Aquatic Sciences

Aquatic Sciences is a hybrid open access journal that Springer publishes under the Birkhäuser imprint, and it treats wetlands, fresh waters and seas as one connected field. It first appeared in 1920, carries the subtitle Research Across Boundaries, and reported a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《水生科学》是 Springer 以 Birkhäuser 书系出版的混合型开放获取期刊，把湿地，淡水与海洋视为一个相互连通的领域。该刊 1920 年问世，副题为「跨越边界的研究」，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The stated scope takes in original research, overviews and reviews on aquatic systems, meaning wetlands, fresh waters and marine waters, together with the boundaries around them.该刊声明的范围涵盖针对水生系统的原创研究，概览与综述，水生系统指湿地，淡水与咸水，以及它们周边的交界地带。

• Work on the human footprint belongs inside that remit, so papers on pollution, flow regulation, land use and fisheries sit beside purely ecological studies.人类活动的影响也在范围之内，污染，流量调节，土地利用与渔业等议题的论文与纯生态学研究并列。

• Coverage stretches from molecular-level mechanistic work to investigations at the scale of whole ecosystems, and fish ecology is named among the fields it welcomes.覆盖范围从分子层面的机制研究延伸到整个生态系统尺度的调查，鱼类生态学被明确列为欢迎的方向。

• Disciplinary crossings are the point of the subtitle, and the aims page lists geology, microbiology, biology, chemistry, physics, hydrology and social processes as the strands to be combined.副题所指的正是学科交叉，宗旨页把地质，微生物，生物，化学，物理，水文与社会过程列为需要串联的线索。

• Land-water and air-water exchange form two of the interfaces the editors single out, and both are treated as two-way processes rather than one-way fluxes.陆与水，气与水的交换是编辑特别点出的两类界面，两者都按双向过程处理，而不作单向通量看待。

• Benthic-pelagic coupling gets its own mention, as does the passage of water and material from rivers into the sea.底栖层与敞水层的耦合被单独提及，河水与物质入海的通路同样在列。

• Still waters and flowing waters are drawn together in the same sentence, which puts lakes, reservoirs and streams inside a single frame.静水与流水被放进同一句里，湖泊，水库与溪流因此落在同一个框架内。

• Groundwater and surface water count as one system here, a position that shaped the journal's appetite for catchment-scale studies.地下水与地表水在此被当成一个系统，这一立场塑造了该刊对流域尺度研究的偏好。

• Reviews and overviews sit alongside primary research in the article mix, and both are named in the aims statement.综述与概览同原创论文并列出现在文章类型中，宗旨声明对两者都有交代。

• Topical collections gather papers on single themes, such as the Vjosa river system in the Mediterranean and the biogeochemistry of the critical zone.专题合集把单一主题的论文聚在一起，例如地中海的维约萨河水系，以及关键带的生物地球化学过程。

• One collection running through 2026 is titled Sustaining Life Below Water, and it draws marine and freshwater contributions into a single series.2026 年仍在征稿的一个合集题为「养护水下生命」，把海洋与淡水的来稿收进同一系列。

• The journal reports that more than half of its 2025 output bore on one or more of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.该刊称 2025 年发表的论文中有一半以上涉及十七项可持续发展目标中的一项或多项。

• Its own description places the title in limnology, marine and freshwater biology and environmental sciences, the three Web of Science categories it is listed in.该刊自述把自身定位在湖沼学，海洋与淡水生物学以及环境科学，这也正是它被收录的三个 Web of Science 类目。

• Management questions enter through the catchment, since a call for papers on Mediterranean river systems asks how research can support water management and sustainable development.管理议题经由流域进入视野，一份关于地中海河流系统的征稿启事就在追问研究如何支撑水资源管理与可持续发展。

History

• Springer's bibliographic record gives 1920 as the first year of publication, and the opening volume carries dates of March and September 1920.Springer 的书目记录把 1920 年记为创刊年，首卷标注的日期是 1920 年 3 月与 9 月。

• The title on that volume was Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Hydrologie, a Swiss journal of hydrology issued in German and French.首卷所用的刊名是 Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Hydrologie，一份以德文与法文印行的瑞士水文学期刊。

• Volume one opens with a four-page Vorwort, followed by a French paper from W. Vischer on polymorphism in Ankistrodesmus braunii.第 1 卷以一篇四页的前言开篇，其后是（W. Vischer）关于 Ankistrodesmus braunii 多形性的法文论文。

• German contributions on fish toxicology and on the sediments of Lake Zurich filled much of that first double issue.关于鱼类毒理学与苏黎世湖沉积物的德文论文占了那一期合刊的相当篇幅。

