Supramolecular Chemistry

Supramolecular Chemistry is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with supramolecular and non-covalent chemistry, founded in 1993, taking manuscripts from host–guest chemistry and self-assembly through to materials chemistry and biochemical systems.《超分子化学》是一份刊载超分子化学与非共价相互作用领域成果的同行评议期刊，创刊于 1993 年，稿件从主客体化学与自组装一直延伸到材料化学和生化系统。

Interdisciplinary submissions are particularly encouraged, and the article types run from high priority communications through full papers and reviews to methods papers and technique tutorials highlighting procedures important to the field.跨学科稿件尤其受到鼓励，论文类型从高优先级通讯到全文与综述，再到着重介绍本领域重要程序的技术教程方法论文。

The stated aim is timely publication, with accepted work placed online as soon as it is typeset, while manuscripts resting mainly on X-ray structures, on computational chemistry or on electrochemistry are normally declined at the desk.刊物声明的目标是及时发表，论文一经接受并排版即上网，而主要依托 X 射线结构、计算化学或电化学的稿件通常在编辑部阶段被退回。

Scope

• Manuscripts are accepted from the fields and sub-disciplines related to supramolecular and non-covalent interactions, and the discipline is read in the broadest possible sense rather than confined to a single sub-area.稿件来自与超分子化学及非共价相互作用相关的各个领域与子学科，这门学科在此按尽可能宽泛的意义理解，并不限于某个单一分支。

• Host–guest chemistry sits at the centre of that coverage, with the design of synthetic receptors and the study of the complexes they form with ions, anions and neutral guests treated as core material.主客体化学居于这一范围的中心，合成受体的设计及其与离子、阴离子和中性客体所成配合物的研究被视为核心内容。

• Self-assembly and systems chemistry form a second pillar, covering the spontaneous ordering of molecular building blocks and the collective behaviour of the structures that result.自组装与系统化学构成另一根支柱，涵盖分子构件的自发有序排列以及由此形成的结构所表现出的整体行为。

• Materials chemistry occupies a third area, where the interest falls on supramolecular solids, gels, liquid crystals and layered or networked structures held together by non-covalent forces.材料化学占据第三块领域，关注点落在超分子固体、凝胶、液晶以及靠非共价作用力维系的层状或网络状结构上。

• Biochemical systems close the range, bringing model systems for biological recognition, for drug delivery and for biomimetic design onto the same pages as the more physical work.生化系统收束了这一范围，把生物识别、药物递送与仿生设计的模型体系，与偏物理的工作放在同一刊物之中。

• Interdisciplinary submissions are singled out for encouragement, on the ground that the subject now draws on physics, on biology, on materials science and on computation alike.刊物特别鼓励跨学科投稿，理由在于这一学科如今同时倚重物理、生物、材料科学与计算。

• Four manuscript types are named, which are high priority communications, full papers, reviews, and methods papers written as technique tutorials that highlight procedures and technologies important to the field.稿件类型点明四种，分别是高优先级通讯、全文、综述，以及写成技术教程、着重介绍本领域重要程序与技术的方法论文。

• Two criteria govern the initial review, the work must be of high quality, and it must fit within the broad span of activities that make up the discipline.初审由两条准则主导，论文须具备高质量，同时须落在构成这一学科的各项活动所覆盖的宽泛范围之内。

• Manuscripts that would sit more naturally in a specialised journal are not considered in normal circumstances, and the categories named are solid-state and X-ray structures, computational chemistry and electrochemistry.通常情况下，落在专业性更强的刊物更合适的稿件不予考虑，所点名的类别是固态与 X 射线结构、计算化学以及电化学。

• Timeliness is a stated goal, and once a paper has been accepted and typeset it is published electronically in the latest articles section of the site.及时性是刊物明示的目标，论文一经接受并完成排版，即以电子形式发布在站点的最新论文栏目。

• Nothing in the statement asks for a narrow chemical sub-discipline, and papers built around non-covalent interaction count whatever their starting point happens to be.这份说明没有要求把稿件限定在狭窄的化学分支，凡以非共价作用为出发点的论文都在考量之列。

• The methods category is meant to carry procedures and technologies of standing to the field, and such tutorials are treated as a publication type in their own right.方法论文这一类别用来承载对本学科有分量的程序与技术，这类教程本身即被视为独立的发表类型。

• Recent volumes illustrate the working range, with cucurbiturils, calixarenes, cyclodextrins, pillararenes and rotaxanes recurring alongside cages, metallacycles, anion transporters and fluorescent sensors.近年的卷次能看出实际取材范围，葫芦脲、杯芳烃、环糊精、柱芳烃与轮烷反复出现，笼状物、金属环、阴离子转运体与荧光传感器也并见于其中。

