Current Genetics

Current Genetics was a peer-reviewed genetics journal that Springer published from 1979 until its 2025 relaunch under the name Discover Genetics and Evolution, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9.《当代遗传学》是 Springer 自 1979 年起出版的同行评议遗传学期刊，2025 年以《发现遗传学与演化》的新刊名重新推出，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Its pages concentrated on yeast and fungal genetics, organelle inheritance, ribosome biogenesis and genome-scale methods, and the final volume under the old title was volume 71, dated December 2025.版面集中于酵母与真菌遗传学，也覆盖细胞器遗传与核糖体生合成，并接纳基因组尺度的方法，旧刊名的最后一卷为 2025 年 12 月的第 71 卷。

Scope

• The scope statement on the journal site covers multidisciplinary research across every field relevant to genetics and evolution, a wording that came with the 2025 relaunch.刊物网站上的收稿范围写的是遗传学与演化全部相关领域的多学科研究，这段表述随 2025 年改版一并更新。

• Springer frames the title as a resource for researchers, policy makers and the general public, tracking advances in genetics and evolution together with their uses in research, development and society.Springer 把这份刊物定位为研究者、政策制定者与公众共用的资源，既追踪遗传学与演化的进展，也关注这些进展在研究、开发与社会中的用途。

• Because the journal is now fully open access, the editors state that accepted work becomes discoverable and immediately readable anywhere, without a subscription barrier.转为完全开放获取之后，编辑部表示录用稿件可以被检索到并即刻阅读，读者不必跨越订阅门槛。

• Four Sustainable Development Goals are named explicitly: Life Below Water, Life on Land, Good Health and Wellbeing, and Zero Hunger.目标声明点名四项联合国可持续发展目标，涵盖水下生物与陆地生物，也涵盖良好健康与福祉以及零饥饿。

• Cross-cutting topics listed for all types of life include applied genetic technologies, bioinformatics, computational genetics, data notes, epigenomics, evolutionary genetics and phylogeny, metabolomics, methods, proteomics and transcriptomics.面向各类生命的通用方向列有应用遗传技术、生物信息学与计算遗传学，表观基因组学与演化遗传学同在其中，代谢组学、方法学与蛋白质组学一并接受，转录组学与数据短文同样在内。

• Animal work spans aquaculture genetics, behavioural genetics, laboratory animals, livestock genetics and taxonomy, alongside studies of farm and companion species.动物方向覆盖水产遗传学、行为遗传学与实验动物，家畜遗传学与分类学也在其中，农场动物与伴侣动物的研究同样接收。

• Human genetics covers biomarkers for diagnostics, genetic epidemiology, the genetic contribution to disease, genomic medicine, pharmacogenomics and RNA vaccines.人类遗传学方向包括诊断用生物标志物、遗传流行病学与疾病遗传基础，还涉及基因组医学、药物基因组学以及 RNA 疫苗。

• Microbial papers may address genome modification, taxonomy or the genetic typing of virulent strains, and plant papers divide among crop genetics, plant disease genetics, reproductive genetics and breeding.微生物稿件可以讨论基因组改造或致病菌株的遗传分型，也可以处理分类学问题，植物方向则分为作物遗传学、植物病害遗传学与生殖遗传学及育种。

• Taxonomy appears three times in the topic list, once each for animals, microbes and plants, a sign of how much descriptive systematic work the editors expect to receive.分类学在方向清单里出现三次，动物、微生物与植物各占一处，可见编辑部预期收到相当数量的描述性系统学稿件。

• Accepted formats are research articles, reviews, data notes and methods papers, with guest-edited Topical Collections gathering work around a single theme.接受的文体有研究论文、综述与数据短文，方法类文章同列，客座编辑主持的专题合集则围绕单一主题汇集稿件。

• The back catalogue is heaviest in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where mitochondrial genomes, respiratory mutants, tRNA and ribosome biogenesis, cell cycle control and protein sorting recur across four decades.过刊内容以酿酒酵母（Saccharomyces cerevisiae）最密集，线粒体基因组与呼吸缺陷突变体反复出现，tRNA 与核糖体生合成长期在列，细胞周期调控与蛋白质分选同样贯穿四十年。

