Frontiers of Biogeography

Frontiers of Biogeography is the open-access scientific journal of the International Biogeography Society, published on the society's behalf by Pensoft since 1 July 2024 and founded in 2009. It covers the geography of life at every scale, appears continuously online, and holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《生物地理学前沿》是国际生物地理学会的开放获取科学期刊，2009 年创刊，2024 年 7 月 1 日起由 Pensoft 代表学会出版，覆盖各个尺度上生命的地理格局，以连续方式在线发布，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The aims define the field broadly as the study of geographical variation in life at all levels of organisation, so a paper on genes, on species or on biomes can all qualify provided that space is central to the argument.宗旨把学科宽泛地界定为研究生命在地理上的变异，涵盖从基因到物种再到生物群系的各个组织层次，只要空间是论证的核心，这类稿件都在范围之内。

• Temporal and evolutionary variation counts when it carries a geographical perspective, which is how phylogeography and historical reconstruction enter the journal without needing a section of their own.时间维度与演化维度的变异只要带地理视角同样计入，系统发生生物地理学与历史重建因此无需单设栏目便能进入刊物。

• Small-scale studies are not excluded by size, only by the absence of a spatially explicit component in the design or in the analysis of the study.小尺度研究不会因空间范围小而遭排除，被排除的只是研究设计或分析中缺少显式空间成分的稿件。

• All taxa and all realms are taken in, marine, aquatic and terrestrial alike, and the journal's own taxonomy sorts published work by region as well as by theme.所有类群与所有生境都在收录之列，海洋、水生与陆域一视同仁，刊物自设的分类既按主题也按区域编排已刊论文。

• The named branches run from ecological and evolutionary biogeography through phylogeography, conservation, applied, island and functional biogeography to the historical strand.自述点名的分支从生态生物地理学与演化生物地理学，经系统发生生物地理学、保护、应用、岛屿与功能生物地理学，一直排到历史生物地理学。

• Schools of thought and methodology are left open, so classical range mapping and model-based inference are expected to meet inside one volume rather than in separate journals.学派与方法不作限定，传统的分布区制图与基于模型的推断因此出现在同一卷内，不必分流到不同刊物。

• Article formats are deliberately flexible, since research articles, perspectives, reviews and syntheses, correspondence, book reviews and editorials all have a place in the pages.文体刻意保持弹性，研究论文、观点文章、综述与综合、通讯、书评与社论在版面上各有位置。

• Teaching of biogeography at university level is admissible subject matter, though the journal advises a pre-submission enquiry before a manuscript on pedagogy is prepared.大学层面的生物地理学教学也属可刊题材，只是刊物建议在撰写教学类稿件之前先作投稿前咨询。

• The society frames the journal as an independent forum for the discipline, run to academic rather than commercial standards and open to submissions from any branch.学会把刊物定位为学科的独立论坛，按学术标准而非商业标准运营，并向各分支的投稿开放。

• Book reviews appear often enough to form a recognisable slice of the contents, and they are indexed alongside the research papers rather than kept in a separate file.书评出现得足够频繁，已成为目次中可辨识的一部分，且与研究论文一并著录，并未另置一处。

• Notices from the society, meeting announcements and conference reports run beside the scholarship, which keeps the journal tied to the community that owns it.学会通告、会议消息与会议报道同学术论文并列刊出，刊物因此始终系于拥有它的学术共同体。

• Software contributions have appeared in the form of package papers, among them an R package for reconstructing biogeographic shifts and one for exploring phylogenetic eigenvectors across metacommunities.软件类稿件以程序包论文的形式出现过，其中包括用于重建生物地理位移的 R 包，以及考察群落间系统发生特征向量的 R 包。

• Thesis abstracts were printed in the early volumes, giving doctoral graduates a short citable record, a feature that has since given way to the standard article formats.早期各卷印有学位论文摘要，为博士毕业生留下简短的可引用记录，这一栏目后来让位于常规文体。

• Every article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, so the whole archive can be reused with attribution and without any subscription or registration.所有论文都以知识共享署名许可发布，全部过刊因此可在署名条件下重复使用，无需订阅或注册。

History

• The International Biogeography Society launched the journal in 2009, with volume 1 appearing in the same year, and the National Library of Medicine dates its holdings from that volume.国际生物地理学会于 2009 年创办该刊，第 1 卷同年问世，美国国家医学图书馆的馆藏也自该卷起算。

• The society is a not-for-profit body devoted to the promotion and public understanding of biogeography, and the journal was meant to give its scattered membership a citable record.学会是一个致力于推动生物地理学及其公众理解的非营利团体，刊物的用意是给分散的会员留下一份可引用的记录。

• For its first fifteen years the journal was hosted on eScholarship, the University of California's open publishing platform, which gave a small society title a stable address.最初十五年里，刊物托管在加州大学的开放出版平台 eScholarship 上，这份小规模学会刊物因此有了稳定地址。

• Volumes 2 to 16 were divided into four issues as a rule, although a few years carried two or five, and citations still use the volume and issue numbers of that period.第 2 卷到第 16 卷通常分为四期，个别年份出过两期或五期，那一时期的卷期编号至今仍用于引用。

• From volume 17 in 2024 the journal dropped issue numbers altogether, and articles now carry their own numbers and DOIs from the moment they are published.自 2024 年第 17 卷起，刊物不再编期号，论文自发表之时起各自带编号与 DOI。

• Publication moved to Pensoft on 1 July 2024, and Crossref now records the imprint as Frontiers of Biogeography - Pensoft Publishers, a name that spans both the society and the platform.出版事务于 2024 年 7 月 1 日移交 Pensoft，Crossref 现记出版方为 Frontiers of Biogeography - Pensoft Publishers，这一名称同时包含学会与平台。

