Journal of Apicultural Research

Journal of Apicultural Research is a refereed journal devoted to bee science and beekeeping, published by Taylor & Francis for the International Bee Research Association. It began in 1962, covers every kind of bee rather than honey bees alone, and now appears five times a year for a worldwide readership, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9.《养蜂研究杂志》是一份专注蜜蜂科学与养蜂业的同行评议期刊，1962 年由国际蜜蜂研究会创办。刊物覆盖蜜蜂总科之下的各类蜂，并不只谈家养蜜蜂，目前每年出版五期，在实验室研究与养蜂实践之间充当交流渠道，读者遍布各地。

Scope

• A short statement on the aims page frames the journal as a refereed scientific outlet dedicated to bringing the best research on bees, a wording that has outlasted several website redesigns.宗旨页用一句话为该刊定调，称其是一份致力于汇集蜜蜂研究最佳成果的同行评议科学期刊，这一定位贯穿全部栏目，也为选稿划出底线，措辞历经多次网站改版仍被保留。

• Original research articles, original theoretical papers, notes, comments and authoritative reviews make up the accepted formats, with no room listed for conference abstracts, and the guidelines set length limits for each.接受的形式包括原创研究论文，原创理论论文，研究简报，评论与权威综述，会议摘要一类文字不在其列，体例按出版方的作者指南执行，各体裁的字数上限分列于指南。

• Every kind of bee falls within reach, from honey bees and bumble bees to stingless bees and the solitary species of the superfamily Apoidea.研究对象覆盖蜜蜂总科之下的各类蜂，从家养蜜蜂，熊蜂到无刺蜂与独居蜂，凡是与蜂有关的科学问题都不设门槛，分类跨度相当宽。

• Biology, ecology, natural history, conservation and the culture of bees are named together as the journal's scientific territory.生物学，生态学，自然史，保护以及蜂文化被并列写进刊物的科学疆域，野生蜂与饲养蜂享有同等版面，养蜂史一类人文题目也能进入。

• Beekeeping proper is treated as a science, taking in breeding, rearing, maintaining and management of colonies as well as the study of hive products.养蜂本身被当作一门科学对待，繁育，饲养，蜂群维持与管理，连同蜂产品研究，都在收稿范围之内，实践中的技术难题可以成为论文主题。

• Nine subject classifications organise submissions, and they run from sociobiology to biochemistry rather than following a single method or taxon.投稿按九个学科分类编排，范围从社会生物学一直延伸到生物化学，并不围绕单一方法或单一蜂种组织，跨类目的稿件由编辑部判断归属。

• Sociobiology and behaviour covers colony organisation, communication, foraging and the division of labour among nestmates, with field observation and controlled experiment treated alike.社会生物学与行为一类涉及群体组织，通讯，觅食以及同巢个体之间的分工，行为观察与实验分析都在其列，蜂舞与气味信号是常见的切入点，野外观察与受控实验同等看待。

• Ecology and conservation takes in habitat use, pollinator declines, interactions with plants and the pressures that wild bee populations face.生态学与保护一类关注栖息地利用，传粉者衰退，与植物的相互作用以及野生蜂群承受的压力，保护生物学的问题常在此出现，农田与城市生境都在视野之内。

• Evolution, phylogeny and biogeography gather work on bee origins, species limits and the geographic distribution of lineages.演化，系统发育与生物地理学一类汇集蜂类起源，物种界限以及各谱系地理分布的研究，分类学修订也多归入此处，标本与分子数据同样受重视。

• Genetics and breeding spans population genetics, selection programmes, queen rearing and the inheritance of traits valued by beekeepers.遗传学与育种一类涵盖群体遗传学，选择计划，蜂王培育以及养蜂人看重的性状遗传，育种实践与基础遗传分析在此交汇，抗病性状是近年的热点。

• Pathology and parasitology deals with viruses, bacteria, fungi, mites and the diseases they cause in colonies and in individual bees.病理学与寄生虫学一类处理病毒，细菌，真菌与螨类，以及它们在蜂群和个体身上引起的疾病，诊断方法与防治试验并重，蜂场层面的流行病学调查也收录。

