Archives Animal Breeding

Archives Animal Breeding is the open-access journal of the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology in Dummerstorf, founded in 1958 and issued today by Copernicus Publications in Göttingen, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 in the second quartile of dairy and animal science.《动物育种档案》是莱布尼茨农场动物生物学研究所的开放获取期刊，1958 年创刊于 Dummerstorf，现由哥廷根的 Copernicus Publications 出版，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在奶业与动物科学类目处于第二四分位。

Scope

• The aims page defines the journal as an open-access outlet for original research papers and reviews on scientific progress in farm-animal biology, contributed by authors worldwide.宗旨页把刊物定位为开放获取的学术出口，登载各国研究者在农场动物生物学领域的原创论文与综述，选稿看重实验设计与数据的可复现性。

• Quantitative genetics forms the oldest core, covering breeding value estimation, selection response, crossbreeding designs and the statistical models behind genetic evaluation.数量遗传学是刊物最老的根基，涵盖育种值估计，选择反应，杂交设计以及支撑家畜遗传评估的统计模型，方法类稿件在这一方向占比很高。

• Molecular and functional genetics follows the same animals at the level of markers, candidate genes, transcript profiles and genome-wide association scans.分子遗传学与功能遗传学在同一批家畜身上向下追到标记，候选基因，转录谱与全基因组关联扫描，基因组信息如何转成育种决策是常见的落点。

• Genetic diversity and the conservation of local breeds receive steady attention, with population structure, inbreeding and gene flow measured in cattle, sheep, goats, horses and pigs.遗传多样性与地方品种保护长期占有版面，群体结构，近交程度与基因流在牛、绵羊、山羊、马和猪里都有测量，保种方案的评估也常投稿于此。

• Animal husbandry and welfare bring housing systems, management routines and human-animal interactions into the journal, and behaviour belongs to the same block.饲养管理与动物福利把圈舍系统，日常管理与人畜互动带入刊物，行为学与福利评估同属一个版块，认知能力测试同样被接受。

• Physiology covers nutritional physiology, metabolic regulation and the adaptation of animals to lactation, growth and stress, with energy partitioning a recurring theme.生理学方向覆盖营养生理，代谢调控以及动物对泌乳、生长与应激的适应，能量分配是反复出现的主题。

• Reproduction takes in oocyte and embryo biology, fertility traits and the reproductive technologies used in livestock breeding programmes.繁殖方向涉及卵母细胞与胚胎生物学，繁殖力性状以及用于家畜育种计划的繁殖技术，繁殖障碍的生理机制也在此讨论。

• Nutrition and feed evaluation appear both as a subject area of their own and as a physiological frame for growth, milk yield and carcass composition.营养与饲料评价既是独立学科方向，也为生长、产奶量与胴体组成提供生理背景，饲料效率的测定方法常被重新审视。

• Product quality connects breeding to the market, examining meat and milk quality, carcass traits and the sensory or technological properties that consumers notice.产品品质把育种与市场连起来，考察肉与奶的品质，胴体性状以及消费者能够感知的感官与加工特性，链条从遗传一直拉到餐桌。

• Eight index terms define the subject areas and route each manuscript to an editor: product quality, nutrition, behaviour, functional genetics, quantitative genetics, reproduction, physiology and husbandry.八个索引词划定学科边界并决定稿件归属，即产品品质，营养，行为，功能遗传学，数量遗传学，繁殖，生理与饲养管理，作者投稿时需从中选择。

• Accepted formats are original studies, reviews and corrigenda, and a corrigendum must reach Copernicus Publications within three years of the original article.可接受的形式为原创研究，综述与勘误，勘误须在原文发表后三年内送达出版社，且只更正前文而不另起新论。

• The readership is named on the aims page as researchers and teachers, together with academic institutions, industry and government bodies concerned with animal production.宗旨页把读者写得具体，研究者与教师之外，还包括学术机构，产业界以及主管畜牧生产的政府部门，应用导向的稿件因此有位置。

• Special issues gather conference papers, and the editorial system registers such manuscripts as part of an issue rather than as standalone submissions.专号用于汇集会议论文，投稿系统会把这类稿件登记为某一期的组成部分，评审流程与常规稿件一致，截稿时间另行公布。

History

• The journal began in 1958 as (Archiv für Tierzucht), the German title it carried for decades, and volume numbering has run without a break since then, reaching volume 69 in 2026.刊物 1958 年以德文名（Archiv für Tierzucht）问世，这个刊名用了数十年，卷号自此连续不断，2026 年已出到第 69 卷。

• The founding institute was the animal breeding research centre at Dummerstorf, today the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, which remains the owner and supplies most of the editorial staff.创办方是 Dummerstorf 的家畜育种研究机构，即今天的莱布尼茨农场动物生物学研究所，它至今仍是刊物的主办方，编辑部多数成员也出自该所。

• Volumes from the 1990s still carried German articles, as the 1999 volume 42 shows, and the shift to English followed the internationalisation of the readership.1990 年代的卷册仍刊德文论文，1999 年第 42 卷的目录里德文标题占了大半，改用英文是随读者国际化逐步完成的。

• The title moved from (Archiv für Tierzucht) through the English subtitle Archives of Animal Breeding to the present Archives Animal Breeding, and the old name survives in the footer of every page.刊名从德文原题经英文副题（Archives of Animal Breeding）过渡为今天的 Archives Animal Breeding，旧名仍留在网页页脚，与现名并排出现。

• Production, typesetting and the online platform were handed to Copernicus Publications in Göttingen, leaving the editorial board with academic decisions alone.排版、制作与在线平台交由哥廷根的 Copernicus Publications 承担，编辑部只负责学术判断，这种分工在同类学会刊物里较为常见。

