Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation is a peer-reviewed clinical journal about recovery after stroke, read by the physicians, therapists and nurses who take the same patient from the emergency ward through to discharge.《Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation》是一本同行评议的卒中康复临床刊物，读者是同一批病人的医生、治疗师与护士，从急诊病房一路管到出院。

Taylor & Francis publishes it from Abingdon, and the first volume appeared in 1994. Subscribers have called it a living textbook for the field, a phrase the aims page now repeats.现由 Taylor & Francis 在阿宾登出版，第 1 卷出在 1994 年。订阅者把它称作这一行的活教科书，宗旨页如今也用了这个说法。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3, the five-year figure 3.0, and CiteScore 5.5. In the rehabilitation category it ranks 46th of 175 titles.2025 年的影响因子是 2.3，五年值 3.0，CiteScore 5.5。在康复类 175 种刊里排第 46 位。

Scope

• The aims page sets an interdisciplinary and evidence-based remit and then names fourteen fields. Physical medicine and rehabilitation comes first, followed by neurology and neurorehabilitation, then neural engineering and therapeutics.宗旨页把范围定成跨学科与循证两条，随后点了十四个方向。物理医学与康复排在首位，接着是神经病学与神经康复，再往后是神经工程与治疗。

• Neuropsychology and cognition covers what stroke does to attention, memory and executive function, and the tests that put a number on the damage.神经心理与认知这一块管的是卒中在注意、记忆与执行功能上留下的事，还有给这些损伤打分的测验。

• Robotics and biomechanics sit beside it, from gait-training devices and exoskeletons to the motion analysis that tells a therapist whether a step is being relearned or merely repeated.机器人与生物力学紧挨着它，从步态训练设备与外骨骼，到运动分析，后者回答治疗师一个问题，这一步是在重新学会，还是只在重复。

• Optimization of the rehabilitation system counts as a research subject in its own right. Pathways, staffing, dose of therapy and the handover after discharge are treated as things that can be measured.康复体系的优化本身就当成一个研究题目。路径怎么排，人手怎么配，治疗剂量给多少，出院以后怎么接手，这些都当作可以测量的东西。

• Pain management and nursing have ground of their own here, which puts the two disciplines closest to the bedside on the same list as gait training and neural engineering.疼痛管理与护理在这里各有地盘，最贴近床边的那两个专业，因此和步态训练、神经工程排在同一张名单上。

• Physical therapy and occupational therapy follow, then speech pathology and communication, the last covering aphasia, dysarthria and problems that outlast motor recovery.再往下是物理治疗与作业治疗，还有言语病理与沟通，最后一块管失语与构音障碍，也管比运动恢复拖得更久的那些问题。

• Cardiopulmonary fitness and mobility close the list of disciplines, and both come down to numbers. How far a patient can walk and how hard a training session can be pushed are measured rather than guessed.心肺适能与活动能力收尾，两块最后都落在数字上。病人能走多远，一次训练能推到多狠，靠测量而不是靠估。

• Under those headings the journal concentrates on stroke recovery itself and on rehabilitation outcomes, and it treats quality of life as an endpoint in its own right rather than as a soft extra.在这些方向底下，刊物盯住卒中恢复本身与康复结局，也把生活质量当成一个独立终点，不当成附加的软指标。

• Activities of daily living and motor control get steady attention, because a dressing sequence or a reach-to-grasp task is where recovery first becomes visible to a family.日常生活活动与运动控制一直有人写，穿衣的顺序，伸手抓握的动作，家属最早看见的恢复就在这些地方。

• Families and caregivers are part of the case rather than the background, which brings training, burden and the limits of home care onto the page.家属与照护者算在病例里面，不当背景板，训练怎么做，负担有多重，居家照护撑到哪里为止，这些都进正文。

• Community issues follow the patient out of the clinic, from transport and return to work to therapy access in rural districts and the unmet need that outlasts formal rehabilitation.社区问题跟着病人走出诊室，从交通与返岗，到乡下能不能做上治疗，再到正规康复结束以后那截没人接的需求。

