Journal of Insect Science

Journal of Insect Science is the open access entomology journal of the Entomological Society of America, published by Oxford University Press, and it has been free to read since its first issue in 2001.《昆虫科学杂志》是美国昆虫学会的开放获取昆虫学刊物，由牛津大学出版社出版，从 2001 年创刊号起就一直免费可读。

It calls itself the first open access entomology journal, a claim that holds up against the launch date, and it takes work on insects and other arthropods from the molecular level up to the ecological one.刊物自称是第一份开放获取的昆虫学杂志，这个说法与创刊年份对得上，收的范围从分子层面一直到生态层面，对象是昆虫与其它节肢动物。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 with a five-year figure of 2.7, placing it 22nd of 110 in entomology. CiteScore stands at 3.4, and the median time from submission to first decision is eight days.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年值 2.7，在昆虫学 110 种里排第 22 位。CiteScore 是 3.4，从投稿到首次决定的中位时间是八天。

Scope

• The acceptance test is written out rather than left to judgement. Methodological soundness, sufficient replication, appropriate statistics and conclusions that follow from the results are the four things an editor weighs.取舍的标准是写出来的，不靠临场裁量。方法是否站得住、重复是否够、统计是否合适、结论是否从结果里长出来，这四样是编辑掂量的东西。

• That test explains what the journal takes that others will not. Confirmatory studies are welcome, and so are null or negative results from work that was properly planned and properly run.这条标准说明了它收别人不收的东西。验证性的研究欢迎，设计得当、执行得当却没有显著结果的研究也收。

• Descriptive biology and first reports are accepted where they carry substance about an organism's biology, ecology, evolution or pest status, on the argument that such papers are the base for later hypothesis-driven work.描述性生物学与首次报道也收，前提是对一个物种的生物学、生态、演化或害虫地位有实质交代，理由是这类文章是后来假设驱动研究的地基。

• Apiculture and social insects form a section of their own, covering bee management for pollination, pathology, integrated pest management, toxicology, genetics, breeding and behaviour, and extending to ants, wasps and termites.养蜂与社会性昆虫单成一栏，管蜜蜂授粉、病理、综合治理、毒理、遗传、育种与行为的管理，也管蚂蚁、胡蜂与白蚁。

• Biological and microbial control is another, for predators, parasitoids and entomopathogenic bacteria, fungi, nematodes and viruses, whether used alone or inside an integrated programme.生物防治与微生物防治是另一栏，捕食者、寄生蜂、昆虫病原细菌、真菌、线虫与病毒都算，单用或放进综合治理里都行。

• Field, forage and horticultural crops, forest entomology, and urban and post-harvest pests each hold a heading, which is the applied face of a journal that also prints molecular work.大田、饲草与园艺作物，森林昆虫学，城镇与采后害虫，各占一栏，这是一份也登分子研究的刊物的应用那一面。

• Insect-plant interactions and arthropods in relation to plant pathogens sit next to each other, one about resistance and the mechanisms behind it, the other about transmission inside a plant community.昆虫与植物的相互作用，以及节肢动物与植物病原体的关系，两栏相邻，前者讲抗性与背后的机理，后者讲病原在植物群落里的传播。

• Ecology and behaviour covers dispersal, host finding, orientation to semiochemicals or acoustic signals, trophic interactions, phenology and ecological modelling.生态与行为一栏管扩散、寻找宿主、对信息化学物质或声信号的定向、营养关系、物候，以及生态建模。

• Molecular entomology is a large section, from genetics, genomics and gene families through qPCR and RNA sequencing to population genomics, gene editing and RNA interference.分子昆虫学占很大一块，从遗传、基因组与基因家族，到定量 PCR 与 RNA 测序，再到群体基因组学、基因编辑与 RNA 干扰。

• Insecticide toxicology and resistance takes the evolution, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of resistance, and asks for field or greenhouse validation rather than a dish.杀虫剂毒理与抗性一栏收抗性的演化、生理、生化与分子生物学，要求有田间或温室验证，光有培养皿不算。