• For its first two decades the journal came out as two double issues a year, one in March and one in September.最初二十年里，该刊每年出版两期合刊，分别在 3 月与 9 月。

• Volume 9 runs from March 1941 to September 1943, a compression that marked the war years.第 9 卷的起止是 1941 年 3 月至 1943 年 9 月，战争年代的紧缩由此可见。

• Numbering never restarted, so volume 50 closed in 1988 and volume 51 opened in March 1989 under the present name.卷号从未重新起算，第 50 卷在 1988 年收尾，第 51 卷于 1989 年 3 月以现名开卷。

• Four issues a year began with that 1989 volume, dated March, June, September and December, and the quarterly rhythm has held since.每年四期自 1989 年那卷开始，分别标注 3 月，6 月，9 月与 12 月，此后一季一期未再改变。

• The 1989 imprint was Birkhäuser of Basel and Boston, and the Basel house still supplies the journal's imprint inside Springer.1989 年的出版印记是巴塞尔与波士顿的 Birkhäuser，这家巴塞尔机构如今仍在 Springer 之内为该刊提供书系归属。

• The whole run has been digitised, with volumes 1 to 89 on Springer Nature Link and the newest volume dated January 2027.全部卷期已经数字化，第 1 卷至第 89 卷都上了 Springer Nature Link，最新一卷标注 2027 年 1 月。

• Open Choice allows authors to make individual papers free to read, and the platform lists 232 open access articles from the title.作者可借 Open Choice 让单篇论文免费阅读，平台上该刊的开放获取文章已有 232 篇。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, with a five-year figure of 2.4 and a gold open access share of 28.15 per cent.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子同为 2.4，金色开放获取占比为 28.15%。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it ranks 6 of 21 in limnology and 38 of 124 in marine and freshwater biology, both second quartile, and 276 of 395 in environmental sciences.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，该刊于湖沼学 21 份里排第 6，海洋与淡水生物学 124 份里排第 38，均属第二象限，环境科学 395 份里排第 276。

• The same snapshot counts 3,870 citations to the journal, 94 articles in a year and a cited half-life of 10.2 years.同一份快照记录该刊总被引 3,870 次，一年发文 94 篇，被引半衰期 10.2 年。

Editors

• Christopher Robinson, based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Dübendorf, is editor-in-chief.（Christopher Robinson）在迪本多夫的瑞士联邦水科学与技术研究所任职，担任主编。

• Yu-Ping Chin of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware holds the post of special feature editor.（Yu-Ping Chin）任职于特拉华大学土木与环境工程系，负责特稿编辑一职。

• The editorial board lists 47 members, and between them they work in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China, Brazil, Spain, Australia and India.编委会列出 47 位成员，分别供职于加拿大，美国，英国，德国，瑞士，日本，中国，巴西，西班牙，澳大利亚与印度。

• Members include Ulrich Sommer of GEOMAR in Kiel, Damien Bouffard of EAWAG, Timothy Jardine of the University of Saskatchewan and Lemian Liu of Fuzhou University.成员中有基尔 GEOMAR 的（Ulrich Sommer），EAWAG 的（Damien Bouffard），萨斯喀彻温大学的（Timothy Jardine）与福州大学的（Lemian Liu）。

• Every manuscript passes an initial judgement by the editor-in-chief, who decides whether the topic and the treatment suit the journal at all.每篇稿件先由主编作初步判断，由其裁定选题与写法是否对得上该刊。

• Those that clear that step go to external scientists, who weigh quality, significance, originality and the clarity of the presentation.过了这一关的稿件转给外部学者，由他们衡量质量，重要性，原创性与表述的清晰度。

• The guidelines name six months from submission to publication on the web as the target the office works towards.指南把从投稿到网络发表六个月定为目标，编辑部按此推进。

• Board members may submit papers, and a different editor takes charge of such manuscripts, which get no priority in the queue.编委本人可以投稿，此类稿件由另一位编辑接手，在流程中不享受优先。

• Authors may name preferred reviewers or ask for particular people to be excluded, and institutional addresses are required for anyone they suggest.作者可以举荐审稿人，也可以要求回避某些人，所举荐者须提供机构邮箱。

• Species records discussed in a paper should be deposited in a public biodiversity database such as a national GBIF node or BioFresh.论文涉及的物种记录应存入公开的生物多样性数据库，例如 GBIF 的国家节点或 BioFresh。

• Funding, competing interests and author contributions are declared through the submission interface, and only what is entered there reaches the published record.资助来源，利益冲突与作者贡献都通过投稿界面申报，只有在那里填报的内容会进入正式记录。

• The journal follows the publisher's research data policy, which asks authors to make the material behind a claim available.该刊遵循出版方制定的研究数据政策，要求作者让支撑结论的材料可以被获取。