Global Ecology and Biogeography

Global Ecology and Biogeography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal founded in 1991 and published by Wiley, devoted to macroecology, the study of broad, consistent patterns in the ecological characteristics of organisms and ecosystems, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.5《全球生态学与生物地理学》（Global Ecology and Biogeography）创刊于 1991 年，由约翰威立（Wiley）出版，为双月刊同行评审期刊，致力于宏观生态学，即研究生物与生态系统生态特征中广泛而一致的格局，2025 年影响因子为 6.5。

Scope

• The journal welcomes papers that investigate broad-scale general patterns in the organization of ecological systems and assemblages, whether broad in space, time or taxonomy, and the processes that underlie those patterns该刊欢迎考察生态系统与生物群落组织中广泛格局的论文，无论其广度体现于空间、时间还是类群，并欢迎揭示这些格局背后过程的研究。
• Studies using macroecological methods, comparative analyses, meta-analyses, reviews, spatial analyses and modelling are particularly welcome when they arrive at general, conceptual conclusions该刊特别欢迎运用宏观生态学方法、比较分析、荟萃分析、综述、空间分析与建模得出一般性概念结论的研究。
• Studies need not be global in spatial extent, but their conclusions and implications must be relevant to ecologists and biogeographers globally rather than being limited to local areas or to specific taxa研究不必覆盖全球尺度，但其结论与意义须对全球生态学家与生物地理学家具有相关性，而不能局限于局部区域或特定类群。
• The journal is not limited to spatial studies, being equally interested in the general patterns of nature through time, among taxa such as body sizes and dispersal abilities, and through the course of evolution该刊不限于空间研究，同样关注自然界沿时间、跨类群（如体型与扩散能力）以及贯穿进化过程的一般格局。
• Papers investigating the general impacts of human activities on ecological systems are welcome within these criteria, while studies focused on unique events or places, on specific taxa in local areas, or lacking an ecological or biogeographical focus are generally not published在上述标准之内，该刊欢迎考察人类活动对生态系统一般性影响的研究，而聚焦独特事件或地点、局部区域特定类群，或缺乏生态学与生物地理学聚焦的研究则一般不予发表。
• Published article types comprise Research Articles of up to ten printed pages with structured abstracts, Perspectives, Meta-analyses, Research Reviews, Methods on new analytical techniques or software, Data Articles on datasets of broad macroecological significance, and Correspondence发表的文章类型包括不超过 10 个印刷页并附结构化摘要的研究论文、观点文章、荟萃分析、研究综述、介绍新分析技术或软件的方法论文、发表具广泛宏观生态学意义数据集的数据论文，以及读者通信。

History

• The journal was established in 1991 and has been published by Blackwell Science and its successor Wiley ever since, focusing on the emerging field of macroecology from its earliest volumes该刊于 1991 年创刊，始终由布莱克韦尔科学出版社及其后继者约翰威立出版，自创刊之初即聚焦宏观生态学这一新兴领域。
• It forms part of a single subscription package with its sister journals Journal of Biogeography and Diversity and Distributions, together covering biogeography, ecology and biodiversity, and the editors may transfer material between the three journals where this is deemed most suitable该刊与姊妹刊《生物地理学杂志》（Journal of Biogeography）和《多样性与分布》（Diversity and Distributions）同属单一订阅套餐，共同覆盖生物地理学、生态学与生物多样性，编辑可酌情在三刊之间转投稿件。
• The title appears six times a year under the print ISSN 1466-822X and the electronic ISSN 1466-8238, with all papers subject to peer review before acceptance该刊每年出版 6 期，纸本 ISSN 1466-822X、电子 ISSN 1466-8238，全部论文均经同行评审后方予接受。
• Editors-in-chief have included Brian McGill and, more recently, the pairing of Amanda Bates with Maria Dornelis, whose BioTIME database paper became one of the journal's landmark data articles历任主编包括（Brian McGill），近年由（Amanda Bates）与（Maria Dornelis）搭档领衔，后者的 BioTIME 数据库论文已成为该刊标志性数据论文之一。^[1]
• Its impact factor was 7.144 in 2021 and 6.909 in 2022, stood at 6.0 in 2024 and reached 6.5 in 2025, ranking 17th of 205 journals in Ecology and 8th of 71 in Geography, Physical, both in the first quartile, with a CiteScore of 11其影响因子 2021 年为 7.144、2022 年为 6.909，2024 年为 6.0，2025 年达 6.5，在生态学类 205 种期刊中列第 17 位、自然地理学类 71 种中列第 8 位，均居第一四分位，CiteScore 为 11。
• Peer review has been double anonymized since January 2018, and submissions now run through the Wiley Research Exchange submission portal with a free format option for initial manuscripts该刊自 2018 年 1 月起实行双匿名评审，稿件现经威立研究交流（Research Exchange）投稿门户提交，初次投稿可采用自由格式。

