Theoretical Issues In Ergonomics Science

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science is a peer-reviewed journal from Taylor & Francis that treats human factors and ergonomics as a discipline with its own theory, methods and philosophy, and its pages are written for readers who want the argument behind the intervention.《工效学科学的理论问题》（Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science）由 Taylor & Francis 出版，同行评议，把人因工程视为一门拥有自身理论、方法与哲学的学科，版面写给那些想看到干预背后论证的读者。

Volume 1 opened in 2000, the title now sits in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor reads 1.9 against a five-year figure of 2.5.第 1 卷于 2000 年问世，该刊现收录于 Emerging Sources Citation Index，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.5。

Scope

• The declared aim is to advance the science and the philosophy of human factors and ergonomics, a remit that puts conceptual argument ahead of immediate application.该刊申明的宗旨是推进人因工程的科学及其哲学，这一范围把概念论证置于直接应用之前。
• Theory, methodology and philosophical dialogue about human interaction inside simple and complex systems define the field the editors want discussed.人在简单系统与复杂系统中交互的理论、方法论与哲学对话，界定了编者希望讨论的领域。
• Work is expected to cut across human-centred design, engineering and practice, and to reach the management of human-compatible systems in the broadest sense.稿件需横跨以人为本的设计、工程与实践，也涉及最宽泛意义上的人机相容系统管理。
• A caveat governs empirical submissions, since data-driven experimental work is welcome only where it carries implications for theoretical issues in the field.经验类稿件另受一条限定，数据驱动的实验工作须牵涉学科的理论问题方可进入评审。
• Frontier questions about the contribution of ergonomics to contemporary society are named, with technology and engineering, economics and business as the settings.工效学对当代社会的贡献被列为前沿问题，技术与工程、经济与商业构成其展开的场景。
• Safety and security, human ecology and sustainability belong to the same list, and service systems appear on it as well.安全与保障、人类生态与可持续性同属一份清单，服务系统亦在其中。
• Urbanisation and communication, education and social or governmental policy are named as further domains where ergonomics theory has to prove itself.城市化与通信、教育以及社会政策与政府政策，被列为工效学理论需要自我验证的更多领域。
• A system-of-systems perspective at large scale runs through the statement, together with its consequences for a human-centred global society.大规模的系统之系统视角贯穿整份说明，随之而来的还有这一视角对以人为本的全球社会的后果。
• Three formats carry the content and stay apart from one another, namely original peer-reviewed papers, commissioned reviews and commentaries that are themselves sent out for review.内容由三种体裁承载，经同行评审的原创论文、约稿综述与同样送外审的评论文章各自成类。
• Qualitative and quantitative methodological frameworks sit beside theory papers, which keeps modelling traditions and measurement traditions inside one conversation.定性与定量的方法论框架与理论文章并列，建模传统与测量传统因此留在同一场对话之内。
• Papers on the principles of the investigative process, on social and historical issues, and on the science of science as applied to ergonomics are all admissible.讨论研究过程之原则、社会与历史议题，以及把科学学用于工效学的文章，都在可接纳之列。
• Work that examines the discipline itself qualifies as well, with bibliographical analyses of classic papers and reassessments of inherited assumptions both in scope.审视学科自身的作品同样合格，经典论文的书目分析以及对学科既有预设的重新评估都在其中。
• The line against application-oriented titles is drawn at causality and behaviour in complex systems of people, technology and environment, the underpinning science that other outlets leave uncovered.该刊把界线划在人、技术、环境构成的复合系统中的因果与行为问题上，那是其他刊物未曾覆盖的学科底层科学。
• Authors are asked for extensive, coherent theories that can frame later empirical and modelling research, not single findings dressed up as conclusions.该刊请作者拿出成体系、前后一贯的理论，为后续经验研究与建模研究搭起框架，而不止于把单点发现包装成结论。
• Recent contents show the range in practice, with cognitive work analysis and autonomous teaming appearing alongside trust calibration and resilience engineering, and human reliability modelling well represented.近期目录显出这种范围的实际样貌，认知工作分析与自主系统团队研究先后出现，信任校准与韧性工程同样在列，人因可靠性建模也未缺席。

