Insect Conservation and Diversity

Insect Conservation and Diversity is a journal of the Royal Entomological Society that Wiley publishes. It appeared first in 2008 and puts insect diversity and insect conservation together, with wild arthropods and their relationships at the centre of its programme. Its 2025 impact factor is 3.3.《昆虫保护与多样性》是英国皇家昆虫学会的一份期刊，由 Wiley 出版。该刊 2008 年创刊，把昆虫多样性与昆虫保护结合起来，以野生节肢动物及其相互关系作为核心。其 2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• The journal combines insect diversity with insect conservation, and it places the preservation of invertebrates at the front of its programme.该刊把昆虫多样性与昆虫保护并置，并把无脊椎动物的保育摆在选题的前列。

• Work on wild arthropods and on the specific relationships they form is emphasised throughout.讨论野生节肢动物及其所形成的特定关系的研究，在全刊范围内受到强调。

• Biogeography is one of the subjects the editors name.生物地理学是编辑列出的选题之一。

• The impacts of climate change form a second named subject.气候变化的影响构成第二个列出的选题。

• Conservation genetics is a third.保护遗传学是第三个。

• Global biodiversity is named as well.全球生物多样性同样在列。

• Submissions on the past and present distribution of biodiversity are welcomed.关于生物多样性过去与现在分布格局的来稿受到欢迎。

• Monitoring of arthropod populations is invited.对节肢动物种群的监测也在征稿之列。

• Papers that identify harmful influences on insect assemblages are taken.识别对昆虫群落有害影响的研究会被接收。

• Work on restoring ecosystem services falls inside the scope.关于恢复生态系统服务的研究也属于其范围。

• The editors describe the scope as broad, and they encourage submissions across insect and arthropod conservation that bring ecological theory together with practical management.编辑把选题范围描述为宽广，鼓励投稿覆盖昆虫与节肢动物保护的各个方向，把生态学理论与实际管理结合起来。

• The journal is a subscription title that offers an open access option, so an author may choose to make an individual paper free to read.该刊采用订阅模式并提供开放获取选项，作者可以选择让单篇文章免费阅读。

• The society presents its journals as a joint investment in insect science, and it asks those who publish, read and review in them to help support the field.学会把旗下期刊视为对昆虫科学的共同投入，并请在这些刊物上发表，阅读与审稿的人一同支持这一领域。

• Work that links the distribution of insects to the working of whole ecosystems falls inside the remit.把昆虫分布与整个生态系统的运转联系起来的研究，属于其职权范围之内。

• Studies of how arthropod populations answer to land use and to habitat change are welcomed as well.关于节肢动物种群如何回应土地利用与栖息地变化的研究同样受到欢迎。

• Authors may pay an article processing charge to make a single paper free to read, while members and fellows of the society read the journal without charge.作者可以支付文章处理费让单篇论文免费阅读，而学会的会员与研究员则可以免费阅读该刊。

History

• The first issue is dated February 2008, and the journal has appeared four times a year since.创刊号标注 2008 年 2 月，此后该刊每年出版四期。

• It was launched by the Royal Entomological Society as a further step in promoting arthropod conservation.该刊由英国皇家昆虫学会创办，作为推进节肢动物保护工作的又一步。

• The launch was announced in a 2008 editorial that described the new title as explicitly associating insect diversity with insect conservation for the benefit of invertebrate conservation.创刊消息由 2008 年的一篇社论公布，该文把这份新刊说成明确地把昆虫多样性与昆虫保护联系起来，以服务于无脊椎动物保护。^[1]

• The journal is published on behalf of the society by Wiley, which also hosts it on Wiley Online Library.该刊由 Wiley 代表学会出版，Wiley 同时把它托管在 Wiley Online Library 上。

• The print edition carries the number 1752-458X and the online edition 1752-4598.印本刊号为 1752-458X，电子刊号为 1752-4598。

• The society publishes eight entomology journals in all, and it presents them as a joint investment in insect science.该学会一共出版八份昆虫学期刊，并把它们视为对昆虫科学的共同投入。

• The journal is recorded in the science citation index expanded, and the 2025 edition places it in the first quartile of entomology.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，2025 年版把它列在昆虫学的第一象限。

• The 2025 impact factor stands at 3.3 and the five-year figure at 3.7.该刊 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子为 3.7。

• Members and fellows of the society may read the journal free of charge.学会的会员与研究员可以免费阅读该刊。

• The society runs journal awards each year, and an early-career award is attached to the journal.学会每年评出期刊奖项，其中设有与该刊相关的一项青年研究者奖。

• Volume 19 is dated 2026, so the title has run without a break since its first volume in 2008.第 19 卷标注为 2026 年，因此该刊自 2008 年的第 1 卷起连续出版未断。

• A volume carries four issues dated January, April, July and October.每一卷含四期，分别标注 1 月，4 月，7 月与 10 月。