• Filamentous fungi and fungal plant pathogens arrive through special issues, for instance the 2015 collection "Fungal Stress Responses" and a 2013 set on yeast membranes and the cell wall.丝状真菌与真菌性植物病原的研究经由专刊进入，2015 年的「真菌胁迫应答」专号与 2013 年以酵母膜和细胞壁为主题的合集是两例。

• Organelle genetics keeps a home here, from mitochondrial introns and RNA editing to plastid transformation, and authors working on non-model fungi find referees who know those systems.细胞器遗传在这里保有位置，从线粒体内含子与 RNA 编辑到质体转化都有文章，研究非模式真菌的作者也能找到熟悉这些体系的审稿人。

• Genome-scale work entered later, with transcriptome surveys and comparative genomics of fungal lineages now sitting beside classical mutant screens and CRISPR-based editing.基因组尺度的工作进入较晚，转录组调查与真菌类群的比较基因组学逐渐增多，基于 CRISPR 的编辑如今与经典突变体筛选并列。

History

• Springer-Verlag launched the journal in 1979, and volume 1 opened in December of that year with three numbers running through to April 1980.Springer-Verlag 于 1979 年创办该刊，第 1 卷自当年 12 月开卷，三个期号延续到 1980 年 4 月。

• Those first volumes held three issues apiece and appeared twice a year, and the National Library of Medicine still lists the imprint as Springer International in New York.最初几卷每卷三期，每年出两卷，美国国家医学图书馆至今仍把出版者记为纽约的 Springer International。

• Twelve issues a year became the pattern by the mid-1980s, delivered as two volumes of six apiece, and that arrangement lasted into 2008.到 1980 年代中期，每年十二期成为常态，以两卷各六期的方式并行，这一安排延续到 2008 年。

• Volume 55 in 2009 broke the pattern, since the year produced a single volume of six issues and the second volume disappeared for good.2009 年的第 55 卷改变了这一安排，全年只出一卷六期，第二卷从此不再出现。

• Four issues a year followed between 2013 and 2016, when volumes 59 to 62 ran quarterly, and volume 63 restored six issues in 2017.2013 年至 2016 年改为每年四期，第 59 卷到第 62 卷按季出版，2017 年的第 63 卷恢复为六期。

• Volume 69, covering 2023, still carried six numbered issues, bundled in three printed parts dated February, June and December.覆盖 2023 年的第 69 卷仍有六个编号期，分成三册发行，分别标注 2 月、6 月与 12 月。

• Continuous publication arrived with volume 70 in 2024, so each year now forms one volume holding a single issue to which articles are added as they are accepted.连续出版自 2024 年的第 70 卷开始，此后每年合成一卷，卷内只有一个期号，文章录用后陆续加入。

• Volume 71 closed in December 2025 with one issue, and volume 72 opened in 2026 under the new title, keeping the numbering unbroken.第 71 卷于 2025 年 12 月以单期收官，第 72 卷在 2026 年以新刊名开卷，卷号保持连续。

• On 4 August 2025 Springer Nature announced the relaunch as Discover Genetics and Evolution, a fully open access title inside its Discover series, with the electronic ISSN 3091-3217.2025 年 8 月 4 日，Springer Nature 宣布以《发现遗传学与演化》重启该刊，作为 Discover 系列中完全开放获取的一员，电子 ISSN 为 3091-3217。

• MEDLINE and PubMed indexed the journal from volume 9, number 2 in 1985 through the final 2025 issue, and the NLM record now marks it as continued by another title.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 自 1985 年第 9 卷第 2 期起收录该刊，一直到 2025 年的末期刊物，NLM 记录现标注为由另一刊名延续。

• Abstracting coverage beyond medicine includes BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, AGRICOLA and Current Contents/Life Sciences.医学之外的收录库包括 BIOSIS、化学文摘与 EMBASE，还有 Scopus、Zoological Record 与 AGRICOLA，Current Contents/Life Sciences 亦在其中。

• The impact factor stood at 3.886 in 2021, slipped to 2.695 a year later and then to 1.8 in 2023, reaching 1.6 in 2024 before a small recovery.影响因子在 2021 年为 3.886，次年降到 2.695，2023 年降至 1.8，2024 年为 1.6，随后小幅回升。