• Bee management covers husbandry systems, hive equipment, migratory beekeeping and the practical questions that arise in apiaries.蜂群管理一类涉及饲养体系，蜂箱设备，转地放蜂以及蜂场里出现的实际问题，面向的是可以直接应用的知识，成本与劳力安排也会被讨论。

• Hive product science examines honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and wax, with an emphasis on composition, authenticity and quality.蜂产品科学考察蜂蜜，蜂花粉，蜂胶，蜂王浆与蜂蜡，重点在成分，真伪鉴别与品质控制，分析手段的更新是这一方向的常态，掺假检测尤其受关注。

• Toxicology looks at pesticides, residues and the sublethal effects that chemicals have on bees and on colony performance.毒理学关注农药，残留以及化学物质对蜜蜂个体和蜂群表现的亚致死影响，风险评估类稿件常投向此处，田间暴露与实验室剂量之间需要衔接。

• Physiology, biochemistry and chemical ecology close the list, covering metabolism, sensory biology, pheromones and plant volatiles.生理学，生物化学与化学生态学收束这份清单，内容涉及代谢，感觉生物学，信息素与植物挥发物，分子层面的机制研究多归此门，蜂与花的化学对话是长线题目。

• A focus rule keeps the journal anchored in bees, so work on hive products, melissopalynology and pollination must address bees or apiculture rather than plants or people, a rule printed on the same page as the classifications.一条聚焦规则把刊物牢牢系在蜂上，蜂产品，蜜粉源孢粉学与授粉研究必须以蜂或养蜂为落点，只讨论植物或人类的稿件会被退回初审，这条界线与分类列在同一页。

History

• The journal descends from the Bee Research Association, founded on 24 January 1949 by Eva Crane and renamed the International Bee Research Association in 1976, a change that reflected a membership already global in scope.该刊的母体是蜜蜂研究协会，创办人（Eva Crane）在 1949 年 1 月 24 日建立起这个组织，1976 年它改称国际蜜蜂研究会，改名也反映出会员已遍布全球。

• Bee World, a magazine founded in 1919, came into the association's hands in 1962, the same year the research journal was launched.另一份 1919 年创刊的养蜂杂志于 1962 年归入协会，同年这份研究性期刊问世，科普与学术两条线自此并行，读者群一分为二又时有交叠。

• Volume 1 appeared in 1962 under the joint editorship of Eva Crane and James Simpson, whose opening note introduced the new venture to readers.第 1 卷于 1962 年出版，由（Eva Crane）与（James Simpson）共同主编，卷首的编者按向读者交代了这份新刊的打算，篇幅虽短而语气郑重。

• The early journal was a quarterly, and a 1988 profile counted roughly ten original papers in each issue, a four-issue rhythm that lasted about fifty years.早期为季刊，1988 年的一份中文介绍称每期大约刊登十篇原始研究论文，页数不多而选稿集中，季刊格局维持了约五十年。

• For its first years the association worked from Eva Crane's home in Berkshire, and the journal grew alongside a library that later bore her name.协会最初几年在（Eva Crane）位于伯克郡的家中办公，刊物与一座小型文库一同成长，那座文库后来以她的名字命名，藏书规模在蜂学领域少有匹敌。

• Eva Crane died in September 2007, and the association created an award in her name the following year.（Eva Crane）于 2007 年 9 月去世，协会次年以她的名义设立奖项，用以纪念她半个多世纪的蜂学研究，奖项至今每年颁发一次。

• The Eva Crane Award goes each year to the most original paper published in the journal, as judged by its international editorial board.该奖每年授予发表在刊物上原创性最强的一篇论文，由国际编委会评定，评选看重科学价值，并不以引用数字为准，获奖题目常出人意料。

• Volume 52 in 2013 marked a change of rhythm, when the quarterly schedule gave way to five issues a year.2013 年的第 52 卷改变了出版节奏，季刊安排让位于每年五期，稿件容量随之增加，专题与常规论文的搭配也更有余地。

