Journal of Developmental Biology

Journal of Developmental Biology is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open access journal published by MDPI in Basel that takes the development of multicellular organisms as its subject at the molecule, cell, tissue, organ and whole-organism levels, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, with a five-year figure of 3.0 and a CiteScore of 4.7, placing it in the second quartile of Developmental Biology.《发育生物学杂志》是 MDPI 在巴塞尔出版的季刊，同行评审并开放获取，以多细胞生物的发育为题，覆盖分子、细胞、组织、器官与整体各个层次，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子 3.0，CiteScore 为 4.7，在发育生物学类目位列 Q2 区。

Scope

• The aims and scope page groups the remit into five working areas, namely mechanisms of development and genetics, cell differentiation, embryonal development, tissue and organism growth, and the metamorphosis and regeneration of organisms.刊物的目标与范围页面把收稿方向分成五个板块，即发育机制与遗传学，细胞分化，胚胎发育，组织与个体的生长，以及变态与再生。

• Reviews, research papers and communications are the three formats named, and the journal presents itself as quick-refereeing, with no ceiling placed on the length of a paper.综述、研究论文与通讯是页面点明的三种文体，刊物把自己称为审稿迅速的期刊，并不给论文设篇幅上限。

• Authors must supply full experimental details so that published results can be reproduced, and material that cannot be set in the ordinary way may be deposited as supplementary files.作者须提供完整的实验细节，使已发表的结果能够被复现，无法按常规排版容纳的材料可以作为补充文件存缴。

• A manuscript is read at five levels of organisation, the molecule, the cell, the tissue, the organ and the whole organism, and many studies move across several of these levels at once.一篇稿件会在五个组织层次上被阅读，从分子与细胞开始，经组织与器官，直到整个生物体，不少研究同时跨越其中数个层次。

• Molecular biology, genetics, physiology, cell biology, anatomy and embryology head the list of disciplines that the journal serves.分子生物学、遗传学居这份学科清单的前列，生理学、细胞生物学与解剖学紧随其后，胚胎学也明确列入。

• Cancer research, neurobiology and immunology follow, while ecology and evolutionary biology close a list that reaches well beyond the classical laboratory fields.癌症研究、神经生物学与免疫学排在后面，生态学与演化生物学收束这份清单，覆盖面早已越过经典实验室学科。

• The stated aim is to let researchers publish new findings or concepts quickly in an open access medium, with peers rather than a small editorial group deciding what appears.刊物申明的目标是让研究者把新的发现或构想快速发表出来，载体开放获取，审稿由同行承担。

• Ethical practice follows the Committee on Publication Ethics, of which MDPI is a member, and each submission is checked with iThenticate against the published literature.伦理规范依照出版伦理委员会（Committee on Publication Ethics）的要求，MDPI 是该委员会成员，每篇投稿都用 iThenticate 与已发表文献比对。

• Articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution licence, and copyright stays with the authors rather than passing to the publisher.论文按知识共享署名许可（Creative Commons Attribution）发布，著作权留在作者手中，不转给出版方。

• Book reviews are welcome as well, review copies go to the Basel office, and new titles received are announced under Books Received in the news section.书评同样是刊物欢迎的稿件，样书寄到巴塞尔编辑部，收到的书目在新闻栏的 Books Received 中公布。

• The editorial office answers at jdb@mdpi.com, and offprints of published papers can be ordered from the publisher on request.编辑部邮箱为（jdb@mdpi.com），已发表论文的抽印本可以向出版方订购。

• The journal calls itself international and quick-refereeing, two words that set an expectation for authors before a manuscript is sent.刊物用国际化与审稿迅速来描述自己，这两个说法给了作者在投稿之前一个可预期的节奏。

History

• The title began in 2013 under MDPI in Basel, and volume 1 carries that founding year, a starting point recorded by Crossref, OpenAlex and the National Library of Medicine alike.本刊 2013 年由 MDPI 在巴塞尔创办，第 1 卷各期都标着这个创刊年份，Crossref、OpenAlex 与美国国家医学图书馆（National Library of Medicine）的记录彼此一致。

• No print edition has ever existed, so the journal is identified by the electronic ISSN 2221-3759 alone, and the NLM imprint reads Basel, Switzerland, MDPI AG, 2013 onward.刊物从来没有印刷版，只有电子 ISSN 2221-3759 一个刊号，美国国家医学图书馆登记的书目出版项为巴塞尔（Basel）、MDPI AG，起始年 2013。

• One volume closes each year, which puts the 2026 volume at number 14 and keeps the numbering tied to the calendar without a gap.每年出一卷，2026 年正好是第 14 卷，卷号与年份一一对应，中间没有断档。

• The quarterly rhythm is dated from 2014 in the NLM record, the year after the launch volume, and four issues a year have held since then.国家医学图书馆的记录把季刊节奏定在 2014 年，即创刊卷之后的一年，此后一直维持每年四期。

• PubMed and PubMed Central take the title from volume 4, number 1, which appeared in 2016, three years after the first issue.PubMed 与 PubMed Central 从 2016 年第 4 卷第 1 期起收录本刊，距创刊号已有三年。

• Coverage widened afterwards to Scopus, ESCI, PubAg and CAPlus / SciFinder, and the front page now lists all of them among the databases that carry the journal.此后收录范围扩展到 Scopus、ESCI、PubAg 与 CAPlus/SciFinder，刊页现在把这几个库一并列在收录说明里。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the journal sits in ESCI, second quartile of Developmental Biology, at rank 16 among 39 titles, with a percentile of 60.3.2025 年的期刊引证报告把本刊列在 ESCI 的发育生物学类目，处在第二四分位，39 种刊物中排第 16 位，百分位为 60.3。