• The 2025 snapshot records 2789 citations, 98 articles and a cited half-life of 5.8 years.2025 年的快照记录总被引 2789 次，年发文 98 篇，被引半衰期为 5.8 年。

• Open access articles made up 71 per cent of the journal output in the same snapshot.在同一份快照中，开放获取文章占该刊产出的 71%。

• Early volumes were published under the Wiley-Blackwell imprint that carried the society journals at the time.早期各卷以当时承载学会期刊的 Wiley-Blackwell 名义出版。

• The journal appears in the publisher's journal finder as a Royal Entomological Society title that offers open access.该刊在出版方的期刊检索工具中列为提供开放获取的皇家昆虫学会刊物。

• The society owns the titles it publishes, and the editorial line is set by the society, while production and hosting rest with the publisher.学会拥有其出版的刊物，编辑方针由学会确定，制作与托管则由出版方负责。

• The title is one of eight that the society publishes, and the society invites readers to choose the journal that suits their work.该刊是学会出版的八份期刊之一，学会请读者选择最适合自己工作的那一份。

• The journal is grouped with the other society titles in the entomology list that the publisher maintains.该刊在出版方维护的昆虫学清单中与学会其他刊物归在一处。

Editors

• (Raphael K. Didham) of the University of Western Australia is one of the three editors-in-chief, and he holds a joint research position with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.（Raphael K. Didham）任职于西澳大利亚大学，是三位主编之一，并在澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织兼任研究职位。

• (Yves Basset) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama is the second editor-in-chief.（Yves Basset）任职于巴拿马的史密森热带研究所，是第二位主编。

• (Manu Saunders) of the University of New England in Australia is the third.（Manu Saunders）任职于澳大利亚的新英格兰大学，是第三位主编。

• The editor-in-chief group has stayed close to its roots, since two of the three sat on the founding editor group of the title.主编团队与其源头保持接近，三位主编中有两位属于该刊的创刊编辑班子。

• Seven senior editors support the editors-in-chief, among them (Christie Bahlai) of Kent State University and (Diana Bowler) of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.七位资深编辑支持主编工作，其中有肯特州立大学的（Christie Bahlai）与英国生态与水文中心的（Diana Bowler）。

• (Heloise Gibb) of Deakin University in Melbourne and (Nusha Keyghobadi) of the University of Western Ontario are senior editors as well.墨尔本迪肯大学的（Heloise Gibb）与西安大略大学的（Nusha Keyghobadi）同样是资深编辑。

• (Christopher Hassall) of the University of Leeds and (Nick Littlewood) of Scotland's Rural College complete the senior editor group.利兹大学的（Christopher Hassall）与苏格兰农业学院的（Nick Littlewood）补足了资深编辑队伍。

• (Alan Stewart) of the University of Sussex is also a senior editor.萨塞克斯大学的（Alan Stewart）也担任资深编辑。

• A larger panel of associate editors, drawn from Europe, North America, Latin America and Australia, handles the first assessment of submissions.一个更大的副编辑班子来自欧洲，北美，拉丁美洲与澳大利亚，负责对来稿作初步评估。

• The journal is edited for the Royal Entomological Society, and the society sets the editorial line for the eight titles it owns.该刊为英国皇家昆虫学会编辑，学会为其拥有的八份期刊确定编辑方针。

• The editors-in-chief declare interests that run through the effects of global change on biodiversity loss and on ecological resilience in remnant natural ecosystems.主编申报的方向贯穿全球变化对生物多样性丧失的影响，以及残余自然生态系统中生态恢复力的维持。

• Didham works mainly on terrestrial invertebrate communities in tropical and temperate regions and on the processes that keep species interaction networks resilient.（Raphael K. Didham）主要研究热带与温带地区的陆生无脊椎动物群落，以及维持物种互作网络恢复力的过程。

• Basset has centred his work on insect diversity in tropical forests, and his base is the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.（Yves Basset）的研究以热带森林昆虫多样性为中心，其工作单位为巴拿马的史密森热带研究所。

• Associate editors, several dozen in number, come from institutions in Europe, North America, Latin America and Australia.副编辑人数达数十位，来自欧洲，北美，拉丁美洲与澳大利亚的机构。

• The editorial office screens submissions and answers author queries before a paper reaches an editor.编辑部先对来稿作初筛并答复作者询问，之后稿件才送到编辑手中。

• The board covers tropical and temperate faunas, and its members work on beetles, ants, butterflies, ground-dwelling invertebrates and the networks that link them.编委会覆盖热带与温带动物区系，成员研究甲虫，蚂蚁，蝴蝶，地表无脊椎动物以及连接它们的网络。

• The editors-in-chief are supported by an editorial assistant and by the society publications team.主编的工作由一位编辑助理与学会的出版团队支持。