Evolution & Development

Evolution & Development is a Wiley journal, founded in 1999, that publishes research where evolutionary biology meets embryology, developmental genetics and paleontology. Organismal biologists, molecular biologists, paleontologists and historians of science all appear in its pages, and that brief has been kept for more than a quarter of a century.《进化与发育》由 Wiley 出版，1999 年创刊，刊载进化生物学与胚胎学，发育遗传学及古生物学交汇处的研究。研究生物体，分子机制与化石记录的学者，以及科学史研究者，都在其页面上出现，这一宗旨已保持四分之一个世纪以上。

Scope

• The journal presents itself as a voice for the research community working at the interface of evolutionary and developmental biology.该刊把自己定位为在进化生物学与发育生物学交界处工作的研究群体的发声渠道。

• Two fields that stood apart for nearly a century are treated as one subject, and their reunion is offered as the focus of a broader synthesis of biological thought.两个曾分离近一个世纪的领域被当作一个题目处理，二者的重新汇合被视为生物学思想更广泛综合的焦点。

• Paleontologists are invited to send work on the fossil record, especially where anatomy and the timing of development can be read from bone and shell, and fossil material is weighed as evidence about development.古生物学家受邀投寄化石记录方面的研究，尤其是能从骨骼与壳体读出解剖结构与发育时序的题目，化石材料被当作发育的证据来衡量。

• Population biologists supply the quantitative side, from selection gradients to the standing variation on which developmental systems draw.群体生物学家提供定量的一面，从选择梯度到发育系统所依托的现存变异。

• Developmental biologists and molecular biologists bring gene expression, fate maps and experimental embryology into the same conversation.发育生物学家与分子生物学家把基因表达，命运图谱与实验胚胎学带入同一场讨论。

• Work from mathematics, from the history of science and from the philosophy of science is welcomed, not merely tolerated.数学，科学史与科学哲学方面的来稿受到欢迎，而不只是被容许。

• Plant evo-devo holds a steady place, with papers on KNOX gene expression in flowers and on the developmental genetics of floral form.植物进化发育研究长期占有一席之地，论文涉及花部 KNOX 基因表达与花形态的发育遗传学。

• Insect work runs from wing primordia and color patterns in silk moths to the terminal filaments that set ovariole number in fruit flies.昆虫研究从天蚕蛾的翅原基与色斑，延伸到决定果蝇卵巢管数目的端丝。

• Vertebrate skeletons supply much of the material, among them cichlid jaws, vertebral counts in fish and limb proportions in birds.脊椎动物骨骼提供了大部分素材，其中有慈鲷的颌骨，鱼类的椎骨数目与鸟类的肢骨比例。

• Neural crest cells and the wiring of the nervous system recur, from epithelial mimicry in the embryo to the ventral nerve cords of nematodes.神经嵴细胞与神经系统布线反复出现，从胚胎中的上皮拟态到线虫的腹神经索。

• Body plans and their inertia form another thread, and authors ask why some architectures persist for hundreds of millions of years.体制及其惯性构成另一条线索，作者们追问某些结构为何能延续数亿年。

• Plasticity, niche construction and the timing of life cycles are folded into the same frame, often under the banner of eco-evo-devo.可塑性，生态位构建与生活史时序被收进同一框架，常以生态与进化发育生物学的名义出现。

• Comparative genomics adds gene families and paralogues, and recent issues compare homeodomain classes across kingdoms.比较基因组学补充了基因家族与旁系同源基因，近期各期还比较了跨界的同源域类型。

• Methods papers sit beside the rest, such as antibody labeling that enriches neural crest cells for flow cytometry.方法类论文与其余文章并列，例如用抗体标记富集神经嵴细胞以供流式细胞分析。

• Reviews and short perspectives carry the synthesizing load, and the journal has printed collective statements on where the field should go.综述与短篇视角承担综合的任务，该刊也刊登过讨论学科走向的集体声明。

History

• The first issue is dated July and August 1999 and was printed by Blackwell Science in Malden, Massachusetts.首期标注 1999 年 7 月至 8 月，由 Blackwell Science 在马萨诸塞州马尔登印行。

• Rudolf Raff of Indiana University and Wallace Arthur, then at the National University of Ireland in Galway, guided the launch as editors.印第安纳大学的（Rudolf Raff）与创刊时任教于爱尔兰国立大学戈尔韦分校的（Wallace Arthur）以主编身份主持了创刊。

• Their opening editorial, Chronicling the birth of a discipline, carried three further names, Sean Carroll, Michael Coates and Gregory Wray.其开篇社论题为《记录一门学科的诞生》，署名另有（Sean Carroll），（Michael Coates）与（Gregory Wray）。^[1]

