HortScience

HortScience is a peer-reviewed open access journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, a society that has represented horticultural research in the United States since 1903. It was founded in 1966 and publishes applied and fundamental work on fruit, vegetable, ornamental, turf and landscape crops. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, with the journal ranked 23rd of 45 titles in the horticulture category and a five-year value of 2.1.《园艺科学》是美国园艺学会出版的同行评审开放获取期刊，该学会自 1903 年起就是美国园艺研究的行业组织。刊物创办于 1966 年，发表果树、蔬菜与观赏植物的应用与基础研究，也发表草坪与景观作物的同类成果。2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，在园艺类 45 份期刊中列第 23 位，五年影响因子为 2.1。

Scope

• The stated goal is plain: to apprise horticultural scientists and others interested in horticulture of scientific and industry developments and of significant research, education or extension findings or methods.该刊把宗旨写得很直白，要让园艺科研人员以及其他关心园艺的人了解科学与产业动态，也了解有价值的研究成果以及教育与推广的方法。

• That remit is deliberately wide, so a single volume mixes greenhouse trials, orchard management, postharvest storage work and reports on classroom or extension practice.这一范围刻意放宽，因此同一卷里既有温室试验与果园管理，也有采后贮藏研究，还有课堂与推广实践的报道。

• Plant breeding, genetics and germplasm evaluation take up a large share of the pages, including descriptions of new cultivars and the trial data that support their release.植物育种、遗传学与种质评价占据大量篇幅，其中包含新品种的描述以及支撑品种释放的试验数据。

• Production papers deal with irrigation, mineral nutrition, substrates, planting density, pruning and the design of protected cultivation for field and greenhouse growers.生产类论文讨论灌溉与矿质营养、基质配比与种植密度，也讨论修剪与露地及温室栽培的保护设施设计。

• Postharvest physiology and handling run from harvest maturity and cooling through storage atmosphere, shelf life and quality loss along the supply chain.采后生理与处理覆盖从采收成熟度与预冷到贮藏气体成分、货架期与供应链品质损失的各个环节。

• Environmental stress physiology, growth regulation, flowering and root development appear regularly, usually with an eye to what a grower can change in the field.环境胁迫生理与生长调节，以及开花与根系发育，都是常见主题，讨论通常落在种植者在田间能够调整的措施上。

• Integrated management of insects, mites, nematodes and diseases is treated as part of production practice, with weight on cultivar resistance, scouting thresholds and lower chemical input.害虫与螨类、线虫与病害的综合治理被当作生产实践的一部分，重点在品种抗性，巡查阈值与减少化学投入。

• Fruit and nut crops, vegetables, bedding plants, cut flowers, nursery stock, turfgrass and landscape plantings each carry their own stream of papers.果树与坚果，蔬菜与花坛植物，切花与苗木，草坪草与景观种植，各有相对集中的论文群。

• Propagation from seed, cuttings and tissue culture, transplant production and the care of young plants close the loop on the production side.种子、扦插与组织培养繁殖，以及移植苗生产与幼株养护，补足了生产环节的另一端。

• Extension and education articles report methods already tested with growers or students, a category few horticulture journals still keep open.推广与教育类文章报告已在种植者或学生中试用过的方法，这一类内容在园艺期刊中已不多见。

• Cultivar and germplasm releases appear as short structured papers that record parentage, distinguishing traits, performance across locations and conditions of availability.品种与种质释放以简短的结构化论文发表，记载亲本与区别性状，也记载多点表现与获取条件。

• Workshop and colloquium papers from the society's annual conference are gathered into themed groups inside normal issues rather than into separate supplements.学会年会的专题研讨与座谈会论文被编成专题组，放进常规各期，而不另出增刊。

• Reports on experimental design, statistics and measurement technique also find a place, since experiment stations repeat trials under local conditions and publish the comparison.试验设计、统计方法与测量技术方面的报告同样有位置，因为各地试验站要在本地条件下重复试验并公布比较结果。

• Topics that have gained space in recent years include water and nutrient efficiency, soilless culture, urban horticulture and the recycling of organic residues.近年获得更多篇幅的题目包括水肥效率与无土栽培，也包括城市园艺与有机废弃物循环利用。

• The readership the journal names is broad: researchers at universities and experiment stations, extension specialists, teachers and the industry that supplies seed, media and equipment.刊物点明的读者面很宽，包括大学与试验站的研究者，推广专家，教师，以及供应种子、基质与设备的产业界。

History

• HortScience began in 1966, when the American Society for Horticultural Science issued volume 1, and a straight sequence of volumes has followed, reaching volume 60 in 2025.《园艺科学》创办于 1966 年，美国园艺学会当年推出第 1 卷，此后卷号连续未断，2025 年出至第 60 卷。

• Its arrival divided the society's publishing in two, because the Proceedings of the American Society for Horticultural Science had carried members' papers since 1903.它的出现把学会的出版分成两条线，因为《美国园艺学会会刊》自 1903 年起一直承载会员论文。

• That older series became the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 1969, and the two titles have run side by side ever since, one for fundamental work and one for a wider readership.那份更早的刊物于 1969 年更名为《美国园艺学会杂志》，此后两个刊名并行，一份面向基础研究，一份面向更广的读者。

• The present title has never been altered, so the journal carries no former name: HortScience has stood on the cover from the first issue onwards.现行刊名从未改动，因此该刊没有旧名可记，《园艺科学》从创刊号起就印在封面上。