• The move brought the title onto the ARPHA platform, with fully searchable text, social media interfaces and dissemination aimed specifically at biogeographers.这次迁移把刊物带上 ARPHA 平台，获得全文检索、社交媒体接口以及专门面向生物地理学者的传播渠道。

• Articles are now published continuously throughout the year rather than held back for an issue, a change that the publisher states plainly on the journal's about page.论文如今在一年之内连续发布，不再攒够一期才放行，出版方在刊物的介绍页上对此写得很直白。

• One ISSN, 1948-6596, serves the title, and the publisher lists it as the online identifier, there being no separate print edition of the journal.刊物只有一个刊号 1948-6596，出版方将其标为在线刊号，该刊并无独立的印刷版刊号。

• The title is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index and in Scopus, and also in the Web of Science's BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record databases.刊物收录于新兴来源引文索引与 Scopus，也收录于 Web of Science 旗下的 BIOSIS、Biological Abstracts 与 Zoological Record 数据库。

• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports place it in the third quartile of both ecology, at 106 of 205, and physical geography, at 36 of 71.2025 年期刊引证报告把刊物列在生态学 205 种中的第 106 位、自然地理学 71 种中的第 36 位，两个类目均属第三四分位。

• The impact factor stood at 2.5 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, against a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.55 and a cited half-life of 5.3 years.影响因子 2024 年为 2.5，2025 年为 2.4，期刊引文指标为 0.55，被引半衰期为 5.3 年。

• Output runs to about 29 articles a year, total citations have reached 806, and 94.38 percent of the 2025 content was recorded as gold open access.年发文约 29 篇，累计被引达到 806 次，2025 年有 94.38% 的内容记为金色开放获取。

• Scopus gives a CiteScore of 5.7 for 2025 and a tracker figure of 8.1 for 2026, while the journal's h5-index stands at 18 and its SNIP at 0.981.Scopus 给出 2025 年 CiteScore 5.7，2026 年的追踪值为 8.1，刊物的 h5 指数为 18，SNIP 为 0.981。

• Coverage in PubMed has stayed partial, since the National Library of Medicine takes only selected citations, and the title has never changed its name since launch.在 PubMed 中的收录一直是部分的，美国国家医学图书馆只取选定条目，刊名自创刊以来从未更改。

Editors

• Robert Whittaker of the University of Oxford is Editor-in-Chief, having previously edited Global Ecology and Biogeography and, for eleven years, the Journal of Biogeography.主编为牛津大学的（Robert Whittaker），他此前主编过 Global Ecology and Biogeography，并在 Journal of Biogeography 任主编十一年。

• Janet Franklin of San Diego State University is the first of two Deputy Editors-in-Chief, a pair who share the load with the editor-in-chief.副主编之一为圣迭戈州立大学的（Janet Franklin），两位副主编与主编共同分担刊务。

• Mark John Costello of Nord University in Bodø, Norway, is the other Deputy Editor-in-Chief, and his presence puts a Scandinavian base inside a largely Anglophone team.另一位副主编是挪威博德诺德大学的（Mark John Costello），他的加入使以英语国家为主的团队有了斯堪的纳维亚的立足点。

• Under the society's governance, the elected board appoints the chief editor, and oversight of the journal rests with the Vice-President for Communications, who chairs its Publications Committee.按学会的治理安排，主编由选举产生的理事会任命，刊务监督归负责传播的副主席，并由其主持出版委员会。

• Every submission is read first for conformity with the journal's focus, scope and policies, and manuscripts outside the remit are returned without being sent to referees.所有投稿先核查是否符合刊物的定位、范围与政策，超出范围的稿件不经外审即退回。

• Papers that pass that screen go to at least two international reviewers expert in the subject, whose reports inform the editor's decision on the manuscript.通过初筛的稿件送交至少两位熟悉该领域的国际审稿人，其意见供编辑对稿件作出决定。

• Revision decisions carry a deadline, since a manuscript not revised within 100 days is rejected and must be submitted afresh if the authors wish to continue.修改决定附有期限，超过 100 天未返回修改稿即按退稿处理，作者若要继续须重新投稿。

• Appeals against editorial decisions go to the Editorial Office and are addressed to the Editor-in-Chief or the Managing Editor rather than to individual board members.对编辑决定的申诉递至编辑部，抬头写主编或编辑主任，不直接找个别编委。

• Preprints are permitted, and authors are pointed to ARPHA Preprints during submission so that the posted version can be linked to the article once it is published.刊物允许预印本，投稿时提示作者使用 ARPHA Preprints，使已张贴的版本在论文发表后能与之建立链接。

• Plagiarism screening is part of the workflow, and editors are advised to run submissions through iThenticate before any decision is reached on a paper.抄袭筛查属于流程的一部分，编辑被要求在作出任何决定之前用 iThenticate 检查稿件。

• Authors keep copyright and grant the publisher a licence, and every article is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 terms that the site displays.作者保留版权并向出版方授予许可，每篇论文都按网站标示的知识共享署名 4.0 条款发布。

• The editorial system runs online with email notification at each step, and the journal's site publishes the policies, guidelines and contacts that the process depends on.编辑系统在线运行，每一步都有邮件通知，流程所依赖的规程、指南与联系方式也在刊站上公开。

• The team page lists the three officers only, without a separate standing roster of subject editors below them.编辑团队页只列这三位负责人，其下并无一份常设的学科编辑名单。