Applied Fruit Science

Applied Fruit Science is a bimonthly Springer journal for commercial fruit growing, printing applied trials on apple, strawberry, sweet cherry and a lengthening list of minor crops. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, which places it 23rd among 45 horticulture titles.《应用果树科学》（Applied Fruit Science）是 Springer 出版的双月刊，面向商业化果树生产，刊出苹果、草莓、甜樱桃以及越来越多小宗果树的田间试验。2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在园艺类 45 种刊物中列第 23 位。

Work published here is expected to end where a grower can use it, so trials arrive with the photographs, yield tables and site descriptions needed to compare a spray programme or a training system with the reader's own block.这里刊出的工作要落到种植者手上能用，因此试验报告带着照片、产量表与园地描述，读者可以拿它把一套喷药方案或一种整形方式同自家园区对照。

Scope

• The stated aim is an international trade journal for commercial fruit growing, with application-oriented research named as the essential content and every paper asked to build a bridge between science and practice.宗旨页把这本刊定位于面向商业化果树生产的国际专业期刊，应用导向的研究被列为内容主体，每篇论文都被要求搭建科学同实践之间的桥。
• Economically important species lead the coverage, apple, strawberry and cherry above all, and the aims page names those three before turning to lesser crops, wild fruit and species whose dietary value is only now being examined.经济价值高的树种占据主要版面，苹果、草莓与樱桃排在最前，宗旨页点过这三类之后才转向小宗果树、野生果树以及膳食价值刚开始被研究的树种。
• Cultivar and rootstock work forms a standing category, reporting yield and fruit size across planting densities, tree forms and training systems, usually over several seasons and often in commercial blocks rather than on experiment stations.品种与砧木是常设栏目，报告不同栽植密度、树形与整形方式下的产量和果个，多数试验跨几个产季，且常在商业园里做，并非只在试验站。
• Tree physiology is treated as a means to an orchard end, and papers on photosynthesis, water relations, mineral nutrition and biennial bearing normally close with a management recommendation that follows from the measurements.树体生理被当作服务果园的手段，光合、水分关系、矿质营养与隔年结果的论文，结尾通常给出一条由实测数据推出来的管理建议。
• Soil and water management supplies a steady flow of submissions, covering drip irrigation and fertigation, regulated deficit irrigation, orchard floor cover and the leaf and soil analyses used to set nutrient rates.土水管理来稿稳定，涉及滴灌与水肥一体化、调亏灌溉、果园地面覆盖，以及用来确定施肥量的叶分析与土壤分析。
• Integrated pest and disease management is the largest applied block, with codling moth, apple scab, fire blight and spotted wing drosophila appearing repeatedly beside mating disruption, spray timing and resistance questions.病虫害综合治理是最大的应用板块，苹果蠹蛾、黑星病、火疫病与斑翅果蝇反复出现，旁边常配着迷向防治、喷药时机与抗药性的话题。
• Storage and postharvest papers follow the fruit from orchard to packhouse, testing controlled atmosphere, modified atmosphere packaging, shelf life and the incidence of storage disorders in named cultivars.采后与贮藏论文把果实从果园一路跟到包装厂，在具体品种上检验气调、自发气调包装、货架期与贮藏病害的发生率。^[1]
• Fruit quality is measured rather than asserted, and firmness, soluble solids, titratable acidity, skin colour and phenolic content are reported with the instrument and the sampling plan behind each figure.果实品质靠测不靠说，硬度、可溶性固形物、可滴定酸、果皮色泽与酚类含量都连同所用仪器和取样方案一并报出。
• Climate adaptation has grown quickly, covering late frost, sunburn, hail netting, shifting bloom dates and water scarcity, usually as multi-year records from a single site with a practical countermeasure attached.气候适应类稿件增长很快，霜冻、日灼、防雹网、花期推移与水源短缺都在其中，多是单点多年度记录，并附一条可操作的应对办法。
• Protected cultivation and substrate systems appear regularly, from plastic tunnels and rain covers to pot-grown and soilless planting, largely because these let growers extend the season or escape a soil problem.设施栽培与基质栽培定期出现，从塑料大棚与避雨棚到容器栽培和无土栽培，原因多半是这些做法能延长供应期或绕开土壤问题。
• Wild and new fruit species get room that comparable journals rarely give them, with yield, processing quality and the fit of an unfamiliar crop into an existing farm mix all in scope.野生果树与新果树得到同类刊物少有的版面，产量、加工品质以及一种陌生树种能否嵌进现有种植结构，都在讨论范围之内。
• Economic papers sit beside the agronomy, and cost of production, labour hours per hectare, investment appraisal and market acceptance turn up often enough that the journal still reads as a trade publication in the older sense.经济类论文与栽培技术并列，生产成本、每公顷用工、投资评估与市场接受度出现得足够频繁，读起来仍像老意义上的行业刊物。
• Viticulture has its own following, carried for five years by a separate supplement issue and now folded into the regular run, with table grape and wine grape work sharing the same field-trial format.葡萄栽培自成一支，连续五年靠单独增刊承载，如今并入正刊，鲜食葡萄与酿酒葡萄的研究共用同一套田间试验体例。
• Reviews and overviews are welcomed where a topic has become hard to follow, and the aims page asks for numerous illustrations and synoptic tables rather than for a narrow research note.综述与概览在题目变得难跟的时候受欢迎，宗旨页要求配足插图与汇总表，写的是一份知识现状，而非一则窄范围研究简报。