• Three article types carry most of the content. Original research and literature reviews arrive by submission, while editorials are commissioned by the editors rather than sent in cold.内容主要由三类稿子撑起来。原创研究与文献综述走投稿，社论由编辑约，不收自来稿。

• Each issue is built around one sharply focused topic, so a reader who wants the current state of upper-limb training can get it in a single number instead of twenty scattered papers.每期围绕一个收得很紧的题目组织，读者想知道上肢训练眼下做到哪一步，翻一期的篇幅就够，不必去凑二十篇散稿。

• That structure makes the journal easy to teach from. A resident can be handed one issue and come away with the argument on both sides of a practice question.这种编法让它好用来讲课。住院医师拿一期回去，一个临床问题两边的说法就都有了。

History

• Volume 1 is dated 1994 and carries two calendar years, 1994 and 1995. The pattern held through volume 8, which covers 2001 and 2002.第 1 卷标的是 1994 年，实际跨了 1994 与 1995 两个年头。这个做法一直用到第 8 卷，那一卷装的是 2001 到 2002 年。

• The ninth volume closes the cross-year run, spanning 2002 and 2003. From volume 10, dated 2003, one volume maps onto one year and the arithmetic has not changed since.第 9 卷是 2002 到 2003 年，跨年的做法到它为止。第 10 卷标 2003 年，从此一卷对一年，这个算法没再动过。

• Volume equals year minus 1993, which makes 2024 the thirty-first volume, 2025 the thirty-second, and the current year the thirty-third. Because the mapping never resets, a citation that gives only the volume number still dates itself.卷号等于年份减 1993，2024 年是第 31 卷，2025 年是第 32 卷，眼下的 2026 年就是第 33 卷。这个对应一直没重置，只写卷号的引文也能看出年份。

• Eight issues fill a volume, and the issue numbers run straight through it rather than restarting each quarter, which is why a reference reads volume 32, issue 6.一卷装八期，期号在卷内一路连排，不按季度重新起头，所以引文会写成第 32 卷第 6 期。

• About ten articles appear per issue. Volume 31 came to 94 items in Crossref, volume 32 to 78, and the 2026 volume had reached issue 7 by late October.一期大约十篇文章。第 31 卷在 Crossref 里有 94 条，第 32 卷 78 条，2026 年那一卷到 10 月下旬已经出到第 7 期。

• Aspen Publishers brought the journal out from Frederick, Maryland. That imprint stands in the library record for the early volumes, and the cross-year numbering belongs to the same period.创刊方是马里兰州弗雷德里克的 Aspen Publishers。图书馆记录里早期各卷的出版地就是那里，跨年编号也是那几年留下的。

• The place of publication moved in 2016. Abingdon has held the imprint since then under Taylor & Francis, and the volumes now come out of one city without a break.出版地 2016 年换了地方。阿宾登从那时起挂在记录上，出版方是 Taylor & Francis，此后的卷都在这一处出，中间没断。

• Annual output has moved in a wide band. Crossref counts 101 items for 2019, 69 for 2021, 55 for 2022, 56 for 2023, then 94 and 78 for the last two complete years.年发量的起伏不小。Crossref 记 2019 年 101 条，2021 年 69 条，2022 年 55 条，2023 年 56 条，最近两个完整年份是 94 条与 78 条。

• Each year also carries one or two corrections and the occasional letter, small numbers that point to a file somebody is still checking.每年另有一两条更正，偶尔有读者来信，数目很小，说明档案一直有人在核，没有扔在那里。

• Impact factors over five years read 2.119 for 2021, 2.177 for 2022, 2.2 for 2023, 2.5 for 2024 and 2.3 for 2025. The 2024 peak came after three flat years, and the fall since has been slight.五年的影响因子分别是 2021 年 2.119，2022 年 2.177，2023 年 2.2，2024 年 2.5，2025 年 2.3。2024 年的高点之前平了三年，此后的回落不算多。

• Downloads run near 191,000 a year, several times the subscription base, and that is the number that decides whether a themed issue reaches the people it was assembled for.年下载量约 19.1 万次，比订户数高出好几倍，主题刊能不能送到该看的人手里，看的正是这类数字。