• Reported impact factors run 2.2 for 2023, 2.5 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025, against a five-year figure of 3.0.近年公布的影响因子依次为 2023 年 2.2、2024 年 2.5 与 2025 年 2.4，五年影响因子为 3.0。

• Scopus awards a CiteScore of 4.7 and likewise places the title in the second quartile of its Developmental Biology category.Scopus 给出的 CiteScore 为 4.7，同样把本刊放在发育生物学类目的第二四分位。

• About 32 papers appeared in 2025, lifetime citations pass one thousand, and the cited half-life stands at 5.1 years.2025 年刊出论文约 32 篇，累计被引超过一千次，被引半衰期为 5.1 年。

• Publication is gold open access under CC BY, with article processing charges met by authors or their institutions rather than by subscribers.出版采取金色开放获取，使用 CC BY 许可，文章处理费由作者或其所在机构承担，订阅方不付费用。

• The NLM abbreviation is J Dev Biol, the short form that appears in reference lists and in database records across the field.美国国家医学图书馆所用的缩写是 J Dev Biol，文献表与数据库记录里用的就是这个短式。

• Speed forms part of the offer, since the median first decision took 25.9 days in the first half of 2026 and accepted papers reached publication 2.8 days later.速度也是刊物给出的承诺，2026 年上半年首次决定的中位时间为 25.9 天，录用之后到上线为 2.8 天。

Editors

• Simon J. Conway holds the editor-in-chief post and works at the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.主编是（Simon J. Conway），任职于印第安纳大学医学院（Indiana University School of Medicine）的 Herman B Wells 儿童研究中心，所在地为印第安纳波利斯（Indianapolis）。

• His listed interests begin with birth defects and run through the developmental basis of congenital and acquired cardiopulmonary disease to neonatal lung alveolar septation.他登记的研究方向从出生缺陷起笔，经先天性与获得性心肺疾病的发育基础，一直到新生儿肺泡隔化。

• Transgenic mouse modelling, cell lineage tracing and neural crest work belong to the same profile, together with fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition and the extracellular matrix.转基因小鼠模型、细胞谱系追踪与神经嵴研究同属这份简介，成纤维细胞向肌成纤维细胞的转变与细胞外基质也在其中。

• Robert W. Dettman, who works at Northwestern University and at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, is one of three associate editors.副编辑之一（Robert W. Dettman）任职于西北大学（Northwestern University）与芝加哥安与罗伯特卢里儿童医院（Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago）。

• Dettman lists cell-fate determination, cell lineage, organ development, fibrotic disease and microRNAs as his subjects.他列出的方向包括细胞命运决定、细胞谱系与器官发育，纤维化疾病与 microRNA 也在其中。

• Robin C. Muise-Helmericks, in regenerative medicine and cell biology at the Medical University of South Carolina, studies the Akt family of kinases, angiogenesis, wound healing and mitochondrial control.（Robin C. Muise-Helmericks）在南卡罗来纳医科大学（Medical University of South Carolina）的再生医学与细胞生物学系工作，研究 Akt 家族激酶、血管生成与伤口愈合，线粒体功能调控同样列入。

• Jose M. Perez-Pomares holds a post at the University of Malaga and a visiting appointment at the CNIC in Madrid, and he covers heart development and regeneration.（Jose M. Perez-Pomares）在马拉加大学（University of Malaga）任职，并在马德里国家心血管研究中心（CNIC）有访问职位，负责心脏发育与再生方向。

• The epicardium, coronary blood vessels, heart valves, cardiac mesenchymal tissues and cardiac cell differentiation are the subjects listed under his name.心外膜、冠状血管与心脏瓣膜都列在他的名下，心脏间充质组织与心肌细胞分化也由他覆盖。

• Board members appear in alphabetical order, following the structure of the editorial board given on the MDPI site, and the roster runs to two pages.编委按姓氏字母顺序排列，遵循 MDPI 站点上编委会的既有结构，名单在刊站上占两页。

• The roster reaches several countries and several research traditions, with Mohammed Akaaboune at Michigan on the neuromuscular junction and Lorenzo Alibardi at Bologna on reptilian skin and regeneration.名单覆盖多个国家与多种研究传统，密歇根大学（University of Michigan）的（Mohammed Akaaboune）研究神经肌肉接头，博洛尼亚大学（University of Bologna）的（Lorenzo Alibardi）研究爬行动物皮肤与再生。

• Kristin Bruk Artinger at Colorado Anschutz works on the neural crest and craniofacial development, while Brian L. Black sits at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute.科罗拉多大学安舒茨校区（University of Colorado Anschutz）的（Kristin Bruk Artinger）研究神经嵴与颅面发育，加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）心血管研究所的（Brian L. Black）同列名单。

• Samuel J. Pleasure of UCSF studies cortical development, and a board member from the University of Helsinki works on neurogenesis and dopamine.加州大学旧金山分校的（Samuel J. Pleasure）研究皮层发育，赫尔辛基大学（University of Helsinki）的一位编委研究神经发生与多巴胺。

• Every manuscript goes through peer review, and reviewers who return timely, high-quality reports receive a voucher against a future article processing charge.所有稿件都经过同行评审，报告及时且质量高的审稿人可获得一张凭证，用于抵扣日后发表的文章处理费。