• Three sections carry the same sentence, that work confined to petri-dish trials without greenhouse or field validation will not be accepted. Beneficial uses of insects, biological control and urban pests are all held to it.三个栏目里写着同一句话，只在培养皿里做、没有温室或田间验证的研究不收。昆虫的益用、生物防治与城镇害虫，都按这一条办。

• Insects for food and feed, mass rearing and insect diets, and insect biomechanics extend the range beyond pest management, into nutrition, sterile insect technique and the engineering of cuticle and flight.食用与饲用昆虫、规模化饲养与人工饲料、昆虫生物力学，把范围从害虫治理推到营养、昆虫不育技术，以及表皮与飞行的工程学。

• Protocols are a category in their own right. Because protocols differ, results across laboratories cannot be compared, and a paper that sets out or compares protocols is treated as a contribution rather than a note.实验方案单成一类。方案不同，各实验室的结果就没法比，把方案写清楚或把方案互比的论文，按正式文稿看，不当一条附注。

• Reviews have to synthesise. A summary of existing information, a count or list of published articles, or a review written by an AI tool falls outside the scope, and the wording is blunt about it.综述要有综合。把现有信息摘一遍、把已发表文章数一数或列一列，或者由人工智能工具写成的综述，都不在范围内，原话讲得也不客气。

• Student debates from the society's annual meeting are published as a section, which puts undergraduate argument beside refereed research in the same issue.学会年会上的学生辩论也作为一栏刊出，本科生的论辩因此与经过评议的研究排在同一期里。

• Special collections are commissioned and run by guest editors, and the journal invites proposals for topics it has not covered yet.专题辑由客座编辑组稿，题目还没碰过的，刊物也欢迎有人来提。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 is dated February 2001, and volume 26 covers 2026, which fixes the arithmetic at the year minus 2000.第 1 卷第 1 期署 2001 年 2 月，第 26 卷对应 2026 年，卷号因此是年份减 2000。

• The journal began with the library of the University of Arizona behind it, and Henry Hagedorn edited it from the first issue until his death in January 2014.刊物起家时由图森市的亚利桑那大学图书馆撑着，Henry Hagedorn 从创刊号起任主编，直到 2014 年 1 月去世。

• In 2014 the Entomological Society of America took the title into its publishing programme, and the imprint moved from Tucson to Annapolis, Maryland, where the society has its office.2014 年，美国昆虫学会把这份刊纳入自己的出版计划，印记从图森搬到马里兰州的安纳波利斯，学会的办公室就在那里。

• Oxford University Press now publishes it for the society, and the journal describes itself as an official journal of the Entomological Society of America rather than as an independent title.现在由牛津大学出版社代表学会出版，刊物自称是美国昆虫学会的机关刊之一，不再把自己当成一份独立的刊物。

• Six issues make a year. Volume 25 ran issues one to six through 2025, and volume 26 follows the same pattern into 2026.一年六期。第 25 卷在 2025 年出满六期，第 26 卷照同样的节奏走进 2026 年。

• Open access was part of the design rather than a later conversion. Every paper from volume 1 has been free at the point of reading, and gold open access now accounts for 99.41 percent of the file.开放获取是设计的一部分，不是后来改的。从第 1 卷起，每篇文章在阅读端都免费，如今金色开放获取占全部内容的 99.41%。

• Crossref holds 3,172 records, a backfile that runs unbroken from 2001.Crossref 存着 3,172 条记录，过刊从 2001 年起没有断口。

• Annual output has drifted down. Crossref counts 144 items for 2019, 118 for 2023 and 111 for 2025, a decline of roughly a fifth across six years.年发量在往下走。Crossref 记 2019 年 144 条，2023 年 118 条，2025 年 111 条，六年里少了大约五分之一。

• Five impact factors read 1.857 for 2021, 2.066 for 2022, 2.1 for 2023, 2 for 2024 and 2.3 for 2025, a climb that stalls for two years and then resumes.五个影响因子是 2021 年 1.857，2022 年 2.066，2023 年 2.1，2024 年 2，2025 年 2.3。一路往上，中间停了两年，随后又走。