• MEDLINE carries the title under its own abbreviation, Top Stroke Rehabil, and the catalogue entry was revised again in 2026. The serial is logged from volume 1, number 1, spring 1994.MEDLINE 用自家缩写 Top Stroke Rehabil 收这本刊，条目 2026 年又改过一次。著录起点是 1994 年春季的第 1 卷第 1 期。

• Two descriptions of the schedule survive side by side. The journal's own pages still describe it as bimonthly, while the volumes themselves carry eight issues and number them straight through.刊期留下了两种说法。官网页面上还写着双月刊，卷里实际是八期，期号在卷内一路连排。

• The 2025 file credits 3,442 citations to the journal with a cited half-life of 8.4 years and counts 65 articles in the year, so the citation load per paper is heavy.2025 年的表记了 3,442 次引用，被引半衰期 8.4 年，当年发文 65 篇，摊到每篇上的引用不轻。

Editors

• Elliot J. Roth edits the journal from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he works in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.主编 Elliot J. Roth 在西北大学芬伯格医学院做物理医学与康复，同时在芝加哥康复研究所任职。

• Two special feature editors share the themed content, Lynne C Brady Wagner at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Susan Johnson Taylor at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.两位专题编辑分担主题内容，一位是斯波尔丁康复医院的 Lynne C Brady Wagner，另一位是芝加哥康复研究所的 Susan Johnson Taylor。

• The board runs to about 37 names. North America dominates, while Norway, Sweden and Australia all appear, and the United Kingdom and New Zealand are also on the list.编委会约 37 人。北美占多数，挪威、瑞典与澳大利亚都有人，英国与新西兰也在名单上。

• Turnaround is quick by the numbers. Six days to a first decision, 92 days to a decision after the first round of review, and 11 days from acceptance to publication online.官方给出的速度很快，首次决定平均 6 天，首轮评审之后到决定 92 天，录用后 11 天上线。

• Roughly one submission in ten is accepted, and the published speed figures put a first decision at six days. A ten percent acceptance rate and a desk that answers inside a week belong to the same arithmetic.大约十份来稿收一份，官方给出的首次决定是 6 天。录用率一成，加上一周之内就回话，这两件事是同一笔账。

• Access is hybrid. Authors who want their paper open pay through Taylor & Francis Open Select, and those who leave it closed are charged no article processing fee.获取方式是混合制。想让文章开放的作者走 Taylor & Francis 的 Open Select 付费，不选这条路的就不收版面费。

• The abstracting list explains the readership. CINAHL covers nursing, while OT Bibsys and PsycLIT cover occupational therapy and psychology, and EMBASE and Scopus cover the medical side.收录名单能看出读者是谁。CINAHL 对护理，OT Bibsys 与 PsycLIT 对作业治疗与心理学，EMBASE 与 Scopus 覆盖医学那一侧。

• MEDLINE and Science Citation Index Expanded put the journal in front of two different audiences, the ward and the review committee, and a title this size needs both.MEDLINE 与 Science Citation Index Expanded 把它送到两拨人眼前，一拨在病房，一拨在评审委员会，这样体量的刊两边都要紧。

• The special feature editors carry the part of each issue that sits outside the general queue, which is how one theme gains depth instead of a single article.专题编辑管的是每期里常规队列之外的那一块，一个题目因此能做出厚度，不至于只有一篇稿子撑场面。

• Fourteen disciplines on the aims page set the shape of the file as much as they set its reading list, and a themed number gathers the papers on one of them instead of spreading them across a year.宗旨页上的十四个方向，既决定了读者拿来查什么，也决定了稿子的形状。主题期把其中一个方向的稿子聚到一处，不让它们散在全年各期里。

• Eight issues a year means a new theme roughly every six weeks, and the themed number is what most readers meet first.一年八期，等于六周上下换一个题目，多数读者最先翻到的就是这一期。

• Corrections are handled in public. One or two a year appear as separate items with DOIs of their own, so a fix can be cited while the original stands.更正摆在明面上。每年一两条，单独成篇，各有自己的 DOI，改过的地方能被引用，原文也还在。