Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Journal of Mammalian Evolution (commonly abbreviated as J. Mamm. Evol.) is a peer-reviewed quarterly published by Springer Nature. It was founded in New York in March 1993 and serves as the official journal of the Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution, with a 2025 impact factor of 2.0.Journal of Mammalian Evolution（常用缩写 J. Mamm. Evol.）是施普林格自然出版的同行评审季刊，1993 年 3 月创刊于纽约，是哺乳动物演化研究学会的官方刊物，2025 年影响因子为 2.0。^[1]

Scope

The journal describes itself as a multidisciplinary forum, bringing together work on the comparative morphology, molecular biology, paleobiology, genetics, developmental and reproductive biology, biogeography, systematics, ethology and ecology, and population dynamics of mammals. Its purpose is to examine how these otherwise disparate kinds of data can be analysed to reconstruct mammalian evolution.该刊自述为一份多学科论坛，把研究哺乳动物的比较形态学、分子生物学、古生物学、遗传学、发育与生殖生物学、生物地理学、系统分类学、行为生态学、生态学以及种群动态的研究放在同一框架内，宗旨在于考察如何用这些彼此不同的数据重建哺乳动物的演化历程。

• Evidence base: no single type of evidence is preferred. Fossil material, anatomical observation of living taxa, molecular sequences and phylogenetic analysis may each be used alone or in combination, and disciplinary boundaries do not stand in the way of submission.数据取向：不偏好某一类证据，古生物化石材料、现生类群的解剖观察、分子序列与系统发育分析都可独立或合并使用，学科之间的界限并不构成收稿障碍。*
• Article types: the journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed original articles and reviews derived from both laboratory and field studies, maintains a book review section, and regularly assembles special issues and collections on themes such as cetacean evolution, fossil carnivores and dental evolution.论文体裁：刊发来自实验室与野外研究的高质量同行评审原创论文与综述，另设书评栏目，并经常以专辑与专刊形式围绕鲸类演化、化石食肉动物、牙齿演化等专题集中组稿。*
• Open access: the journal is a hybrid title combining subscription and open-access publication, and it has introduced continuous article publishing so that articles no longer wait for the print issue.开放获取：属混合开放获取模式，订阅制与开放获取并行，同时已引入连续文章出版，不再等待纸刊编期。*

History

• March 1993: the journal was founded in New York by Plenum Press, with volume 1 issue 1 appearing in March. The founding context was the absence of a dedicated outlet for mammalian phylogenetics, and the opening issue concentrated on morphology, systematics and early molecular studies.1993 年 3 月：在纽约由 Plenum Press 创刊，第 1 卷第 1 期于 3 月出版，出版背景是当时缺少一份专门讨论哺乳动物系统发育的专门刊物；首期文章集中在形态学、系统分类学与早期的分子研究。*
• The 1990s: wider use of molecular clock methods in mammalian phylogenetics produced a sharp rise in interest in the field. Early volumes appeared quarterly and favoured conceptual advances in evolutionary biology over the exhaustive listing of data.1990 年代：分子钟方法在哺乳动物系统发育研究中的普及使该学科的兴趣急升，早期各卷按季出版，内容以演化生物学上的概念性进展为主而非数据罗列。*
• 1998 to 2004: Plenum was first acquired by Wolters Kluwer, after which Kluwer's academic publishing business was taken over by Springer Nature. The journal's publishing home thus moved into Springer Nature, while its title has remained unchanged since founding.1998 年至 2004 年：Plenum 先被 Wolters Kluwer 收购，其后 Kluwer 的学术出版业务被施普林格自然纳入，期刊的出版主体由此逐步转入施普林格自然旗下，刊名自创刊起未再改动。*
• 2007 to 2021: John R. Wible served as Editor-in-Chief. His tenure emphasised combining paleontological and neontological approaches to reconstruct mammalian relationships, and the impact factor held steady in the 2-point range throughout.2007 年至 2021 年：John R. Wible 任主编，其任内强调把古生物学与现生生物学的方法结合起来重建哺乳动物的系统关系，该刊影响因子在此期间稳定在 2 分区间。*
• 2021 to present: Darin A. Croft succeeded as Editor-in-Chief, becoming the fifth person to hold the post. Under him the impact factor stood at 2.1 in 2024 and 2.0 in 2025, and the journal continued to refresh its coverage in areas such as cetaceans and carnivores through curated collections.2021 年至今：Darin A. Croft 接任主编，成为创刊以来的第五位主编；他任职后影响因子在 2024 年为 2.1、2025 年为 2.0，并推动以专辑形式持续更新在鲸类与食肉动物等方向上的组稿。*

Editors

The editorial team is sizeable. Beneath the Editor-in-Chief sits a dedicated Book Review Editor and some thirty Associate Editors drawn from many countries, with a further tier of formal Editorial Board members, many of whom also belong to the relevant scientific societies.该刊的编辑队伍规模可观，主编之下设有一名专司书评的编辑与约三十名来自多国的副主编，另设一层正式编委，其中不少人同时是相关学会的成员。

• Editor-in-Chief: the current Editor-in-Chief is Darin A. Croft of the Department of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University, the fifth person to hold the post since the journal's founding.主编：现任主编为 Darin A. Croft，任职于凯斯西储大学解剖学系，是该刊创刊以来第五位主编。*
• Past Editors-in-Chief: before Croft the post was held in turn by Jean-Louis Hartenberger, W. Patrick Luckett, Mark S. Springer and John R. Wible.历任主编：在 Croft 之前，该职先后由 Jean-Louis Hartenberger、W. Patrick Luckett、Mark S. Springer 与 John R. Wible 担任。*
• Associate Editors: the Associate Editors are widely dispersed, drawn from Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, the University of Florida and Yale University in the United States, Humboldt University of Berlin and the Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt, the University of Helsinki in Finland, and the University of Malaga in Spain, among others.副主编构成：副主编的国际分布相当分散，机构包括阿根廷国家科学与技术研究委员会、英国的剑桥大学与爱丁堡大学、美国的佛罗里达大学与耶鲁大学、德国的柏林洪堡大学与法兰克福森肯贝格自然博物馆、芬兰的赫尔辛基大学以及西班牙马拉加大学等。*
• Editorial Board: board members include K. Christopher Beard of the University of Kansas, Zhe-Xi Luo of the University of Chicago, Eric Sargis of Yale University, Karen Sears of the University of California Los Angeles, Jessica M. Theodor of the University of Calgary and Guillermo D'Elía of Austral University in Chile, covering morphology, systematics and evolutionary ecology.正式编委：编委成员包括堪萨斯大学的 K. Christopher Beard、芝加哥大学的 Zhe-Xi Luo、耶鲁大学的 Eric Sargis、加州大学洛杉矶分校的 Karen Sears、加拿大卡尔加里大学的 Jessica M. Theodor 与智利奥斯特拉尔大学的 Guillermo D'Elía 等，分工涵盖形态学、系统分类学与演化生态学。^[2]
• Submission system: manuscripts are submitted through Springer's online system and undergo peer review, while calls for contributions to special issues and collections run year round.投稿系统：稿件经 Springer 旗下的在线投稿系统提交并实行同行评审，专辑与专刊常年公开征稿。*