The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is a monthly peer-reviewed journal owned and published by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a learned society founded in 1903.《美国热带医学与卫生杂志》是一本同行评议月刊，由美国热带医学与卫生学会（ASTMH）拥有并出版，该学会创立于 1903 年。

Its pages carry laboratory, clinical and population-based work on diseases that concentrate in low-income and middle-income countries, together with short reports, invited reviews and teaching images.刊物刊载以中低收入国家高负担疾病为对象的实验室研究、临床研究与人群研究，并设短篇报告、特约综述与教学图像栏目。

The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9 and the five-year figure is 2.1, against roughly 412 articles published during the year.2025 年的期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.1，当年发文约 412 篇。

Scope

• Malaria remains the largest single subject area, covering parasite biology and antimalarial chemotherapy as well as insecticide resistance and the practical steps of elimination programmes.疟疾是占比最大的单一主题，涵盖原虫生物学与抗疟化疗，也涉及杀虫剂抗性和消除项目的落地措施。
• Neglected tropical diseases form a second cluster, from schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths to lymphatic filariasis, trachoma and leprosy.被忽视热带病构成第二个板块，涉及血吸虫病、土源性蠕虫感染与淋巴丝虫病，也延伸到沙眼和麻风。
• Arboviral disease is covered through dengue and chikungunya above all, with Zika and yellow fever also in range, and with attention to vector ecology and outbreak forecasting.虫媒病毒病以登革热和基孔肯雅热为首要对象，寨卡与黄热病亦在覆盖范围，同时关注媒介生态与疫情预测。
• Enteric infections, cholera and typhoid appear regularly, often through field trials of oral vaccines or evaluations of water and sanitation interventions.肠道感染、霍乱与伤寒常年见刊，常见形式是口服疫苗的现场试验与改水改厕干预评估。
• Tuberculosis and HIV research is published with an emphasis on co-infection, drug resistance and service delivery in high-burden settings.结核病与艾滋病研究侧重合并感染、耐药问题与高负担地区的服务提供。
• Vector biology and entomology cover anopheline and aedine mosquitoes along with sandflies and ticks, including surveillance tools and novel control products.媒介生物学与昆虫学覆盖按蚊和伊蚊等蚊种，白蛉与蜱类同样在列，也包括监测工具和新型防控产品。
• Diagnostics receive steady attention, from rapid antigen tests and molecular assays to serosurveys that estimate population exposure.诊断技术持续受到关注，从快速抗原检测和分子检测，到估计人群暴露水平的血清学调查。
• Clinical tropical medicine is represented by severe malaria and snakebite envenoming, with melioidosis and similar bedside problems also common in endemic hospitals.临床热带医学以重症疟疾和蛇伤中毒为代表，类鼻疽等床旁问题同样常见，这些病例多见于疫区医院。
• Field trials of drugs and vaccines are a recurring genre, including phase 2 and phase 3 studies run under difficult logistical conditions.药物与疫苗的现场试验是常见体裁，包括在后勤条件艰难地区开展的 2 期和 3 期研究。
• Epidemiology and surveillance papers address outbreak detection, case definitions and the design of sentinel systems in resource-limited districts.流行病学与监测类论文讨论疫情发现、病例定义，以及资源有限地区哨点系统的设计。
• Maternal, neonatal and child health appears through studies of antenatal infection and birth outcomes, with nutrition in tropical settings also discussed.妇幼健康通过孕期感染和出生结局的研究呈现，热带地区的营养状况也在讨论之列。
• Water supply, sanitation and climate-related exposures are treated as determinants of transmission in their own right, not merely as background context.饮水与卫生设施以及气候暴露被视为传播的决定因素，其权重不低于病原体本身。
• Health systems and implementation science work examines costing, supply chains and the scale-up of proven interventions across districts.卫生体系与实施科学方向考察成本核算、供应链管理，以及成熟干预在各地推广的路径。
• Antimicrobial resistance in typhoidal and enteric pathogens is a recurring theme, tied to treatment guidance written for resource-limited clinics.伤寒与肠道病原体的抗微生物药物耐药是反复出现的主题，与资源有限诊所的治疗指南相关联。
• Travel medicine and migrant health enter the pages where they meet imported infection, especially in receiving countries that carry surveillance obligations.旅行医学与移民健康在输入性感染议题上有所覆盖，接收国的监测义务常是切入点。
• The back matter carries case reports and images in clinical tropical medicine, alongside letters and book reviews, while themed supplements appear twice or more each year.刊物后部设有病例报告和临床热带医学图像，读者来信与书评也在此列，主题增刊每年出版两期以上。

