Evolutionary Applications

Evolutionary Applications is a fully open access journal founded in 2008 and published by Wiley.《Evolutionary Applications》是 2008 年创办的全开放获取期刊，由 Wiley 出版。

It applies evolutionary concepts and methods to problems in health, food production, conservation and environmental management.刊物把演化概念与方法用于健康、食品生产、保育与环境管理问题。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 3.2, with a five-year value of 4.2, and it ranks 16th among 54 titles in evolutionary biology.2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.2，五年影响因子为 4.2，在演化生物学 54 种期刊中排第 16 位。

Scope

• The journal's premise is that evolutionary biology should answer applied questions, not only describe patterns in natural populations.刊物的前提是演化生物学应当回答应用问题，而不只是描述自然种群的格局。
• Medicine and public health enter through pathogen evolution, antibiotic resistance and the evolution of virulence.医学与公共卫生通过病原体演化、抗生素耐药与毒力演化进入刊物。
• Agriculture appears in crop adaptation, pest evolution and the breeding of plants and livestock under selection.农业体现在作物适应、害虫演化以及选择压力下的动植物育种。
• Forestry and fisheries raise questions of exploitation, stock structure and the evolutionary consequences of harvest.林业与渔业提出开发强度、种群结构以及捕捞带来的演化后果等问题。
• Conservation biology is a major strand, from genetic rescue to the management of small and fragmented populations.保育生物学是主要主线，从遗传拯救到小而破碎种群的管理。
• Climate change work examines adaptation, range shifts and the capacity of populations to track changing conditions.气候变化研究考察适应、分布区移动以及种群追随环境变化的能力。
• Invasion biology appears through the evolution of introduced species and the genetic changes that accompany spread.入侵生物学通过引入种的演化以及伴随扩散的遗传变化得到呈现。
• Microbiology is covered through experimental evolution of bacteria, viruses and fungi, including resistance and cooperation.微生物学通过细菌、病毒与真菌的实验演化得到讨论，包括耐药与合作行为。
• Toxicology and pollution are framed as selective environments that can drive rapid evolutionary change.毒理学与污染被描述为可以驱动快速演化改变的选择环境。
• All taxonomic groups are within scope, from microbes and fungi to plants and animals, marine and terrestrial.所有分类群都在范围之内，从微生物、真菌到植物与动物，海洋与陆地皆然。
• Genomic methods are encouraged, including population and functional genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and epigenetics.刊物鼓励基因组方法，包括群体与功能基因组学、转录组学、蛋白质组学与表观遗传学。
• Quantitative genetics, association mapping and linkage analysis are used to connect trait variation to its genetic basis.数量遗传学、关联作图与连锁分析被用来把性状变异与其遗传基础联系起来。
• Experimental evolution and common-garden designs are published when they test an applied hypothesis rather than illustrate a method.实验演化与同园设计在检验应用假设而非演示方法时被发表。
• Modelling papers link evolutionary dynamics to management decisions, including harvest rules and resistance management.建模论文把演化动力学与管理决策联系起来，包括捕捞规则与抗性管理。
• The journal expects implications for policy or practice to be stated, and purely academic treatments of adaptation are a weaker fit.刊物要求说明对政策或实践的意义，纯粹学术性的适应研究契合度较低。
• Urban environments are treated as evolutionary settings, with work on how cities filter species and reshape traits.城市环境被当作演化场景，研究城市如何筛选物种并重塑性状。
• Domestication and selective breeding are studied as applied evolution, from crops and livestock to farmed fish.驯化与选择育种被当作应用演化研究，对象从作物、家畜到养殖鱼类。
• Host-parasite coevolution is connected to disease management, including vaccine design and resistance stewardship.宿主与寄生物的协同演化与疾病管理相连，包括疫苗设计与抗性治理。

• Pesticide and herbicide resistance are treated as applied evolutionary problems, with work on resistance management in agriculture and vector control.杀虫剂与除草剂抗性被当作应用演化问题，研究覆盖农业与病媒控制中的抗性治理。
• Genetic monitoring tools are used to track diversity and inbreeding in managed and wild populations.遗传监测工具被用于追踪管理种群与野生种群的多样性与近交状况。

