美国《科学》（Science）杂志  www.sciencemag.org  http://china.sciencemag.org/


 

《科学》（Science） 是美国科学促进会（AAAS）出版的一份学术杂志 。

1880年，纽约新闻记者约翰·麦克尔创立了《科学》杂志，这份杂志先后得到了托马斯·爱迪生以及亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔的资助。此后，由于财政困难《科学》于1882年3月停刊。一年后，昆虫学家Samuel H. Scudder使其复活并取得了一定的成功。然而到了1894年，《科学》重新陷入财政危机，随后被以500美元的价格转让给心理学家James McKeen Cattell。1900年，Cattell与美国科学促进会秘书Leland O. Howard达成协议,《科学》成为美国科学促进会的期刊。1944年Cattell去世后,AAAS成为《科学》新主人。这本杂志主要刊登最新的科学研究成果。同时，《科学》也刊登关于科学的新闻、关于科技政策、科学家感兴趣的事务的观点。《科学》刊登各个学科的原创论文。目前，《科学》是全世界最权威的学术杂志之一，它的主要竞争对手是英国出版的《自然》杂志。

 

美国《科学》周刊简介

Founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal. Through its print and online incarnations, Science reaches an estimated worldwide readership of more than one million. In content, too, the journal is truly international in scope; some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors on its papers are based outside the United States. Its articles consistently rank among world's most cited research.

Science's leading position stems from many factors:

the journal's strong tradition of editorial independence;
its high standards of peer review and editorial quality (of the more than 12,000 top-notch scientific manuscripts that the journal sees each year, less than 8% are accepted for publication);
its Board of Reviewing Editors, consisting of more than 100 of the world's top scientists;
its strong connections with the scientific community, which ensures a stream of lively, up-to-date, and authoritative news and commentary in its pages;
the dedication of its professional staff in the U.S., the U.K., and other countries, including 26 Ph.D. editors, a creative production and art group, and a team of science writers, reporters, and journalists second to none;
the support of its publisher, AAAS, the world's largest general-science society.

Today, a century and a quarter after its founding, Science continues to publish the very best in scientific research, news, and opinion. Whether you're concerned with AIDS, SARS, genomic medicine, Mars, or global warming, or just want to keep abreast of where the scientific world is and where it's going, you will find something worthwhile in Science.

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THE SCIENCE WEB SITES

In keeping with its tradition of breaking new ground in scientific publishing, Science was a pioneer in moving journal content online, beginning the shift in 1995 with the start of Science Online, of our online science jobs site, Science Careers, and of our career development site for young scientists, Next Wave (which has now been merged with the Careers site). Since then, our Web family has grown in scope:

The flagship Science Magazine site provides the full text of the journal's news stories, research reports, and commentary articles in a searchable database, enhanced by additional information, links, multimedia, and user services, as well as a database of scientific-product information.
The Science Express area of the site posts selected original, peer-reviewed hot research weeks ahead of its print publication date, thereby making the work available to the scientific community within a matter of days after manuscript acceptance.
The ScienceNOW online daily news service brings brief breaking news stories from the award-winning reporting staff of Science to your computer desktop every business day.
Science Signaling offers original review articles, protocols, teaching resources, and other resources on cellular signal transduction -- the study of how cells communicate through chemical signals, an interdisciplinary field with implications in biological areas ranging from embryo development to cancer research. A unique feature of the site is its Connections Maps, which graphically depict the chemical pathways of cell signaling.
From October 2001 through mid-2006, the Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE KE) provided a centralized bank of information about the aging process for aging-field researchers, featuring news, reviews, commentary, a gene database, and other tools. Although the site's personalization tools have been discontinued, and although SAGE KE ceased publishing new material in June 2006, a searchable archive of the site's article content is available in the Collections section of the Science sites. (An external sister Web site to SAGE KE, SAGE Crossroads, offers resources on the ethical, political, economic and societal ramifications of present and future research on aging, for laypeople, policymakers, and the media.)
The Science sites include the world's best destination for information on science jobs, funding, and career-building: ScienceCareers.org. Extensively redesigned and rebuilt in the fall of 2005, ScienceCareers.org now combines the best of Science's Next Wave, our pioneering career information site for young scientists; GrantsNet, our biomedical funding search network; and Science Careers, our long-standing job-hunting and networking headquarters with job listings, résumé postings, a searchable meetings-and-events database, and more.
Finally, Science Translational Medicine focuses on practical medical advances that result from all stages of translational medicine. The site offers original research, perspectives discussing important results from both clinical and basic research viewpoints in all areas of medicine, commentary from experts in the regulatory, policy, and research fields, and reviews that identify roadblocks in the translation of basic research results into practical treatments for specific diseases and explore tactics to overcome those obstacles.

In addition to developing new online products and services, Science has shown leadership in other areas central to our core constituency -- the working scientific researcher.

We were among the first scientific journals to explore institutional site licensing of our content, a development that has since become commonplace and that has put scientific content on the desktops of millions of researchers.
We were an early adopter of online manuscript submission, streamlining the process of getting papers out of researchers' offices and into the review process.
We have also been active in opening up our research and other content to the developing world through AAAS's participation in online initiatives such as HINARI and AGORA and in outreach to lay stakeholders through PatientInform.

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ABOUT AAAS

AAAS -- the American Association for the Advancement of Science -- is Science's publisher, and a leading voice for the interests of scientists worldwide. Founded in 1848, the association is the world's largest general-science society; through its primary membership and its affiliations with some 262 scientific societies and academies, it serves 10 million individuals. The organization's mission, simply stated, is to "advance science and serve society". This it does not only through publication of Science, but through annual meetings, public outreach, activities to boost international scientific cooperation and sustainable development, policy advocacy, educational programs, press relations, and efforts to boost the public understanding of -- and appreciation of -- the scientific enterprise.

We hope you'll take a moment to visit AAAS's Web site, www.aaas.org, to see the many things AAAS is doing to further the interests of the scientific community -- and that you'll consider becoming a member yourself.