• Five-year impact factor is 2.2, the Journal Citation Indicator 0.47, and the cited half-life 10.7 years, figures that describe a small journal with a long citing tail.五年影响因子为 2.2，期刊引证指标为 0.47，被引半衰期为 10.7 年，这组数字描述的是体量小而被引尾长的刊物。

• Output runs to roughly 24 articles a year and total citations reach 3227, while gold open access accounted for 27.69 percent of content in the measurement window.年发文量约 24 篇，总被引为 3227 次，在统计窗口内金色开放获取占 27.69%。

• Springer Nature expects the renamed journal to receive its first impact factor under the new title in 2028, and the editors treat the archive as one continuous publication.Springer Nature 预计新刊名要到 2028 年才获得首个影响因子，编辑部把过刊看作同一份刊物的延续。

• Early volumes concentrated on yeast organelle genetics, and long review articles from that period still turn up in the reference lists of yeast papers.早期各卷集中于酵母细胞器遗传，那个时期的长篇综述至今仍出现在酵母论文的参考文献里。

Editors

• The editorial board page lists no single editor-in-chief for the relaunched title, and direction sits with one associate editor at Springer Nature and two section editors.改版后的编委页没有单设主编，日常方向由 Springer Nature 的一位副编辑与两位分区编辑共同把握。

• Sam Shiyuan Zhang, an associate editor in Springer Nature's Discover portfolio in Shanghai, oversees the journal together with neighbouring medicine and life science titles.副编辑（Sam Shiyuan Zhang）在上海负责 Springer Nature 的 Discover 刊群，与该刊群中的医学与生命科学刊物一并管理此刊。

• Clement T. Y. Chang of the University of North Texas and Aaron Reinke of the University of Toronto are the two section editors.两位分区编辑分别来自北得克萨斯大学（Clement T. Y. Chang）与多伦多大学（Aaron Reinke）。

• Two senior editorial board members anchor the board, José Miguel Laffita-Mesa at the Karolinska Institutet and Per Sunnerhagen at the University of Gothenburg, whose laboratory works on yeast genetics.资深编委有两位，分别是卡罗林斯卡学院的（José Miguel Laffita-Mesa）与哥德堡大学酵母遗传学实验室的（Per Sunnerhagen）。

• Around thirty-five editorial board members are listed, spread across more than fifteen countries from China and India to Brazil, Türkiye, Egypt and Ethiopia.编委名单约三十五人，分布在十五个以上国家，从中国与印度延伸到巴西，也覆盖土耳其、埃及与埃塞俄比亚。

• Manuscript handling runs through in-house associate editors based at Springer Nature in Pune, India, supported by an assistant editor in the same office.稿件处理由常驻印度浦那的 Springer Nature 内部编辑承担，同一办公室的助理编辑提供支持。

• Evaluations rest on external referees, and the handling editor weighs their reports against the journal's scope before issuing a decision.评审依靠外部审稿人，责任编辑在权衡审稿意见与刊物范围之后作出决定。

• Discover titles share a portable review arrangement, so a sound manuscript rejected for fit elsewhere may move across with its reports attached.Discover 系列内部实行可携带评审，一份学术上过关但方向不合的稿件可以连同审稿意见转到另一份刊物。

• The publisher belongs to the Committee on Publication Ethics, and submissions are screened with Similarity Check for text overlap.出版方是出版伦理委员会（COPE）的成员，来稿会经 Similarity Check 工具做文本重合度筛查。

• The journal reports a median of six days from submission to first decision, and its articles drew 319.3 thousand downloads in 2025.官网公布从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为六天，2025 年文章下载量为 31.93 万次。

• Research articles, reviews, data notes and methods papers all pass through the same board, while guest-edited Topical Collections are commissioned separately.研究论文、综述与数据短文由同一编委会处理，方法类稿件亦然，客座编辑主持的专题合集则单独约稿。

• Three collections were open for submissions in late 2026, on morphological adaptation across species, gene editing in brain evolution, and repeat expansion disorders in neurodegeneration.2026 年底公开征稿的合集有三个，主题分别涉及跨物种形态适应、脑演化中的基因编辑以及神经退行性重复扩增疾病。

• The board is recruiting new members, a notice carried on the journal's update page alongside the 2026 Editor of Distinction Awards.编委会正在招募新成员，这一通知与 2026 年杰出编辑奖的消息一同挂在刊物动态页。