件，2026 年 10 月 22 日更新的期刊模板同时挂在 Overleaf 与 GitHub 上。
• The home page lists Living Reviews in Solar Physics among the societies and partnerships of the title, an open-access review journal covering the same research community at review length.首页把 Living Reviews in Solar Physics 列在学会与合作刊物一栏，这是一份覆盖同一研究群体的开放获取综述刊物。
• The remit is broad enough to take in work on the photosphere, the chromosphere, the transition region, the corona, the heliosphere and the solar interior.宗旨的范围足以容纳光球、色球与过渡区的研究，日冕、日球层与太阳内部同样在列。

History

• The aims page begins by recording that the journal was founded in 1967 and has remained the principal outlet for publishing the results of fundamental research on the Sun.宗旨页开篇写明本刊 1967 年创办，此后一直是太阳基础研究成果的主要发表园地。
• Its home page puts the claim in narrower form, calling the title the only dedicated journal for solar research since 1967, a line that separates it from general astronomy periodicals.首页的说法更窄，自称 1967 年以来唯一专注太阳研究的期刊，这一句把它与综合天文学刊物区分开来。
• Springer Nature B.V. of Dordrecht, the Netherlands, publishes the journal, and its two identifiers are 0038-0938 in print and 1573-093X in the electronic edition, the pair that library catalogues use.出版方为设于荷兰 Dordrecht 的 Springer Nature B.V.，印刷版 ISSN 为 0038-0938，电子版 eISSN 为 1573-093X，图书馆目录按这两个号区分纸本与电子本。
• Volume numbering reached 301 in 2026, a figure that shows how the early decades ran to several volumes a year before settling into a single annual volume, the pattern that holds today.2026 年出到第 301 卷，这个数字说明早年一年出多卷，后来才稳定为一年一卷。
• Volume 300, which covers 2025, carried twelve issues running from January to December, and Volume 301 had already reached ten by October 2026, so the journal appears once a month.2025 年的第 300 卷共 12 期，月份从 1 月排到 12 月，第 301 卷到 2026 年 10 月已出 10 期，节奏是每月一期。
• The printed volumes run monthly, twelve issues to a year, while the National Library of Medicine still records fourteen from a period before 1998.纸本按每月一期、每年 12 期出版，美国国家医学图书馆至今仍沿用 1998 年以前的 14 期旧记录。
• The full subtitle reads A Journal for Solar and Solar-Stellar Research and the Study of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, naming the solar-stellar and solar-terrestrial strands on the masthead itself.完整副题为 A Journal for Solar and Solar-Stellar Research and the Study of Solar-Terrestrial Physics，太阳-恒星研究与太阳-地球物理两条线索直接写在刊头。
• Publication runs on a hybrid model, under which subscription or open access is chosen once a paper is accepted, and the open access tally has reached 704 articles.出版走混合模式，订阅与开放获取在论文录用时二选一，累计以开放获取刊出的文章已达 704 篇。
• Gold open access accounted for 38.81 per cent of the 2025 output, a share that leaves most papers behind the subscription paywall even though every author may choose the open route.2025 年金色开放获取占 38.81%，其余文章仍留在订阅付费墙之后。
• The Journal Impact Factor came down from 2.961 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2023 and 2.4 in each of the two following years, while the five-year figure stays at 2.4 as well, so the two measures now agree.影响因子从 2022 年的 2.961 降到 2023 年的 2.7，2024 年与 2025 年均为 2.4，五年影响因子同为 2.4。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the title sits 42nd of 86 in astronomy and astrophysics, second quartile, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.47 and a percentile of 51.7 within the category.2025 年期刊引证报告把它排在天文学与天体物理类第 42 位（共 86 种），属第二四分位，期刊引文指标 0.47，百分位 51.7。
• Roughly 159 papers appear each year, the citation base reaches 12,342 and the cited half-life is 14.2 years, a sign that older volumes are still read, while the 2025 output drew 614,700 downloads.每年发文约 159 篇，总被引 12342 次，被引半衰期 14.2 年，2025 年全年下载量 61.47 万次。
• Abstracting takes in the Astrophysics Data System, Scopus, INSPEC, INSPIRE, Chemical Abstracts Service and Current Contents, with CLOCKSS and Portico holding the archive and Dimensions indexing it as well.收录库包括天体物理数据系统（ADS）与 Scopus，也有 INSPEC、INSPIRE，化学文摘社（CAS）与 Current Contents 同样在列，CLOCKSS 与 Portico 负责长期存档，Dimensions 也收录本刊。
• The Kees de Jager Prize for 2026 went to Stephan G. Heinemann and his co-authors, whose paper was judged the best published in the 2025 volume of the journal.2026 年的 Kees de Jager 奖授予 Stephan G. Heinemann 及其合作者，他们的论文被评为 2025 年卷内的最佳论文。

