Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Journal of Oceanology and Limnology is a bimonthly journal of the sea and of inland waters, published in Beijing by Science Press together with Springer and sponsored by the Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, ninth of twenty-one titles in Limnology.《海洋湖沼学报》（Journal of Oceanology and Limnology）研究海洋与内陆水体，为双月刊，由科学出版社与施普林格在北京联合出版，中国海洋湖沼学会主办。2025 年影响因子 1.9，在湖沼学类目二十一种刊物中列第九。

Papers range from plankton ecology and sediment geochemistry to circulation modelling, aquaculture and instrument design, and they appear as reviews, research papers or notes. The 2025 count records 155 articles and 2314 citations to the whole run, with a cited half-life of 4.5 years.内容从浮游生物生态与沉积地球化学，延伸到环流模拟、水产养殖与仪器研制，体裁分综述、研究论文与札记三类。2025 年统计的年发文量为 155 篇，全刊累计被引 2314 次，引用半衰期 4.5 年。

Scope

• The stated aim is to disseminate original research on oceanology and limnology from China and from the rest of the world, and the journal addresses seas, estuaries and lakes rather than one method or one school.办刊宗旨为发表海洋学与湖沼学的原创研究，来稿不限国别，对象是海洋、河口与湖泊本身，不拘一种方法或一个学派。
• Marine and freshwater biology takes the largest share: plankton taxonomy and ecology, benthos, microbial diversity, bioinformatics, bioengineering, and the molecular tools now used for population structure and species identification.海洋与淡水生物学占版面最多，涵盖浮游生物的鉴定与生态、底栖生物、微生物多样性、生物信息学与生物工程，以及用于种群结构与物种鉴定的分子手段。
• Physical oceanography is handled as mathematical and computational physics as much as observation, covering circulation and shelf fronts, internal waves, turbulence and mixing, storm surges, and the models built to reproduce them.物理海洋学既重观测，也重数学与计算物理，涉及环流与陆架锋面、内波、湍流混合、风暴潮，以及为重现这些过程而建立的数值模型。
• Geology enters through sedimentology, geophysics, palaeontology and geochemistry, so core records, seismic profiles, microfossils and isotope curves all reach the page, usually attached to a question about past seas or lake levels.地质学经沉积学、地球物理学、古生物学与地球化学进入版面，岩芯记录、地震剖面、微体化石与同位素曲线都有，多与古海洋或湖面变化的问题相连。
• Chemical work covers the geochemistry of seawater and lake water, nutrient cycles, the transformation of carbon and nitrogen, trace metals, dissolved organic matter, and the biochemistry of marine organisms.化学方向覆盖海水与湖水的地球化学、营养盐循环、碳与氮的转化、痕量金属、溶解有机质，以及海洋生物的生物化学。
• Hydrology and meteorology supply the forcing side, from river discharge and sediment load through evaporation and monsoon variability to typhoons, air-sea exchange of heat and carbon dioxide, and the rainfall that refills the lakes.水文学与气象学提供驱动一侧的内容，涉及河流径流与输沙、蒸发与季风变率、台风、海气之间的热量与二氧化碳交换，以及补给湖泊的降水。
• Geography and remote sensing appear in coastal landform studies, delta evolution, basin morphometry, and the mapping of algal blooms or turbidity plumes from satellite data.地理学与遥感见于海岸地貌、三角洲演变、流域形态测量，以及依据卫星资料绘制藻华与浊度羽状流的工作。
• On the practical side the journal takes aquaculture and stock enhancement, marine resource exploration, the pharmacology of natural products, environmental protection, marine engineering and instrument design.应用一侧收录水产养殖与增殖放流、海洋资源勘探、天然产物药理、环境保护、海洋工程与仪器研制。
• Eutrophication, hypoxia and harmful algal blooms are treated as standing problems of Chinese lakes and marginal seas, and papers often couple long monitoring records with enclosure or mesocosm experiments.富营养化、缺氧与有害藻华按中国湖泊与近海的老问题处理，论文常把长期监测记录与围隔或中型生态系统实验合在一处。
• Regional coverage leans on the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China Seas and on large lakes such as Taihu, Chaohu and Qinghai, though submissions from other seas are read on the same terms.区域取材偏重渤海、黄海、东海与南海，以及太湖、巢湖、青海湖等大湖，其他海域的来稿按同一标准审理。
• Reviews are meant to consolidate a field rather than summarise it, and notes carry single findings, new records or methodological refinements too short to fill a full paper.综述意在整合一个方向，不作文献摘要，札记则承载单项发现、新记录或方法改良，篇幅不足以撑起一篇正式论文。
• Topical collections gather work from symposia of the sponsoring society and from national cruises, and guest editors recruited from the relevant programme put them together.专题集合收录主办学会研讨会与国家航次产出的稿件，由相关计划中聘来的客座编辑主持编定。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 appeared in 1982 as the Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, whose Chinese title reads Zhongguo Haiyang Huzhao Xuebao, printed and issued from Beijing by Science Press.1982 年出版第 1 卷第 1 期，旧题为 Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology，中文题名《中国海洋湖沼学报》，由科学出版社在北京印行。
• The sponsoring body was the Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology, and the editorial office was placed at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, where it has stayed.主办方为中国海洋湖沼学会，编辑部设于青岛的中国科学院海洋研究所，此后一直未迁。
• The old title ran to thirty-five volumes and closed with volume 35, number 6 in November 2017, registered under the print number 0254-4059.旧题名共出三十五卷，止于 2017 年 11 月的第 35 卷第 6 期，纸本刊号 0254-4059。
• Volume 36 opened in 2018 under the present name, and the journal took a fresh pair of numbers, 2096-5508 for print and 2523-3521 for the online edition.2018 年第 36 卷起改用现名，刊号换为纸本 2096-5508 与网络版 2523-3521。
• Numbering was never restarted, so volume 36 follows volume 35 directly and 2026 is filling volume 44.卷号没有重起，第 36 卷紧接第 35 卷，2026 年编到第 44 卷。
• Dropping Chinese from the masthead widened the claim of the title, and the aims now invite work on oceanology and limnology from all over the world.刊名去掉中国二字之后，收录范围随之放宽，现行宗旨写明接受世界各地的海洋学与湖沼学稿件。
• Science Press holds the Chinese side of the imprint while Springer distributes the title through SpringerLink, so the front matter carries both names and a citation may give either.科学出版方承担中方出版，施普林格经 SpringerLink 发行，版权页两家并列，引文中的出版方可作其一。
• A volume holds six issues, numbered one to six, and Crossref lists that pattern without exception from volume 36 through volume 43.每卷一至六期，Crossref 的记录从第 36 卷起至第 43 卷无一例外。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9 and the five-year figure also 1.9, after 1.265 in 2021, 1.554 in 2022, and 1.3 in both 2023 and 2024.2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子同为 1.9，此前 2021 年为 1.265，2022 年为 1.554，2023 年与 2024 年均为 1.3。
• Limnology ranks the journal Q2 at 9 of 21 and Oceanography Q3 at 42 of 67, which puts the composite percentile at 59.5.湖沼学类目列 Q2，排名 9/21，海洋学类目列 Q3，排名 42/67，综合百分位为 59.5。
• Roughly 155 papers appear each year, the run has drawn 2314 citations, and a cited half-life of 4.5 years shows how quickly marine findings are overtaken.年发文约 155 篇，全刊累计被引 2314 次，引用半衰期 4.5 年，海洋类成果被新作取代之快由此可见。
• Access runs on subscription with an open access option on individual articles, and the gold share stood at 0.59 per cent in the 2025 figures.发行以订阅为主，单篇可选开放获取，2025 年统计的金色开放获取占比为 0.59%。
• The National Library of Medicine closed its record for the old title at volume 35 and opened a new one for 2018 under the abbreviation J Oceanol Limnol.美国国家医学图书馆在旧题名第 35 卷处结项，2018 年起为新题名另立记录，缩写定为 J Oceanol Limnol。
• The archive divides at 2018 for anyone tracing a run backwards, since the old volumes carry one number and the volumes from 36 another, with no issue straddling the change of title.回溯旧卷的人会在 2018 年遇到一道分界，旧卷用一号，第 36 卷起另用一号，没有哪一期横跨更名。

