Cladistics

Cladistics is the international peer-reviewed journal of cladistics. Launched in 1985 and published by Wiley on behalf of the Willi Hennig Society, it appears bimonthly, with a 2024 impact factor of 6.2.Cladistics是支序分类学的国际同行评审期刊，1985 年创刊，由 Wiley 代表威利·亨尼希学会出版，为双月刊，2024 年影响因子为 6.2。^[1]

Scope

• Scope: as the official international journal of the society, the journal publishes novel conceptual and empirical papers on systematics and phylogenetic systematics.学科定位： 期刊作为学会的官方国际期刊，出版系统发育系统学领域的创新概念与实证研究。
• Subject coverage: it spans evolution, systematics and integrative biology, taking in conceptual and philosophical debate on systematic principles and methods, empirical studies on taxa from animals to bacteria, and applications of cladistic methodology in genomics, palaeontology, biomedical epidemiology, medicine and linguistics.收录主题： 收录范围覆盖进化、系统学与整合生物学，包括分类学原理与方法的哲学讨论、从动物到细菌各类群的实证研究，以及支序方法在基因组学、古生物学、生物医学流行病学乃至医学与语言学等领域的应用。
• Editorial preference: with a broad readership, the journal prefers manuscripts that encourage debate about systematic principles and methods, cover taxa, character systems or evolutionary questions of broad interest, or provide significant new software tools.办刊取向： 期刊读者面广，偏好能够激发系统学原理与方法辩论、覆盖广泛类群或数据类型、或提供重要新软件工具的稿件。
• Article types: five categories appear in the journal, namely reviews, regular papers, forum papers, letters to the editor and book reviews.体裁： 刊物设综述、常规论文、论坛论文、致编辑信与书评五种文章类型。
• Indexing and metrics: indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, the journal ranks highly in evolutionary biology and zoology, with a 2024 impact factor of 6.2.收录与指标： 被科学引文索引扩展版收录，在进化生物学与动物学类别中名列前茅，2024 年影响因子为 6.2。^[2]

History

• Founded in 1985: the journal was launched in 1985, growing up alongside the Willi Hennig Society founded in 1980.1985年创刊： 期刊于 1985 年创刊，与 1980 年成立的威利·亨尼希学会相伴而生。
• Society background: named for the German systematist Willi Hennig, the society advances the science of phylogenetic systematics and hosts debate on systematic practice within a cladistic framework.学会背景： 学会以德国系统学家威利·亨尼希命名，旨在推动支序系统学框架下的分类学实践与应用辩论。
• Publisher history: the journal has long been published by Wiley, as Wiley-Blackwell, on behalf of the society.出版方沿革： 期刊长期由 Wiley（Wiley-Blackwell）代表学会出版。
• Frequency history: the journal has appeared bimonthly since around 2002.刊期沿革： 刊物自 2002 年前后起为双月刊。^[3]
• Recent metrics: the impact factor stood at 4.714 in 2021, 3.9 in 2023 and rose to 6.2 in 2024, with the journal entering the first division of biology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences scheme.近年指标： 影响因子 2021 年为 4.714，2023 年为 3.9，2024 年升至 6.2，在中科院分区中进入生物学一区。

Editors

• Editor-in-chief: the journal is led by Professor Rudolf Meier of the Museum für Naturkunde, the Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science in Berlin.现任主编： 主编为 Rudolf Meier 教授，任职于柏林自然博物馆（莱布尼茨进化与生物多样性研究所）。
• Society governance: the society council lists the editorship alongside its officers, with Diego Pol of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales as president and Maureen O'Leary of Stony Brook University as vice-president.学会治理： 学会理事会同步列名主编职务，现任会长为阿根廷自然博物馆的 Diego Pol，副会长为石溪大学的 Maureen O'Leary。
• Editorial board: the board spans morphology, genomics, palaeontology and biogeography across the systematics spectrum.编委构成： 编委覆盖形态学、基因组学、古生物学与生物地理学等系统学各分支。
• Submission and peer review: manuscripts are lodged through the ScholarOne system and undergo peer review, with an open access option available.投稿与评审： 稿件经 ScholarOne 在线系统递交，接受同行评审，期刊支持开放获取出版选项。^[4]
• Editorial policy: debate and dialogue come first, with systemic contributions that integrate multiple data types and address broad evolutionary questions especially welcome.编辑方针： 期刊强调辩论与对话，欢迎涉及多数据类型整合与广泛演化问题的系统性成果。