• Taylor & Francis took over publication with volume 54 in 2015, and the DOI prefix moved from 10.3896/IBRA to 10.1080/00218839.2015 年第 54 卷起改由 Taylor & Francis 出版，数字对象标识符的前缀也从 10.3896/IBRA 换成 10.1080/00218839，存档与检索因此更为统一。

• Recent volumes carry about eighty research papers a year, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor stands at 1.9, placing the journal in the second quartile of entomology, with a cited half-life of 9.5 years.近年的卷册每年刊出约八十篇研究论文，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在昆虫学类目中处于第二四分位，总被引超过四千次，引用半衰期长达 9.5 年。

• The publisher's archive now runs back to volume 1, so the 1962 notes and the modern special issues sit on the same platform.出版方的存档已回溯至第 1 卷，1962 年的短札与今天的专题论文位于同一平台，早期文献因此重新可用，引文链也能向前接续。

• Ownership has stayed with the association throughout, and the journal remains its flagship scientific publication alongside the magazine Bee World, which carries practical and policy articles for beekeepers.刊物的归属始终没有离开协会，它至今仍是协会的旗舰学术出版物，与面向养蜂人的杂志分工并行，后者侧重新闻与实用技术，一个求深一个求广。

Editors

• Publication is preceded by refereeing, and the aims page describes the journal plainly as refereed rather than leaving the point implicit.来稿须经同行评议，宗旨页直接把刊物称为同行评议期刊，评审环节并不隐去，作者因此知道稿件会经过外部判断，修改意见也来自同行。

• An international editorial board supports the editorial office, with members drawn from several countries and expertise spread across the nine classifications.国际编委会为编辑部提供学术支持，成员来自多个国家，专业分布对应九个学科分类，评审人的选择因此不必外求。

• Eva Crane and James Simpson were the founding editors, signing the first note from the editors in 1962.（Eva Crane）与（James Simpson）是创刊主编，1962 年第 1 卷第 1 期的编者按由两人共同署名，创刊号的内容由两人筹划。

• Crane also edited Bee World from 1949 to 1984, so the association's magazine and its journal were guided by the same hand for decades.（Eva Crane）还从 1949 年到 1984 年主编协会的养蜂杂志，刊物与杂志在数十年里由同一双手把关，学术选题与推广话题相互渗透。

• By the late 1980s the editor was R.W. Shuel of the University of Guelph, with R.B. Pickard as managing editor.到 1980 年代末，主编为圭尔夫大学的（R.W. Shuel），（R.B. Pickard）担任责任编辑，学术判断与流程管理由两人分担，这一分工见于 1988 年的刊物介绍。

• Pickard's association with the journal proved long, and he signed the opening editorial of volume 60 in 2020.（R.B. Pickard）与刊物的关系延续很久，2020 年第 60 卷的开篇社论仍出自他手，前后跨越三十余年，见证了几代编委的更替。

• The Eva Crane Award is decided by the international editorial board, which reads across the year's output before choosing a single paper.以（Eva Crane）命名的奖项由国际编委会评定，评委通读当年的全部论文再选出一篇，评选与常规审稿分开进行，标准落在原创性与科学价值上。

• Not every editorial comes from one desk: Maria Bouga and Melanie Parejo signed editorials in volumes 58 and 59.社论栏目的作者不止一位，（Maria Bouga）与（Melanie Parejo）在第 58 卷和第 59 卷各有署名社论，署名信息见各期目次。

• Correspondence once went to the association's Cardiff office, and the address still appears in older directories.早期通信寄往协会设在加的夫的办公室，这一地址仍留在不少旧目录里，编辑部后来随出版流程转入出版社，日常联络改由在线系统承担。

• Manuscripts arrive through the publisher's online system, and the journal publishes in English only.稿件经出版方的在线系统投递，刊物只接受英文写作，图表与参考文献格式按出版社的模板处理，作者可在系统中跟踪审稿进度。