History

• The first volume appeared in 1959 as Erwerbs-Obstbau, a German-language journal for the commercial orchard trade, and it carried that title and an unbroken volume count for sixty-five years.第 1 卷于 1959 年以《Erwerbs-Obstbau》之名问世，是面向商业化果园经营的德文刊物，这个刊名与连续的卷号一直用到第 65 卷。
• Its purpose then as now was to move trial results from research stations and commercial plantings into orchard practice, and the early volumes read as advice for growers rather than as archival science.当时与现在的用意相同，都是把试验站和商业园里的试验结果送进果园实践，早期各卷读来更像给种植者的建议，而非存档性质的科学研究。
• Springer's online archive begins with volume 46 in 2004, the first volume to carry the DOI stem s10341, which is still the journal's internal number and still the address of its web pages.Springer 的线上存档从 2004 年的第 46 卷开始，这一卷起用 DOI 词干 s10341，该编号至今仍是刊物的内部号，也仍是其网页地址的一部分。
• Numbering has run without a break since 1959, so volume 46 belongs to 2004, volume 65 to 2023, volume 66 to 2024 and volume 68 to 2026, and none of the changes below restarted it.卷号自 1959 年起没有中断，第 46 卷对应 2004 年，第 65 卷对应 2023 年，第 66 卷对应 2024 年，第 68 卷对应 2026 年，下面几次变动都没有重新起卷。
• For most of the 2000s the journal came out four times a year, in March, June, September and December, a rhythm visible in the regular issues of volumes 48 through 64.2000 年代多数年份一年出四期，分别落在 3 月、6 月、9 月与 12 月，这一节奏可见于第 48 卷到第 64 卷的常规期。
• From volume 65 in 2023 the schedule moved to six issues a year, dated February, April, June, August, October and December, and that is the form volume 68 keeps in 2026.从 2023 年的第 65 卷起改为一年六期，标期落在 2 月、4 月、6 月、8 月、10 月与 12 月，第 68 卷在 2026 年沿用这一形制。
• Viticulture arrived through a supplement rather than a section, and volumes 60 to 64 each carried a separate Weinanbau issue, filed in the contents as an Issue 1 supplement.葡萄栽培是经增刊进来的，第 60 卷至第 64 卷（2018 至 2022 年）各自附一册《Weinanbau》专号，目录里记作第 1 期增刊。
• That arrangement ended quietly in 2023, when special viticulture articles were placed inside the December issue of volume 65 and the standalone supplement disappeared from the list.这一安排在 2023 年悄然收尾，葡萄栽培的专题文章改放进第 65 卷 12 月号，单独的增刊从此从目录中消失。
• Clarivate recorded the title change in its February 2024 list, noting that ERWERBS-OBSTBAU remained in the Science Citation Index Expanded and had only been renamed APPLIED FRUIT SCIENCE.科睿唯安在 2024 年 2 月的目录里记下这次改名，注明《ERWERBS-OBSTBAU》仍留在科学引文索引扩展版内，只是把刊名改成《APPLIED FRUIT SCIENCE》。
• The rename replaced the identifiers as well, retiring print ISSN 0014-0309 and eISSN 1439-0302 in favour of 2948-2623 and 2948-2631, while the DOI stem and the volume count stayed as they were.改名同时更换了标识，印刷版 ISSN 0014-0309 与电子版 ISSN 1439-0302 退役，改用 2948-2623 与 2948-2631，DOI 词干与卷号则原样保留。
• Volume 66 in 2024 was the first to carry the English title, and Springer now prints the old German name beneath the new one, a device pointing at continuity rather than at a subtitle.2024 年的第 66 卷是第一个使用英文刊名的卷次，Springer 如今在新刊名之下印出旧的德文名，这个做法指向接续，而非另立副题。
• Publishing has stayed inside the same house, from the Springer-Verlag imprint of the earlier volumes to Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland, part of Springer Nature, named in the current copyright line.出版方始终留在同一家，早期各卷署 Springer-Verlag，现在的版权行写成 Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland，隶属 Springer Nature。
• Access has been hybrid through the recent period, with subscription issues and an open access option on individual articles, and the platform counted 62 open access papers by October 2026.近年走的是混合模式，正刊靠订阅，单篇文章可以选择开放获取，平台到 2026 年 10 月已累计 62 篇开放获取论文。
• The 2025 figures describe a journal that publishes a great deal and is cited quickly, with 439 citable items, 694 citations to the run, a cited half-life of 1.3 years and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.49.2025 年的数字显示这是一本发稿量大、被引来得快的刊物，可引用论文 439 篇，全刊被引 694 次，引用半衰期 1.3 年，期刊引证指标 0.49。
• Articles now appear with continuous article numbers instead of page ranges, the October 2026 items reaching Article 361, which shortens the wait between acceptance and a citable record.论文如今用连续文章编号代替页码，2026 年 10 月的稿件排到第 361 号，录用与可引用记录之间的等待因此缩短。