• The 2025 file credits 4,767 citations, gives a cited half-life of 9.6 years and an immediacy index of 0.4, and places the title at the 80.5th percentile of entomology.2025 年的表记下 4,767 次引用，被引半衰期 9.6 年，即时指数 0.4，并把刊物放在昆虫学第 80.5 百分位。

• Usage is large for a specialist title. The platform reports 424,299 full-text downloads in 2025, which is the visible payoff of a journal that charges neither author nor reader.对一个专科刊来说，使用量很大。平台报 2025 年全文下载 424,299 次，一份既不向作者也不向读者收钱的刊物，好处就落在这里。

• Two production figures are published alongside the citations. The median time to a first decision is eight days and the median to a final decision is also eight, so the two medians coincide.引文数据旁边还挂着两个流程数字。到首次决定的中位时间是八天，到最终决定的中位数也是八天，两个中位数正好落在同一天。

• Scopus reads the journal a little differently, with CiteScore 3.4 and a rank of 50th of 193 in insect science, and SNIP at 0.941.Scopus 的看法略有出入，CiteScore 3.4，在昆虫科学 193 种里排第 50 位，SNIP 值 0.941。

Editors

• Louis S. Hesler holds the editor-in-chief post. He works for the agricultural research service of the United States Department of Agriculture at Brookings, South Dakota, not in a university department.Louis S. Hesler 任主编。他在美国农业部农业研究局工作，驻南达科他州的布鲁金斯，不在大学院系里。

• Two senior editors sit below him, Ellen G. Klinger of Ohio State University and Amr Mohamed of Cairo University, one in Columbus and one in Giza, which spreads the desk over two continents.他下面有两位资深编辑，俄亥俄州立大学的 Ellen G. Klinger 与开罗大学的 Amr Mohamed，一位在哥伦布，一位在吉萨，编辑桌因此横跨两洲。

• Thirty-one subject editors carry the sections. They are spread across the United States, Greece, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Romania, Austria, Belgium and China, and between them they cover every section the scope page lists.三十一位学科编辑分管各栏。他们散在美国、希腊、意大利、巴西、阿根廷、罗马尼亚、奥地利、比利时与中国，几栏的题目由他们分头看住。

• Eleven associate editors work underneath them, a group drawn largely from American universities and USDA laboratories, and the list is the newest layer of names on the masthead.下面还有十一位副编辑，多来自美国高校与农业部实验室，名单上的这些名字，是刊头里最新添上的一层。

• Review is double anonymous, and the journal adopted it to reduce bias, with identities withheld in both directions and manuscripts prepared so that neither side can be identified from the file.审稿是双盲，刊物采用这一制度是为了减少偏见，两个方向都不露身份，稿子也要处理到从文件里认不出人来。

• Because the reviewers do not know who wrote the paper, the arguments in a report have to stand on the methods and the data, which fits a journal that judges soundness before novelty.审稿人不知道作者是谁，报告里的理由就只能立在方法与数据上，这正合一份先看站不站得住、再看新不新的刊物。

• The board reads like a map of applied entomology. There are USDA laboratories in several states, land-grant universities in the Midwest and the South, and single seats in Vienna, Athens, Thessaloniki, Rende, Tervuren and La Plata.编委会的名单像一张应用昆虫学的地图。好几个州有农业部的实验室，中西部与南部有赠地大学，维也纳、雅典、塞萨洛尼基、伦德、特尔菲伦与拉普拉塔各有一席。

• Two of the associate editors are in Athens and one in Volos, which puts a Greek cluster inside a journal run from South Dakota.副编辑里有两位在雅典，一位在沃洛斯，一份从南达科他办起的刊物里因此有一小簇希腊人。

• The society's annual meeting feeds one section directly. Student debates are written up and published, so a debate held in the autumn can be read in a refereed issue the following year.学会年会直接喂养一个栏目。学生辩论整理成文后刊出，秋天辩过的一场，第二年就能在经评议的期号里读到。