Editors

• Song Sun, of the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, is editor-in-chief, and his work on zooplankton and jellyfish blooms sits close to the marine biology the journal prints.主编（Song Sun）任职于青岛的中国科学院海洋研究所，其浮游动物与水母暴发的研究，与刊物的海洋生物学版面同调。
• Yang Chen is editorial director and runs the office at 32 Fushan Road, Qingdao 266071, where questions about manuscripts, proofs and permissions are answered.（Yang Chen）任编辑部主任，主持青岛福山路 32 号的编辑部，稿件、校样与授权的询问在此答复。
• The office is housed by the Institute of Oceanology, which also accommodates the society's secretariat, so journal and sponsor share one street address.编辑部设在中国科学院海洋研究所院内，学会秘书处亦在此办公，刊物与主办方共用一处门牌。
• Xinjun Chen of Shanghai Ocean University joined as associate editor for the term 2024 to 2030, bringing stock assessment and squid fishery work into the editorial range.上海海洋大学的（Xinjun Chen）受聘为副主编，任期 2024 年至 2030 年，渔业资源评估与头足类渔业由此进入编辑范围。
• Board members come from the institute's own divisions, from universities and marine laboratories elsewhere in China, and increasingly from abroad as the scope widened after 2018.编委来自该所各研究室、国内高校与海洋研究机构，境外成员在 2018 年扩围之后逐步增多。
• Manuscripts enter through ScholarOne, and the system routes each submission to a handling editor who then picks referees from the board and from outside it.稿件经 ScholarOne 系统进入，由系统分派给责任编辑，再由其从编委与外部专家中挑选评审人。
• The journal describes itself as internationally peer reviewed, and referees are chosen for the question a paper asks rather than for the seniority of its authors.刊物自述为国际同行评审，评审人按论文所问的问题选定，不看作者资历。
• Three formats are open to authors, the review, the research paper and the note, and the note is the route for a single result or a short methodological point.作者可选三种体裁，即综述、研究论文与札记，札记用于单项结果或简短的方法要点。
• Unsolicited reviews are considered as well, though the editors prefer a short proposal to the office before a long manuscript is written.综述也收自由来稿，编辑部希望作者先寄一份简短选题说明，再动笔写长稿。
• Authorship, data availability, image integrity and competing interests are checked at revision, and a correction is published with a link to the paper it repairs.署名、数据可得性、图像完整性与利益冲突在修回阶段核查，更正声明与原文互相链接。
• Accepted papers are posted on SpringerLink ahead of the issue, and the printed version follows in the next number, which shortens the wait before a paper can be cited.录用稿先在 SpringerLink 上线，再排入最近一期纸本，论文从录用到可被引用之间的等待因此缩短。