Insect Systematics and Diversity is one of the eight journals of the Entomological Society of America, and Oxford University Press produces it. There is no print edition.《Insect Systematics and Diversity》是美国昆虫学会八种期刊之一，由牛津大学出版社承制。它没有纸本。
The remit is original research on the systematics, evolution and biodiversity of insects and related arthropods.范围是昆虫及相关节肢动物在系统学、演化与生物多样性上的原创研究。
Integrative work is named item by item. Comparative and developmental morphology, conservation, behaviour, taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics, paleobiology, natural history and phylogeography all appear in the aims.综合性研究是一样一样点名的。比较与发育形态学、保护、行为、分类学、分子系统发育学、古生物学、博物学与系统地理学，都写在范围里。
New methods are explicitly in scope. Papers that use novel technologies or data types, or that describe emerging methods of research, are invited rather than tolerated.新方法明写在范围内。用上新技术或新数据类型的稿子，以及描述新兴研究手段的稿子，是被邀来的，不是勉强收的。
Taxonomic revision remains the backbone. The current issue carries a phylogeny and divergence-time estimation for the Tropidocephalini, alongside a taxonomic revision of the group.分类学修订仍是主干。现行一期里就有 Tropidocephalini 的系统发育与分歧时间估算，同一组群的分类修订并排放着。
Morphology and molecules are expected to agree or to argue. A new bagworm moth subfamily, Tenuipsychinae, was erected on morphological and phylogenetic data together.形态与分子要么互证要么互相辩驳。一个新命名的蓑蛾亚科 Tenuipsychinae，就是靠形态与系统发育两套数据一起立起来的。
Behaviour enters through phylogeny. Myrmecophilous adaptations in Chlamydopsinae hister beetles were read against a phylogeny of the group.行为是经由系统发育进来的。Chlamydopsinae 阎甲类与蚁共生的适应，就是对着该类群的系统发育来读的。
Host-parasite systems get room. The evolution of louse flies and bat flies ran as a review of birds and beasts in the same issue as the beetle work.寄主与寄生物的关系有地方放。虱蝇与蝠蝇的演化，以「禽与兽」为题，与那篇甲虫文章同期刊出。
Genomic data are routine at the species level. A phylogeography of Bombus huntii built on whole-genome data is the current shape of a bumblebee paper.基因组数据在种一级已是常规。一篇用全基因组数据做的 Bombus huntii 系统地理学，就是当下熊蜂论文的样子。
Conservation is not confined to the applied journals. The value of second-growth forests for leaf-litter beetles was an early paper here, with sampling and conservation framed as systematics questions.保护生物学不专属于应用类刊物。次生林对落叶层甲虫的价值是这里早期的一篇，采样与保护被当成系统学问题来做。
The fossil record counts as data. Fossil distributions and their weight for biogeographic reconstruction were argued in the first volume.化石记录算数据。化石分布对生物地理重建的分量，第 1 卷里就有专门论证。
Nomenclature policy is open ground. A paper asking whether new species should be described from photographs alone, and proposing a new declaration to the zoological code, ran in the opening issue.命名法规是开放的议题。一篇追问能否仅凭照片描述新种的论文，连带提出一份新的动物命名法宣言，就发在创刊号上。
The journal is bimonthly. Volume 10 carries issues 1 to 6 through 2026, and volume 9 did the same in 2025.刊物是双月刊。第 10 卷在 2026 年出到第 1 至 6 期，第 9 卷在 2025 年也是这个节奏。
Pagination has moved to identifiers. Current records carry no page range at all, and the locator sits in the digital object identifier, so a paper is cited by issue and identifier.页码换成了标识符。现行记录一个页码区间都不给，定位落在数字对象标识符上，于是引用靠期号加标识符。
Output is small and selective. The citation report counts 41 articles for 2025, and Crossref holds 320 records since the first issue.产出小而挑。引证报告给 2025 年记了 41 篇，Crossref 自创刊号起的记录共 320 条。
History
The first volume appeared in 2017, which makes this the newest title in the society's list.第 1 卷 2017 年问世，在学会的刊物名单里它是最年轻的一种。
It opened with a two-page statement rather than a research paper. Insect Systematics as a Central Discipline of Entomology ran on pages 1 and 2, signed by the two editors.开卷是一篇两页的立论，不是研究论文。《昆虫系统学作为昆虫学的中心学科》排在第 1 与第 2 页，两位主编署名。
The first year carried six issues, and the pagination inside each issue ran in the ordinary way, from page 3 to page 80 across the opening number.头一年就出满六期，期内页码按老规矩排，创刊号一路从第 3 页排到第 80 页。
The opening mix was wide. Conservation of leaf-litter beetles, a fight over photograph-based species descriptions, orthopteran thorax anatomy and anchored hybrid enrichment phylogenomics all sat in issue 1.创刊号的搭配很宽。落叶层甲虫的保护、照片定种的争论、直翅目胸部解剖，加上锚定杂交富集的系统发育基因组学，全挤在第 1 期里。