Editors

• Werner Dierend, who holds the fruit growing chair at Hochschule Osnabrück, is Editor-in-Chief and the only person carrying that title on the current masthead.主编为 Werner Dierend，在奥斯纳布吕克应用科学大学（Hochschule Osnabrück）主持果树栽培方向，现任编委名单上只有他一人挂主编头衔。
• His section sits inside the faculty of agricultural sciences and landscape architecture, a setting that keeps the editorial office close to vocational training and to regional advisory work.他所在的院系归属农业科学与景观建筑学部，编辑部落在这种环境里，与职业培训和区域推广都挨得近。
• The board itself is short, four names besides the editor, beginning with Michael Blanke of the University of Bonn and Astrid Forneck of BOKU University in Vienna.编委会本身很短，除主编外只有四个名字，前两位是波恩大学的 Michael Blanke 与维也纳的 BOKU University 的 Astrid Forneck。
• Rolf Hornig comes from LMS Agrarberatung in Schwerin, an advisory company rather than a university, which leaves a practitioner's reading of manuscripts on the board.Rolf Hornig 来自什未林的 LMS Agrarberatung，这是一家咨询公司而非高校，编委会因此保留了一个实践者读稿的视角。
• Moritz Knoche works at the Institute of Horticultural Production Systems at Leibniz University Hannover and is the fourth and last board member named on the page.Moritz Knoche 任职于汉诺威莱布尼茨大学（Leibniz University Hannover）的园艺生产系统研究所，是页面上列出的第四位、也是最后一位编委。
• Four of the five editors work in Germany and the fifth in Austria, a German-speaking core that has outlasted the switch to an English title.五位编委里有四位在德国、一位在奥地利，这个德语核心在改用英文刊名之后依然保留。
• Vanessa Keinert, recorded as an independent researcher in Neckargemünd, is listed for editorial assistance, the desk work behind six issues a year.编辑助理为 Vanessa Keinert，页面记她为内卡尔格明德的独立研究者，一年六期的事务性稿件工作由她承担。
• Review is conventional peer review, and the publisher reports a median of eight days from submission to first decision alongside 185.8 thousand downloads in 2025.评审是常规同行评议，出版方给出从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 8 天，2025 年全文下载量为 18.58 万次。
• Manuscripts may be written in English or German, and a German paper must carry an English abstract, a rule that keeps a German-language route open while the visible output turned English.稿件可用英文或德文撰写，德文论文须附英文摘要，这条规定留住了德文投稿通道，尽管刊物可见的产出已转向英文。
• There is a word limit rather than a page limit, set at 6000 words, and authors are steered toward figures, overview tables and orchard photographs instead of long methodological prose.限制的是字数而非页数，上限为 6000 词，作者被引导多用图、汇总表与果园照片，少写冗长的方法叙述。
• Submissions pass through the Springer Nature portal, and the journal number 10341 in that address is the same number that appears in every DOI the title issues.投稿走 Springer Nature 的投稿系统，地址里带着刊号 10341，这个编号与刊物每篇 DOI 中的一致。
• No pre-submission enquiry is offered and no associate editors are named, so a decision comes from the editor with the board behind him, without a layer of handling editors in between.刊物不设投稿前咨询，也没有列出副编辑，决定由主编作出、编委会在其后，中间没有一层处理编辑。