• Blackwell merged with Wiley in 2007, so the imprint on the cover changed while the editorial line did not.Blackwell 于 2007 年与 Wiley 合并，封面上的出版标识随之改变，编辑方针没有变化。

• The print number 1520-541X and the electronic number 1525-142X have stayed with the title since the first volume, and the journal has never been renamed, so the archive runs from 1999 without a break.印本刊号 1520-541X 与电子刊号 1525-142X 自首卷起沿用至今，该刊从未更名，档案自 1999 年连续不断。

• MEDLINE took the journal from its first issue, and PubMed and Index Medicus have listed it since the same year.MEDLINE 自首期起收录该刊，PubMed 与 Index Medicus 也从同一年开始著录。

• Raff signed a farewell editorial in September 2018 after two decades in the chair.（Rudolf Raff）在主持编务二十年后，于 2018 年 9 月发表告别社论。

• Craig Albertson published his first editorial two months later, and the journal has carried his name as editor since.两个月后（Craig Albertson）发表首篇社论，此后该刊一直以他的名字署名主编。

• Six issues a year were the rule through volume 26 in 2024. Volume 27 appeared in March, June, September and December, and volume 28 keeps those four dates in 2026.一年 6 期是截至 2024 年第 26 卷的惯例。第 27 卷改为 3 月，6 月，9 月与 12 月出刊，2026 年的第 28 卷沿用这四个时间。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 and the five-year figure is 2.7, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.6.2025 年影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.7，期刊引文指标为 0.6。

• Current JCR ranks place the title at 16 of 39 in developmental biology, 29 of 54 in evolutionary biology and 107 of 192 in genetics and heredity.现行 JCR 排名把该刊列在发育生物学 39 份中第 16 位，进化生物学 54 份中第 29 位，遗传与遗传学 192 份中第 107 位。

• About 27 research items appear in a year, and the back catalogue has been cited 1657 times, with a cited half-life of 15.4 years.该刊每年约发表 27 篇研究文字，过刊累计被引 1657 次，被引半衰期为 15.4 年。

• Roughly two thirds of recent articles are free to read under the publisher's hybrid option, a share recorded as 64.1 per cent in the 2025 data.近期论文约三分之二通过出版方的混合模式免费阅读，2025 年数据记为 64.1%。

• Articles carry DOIs under the 10.1111/ede prefix, and the archive now holds 1561 records.论文的 DOI 采用 10.1111 前缀登记，档案库现有 1561 条记录。

Editors

• Craig Albertson of the University of Massachusetts Amherst holds the editorship, a post he took up in late 2018.（Craig Albertson）任职于马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校，2018 年末接任主编。^[2]

• His laboratory works on the cichlid skull, on the developmental origins of trophic novelties and on plasticity in the fish jaw.他的实验室研究慈鲷头骨，营养器官新特征的发育起源，以及鱼颌的可塑性。

• He is based in the Department of Biology at Amherst, and his craniofacial papers appear in this journal and elsewhere.他供职于阿默斯特的生物系，其颅面骨骼论文发表在本刊与其他刊物上。

• He followed Rudolf Raff, who had edited the journal from its foundation and whose farewell piece closed the 2018 volume.他接续（Rudolf Raff），后者自创刊起主持编务，其告别文章收束了 2018 年那一卷。

• Wallace Arthur, the other founding editor, stayed through the first decade and wrote editorials on the literature and on complexity.另一位创刊主编（Wallace Arthur）留任首个十年，就文献与复杂性写过社论。

• The editorial board is drawn from several countries and is listed with names and institutions on the publisher's site.编委会成员来自多个国家，其姓名与机构列在出版方网站上。

• Manuscripts arrive through the ScholarOne site that the publisher maintains for the title, and the same portal carries decision letters and requests for revision.稿件经由出版方为该刊维护的 ScholarOne 网站提交，决定通知与修改要求也从同一入口发出。

• External referees report to the handling editor, who decides, and revised versions are expected before acceptance.外部评审人向负责编辑提交意见，由后者决定取舍，录用前通常要求提交修改稿。

• Research papers and reviews make up the bulk, with shorter perspectives and commentaries taking the rest.研究论文与综述构成主体，短篇视角与评论占据其余篇幅。

• Guest editors assemble thematic collections, and the introduction to each one is printed as an editorial.客座编辑组织专题合集，每辑的导言作为社论刊出。

• Authors state funding and conflicts at submission, and license terms are settled after acceptance.作者在投稿时说明资助与利益冲突，许可条款在录用后确定。

• In his own pages the editor has argued that evo-devo answers a human appetite for origin stories, a case he made in 2026.主编在本刊撰文主张进化发育生物学回应了人类对起源故事的需求，他在 2026 年陈述了这一看法。