• The online edition carries eISSN 2363-9822, while print ISSN 0003-9438 survives from the Dummerstorf imprint, and the two numbers appear side by side in most indexes.网络版使用电子刊号 2363-9822，印刷版刊号 0003-9438 则延续自 Dummerstorf 时期，两号在多数索引里并列出现。

• All content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, so authors keep copyright and readers may reuse figures provided the source is credited.全部内容采用知识共享署名 4.0 许可，作者保留版权，读者在标注出处的前提下可以复用图表，这一条写在每页页脚。

• Articles appear one at a time in a single annual volume, a continuous rhythm that replaced the bimonthly print issues of the Dummerstorf years.论文按篇连续发布，每年合成一卷，这一节奏取代了 Dummerstorf 时期的双月刊，发表时滞因此缩短。

• PubMed and PubMed Central have covered the journal from volume 62 in 2019, which widened its reach among veterinary and animal science readers.PubMed 与 PubMed Central 自 2019 年第 62 卷起收录该刊，兽医学与动物科学读者因此更容易遇到其中的论文。

• Output runs near sixty articles a year, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, up from 1.6 in the two preceding years and 1.776 in 2022.年发文量约六十篇，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，此前两年均为 1.6，2022 年为 1.776，曲线在低位徘徊之后略有回升。

• Copernicus reports a CiteScore of 3.2, an SJR of 0.49 and a source normalized impact per paper of 0.80 for 2025, with a self-citation rate near three per cent.出版社公布的 2025 年 CiteScore 为 3.2，SJR 为 0.49，篇均来源归一化影响力为 0.80，自引率约 3%。

• Ernst Ritter, chief editor for many years, died in June 2023 at the age of 94, and the journal marked his death with an obituary on its news page.长期担任主编的（Ernst Ritter）于 2023 年 6 月去世，享年 94 岁，刊物的新闻页登出讣告，回顾他与这份刊物的几十年。

Editors

• Antke-Elsabe Freifrau von Tiele-Winckler of the University of Rostock, based in the faculty of agricultural and environmental sciences, serves as chief editor.现任主编为罗斯托克大学的（Antke-Elsabe Freifrau von Tiele-Winckler），她在农业与环境科学学院任职，负责终审与稿件分流。

• Steffen Maak of the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology acts as managing editor and also handles the nutrition subject area.（Steffen Maak）来自农场动物生物学研究所，担任责任编辑并兼管营养方向，日常流程与学术判断由他衔接。

• Subject editors divide the eight fields: Franziska Koch for quantitative genetics, Manfred Mielenz for physiology and product quality, Christian Nawroth for behaviour and husbandry, Henry Reyer for functional and quantitative genetics, and Joachim Weitzel for physiology and reproduction.分科编辑按八个方向分工，负责数量遗传学的是（Franziska Koch），生理与产品品质归（Manfred Mielenz），行为与饲养管理由（Christian Nawroth）把关，功能遗传学另有（Henry Reyer）分担，繁殖则交给（Joachim Weitzel）。

• Nawroth's profile on the board page describes work on the cognitive capacities of goats, horses, pigs, sheep and zoo animals, and on how that knowledge can improve management.编委页为（Christian Nawroth）写的简介提到，他研究山羊、马与猪的认知能力，也研究绵羊和动物园动物，并把这些认识用于改进饲养管理与人畜互动。

• An advisory board adds outside expertise: Jörn Bennewitz and Anne Valle Zárate from Hohenheim, Gudrun A. Brockmann from Humboldt University of Berlin, Armin M. Scholz from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, and Ruqian Zhao from Nanjing Agricultural University.顾问委员会补充外部视角，成员包括霍恩海姆大学的（Jörn Bennewitz）与（Anne Valle Zárate），柏林洪堡大学的（Gudrun A. Brockmann），慕尼黑大学的（Armin M. Scholz），以及南京农业大学的（Ruqian Zhao）。

• Review is single blind, and referees may choose to reveal their names, and the journal states this openly rather than leaving anonymity to custom.评审采用单盲制，审稿人可以选择公开身份，刊物把这一点写明，而不把匿名当成默认惯例。

• A Copernicus office editor inspects the submitted files, runs a plagiarism check, and passes the manuscript to the managing editor, who assigns it to a chief editor for the relevant subject areas.出版社的稿件编辑先做来件检查与查重，再把稿件交给责任编辑，由责任编辑指派给对口方向的主编，环节之间留有记录。

• The handling chief editor nominates at least two independent referees, and a decision follows once both reports arrive, with options for technical correction, minor revision or major revision.负责该稿的主编至少邀请两位独立审稿人，两份意见到齐后作出决定，选项包括技术性更正，小修与大修，大修需要再次送审。

• Each manuscript has a record that lists the editor, the referees and the decision, and authors as well as referees see the parts that concern them.每篇稿件都有一份公开记录，列出编辑，审稿人与处理决定，作者与审稿人各自看到与自己相关的部分。

• Corrigenda bypass the submission form and go by email to the handling chief editor, a rule that keeps corrections tied to the original file.勘误不走投稿表单，需以邮件发给负责该文的主编，这条规定让更正始终挂在原文名下，也便于日后追溯。

• Article processing charges fund the open-access model, and agreements with library consortia in Norway and Sweden plus a Canadian university can lower the fee for corresponding authors.开放获取由作者支付的版面费支撑，出版社与挪威、瑞典的图书馆联盟以及加拿大一所高校签订的协议可为通讯作者减免费用。

• Editors are expected to declare competing interests, and a published policy sets out their obligations alongside those of authors and referees.编辑须申报利益冲突，刊物另有一份政策文件，把编辑与作者、审稿人三方的义务分列，处理申诉时按同一份文本执行。