Editors

• The Editors-in-Chief are Amanda Bates, professor in the Biology Department of the University of Victoria in Canada and an Impact Chair in Ocean Ecosystem Change and Conservation, whose work spans physiology and community ecology from the intertidal zone to deep sea vents, and Richard Field of the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom主编为加拿大维多利亚大学生物学系教授（Amanda Bates），她系海洋生态系统变化与保护影响讲席教授，研究横跨生理学与群落生态学，从潮间带一直到深海热泉；以及英国诺丁汉大学地理学院的（Richard Field）。
• Diogo Provete, an evolutionary ecologist working on eco-evolutionary dynamics and freshwater systems who joined Wiley as a full-time editor in 2026, serves as Senior Editor alongside five academic Senior Editors研究生态进化动力学与淡水系统的进化生态学家（Diogo Provete）于 2026 年加入威立出任全职编辑并任高级编辑，与另五位学术高级编辑共事。
• The academic Senior Editors are Adam Algar of Lakehead University in Canada, Jonathan Belmaker of Tel Aviv University in Israel, Huijie Qiao of the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Catherine Sheard of the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and Bonnie Waring of Imperial College London学术高级编辑为加拿大湖首大学的（Adam Algar）、以色列特拉维夫大学的（Jonathan Belmaker）、中国科学院动物研究所的（Huijie Qiao）、英国阿伯丁大学的（Catherine Sheard）与伦敦帝国理工学院的（Bonnie Waring）。
• The Associate Editors span Germany, Finland, the United States, Australia, Spain, Canada and beyond, among them Adriana Alzate of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Laura Antao of the University of Helsinki, Volker Bahn of Wright State University, Diego Barneche of the Australian Institute of Marine Science and Andres Baselga of the University of Santiago de Compostela副编辑遍布德国、芬兰、美国、澳大利亚、西班牙、加拿大等地，其中不乏德国综合生物多样性研究中心的（Adriana Alzate）、赫尔辛基大学的（Laura Antao）、莱特州立大学的（Volker Bahn）、澳大利亚海洋科学研究所的（Diego Barneche）与圣地亚哥-德孔波斯特拉大学的（Andres Baselga）。
• Double anonymized review obliges authors to anonymize the manuscript, supply a separate title page, strip author names from file properties and keep data and code links private for review, for example through a private Dryad reviewer link双匿名评审要求作者对稿件作匿名化处理、单独提供标题页、清除文件属性中的作者姓名，并使数据与代码链接在评审期间保密，例如经（Dryad）生成私密审稿链接。
• Submissions go through the Research Exchange portal in free format with a cover letter uploaded as a PDF containing a paragraph of fewer than 250 words on why the paper interests the journal's readers, suggested reviewers and handling editors may be proposed with a conflict of interest statement, and a substantial share of manuscripts is declined without review on scope grounds稿件经（Research Exchange）门户以自由格式投稿，投稿信须以 PDF 单独上传，并包含一段不超过 250 词的说明以阐述论文为何引起本刊读者兴趣；可推荐审稿人与责任编辑但须附利益冲突声明；相当比例的稿件因不符合范围而在评审前即被拒稿。