History

• The journal was launched in 2008 as a fully open access title from Blackwell Publishing, before the Wiley merger.该刊于 2008 年由布莱克韦尔出版公司以全开放获取形式创办，当时尚未与 Wiley 合并。
• Michelle Tseng of the University of British Columbia is listed as founding editor, and the journal began with a small editorial group.不列颠哥伦比亚大学的 Michelle Tseng 被列为创刊编辑，刊物起步时编辑团队规模很小。
• Louis Bernatchez of Universite Laval in Quebec became editor-in-chief in 2008 and led the journal until his death in September 2023.魁北克拉瓦尔大学的 Louis Bernatchez 于 2008 年出任主编，主持刊物直至 2023 年 9 月去世。
• Andrew Hendry of McGill University, long an associate editor, is the current editor-in-chief.长期担任副编辑的麦吉尔大学 Andrew Hendry 是现任主编。
• Articles are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence, and the journal charges an article publication charge.文章以知识共享署名许可发布，刊物收取文章出版费。
• The charge is about 4,320 dollars, which places it in the middle range for open access journals in ecology and evolution.出版费约为 4320 美元，在生态与演化领域的开放获取期刊中处于中等水平。
• The journal issues twelve issues a year, and articles are also posted individually as they are accepted.刊物每年出版十二期，文章在被接受后也单独上线。
• Impact factors stood at 5.183 in 2021 and 4.929 in 2022, before 3.5 in 2023 and 3.2 in 2024 and 2025.影响因子在 2021 年为 5.183，2022 年为 4.929，2023 年降至 3.5，2024 年与 2025 年均为 3.2。
• The 2025 report counted 8,110 citations, 119 articles and 123 citable items.2025 年报告统计被引 8110 次，论文 119 篇，可引用条目 123 项。
• All content is gold open access, and the title is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.全部内容为金色开放获取，刊物收录于开放获取期刊目录。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and related biological abstracting services.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版、Scopus 以及相关生物学摘录服务收录。
• Special issues have gathered work on salmonid conservation, women's contributions to evolutionary biology and urban evolution.专刊曾汇集鲑科鱼类保育、女性对演化生物学的贡献以及城市演化方面的研究。

Editors

• Andrew Hendry, based at McGill, studies ecological and evolutionary dynamics using stickleback, guppies and salmon.任职于麦吉尔的 Andrew Hendry 以刺鱼、孔雀鱼与鲑鱼研究生态与演化动力学。
• Louis Bernatchez, the previous editor, worked on fish genomics and conservation genetics at Universite Laval.前任主编 Louis Bernatchez 在拉瓦尔大学研究鱼类基因组学与保育遗传学。
• Luciano Beheregaray of Flinders University applies genomics to aquatic biodiversity in the southern hemisphere.弗林德斯大学的 Luciano Beheregaray 把基因组学用于南半球水生生物多样性。
• Nicolas Bierne of the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution in Montpellier studies adaptation and speciation in marine organisms.蒙彼利埃演化科学研究所的 Nicolas Bierne 研究海洋生物的适应与物种形成。
• Katrina Dlugosch of the University of Arizona works on rapid evolution in invasive plants, and Zach Gompert of Utah State works on evolutionary genomics.亚利桑那大学的 Katrina Dlugosch 研究入侵植物的快速演化，犹他州立大学的 Zach Gompert 研究演化基因组学。
• Marc Johnson of the University of Toronto leads a centre for urban environments and studies eco-evolutionary dynamics.多伦多大学的 Marc Johnson 主持城市环境研究中心，研究生态-演化动力学。
• Britt Koskella of the University of California, Berkeley, works on phage, bacteria and plant interactions.加州大学伯克利分校的 Britt Koskella 研究噬菌体、细菌与植物的相互作用。
• Kerry Naish of the University of Washington and Tanja Pyhajarvi of the University of Oulu cover fisheries genetics and plant population genomics.华盛顿大学的 Kerry Naish 与奥卢大学的 Tanja Pyhajarvi 分别负责渔业遗传学与植物群体基因组学。
• Pete Thrall of CSIRO and Frederic Thomas of the IRD in Montpellier work on host-microbe interactions and evolutionary medicine.澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织的 Pete Thrall 与蒙彼利埃发展研究院的 Frederic Thomas 研究宿主-微生物互作与演化医学。
• An advisory board of senior evolutionary biologists reviews the journal's direction, and reviewers are drawn from applied as well as basic research.由资深演化生物学家组成的顾问委员会审视办刊方向，审稿人来自应用研究与基础研究两端。
• Maren Wellenreuther of the University of Auckland works on genomic adaptation in fish and insects and on domestication.奥克兰大学的 Maren Wellenreuther 研究鱼类与昆虫的基因组适应以及驯化问题。
• Nathalie Isabel of the Laurentian Forestry Centre applies genomics to tree breeding and forest adaptation.劳伦森林业中心的 Nathalie Isabel 把基因组学用于树木育种与森林适应研究。