History

• The title began in the early 1990s under Gordon and Breach, a house based in Switzerland and the United States, and the second issue of volume 1 appeared in February 1993.该刊在 1990 年代初由 Gordon and Breach 创办，这家出版机构设在瑞士与美国，第 1 卷的第 2 期在 1993 年 2 月出版。^[1]

• The opening volumes were slight and their numbers often came in pairs, issue 3-4 of volume 1 appearing in May 1993 and the second volume opening in June 1993.开头的几卷篇幅很薄，期号又常成对出现，第 1 卷的第 3-4 期见于 1993 年 5 月，第 2 卷则在同年 6 月开卷。

• The journal changed hands in 2002, moving from Gordon and Breach to Taylor & Francis, and library catalogues record the imprint as Switzerland and the United States up to 2002, then Abingdon in England from that year onward.该刊在 2002 年由 Gordon and Breach 转至 Taylor & Francis，图书馆目录所记的出版信息在 2002 年以前为瑞士与美国，2002 年起改为英国阿宾登。

• Issues from the transition period were printed under licence under the Harwood Academic Publishers imprint, part of the Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, while the platform itself already carried the Taylor & Francis name from volume 12 onward.交接期的期刊以 Harwood Academic Publishers 印标授权出版，该印标隶属 Gordon and Breach 出版集团，而平台自第 12 卷起已冠以 Taylor & Francis 之名。^[2]

• The print number is 1061-0278 and the electronic number is 1029-0478, and the medical catalogue lists the older imprint as Switzerland and the United States with the current one as Abingdon.印刷版编号为 1061-0278，电子版编号为 1029-0478，医学目录所列的旧出版信息为瑞士与美国，现行的一条则是阿宾登。

• The rhythm of publication has changed repeatedly, and the medical catalogue still carries the old description of irregular frequency, while a national library catalogue records a varying frequency until 2002 and eight issues a year from 2003.出版节奏屡有变动，医学目录至今仍留着不定期这一旧描述，一份国家图书馆目录则记作 2002 年之前频次不定、2003 年起每年八期。

• A university catalogue lists the title as monthly and then as bimonthly, and notes that some issues carry a theme title while others are combined issues.一份高校图书馆目录把该刊列为先月刊后双月刊，并注明有些期次带有专题题名，有些期次则是合并出版。

• The issues now come in bound pairs, running from number 1-2 through to 11-12 within a volume, so that six physical issues appear each year even though the platform lists twelve issues a year.如今各期以两期合并的形式出现，一卷之内从 1-2 期一路排到 11-12 期，每年实出六期，平台所列的每年十二期是按期号计的。

• Through volume 33 the journal still came out monthly, with only the first two months of the year bound together, and the paired form was taken up from volume 34.到第 33 卷为止该刊仍为月刊，只把年初两个月合为一期，两期合并的形式自第 34 卷起采用。

• Volume 35 went out in 2024 as a single issue numbered 1-12, and volume 36 the following year fell back into paired issues, closing with a four-month number 9-12.第 35 卷在 2024 年以编号 1-12 的单一期次出版，第 36 卷在次年恢复两期合并，末尾一期为覆盖四个月的 9-12。

• The annual output has fallen sharply since the middle of the 2010s, when a hundred or so papers a year was normal, and the 2025 citation report counts twenty-nine articles for the year.年发文量自 2010 年代中期以来已回落许多，当年每年约百篇属常见，而 2025 年版引证报告为这一年计得论文 29 篇。

• The indicator itself has moved from 1.688 in 2021 to 2.23 in 2022 and 2.1 in 2023, up to 2.6 in 2024, before falling to 1.3 in 2025, with a five-year figure of 1.5.该指标从 2021 年的 1.688 升到 2022 年的 2.23，2023 年为 2.1，2024 年达到 2.6，2025 年回落到 1.3，五年指标为 1.5。

• In the medical catalogue the title is indexed under PubMed for selected citations only, and a single subject heading is applied to it.在医学目录中，该刊的 PubMed 收录标注为仅选录部分引文，所用的主题词只有一个。

• The platform lists its abstracting and indexing services, and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and Chemical Abstracts Service appear among them, alongside ISI Current Contents for Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences, Google Scholar, ProQuest and Scopus.平台列出其文摘与索引服务，剑桥晶体结构数据中心与 Chemical Abstracts Service 列在其中，ISI Current Contents 的物理化学与地球科学分辑同在名单上，Google Scholar 与 ProQuest 亦有收录，Scopus 也算一份。

