Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs (which carries no widely used abbreviated form, and may be rendered in Chinese as 珊瑚礁) is a marine biology journal published by Springer. Founded in 1982, it publishes original research on coral reef ecology, reef geomorphology and the management and conservation of reefs, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.5.Coral Reefs（无常用缩写，中文可译为《珊瑚礁》）是 Springer 出版的海洋生物学期刊，1982 年创刊，刊载珊瑚礁生态学、礁体地质地貌学与珊瑚礁管理与保护方面的原创研究，2025 年影响因子为 3.5。^[1]

Scope

• Scope: the journal publishes original research in coral reef ecology, covering the species composition, population dynamics, community structure and energy flow of reef organisms, and the functioning of reefs as whole systems.学科定位： 刊发珊瑚礁生态学领域的原创研究，覆盖礁栖生物的物种组成、种群动态、群落结构与能量流动，以及珊瑚礁作为生态系统的整体功能。
• Reef-building research: it also carries papers in reef geomorphology and geology, addressing reef accretion rates, carbonate deposition, the morphological evolution of reef slopes and reef flats, and the value of reefs as indicators in palaeoclimate reconstruction.礁体研究： 亦刊载珊瑚礁地貌学与地质学论文，涉及礁体生长速率、碳酸盐沉积、礁前坡与礁坪的形态演变，以及珊瑚礁在古气候重建中的指示作用。
• Applications and management: submissions addressing conservation biology, marine protected area management and reef restoration are welcome, and papers on restoration ecology and the response to bleaching events have increased noticeably in recent years. The journal is not confined to the tropics and covers reef systems at all latitudes and across all ocean basins, though the great majority of what it publishes concerns tropical and subtropical reefs in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans.应用与管理： 欢迎以保护生物学、海洋保护区管理与珊瑚礁修复为主题的研究，其中恢复生态学与白化事件响应的论文数量近年明显增加；期刊不限于热带，涵盖全球各纬度与各海区的珊瑚礁系统研究，但以热带与亚热带印度洋、太平洋与大西洋的研究成果为主。
• Open access: the journal is a hybrid title, so subscribers read the full text free of charge and authors may opt for paid immediate open access.开放获取： 期刊属混合开放获取刊物，订阅者可免费阅读全文，作者可选择付费立即开放。
• Indexing and metrics: the journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and ranks in the first quartile in the Marine and Freshwater Biology category, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.5.收录与指标： 收录于科学引文索引扩展版，在海洋与淡水生物学类别中分区为第一区，2025 年影响因子为 3.5。^[2]

History

• 1982: the journal was founded as a specialist title for the coral reef ecology community, published by Springer. Its editorial work was carried by a group of reef researchers based in Australia and the United Kingdom, and its launch was directly motivated by the attention that bleaching events had brought to the field.1982年： 期刊创刊，创刊时的定位是一份面向珊瑚礁生态学界的专业刊物，出版方为 Springer，编务由一群来自澳大利亚与英国的珊瑚礁研究者承担，其办刊动机与当时珊瑚礁白化事件引发学界关注直接相关。
• An important distinction: although the journal is published by Springer, it is not an official journal of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Several institute researchers do serve on the board, but the day-to-day editorial work is handled by the publisher's Berlin editorial office.重要澄清： 本刊虽由 Springer 出版，但并非澳大利亚海洋科学研究所的机关刊，尽管其主编与编委中确有该所研究者，编辑部的日常事务由出版方在柏林的编辑部承担。
• The 1980s to the 1990s: the journal's standing rose against the background of the bleaching events and the marine protected area movement, and it became one of the most widely cited titles in coral reef ecology.1980年代至1990年代： 期刊在白化事件与海洋保护区运动的背景下影响力上升，成为珊瑚礁生态学领域引用最广的刊物之一。
• The 2000s: as global reef monitoring networks were established and mass bleaching events occurred, the mix of submissions shifted, with a marked rise in papers on applied ecology and reef restoration.2000年代： 随全球珊瑚礁监测网络的建立与大规模白化事件的出现，期刊的稿源结构发生变化，应用生态学与礁区恢复方向的论文比例明显上升。
• Recent years: the impact factor has risen steadily from below 1 at the journal's inception to a stable range of 3 to 4 in recent years, with the first quartile in Marine and Freshwater Biology held throughout.近年： 期刊的影响因子由创刊之初的不足 1 稳步上升，近年稳定在 3 至 4 区间，在海洋与淡水生物学类别中长期保持第一区。
• Publisher history: Springer has published the journal from the outset. Along the way it passed through the 2003 merger of Elsevier with Reed Elsevier and the 2015 merger of Springer with Macmillan, finally becoming part of Springer Nature. Neither the journal's title nor its publisher has changed.出版方沿革： 出版方自创刊起始终为 Springer，其间经历 2003 年 Elsevier 与 Reed Elsevier 的合并、2015 年 Springer 与 Macmillan 的合并，最终归入 Springer Nature 体系，期刊刊名与出版方主体始终未变。^[3]

Editors

• Editor-in-chief: the journal is led by Dr Emma F. Brien of the University of Queensland, Australia. Her work concentrates on coral reproductive biology and assisted propagation on reefs, and she is among the most frequently cited authors in reef restoration research.现任主编： 主编为 Emma F. Brien 博士，来自澳大利亚昆士兰大学，其研究聚焦珊瑚的繁殖生物学与珊瑚礁上的补充繁殖技术，是珊瑚礁恢复研究领域被引最多的作者之一。
• Associate editors: the associate editors are based in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, and cover coral physiology, reef ecological modelling, marine conservation and remote sensing.副主编： 副编辑由来自澳大利亚、美国、英国与法国的研究者担任，分属珊瑚生理学、礁区生态建模、海洋保护与遥感等方向。
• Editorial board and the journal's particular position: the board is composed mainly of researchers from Australia and the Pacific region, while drawing on the scientific community of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the island states of the Pacific. This composition closely mirrors the real geography of reef research. What distinguishes the journal from other marine ecology titles is that its object is the reef system as such, so geomorphologists and geoscientists, and resource managers with a practical orientation, all find a matching gatekeeper on the same board.编委构成与定位分工： 编委成员以澳大利亚与太平洋地区的研究者为主，同时吸收加勒比、印度洋与太平洋岛屿国家的研究力量，这一构成与珊瑚礁研究的地理分布高度一致；期刊的定位分工在于其对象限定为珊瑚礁系统，因此地貌学与地球科学背景的研究者、以及实践取向的资源管理者，都能在同一编委中找到对应的把关人。
• Submission system: manuscripts are lodged through the publisher's online submission system under a public peer-review process. The publisher publishes its article processing charge and a waiver route for funded authors on the journal's website.投稿系统： 稿件通过出版方在线投稿系统递交，采用公开的同行评审程序，出版方在官网公布文章处理费标准与基金资助作者的减免通道。^[4]