• Publishing has stayed in the society's hands as well. The journal is issued from the ASHS office in Alexandria, Virginia, and has not passed to a commercial house.出版也一直握在学会手里，该刊由设于弗吉尼亚州亚历山大的学会办公室出版，未曾转手商业出版社。

• From the start the journal aimed at horticulturists who would not read a purely research title, so short reports on methods and industry developments sat beside full papers.创刊时的读者定位是不读纯研究刊物的园艺从业者，因此方法短讯与产业动态同完整论文并列刊出。

• Issue numbering has run without a break, and a volume now carries twelve numbered issues, assembled around a continuous stream of articles posted online.期号从未中断，如今一卷排满十二期，各期围绕持续上线的稿件编成。

• Online delivery changed the reach of the journal, because accepted papers go up on the society's journals platform as soon as they are ready rather than waiting for an issue to close.网络发行改变了刊物的传播范围，录用稿件准备就绪即发布在学会的期刊平台上，不必等到某一期截稿。

• Open access followed. Every article is free to read in full, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports classifies the whole citable output as gold open access.开放获取随后落地，全部文章可免费阅读全文，2025 年版期刊引证报告把它的可引文献整体计为金色开放获取。

• An electronic ISSN, 2327-9834, covers the online edition and sits alongside the original 0018-5345, which remains the number quoted in most citations and indexes.电子版另有国际标准连续出版物号 2327-9834，与原有的 0018-5345 并存，后者仍是多数引文与索引采用的编号。

• Citation totals are high for a specialist title. The 2025 figures record more than 12,900 citations and a cited half-life of 14.5 years, which points to long use of older cultivar and culture papers.作为专业刊，它的被引总量偏高，2025 年统计的累计被引超过 12900 次，被引半衰期 14.5 年，早期品种与栽培论文的使用年限由此可以想见。

• The impact factor has moved inside a narrow band, from 1.455 in 2021 and 1.874 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2025, while the five-year value stands at 2.1.影响因子在窄幅区间内移动，2021 年为 1.455，2022 年为 1.874，2025 年为 1.9，五年值为 2.1。

• Around 285 research items were published in the 2025 counting year, which keeps the journal among the larger horticulture titles by output.2025 统计年度的研究条目约 285 篇，按发文量计该刊仍属园艺类中体量较大的一份。

• In the 2025 ranking it sits 23rd of 45 in horticulture, a middle position in a category now crowded with crop-specific and molecular titles.2025 年排名在园艺类 45 份期刊中列第 23 位，处于中段，这一门类如今挤满了作物专刊与分子取向的刊物。

• The society turned one hundred in 2003, and the journal marked the anniversary with a long review of a century of horticultural science by Jules Janick and Irwin L. Goldman.学会于 2003 年迎来百年，该刊发表（Jules Janick）与（Irwin L. Goldman）撰写的长综述《园艺、园艺科学与美国园艺学会百年》，回顾这一个世纪。

Editors

• Editorial work is done in house. The editorial office shares the Alexandria headquarters with HortTechnology and the Journal of the ASHS, and the three titles draw on one production team.编辑工作由学会自行承担，编辑部与《园艺技术》《美国园艺学会杂志》共用亚历山大的总部，三份刊物共用一套生产团队。

• An editor-in-chief sets the line of the journal and answers to the society's publications governance, while subject editors take manuscripts in their own fields.主编把握刊物方向，向学会的出版治理机构负责，各学科编辑分头处理本领域的稿件。

• The subject editors divide along the sections the journal runs, covering breeding and genetics, production and culture, postharvest handling, plant protection, propagation and statistics.学科编辑按刊物栏目分工，覆盖育种与遗传，生产与栽培，采后处理，植物保护，繁殖与统计。

• Manuscripts enter through the society's online submission system, which HortScience shares with the other two ASHS journals, so a single set of author instructions governs all three.稿件经学会的在线投稿系统进入，该系统由《园艺科学》与另外两份学会期刊共用，一套作者须知管三刊。

• A handling editor picks the reviewers, usually two or more, and writes the decision. Authors deal with that editor rather than with the board as a whole.责任编辑挑选审稿人，一般两位或更多，并撰写决定，作者与该编辑直接往来，而不与整个编委会打交道。

• Cultivar and germplasm releases get a separate check on nomenclature and on the performance data behind the release, which is why they read differently from research papers.品种与种质释放类稿件另有命名规范与释放数据方面的核查，因此读起来与研究论文不同。

• Extension and education papers are judged on usefulness to growers, advisers and teachers as well as on method, and single-station trials are not excluded for their scope alone.推广与教育类论文既看方法，也看对种植者、顾问与教师是否有用，单站试验不会仅因范围小而遭排除。

• Statistical review carries weight because most papers rest on field trials. Authors must state the design, the replication and the analysis used, and a weak design draws comment at review.统计审查分量不轻，因为多数论文建立在田间试验上，作者须写明设计、重复次数与所用分析方法，设计薄弱者会在评审中被指出。

• Members are drawn mainly from North American land-grant universities and federal research services, with a smaller number from Europe, Asia and Latin America.编委主要来自北美赠地大学与联邦研究机构，欧洲、亚洲与拉丁美洲的成员数量较少。

• Authors declare funding and competing interests, and the society applies the usual rules on authorship, data retention and duplicate submission.作者须申报资助与利益冲突，学会按通行规则处理署名与数据保存，也处理重复投稿。

• Production stays with the society as well: copy-editing, typesetting and DOI registration are handled under the ASHS imprint rather than by an outside platform owner.生产环节同样留在学会，文字编辑、排版与数字对象标识符注册都在学会名义下完成，不交给外部平台方。