• Open access was added later under the Open Select programme, which leaves the subscription model in place and lets a chosen article be published free of charge where an agreement covers it.开放获取是后来经 Open Select 计划加入的，订阅制依旧保留，若有协议覆盖，作者可以免费把选定的一篇转为开放获取。

• Community writing runs through the volumes, with conference reports from the North American, the Australian and the international meetings and a standing quarterly digest of the literature.社群写作贯穿各卷，北美、澳大利亚与国际会议都有报道，另有按季推出的文献综述专栏。

Editors

• The editor is Bruce C. Gibb of the Department of Chemistry at Tulane University in New Orleans, whose own subject is the design of supramolecular hosts and the mass spectrometry of non-covalent complexes.主编是（Bruce C. Gibb），任职于新奥尔良的杜兰大学化学系，其本人的研究方向是超分子主体的设计与非共价复合物的质谱。

• Two associate editors carry the work of the wider team, Cally Haynes of the Department of Chemistry at University College London and Nicholas White of the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra.两位副主编分担主编团队的事务，分别是伦敦大学学院化学系的（Cally Haynes）与堪培拉澳大利亚国立大学化学研究学院的（Nicholas White）。

• A separate crystallographic editor, Scott Dalgarno of the Institute of Chemical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, looks after the solid-state side of what is published.另设一位晶体学编辑，是爱丁堡赫瑞瓦特大学化学科学研究所的（Scott Dalgarno），负责刊物所收的晶体学一端。

• A social media editor, Nathalie Busschaert at Tulane University, runs the outlet through which the journal reaches readers beyond the subscription.社交媒体一职由杜兰大学的（Nathalie Busschaert）担任，负责该刊在订阅之外触达读者的渠道。

• Five editors hold emeritus rank, Jerry Atwood of the University of Missouri, Philip A. Gale of the University of Sydney, George Gokel of the University of Missouri in St Louis, Yukito Murakami of Kyushu University and Jonathan Sessler of the University of Texas at Austin.有五位荣誉主编，分别是密苏里大学的（Jerry Atwood）、悉尼大学的（Philip A. Gale）、密苏里-圣路易斯大学的（George Gokel）、九州大学的（Yukito Murakami）与得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的（Jonathan Sessler）。

• The editorial board carries more than fifty names, with affiliations running from Tallinn and Parma through Dublin, Leeds and Bath to Adelaide, Tsinghua and Strasbourg.编委一栏列出五十余个名字，所在机构从塔林与帕尔马，经都柏林、利斯与巴斯，一直排到阿德莱德、清华与斯特拉斯堡。

• The roster reads like a map of the discipline, with macrocyclic hosts at Leeds and Brighton, self-assembly at Groningen and Windsor, anion recognition at Adelaide and Burgos, and photonic materials at Indiana and South Carolina.这份名单读来像一幅学科地图，利斯与布赖顿以大环主体见长，格罗宁根与温莎偏重自组装，阿德莱德与布尔戈斯着力阴离子识别，印第安纳与南卡罗来纳则以光子材料为长。

• Every submitted manuscript is appraised first by the editor, and those judged suitable for further consideration go to independent anonymous referees, the review being described as single anonymized throughout.所有投稿先由主编初筛，适合进一步考虑的再送交独立匿名审稿人，站上把这一评审方式说明为全程单盲。

• The reported timings are brisk, ten days from submission to a first decision and thirty-three days to a first decision after review, with fifteen days from acceptance to online publication and an acceptance rate of twenty-three per cent.站上公布的节奏很快，从投稿到首次决定 10 天，送审后到首次决定 33 天，接受到网上发表 15 天，接受率 23%。

• The stated position on ethics is that the highest standards are required, the publisher being a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and running CrossCheck over every one of its titles.刊物在伦理上的表态是要求最高的出版标准，出版方是出版伦理委员会的成员，并对旗下所有刊物启用 CrossCheck 查重。

• A regular signed column runs in the pages, and the 2025 instalment of it in volume 36 was written by three authors from the University of Texas at Austin.刊中常设一个署名的专栏，2025 年第 36 卷的一期由三位来自得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的作者执笔。^[3]

• The page also carries usage figures for the journal, fifty-three thousand annual downloads and views, set beside the citation metrics, and it urges authors to weigh such numbers against the aims and the published record rather than on their own.该页还给出使用量数据，一年下载与浏览 5.3 万次，与引证指标并列，并劝作者把这类数字同刊物的宗旨与既往内容一并权衡，不单看数字。