Editors

• The masthead lists four editors-in-chief and two associate editors, six current names in all, drawn from research institutions in Spain, the United Kingdom, Argentina and the United States.编委名单列出四位联席主编与两位副编辑，现任共六个名字，分布在西班牙、英国、阿根廷与美国的研究机构。
• Iñigo Arregui, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, is one of the four, and Anne-Marie Broomhall of the University of Warwick in Coventry is another.Iñigo Arregui 任职于特内里费的加那利天体物理研究所（Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias），Anne-Marie Broomhall 任职于考文垂的华威大学（University of Warwick），两人都是联席主编。
• Cristina H. Mandrini is attached to CONICET and to IAFE at the University of Buenos Aires, while Marco Velli works at the University of California, Los Angeles.Cristina H. Mandrini 供职于阿根廷国家科学技术研究委员会（CONICET）与布宜诺斯艾利斯大学的太空天文与物理研究所（IAFE），Marco Velli 供职于加州大学洛杉矶分校（University of California, Los Angeles）。
• The two associate editors are Mathew J. Owens, of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, and Olga Panasenco, of Advanced Heliophysics in Pasadena, California.两位副编辑是雷丁大学（University of Reading）气象系的 Mathew J. Owens 与帕萨迪纳 Advanced Heliophysics 的 Olga Panasenco。
• Nine former editors-in-chief are named, beginning with Zdeněk Švestka, who served from 1967 to 2005, and Cornelis de Jager, whose term ran from 1967 to 1996, both in place at the founding.历任主编共列九人，最早的是 Zdeněk Švestka（1967 至 2005 年）与 Cornelis de Jager（1967 至 1996 年），两人都在创刊当年上任。
• Robert F. Howard served from 1987 to 1998, Oddbjørn Engvold from 1996 to 2005, Jack W. Harvey from 1998 to 2005, Takashi Sakurai from 2005 to 2016 and Michael S. Wheatland from 2016 to 2021, terms of five to eleven years.Robert F. Howard 任期 1987 至 1998 年，Oddbjørn Engvold 为 1996 至 2005 年，Jack W. Harvey 为 1998 至 2005 年，Takashi Sakurai 为 2005 至 2016 年，Michael S. Wheatland 为 2016 至 2021 年，任期在 5 年到 11 年之间。
• John Leibacher held the post from 2005 to 2023 and Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi held it from 2005 to 2025, the most recent of the nine names on the board page to leave the masthead.John Leibacher 任期 2005 至 2023 年，Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi 任期 2005 至 2025 年，其中后者是最近一位卸任者。
• Every manuscript goes to at least one referee, and that referee stays anonymous unless they ask to have their name passed on to the author, so anonymity runs in one direction only.每篇稿件至少送一位审稿人，审稿人默认匿名，除非本人要求把姓名告知作者。
• A median of six days separates submission from a first decision. Referees are asked to report within three weeks and six at most, and authors get three months for a revision.投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 6 天，审稿人须在 3 周内交回意见，最长 6 周，作者的修回期限最多 3 个月。
• Letters are no longer accepted, though short papers on timely topics still get priority and must fit four printed pages counting the abstract, figures, tables and references.快报（Letters）已停止收稿，时效性强的重要短稿仍优先发表，篇幅连摘要、图表与参考文献一起算不得超过 4 个印刷页。
• Manuscripts arrive through Springer Nature's new-submission platform rather than an in-house system, and the publishing route, subscription or open access, is settled once a paper has been accepted.稿件统一走 Springer Nature 的投稿平台，订阅与开放获取的出版路线在论文录用之后才确定。
• The subscription route costs the author nothing, but it will not satisfy funders that require immediate open access, among them the NIH and members of Plan S.订阅路线不向作者收取费用，却无法满足要求立即开放获取的资助方，美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）与 Plan S 成员都在此列。
• The editors pick the subjects for Topical Collections themselves, and every paper gathered under such a call still passes through the same refereeing as an unsolicited submission.专题集的主题由编辑自行选定，征稿汇集来的每一篇稿件仍按常规流程送审。