Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

The Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History is a peer-reviewed journal of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, first published in 1925 as a monograph series and issued in journal format since 2006, covering evolution, phylogeny, taxonomy and systematics as well as the museum's zoological, botanical and palaeontological research, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor reported as 8.1 and a first quartile rank of 3 of 77 in biodiversity conservation《皮博迪自然史博物馆通报》（Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History）是耶鲁皮博迪自然史博物馆的同行评审刊物，1925 年以专著丛书形式创刊、2006 年起改以期刊形式出版，覆盖演化、系统发育、分类学与系统学以及该馆的动物学、植物学与古生物学研究，2025 年影响因子据报告为 8.1，在生物多样性保护类 77 种期刊中列第 3 位，居第一四分位。

Scope

• Evolution, phylogeny and taxonomy form the journal's historical core, with monographic revisions of major groups appearing regularly演化、系统发育与分类学是该刊的历史核心，大型类群的专著性修订常见于其版面上。
• Systematics and the classification of organisms are treated as central, and the journal has published landmark phylogenetic classifications of living and fossil ray-finned fishes系统学与生物分类是该刊的中心议题，其曾发表辐鳍鱼类现存与化石类群的系统发育分类力作。
• Biological, botanical and zoological research grounded in museum collections is a declared area, including ichthyology, vertebrate zoology and the museum's other curatorial divisions立足馆藏的生物、植物与动物研究是明确列出的方向，涉及鱼类学、脊椎动物学及其他馆藏部门。
• Invertebrate palaeontology is named among the journal's subjects, alongside the terrestrial and marine fossil record held by the museum无脊椎古生物学被列为该刊学科之一，与该馆收藏的陆相与海相化石记录并列。
• Manuscripts are expected to follow introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion structure, with an abstract of up to 300 words and nomenclature conforming to the zoological and botanical codes论文须遵循引言、材料与方法、结果与讨论的结构，摘要不超过 300 词，命名须符合动物与植物命名法规。
• Primary name-bearing types based on Yale Peabody Museum specimens should be deposited in the museum's collections, and the journal charges no page charges although authors are encouraged to donate towards publication costs基于耶鲁皮博迪标本命名的主模式标本须存缴该馆，该刊不收版面费，但鼓励作者为出版成本自愿捐助。

History

• The Bulletin began in 1925 and was published as a peer-reviewed monograph series for the better part of a century该刊于 1925 年创办，在近一个世纪的大部分时间里以同行评审的专著丛书形式出版。
• Monographic publication continued until 2004, when the museum changed the series to a journal format from 2006 with volume 47专著式出版延续至 2004 年，自 2006 年第 47 卷起该馆将其改为期刊形式。
• Abstracts and full text of the electronic version have been available online to institutional subscribers of BioOne Complete from volume 47 onwards, that is, from 2006自第 47 卷即 2006 年起，电子版的摘要与全文通过（BioOne Complete）向机构订户在线开放。
• The journal is archived through BioOne's participation in Portico and LOCKSS and is available at no cost to more than 2,500 institutions in the developing world through Research4Life该刊通过（BioOne）参与（Portico）与（LOCKSS）完成归档，并通过（Research4Life）向发展中国家 2,500 余家机构免费开放。
• Publication is supported by the Theodore and Ruth Wilmanns Lidz Endowment Fund for Excellence in Scholarly Publications, and the Bulletin is issued twice a year, in April and October出版经费由（Theodore and Ruth Wilmanns Lidz）学术出版卓越基金支持；该刊每年出版两期，分别在 4 月与 10 月。
• More recently the museum has made the Bulletin available through open access channels, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor is reported as 8.1, a figure far above the 0.9 recorded in 2024近期该馆还通过开放获取渠道提供该刊；据报告，2025 年影响因子为 8.1，远高于 2024 年记录的 0.9。

Editors

• The journal's executive editor is Patrick Sweeney of the Yale Peabody Museum's Division of Botany, who serves as the first point of contact for prospective authors该刊执行编辑为耶鲁皮博迪自然史博物馆植物学分部的（Patrick Sweeney），也是投稿作者的第一联系人。
• Interested authors are asked to contact the executive editor before submitting a manuscript, so the journal operates a pre-submission enquiry step for all contributions拟投稿作者须在提交稿件前联系执行编辑，因此该刊对所有来稿均设有投稿前咨询环节。
• All manuscripts are sent for external peer review by one or more referees and are also reviewed by the executive editor in consultation with the curatorial editor-in-chief and members of the relevant curatorial division所有稿件均送一位或多位外部审稿人评议，同时由执行编辑会同藏品主编及相应藏品分部的成员进行审阅。
• Authors are encouraged to recommend up to three suitable reviewers and to supply their email addresses, and revised manuscripts must be resubmitted in complete electronic form该刊鼓励作者推荐至多三位合适的审稿人并提供其邮箱；修改稿须以完整的电子形式重新提交。
• Submissions are handled through the Manuscript Manager platform, with ORCID identifiers recommended for all authors and supplementary files such as video, audio and datasets accepted alongside the article稿件通过（Manuscript Manager）平台处理，建议所有作者提供（ORCID）标识，并可在正文之外提交视频、音频与数据集等补充材料。
• Copyright in published articles is held by the Peabody Museum on behalf of Yale University, and authors receive one printed copy of the issue plus a free PDF of their paper已发表文章的著作权由皮博迪博物馆代表耶鲁大学持有；作者获赠该期印刷本一册及本人论文的免费电子版。