History

• The American Society of Tropical Medicine was organised in 1903, and its journal began in 1921 under the title American Journal of Tropical Medicine.美国热带医学学会于 1903 年成立，其会刊于 1921 年以《美国热带医学杂志》之名创刊。
• That first series ran for three decades and printed malaria and yellow fever work from colonial medical services and American laboratories, with helminth disease also in its pages.这一早期系列延续了三十年，刊载来自殖民地医务机构与美国实验室的疟疾和黄热病研究，蠕虫病同样在列。
• In 1951 the society merged with the National Malaria Society and absorbed that body's Journal of the National Malaria Society, which had appeared since 1942.1951 年该学会与国家疟疾学会合并，并接收后者自 1942 年起出版的《国家疟疾学会杂志》。
• The present title was adopted in 1952, when volume numbering restarted at volume 1, and the journal has appeared under it without interruption since.现名于 1952 年启用，卷号同时从第 1 卷重新起算，此后刊名未再变动。
• Because numbering restarted in 1952, volume 14 falls in 1965 and volume 60 in 2011, which keeps citation practice across the rename predictable.由于 1952 年重新起算，第 14 卷对应 1965 年，第 60 卷对应 2011 年，跨更名的引用习惯因此有章可循。
• Early volumes were issued from Baltimore, and the imprint later moved to Northbrook, Illinois, before the society settled its headquarters in McLean, Virginia.早期卷册在巴尔的摩出版，出版地其后迁至伊利诺伊州诺斯布鲁克，学会总部最终定址弗吉尼亚州麦克莱恩。
• MEDLINE indexing reaches back to volume 14, issue 5 of September 1965, while OLDMEDLINE covers the earlier decades retrospectively.MEDLINE 的收录起点是 1965 年 9 月第 14 卷第 5 期，更早年份由 OLDMEDLINE 回溯补齐。
• Full text is deposited in PubMed Central, and the journal appears twelve times a year with two or more supplementary issues attached to the annual volume.全文存入 PubMed Central，正刊每年出版 12 期，年度卷内另附两期以上增刊。
• The journal has stayed in society hands for a century, an unusual arrangement among tropical medicine titles that were mostly acquired by commercial publishers.刊物一个世纪以来一直由学会自持，这在同类热带医学刊物中并不常见，多数早已被商业出版集团收购。
• Open access is offered on a hybrid basis, and 39.1 percent of the 2025 output was published under gold open access terms.期刊采用混合开放获取模式，2025 年有 39.1% 的论文以金色开放获取方式发表。
• Impact factors moved from 3.707 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2023, 1.6 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025, tracking a correction across tropical medicine titles.影响因子从 2022 年的 3.707 降至 2023 年的 1.9，2024 年为 1.6，2025 年回升至 1.9。
• Total citations stood at 22,027 in the 2025 release, with a cited half-life of 11 years and 439 citable items counted in the window.2025 年版数据显示总被引 22027 次，引用半衰期为 11 年，统计窗口内可引用条目为 439 篇。
• The title is indexed in two Journal Citation Reports categories, Tropical Medicine and Public, Environmental and Occupational Health, both at Q3.该刊进入《期刊引证报告》的两个类目，热带医学位列 Q3（15/27），公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生同样为 Q3（260/443）。

Editors

• The masthead is headed by an editor-in-chief appointed by the society's board, with deputy editors sharing the load across subject areas.编委会由学会理事会任命的主编领导，若干副主编按学科分担稿件处理。
• Associate editors each carry a portfolio, so malaria and arbovirology sit with named editors while parasitology and clinical tropical medicine have their own.副编辑各有分工，疟疾与虫媒病毒学由专人负责，寄生虫学和临床热带医学同样设有对口编辑。
• A statistical editor reviews study design and sample size before acceptance, and comments on the analysis, so methodological objections are common at revision.统计编辑在录用前审看研究设计与样本量，并对分析方法提出意见，方法学质疑在修回阶段较为常见。
• The Images in Clinical Tropical Medicine section has its own editors, who select teaching cases for brevity and diagnostic value.「临床热带医学图像」栏目设有专职编辑，按简短与诊断价值两条标准挑选教学病例。
• Day to day handling runs through the editorial office at the society headquarters in McLean, Virginia, which checks scope and format before review.日常事务由设在弗吉尼亚州麦克莱恩的学会总部编辑部处理，送审前先核查选题范围与格式。
• Review is single blind by default, with referees unknown to authors, and most manuscripts draw at least two external reports.评审默认采用单盲方式，审稿人对作者匿名，多数稿件至少获得两份外审意见。
• The handling editor weighs those reports and recommends a decision, while the editor-in-chief settles appeals and conflicting recommendations.责任编辑综合外审意见提出处理建议，主编负责裁定申诉与意见冲突的稿件。
• Unsolicited research is welcome, whereas review articles are usually commissioned by the editors after an informal enquiry from the authors.研究论文可自由投稿，综述通常由编辑约请，作者可先作非正式询稿。
• Board members are drawn from endemic and non-endemic countries alike, reflecting a readership that spans ministries, universities and field programmes.编委来自疫区与非疫区国家，读者群分布于各国卫生部、大学与现场项目。
• The society's publications committee oversees editorial independence and budgets, and any change of editor-in-chief passes through it.学会的出版委员会监管编辑独立性与预算安排，主编更替亦须经其同意。
• Authors must supply ethics approval and trial registration details and declare conflicts of interest, while professional language editing is advised for non-native speakers.作者须提供伦理批准与试验注册信息，并声明利益冲突，非英语母语的作者可在投稿前使用专业润色服务。
• Correspondence is screened by the editorial office, and short comments on published papers are forwarded to the original authors for a reply.读者来信由编辑部初筛，针对已发表论文的短评会转给原文作者作答。