Ten volumes separate 2017 from 2026. One volume a year, without a gap or a double number.从 2017 到 2026 正好十卷。一年一卷，没有断档也没有合卷。
The journal has never had a print ISSN. It was launched electronic-only, with the e-ISSN as its sole identifier.这份刊物从来只有电子刊号。创刊就是纯电子，电子 ISSN 是它唯一的标识。
The publisher on every sampled record is Oxford University Press, back to the first issue.抽样到的每条记录上出版方都是牛津大学出版社，一路回溯到创刊号。
The impact factor fell from a high start. It stood at 4.771 in 2021, dropped to 2.841 in 2022, then ran 3.2, 3.1 and 2.3.影响因子从高处起跳后回落。2021 年是 4.771，2022 年掉到 2.841，之后走出 3.2、3.1 与 2.3。
The five-year figure is 2.9, above the current year, and the cited half-life is 3.8 years. In a field that renames taxa, citation ages fast.五年影响因子 2.9，高出当年值，半衰期 3.8 年。在一个会改写类元名称的领域里，引用老得快。
The citation base was 574 for 41 articles in 2025, with an immediacy index of 0.5.2025 年的引用基数是 574 次，对应 41 篇论文，即时指数 0.5。
In entomology it sits at 22 of 110, at the 80.5th percentile, and the article influence score puts it eighth of 108.在昆虫学里它排 110 种刊物的第 22 位，百分位 80.5，按论文影响力分数则排到 108 种里的第 8 位。
Gold open access takes 30.97 percent of the content even though the journal runs on subscriptions.金色开放获取占了 30.97%，而刊物的底子仍是订阅。
The catalogue record exists from 2017 but lists no indexing source. Being in the national library catalogue is not the same as being in a biomedical index.著录从 2017 年就有，却没挂任何收录来源。进国家图书馆的目录，与进生物医学索引不是一回事。
Growth shows in the author lists. The hundred latest records average seven authors, the largest carries 43, and consortium papers have become ordinary in a way the first volume did not suggest.成长写在作者名单上。最新一百条平均七位作者，最多的挂了 43 位，联盟署名的稿子已经变平常，第 1 卷里看不出这个苗头。
Editors
Two editors-in-chief were appointed at launch, both from the University of Illinois. Sydney A. Cameron and James B. Whitfield held the title jointly.创刊时任命了两位共同主编，都来自伊利诺伊大学。Sydney A. Cameron 与 James B. Whitfield 并挂这个头衔。
They wrote the opening statement themselves. The argument was that systematics is not a service discipline for the rest of entomology but one of its central ones.开卷那篇立论是他们自己写的。论点的落点是系统学在昆虫学各分支中的中心位置，替别人打下手的说法他们不接受。
A new journal with two editors means the scope is guarded by two readers. Every submission that fit the aims passed through their hands in the first years.新刊只设两位主编，范围就由两双眼睛守着。早年凡是够上范围的来稿，都从他们手上过。
The society runs the publishing programme behind it. Eight journals and a quarterly magazine sit under one publications office, and the entomology society treats them as one portfolio.背后是学会的出版体系。八种期刊加一份季刊杂志归一个出版办公室管，学会把它们当一摊事来运营。
Queries route to the society's publications office rather than to a commercial address. The office sits in Annapolis, Maryland.问询走学会的出版办公室，不走商业地址。这间办公室在马里兰州的安纳波利斯。
Production belongs to the publisher. Typesetting, hosting and the digital object identifiers are Oxford University Press work, and the editorial side never touches them.生产归出版方。排版、托管与数字对象标识符都是牛津大学出版社的活，编辑侧不碰。
The board has to know the zoological code. Taking a paper that proposes a new declaration on describing species from photographs means the editors must judge procedure as well as science.编委会得懂动物命名法规。收下一篇提出新宣言、讨论能否凭照片描述新种的稿子，意味着编辑既要判科学也要判程序。
Long-form work needs long-form editing. The journal accepts revisions that run to 200 pages, and a paper that size is read by someone who knows the group, not by a generalist.长篇需要长线的编辑。刊物接收长到 200 页的修订，这种体量的稿子得由懂这一类群的人读，通才读不下来。
Nothing is charged for colour and nothing is charged for length, because there is no print run to pay for.彩图不收钱，篇幅也不收钱，因为没有印厂的成本要摊。
Members of the society publish without page charges. The arrangement is a membership benefit, and it is written into the journal's terms.学会会员发表不收版面费。这条属会员权益，写进了刊物的条款里。
The editorial line has to hold morphology and genomics in one hand. An orthopteran thorax dissection and a whole-genome bumblebee study belong to the same readership, and the masthead is built on that assumption.编辑方针要一手托形态一手托基因组。直翅目胸部的解剖与熊蜂全基因组研究服务同一批读者，编委会就是按这个假设搭的。