History

• Taylor & Francis opened the journal in London in 2000, and volume 1 carried four numbered issues in that first year.Taylor & Francis 于 2000 年在伦敦创刊，第 1 卷在当年出满 4 个编号期。
• Volumes 2 and 3 held to the quarterly rhythm through 2002, four issues apiece, before the schedule was reset.第 2 卷与第 3 卷延续季度节奏到 2002 年，每年 4 期，此后刊期重新安排。
• Volume 4 in 2003 appeared as two double issues, 1-2 and 3-4, the only year in which the quarterly plan was visibly compressed.2003 年的第 4 卷编作两个合刊，即第 1 至 2 期与第 3 至 4 期，季度方案被明显压缩的年份仅此一年。
• From 2004 the journal turned bimonthly at six issues a volume, the arrangement the National Library of Medicine still records for the title.2004 年起改为双月刊，一卷 6 期，美国国家医学图书馆至今仍按这一形制著录该刊。
• Each volume then took one calendar year in print, so volume 24 closed in 2023, volume 26 in 2025 and volume 27 in 2026.此后每卷对应一个印本年，第 24 卷在 2023 年收尾，第 26 卷在 2025 年，第 27 卷在 2026 年。
• Articles posted online ahead of print carry the number of the volume they will join, so a paper first published in 2024 already sits under volume 26, whose issues close a year later.先在线上发布的文章带着将要并入的卷号，2024 年首次上线的论文因此已列入第 26 卷，而这一卷的各期要到一年之后才收齐。
• Output stays deliberately small, with Crossref recording 253 items across the years 2000 to 2008 and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports counting 27 citable articles for the year.发文量刻意保持克制，Crossref 在 2000 年至 2008 年间只著录 253 条记录，2025 年期刊引证报告统计的当年可引论文为 27 篇。
• Coverage sits in the Emerging Sources Citation Index under ERGONOMICS, where the 2025 data place the journal at 15 of 24 titles for a Q3 slot.收录情况落在 Emerging Sources Citation Index 的 ERGONOMICS 类目，2025 年数据把该刊排在 24 种刊物中的第 15 位，属于 Q3。
• The impact factor rose from 1.4 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024 and stood at 1.9 in 2025, with a five-year value of 2.5 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.4.影响因子由 2023 年的 1.4 升到 2024 年的 2.0，2025 年为 1.9，五年影响因子 2.5，期刊引文指标 0.4。
• Total citations reached 1619 and the cited half-life 9.9 years, an unusual longevity for a title publishing fewer than thirty articles a year.总被引达到 1619 次，被引半衰期 9.9 年，年发文不足 30 篇的刊物能有这样的半衰期，并不多见。
• Access runs on the hybrid model, so a paper can be opened through the publisher's Open Select route while the subscription edition continues alongside.该刊采用混合模式，论文可经出版方的 Open Select 通路开放，订阅版同时继续发行。
• Gold open access made up 13.41 percent of 2025 content, a share in keeping with a readership that mostly arrives through library subscriptions.金色开放获取占 2025 年内容的 13.41%，这一比例与以图书馆订阅为主要入口的读者结构相称。
• PubMed indexes selected citations only, and the publisher metadata still carries the name Informa UK, the company that took over Taylor & Francis in 2004.PubMed 仅收录部分被引条目，出版方的元数据里仍写着 Informa UK，这家公司于 2004 年接手 Taylor & Francis。
• The International Ergonomics Association lists the title among the journals it endorses, which gives the editorial line a reference point outside the publisher.国际工效学协会把该刊列入其认可的期刊名单，编辑取向因此多了一个出版方之外的参照。

Editors

• The chair is shared, with Waldemar Karwowski and Dylan Schmorrow serving as co-editors-in-chief, the pairing the International Ergonomics Association records for the title.主编席位由两人分担，（Waldemar Karwowski）与（Dylan Schmorrow）共同出任主编，国际工效学协会为该刊著录的正是这一组合。
• Karwowski holds a chair at the University of Central Florida in industrial engineering and management systems and has worked for decades on human performance in complex technological systems.（Waldemar Karwowski）在中佛罗里达大学工业工程与管理系任教，数十年间研究复杂技术系统中人的作业绩效。
• Schmorrow is recorded as chief scientist at Soar Technology, and his research background lies in augmented cognition and human-systems integration.（Dylan Schmorrow）被著录为 Soar Technology 的首席科学家，研究背景在增强认知与人机系统集成。
• Every research paper is refereed, and the other two formats carry review as well, since commentaries are sent out before they appear and reviews are commissioned by the editors.研究论文一律送审，另两种体裁也带评审环节，评论文章刊出前同样外送，综述则由编者约请。
• Because the aims make theory the admission ticket, the first editorial judgement falls on whether a manuscript stakes a conceptual claim at all.征稿说明把理论立为入门条件，编辑的第一道判断就落在稿件是否提出了概念层面的主张。
• That criterion is how measurement for its own sake is kept at bay, including the anthropometric survey or the equipment trial that reports numbers without an argument.靠这条标准，该刊把以测量本身为目的的来稿挡在门外，只报数字而不给论证的人体测量调查或设备试用报告即属此类。
• Enforcement is uneven, since recent issues carry vibration exposure among riveters, musculoskeletal symptoms among smartphone gamers and shoulder exoskeletons in assembly, all of them measurement-led.执行并不齐整，近几期就刊登了铆工的手臂振动暴露、手机游戏玩家的肌肉骨骼症状以及装配线上的肩部外骨骼，三例均以测量为主。
• What admits such work is the closing move, where the numbers are tied back to a model of exposure, risk or performance that later studies can reuse.能让这类稿件过关的是收尾那一步，测量结果被接回暴露、风险或绩效模型，后来的研究可以沿用。
• Commentaries give the field room to argue in print, and a contribution of that kind runs shorter than an article while still facing a referee.评论文章为学界留出在纸面上争论的余地，此类文字比论文短，却仍要面对审稿人。
• Bibliographical and historical analyses of classic papers fall under a heading of their own, since study of the journal's own literature counts as part of the science.经典论文的书目分析与历史分析单列一类，该刊把对自身文献的研究也算作这门科学的一部分。
• Ethical matters follow the publisher's global policy, and Taylor & Francis belongs to the Committee on Publication Ethics.伦理事务依出版方的全球政策处理，Taylor & Francis 是出版伦理委员会（COPE）的成员。