AMBIO

Ambio is a monthly peer-reviewed journal of environmental science published by Springer on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded in 1972 in the year of the first United Nations conference on the environment and devoted to research on the interrelationships between environment and society, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.7.《AMBIO》是由（Springer）代表（Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences）出版的月刊环境科学期刊，1972 年创刊，创办之年正值联合国首届环境会议，致力于刊载环境与社会相互关系的研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7。

Scope

• The journal publishes research for a global audience on the interrelationships between environment and society, with focus on both the natural and the social dimension of sustainability challenges.本刊面向全球读者刊载环境与社会相互关系的研究，同时关注可持续性挑战的自然维度与社会维度。
• Its ambition is to publish research that speaks to an inter- and transdisciplinary audience within and beyond academia.刊物追求发表既能与学术界对话、又能走向学术圈之外的跨学科研究成果。
• Publications may lean more heavily on either the natural or the social sciences, but every article is required to keep a focus on the link between environment and society.论文可以偏重自然科学或社会科学，但均须紧扣环境与社会之间的关联。
• Original contributions can be submitted as Research articles, Reviews, Perspectives, News or Comments, five categories that offer complementary options for presenting novel results and ideas.原创稿件可投为研究论文、综述、观点文章、新闻或评论五类，为呈现新结果与新思想提供互补的选项。
• The journal particularly encourages multi- and interdisciplinary submissions that carry explicit management or policy recommendations.本刊特别鼓励带有明确管理或政策建议的多学科与跨学科投稿。
• Coverage runs across ecology, environmental economics, environmental management, technology and the natural sciences, including climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, pollution, water resources and land use.覆盖范围横跨生态学、环境经济学、环境管理、技术及自然科学，涉及气候变化、生物多样性、生态系统服务、污染、水资源与土地利用等议题。
• Special issues and topical collections are issued regularly, and the readership spans specialists, generalists, students, decision-makers and interested laypersons.本刊定期出版特刊与专题论文集，读者群涵盖专家、通才、学生、决策者与感兴趣的普通公众。

History

• Ambio was founded in 1972 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the same year as the first major United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm.《AMBIO》于 1972 年由（Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences）创办，同年联合国首届人类环境会议在斯德哥尔摩举行。
• For nearly four decades the journal was published by the Academy itself, initially as a bimonthly title.创刊后近 40 年间，刊物由科学院自行出版，初期为双月刊。
• Springer signed a co-publishing agreement with the Academy, and the first issue under Springer appeared in February 2010, with Elisabeth Kessler as editor-in-chief at the time.（Springer）与科学院签署合作出版协议，2010 年 2 月出版转入（Springer）后的首期，时任主编为（Elisabeth Kessler）。
• The journal appeared eight times a year in the early Springer years and has since moved to a monthly schedule, with Volume 54 in 2025 running to twelve issues.转入（Springer）初期每年出版 8 期，其后改为月刊，2025 年第 54 卷已出满 12 期。
• Ambio is a hybrid or transformative journal, so authors choose between the traditional subscription route and open access with an article processing charge, and about half of all articles are published open access.本刊为混合型期刊，作者可在传统订阅途径与缴纳文章处理费的开放获取途径之间选择，目前约半数论文以开放获取发表。
• Under the agreement with the Academy every article becomes freely downloadable through PubMed Central after a twelve-month embargo, and the copyright rests with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.按与科学院的协议，所有论文在 12 个月禁读期后均可通过（PubMed Central）免费下载，版权归（Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences）所有。
• The Journal Impact Factor moved from 5.129 in 2021 and 6.943 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2024 and 5.7 in 2025, with a five-year factor of 7.3 and downloads reaching two million in 2025.期刊影响因子从 2021 年的 5.129、2022 年的 6.943 变为 2024 年的 5.1 与 2025 年的 5.7，2025 年五年影响因子为 7.3，全年下载量达 200 万次。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Bo Soderstrom of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, an associate professor in conservation biology who has edited the journal since 2010.主编为（Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences）的（Bo Soderstrom），他是保护生物学副教授，2010 年起担任本刊主编。
• His research covers the landscape biology of threatened species, especially butterflies, bumble bees and birds, and he has written six popular science books and more than one hundred articles.其研究涉及珍稀物种的景观生物学，尤以蝴蝶、熊蜂与鸟类为主，著有六部科普著作与百余篇论文。
• Hans Ellegren of the Academy is listed as responsible for Ambio under Swedish law, and Wiebren J. Boonstra of Uppsala University serves as associate editor-in-chief.科学院的（Hans Ellegren）列为刊物在瑞典法律下的负责人，（Uppsala University）的（Wiebren J. Boonstra）任副主编。
• More than twenty associate editors work from Sweden, Finland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Australia, China and New Zealand, among them Victoria Reyes-Garcia and Jamie Lorimer.20 余位副编辑供职于瑞典、芬兰、美国、英国、挪威、丹麦、西班牙、澳大利亚、中国与新西兰等地，（Victoria Reyes-Garcia）与（Jamie Lorimer）均在列。
• An advisory board of more than thirty members includes Carl Folke of the Academy, Jerry Melillo of the University of Chicago, Mohan Munasinghe of Colombo and Neil Adger of the University of Exeter.30 余人的顾问委员会包括科学院的（Carl Folke）、（University of Chicago）的（Jerry Melillo）、科伦坡（Mohan Munasinghe）与（University of Exeter）的（Neil Adger）。
• Up to half of all submissions are rejected at internal editorial review, normally within one week, and manuscripts that pass are sent to at least two external reviewers, with a first decision on average sixty-five days after submission.编辑部内部初审一周内即可淘汰至多半数投稿，通过初审的稿件送至少两位外审专家评审，平均 65 天作出首次决定。