Journal of Quaternary Science

Journal of Quaternary Science is a peer-reviewed journal of Quaternary research published by Wiley in Chichester, England, and its first volume appeared in 1986, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9.《第四纪科学杂志》（Journal of Quaternary Science）是 Wiley 在英国奇切斯特出版的第四纪研究同行评议期刊，第 1 卷于 1986 年问世，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Coverage follows the earth's history across the last 2.58 million years, from archaeology to zoology, and eight issues reach subscribers each year under a five-year impact factor of 2.2.内容沿过去 258 万年的地球历史展开，学科从考古学一直排到动物学，每年出版 8 期，五年影响因子为 2.2。

Scope

• The journal states that it publishes original papers on any field of Quaternary research and aims to promote a wider appreciation and deeper understanding of the earth's history during the last 2.58 million years.刊物自述刊发第四纪研究任何方向的原创论文，意在推动对过去 258 万年地球历史的广泛认识与深入理解。

• Archaeology enters through stone tool assemblages, occupation sequences and the dating of dispersals, and work on early hominin behaviour sits beside stratigraphy from the same sites.考古学经由石器组合、居址序列与迁徙年代测定进入，早期人科行为的研究与同一遗址的地层工作相邻。

• Botany arrives as pollen diagrams, plant macrofossils and charcoal records, from which the vegetation of glacial and interglacial stages is rebuilt site by site.植物学以孢粉图谱、植物大化石与炭屑记录的形式出现，冰期与间冰期的植被据此逐点复原。

• Climatology takes in orbital forcing, abrupt events such as the Younger Dryas, monsoon histories and the regional expression of global temperature change.气候学涵盖轨道强迫、新仙女木期一类突变事件、季风史与全球温度变化的区域表现。

• Geochemistry supplies isotope ratios and elemental proxies from lake, marine and cave deposits, and such measurements are usually printed with the stratigraphy they belong to.地球化学提供湖泊、海洋与洞穴沉积中的同位素比值及元素指标，这类测定通常连同所属地层一并刊出。

• Geochronology holds a central place, with radiocarbon, luminescence, tephra and cosmogenic nuclide ages used to set sequences onto a common timescale.年代学处于中心位置，放射性碳、释光、火山灰与宇宙成因核素年龄把各地层序列放到同一时间标尺上。

• Geology and stratigraphy contribute basin fills, raised marine terraces and loess sequences, and correlation papers tying such archives together are part of the intake.地质学与地层学贡献盆地充填、抬升的海成阶地与黄土序列，把这些档案联系起来的对比文章也在来稿之列。

• Geomorphology ranges over glacial, fluvial, aeolian and coastal landforms, and landform mapping is still accepted as a result in its own right.地貌学涉及冰川、河流、风成与海岸地形，地形制图本身仍作为研究结果被接受。

• Geophysics appears as seismic profiling, magnetic susceptibility and ground-penetrating radar, methods that read sediment architecture before a core is cut.地球物理以地震剖面、磁化率与探地雷达的形式出现，这些方法在取芯之前先读出沉积结构。

• Glaciology brings ice-core records, glacier fluctuations and moraine dating, and the journal treats ice and sediment as two archives of one history.冰川学带来冰芯记录、冰川波动与冰碛年代，冰与沉积在刊内被视为同一段历史的两种档案。

• Limnology and palaeolimnology rest on varved lake sediments, where annual laminations give the fine chronology that coarser terrestrial sequences often lack.湖沼学与古湖沼学依托纹层湖泊沉积，年纹层给出粗粒陆相序列常常缺少的精细年代。

• Oceanography and palaeoceanography contribute marine cores, foraminiferal assemblages and sea-level reconstructions that tie terrestrial records to the ocean.海洋学与古海洋学贡献海相岩芯、有孔虫组合与海平面重建，陆相记录由此与海洋连上。

• Palaeoecology, palaeontology and zoology meet in faunal assemblages, beetle and mollusc records and extinction evidence, read alongside the sediments that hold them.古生态学、古生物学与动物学在动物群组合、甲虫与软体动物记录及灭绝证据上交汇，证据与其赋存沉积同读。

• Soil science reaches buried palaeosols and pedosedimentary sequences, which mark stable landsurfaces and hiatuses inside longer records.土壤学研究埋藏古土壤与成壤沉积序列，它们标出长记录中的稳定地面与沉积间断。

• Work that joins several of these fields is explicitly invited, and authors are asked to write for readers beyond the specialists of one discipline.跨越多个方向的合成研究受到明确欢迎，作者被要求把读者放在单一学科专家之外。

• Short communications and correspondence about material already printed are also weighed, which leaves room for comment beside the full papers.短篇通讯以及针对已刊材料的通信同样在考虑之列，评论与完整论文因此各有位置。

History

• Volume one appeared in 1986 from John Wiley & Sons at Chichester, the West Sussex address that the medical catalogue still carries as the imprint.第 1 卷于 1986 年由 John Wiley & Sons 在奇切斯特出版，美国国立医学图书馆的目录至今把这处西萨塞克斯郡的地址记为出版地。

• The title has never been renamed, so a citation from 1986 and one from 2026 point to the same name and the same ISSN 0267-8179.刊名从未更改，1986 年的引文与 2026 年的引文指向同一个名字与同一个 ISSN 0267-8179。

• Numbering has run unbroken since that first year, which makes the 2026 volume the forty-first and the 2025 volume the fortieth.卷号自第一年连续累加，2026 年为第 41 卷，2025 年为第 40 卷。

• The rhythm was bimonthly until 2000, when two additional issues were added each year, the arrangement the medical catalogue dates from that year onwards.2000 年以前为双月出刊，那一年起每年另增两期，医学目录把这一安排系于 2000 年及其后。

• Crossref issue data confirm the result, for volumes 38 to 41, covering 2023 to 2026, each run from issue 1 through issue 8.Crossref 的期号数据可以印证，2023 至 2026 年的第 38 至 41 卷都从第 1 期排到第 8 期。

• Early volumes were thin by present standards, since volume one carried two numbers and volume eight, dated 1993, ran to four — a quarter of the eight that fill a volume now.早期各卷按今天的标准相当单薄，第 1 卷只有 2 期，1993 年的第 8 卷排到第 4 期，只相当于如今一卷 8 期的四分之一。

• PubMed carries the journal under selected citations only, so the medical index holds part of the output and many papers reach readers without a PMID.PubMed 以选择性收录的方式登记本刊，医学索引只保有部分论文，许多文章因此没有 PMID。

• Impact factors have stayed inside a narrow band, at 2.738 in 2021, 1.9 in 2023, 2.2 in 2024 and 1.9 for 2025.影响因子一直在窄区间内移动，2021 年为 2.738，2023 年为 1.9，2024 年为 2.2，2025 年回到 1.9。

• Total citations stand near 4239, about 79 research items appear each year, and the cited half-life of 12.3 years marks a literature still in use.总被引接近 4239 次，每年刊出的研究文章约 79 篇，12.3 年的被引半衰期说明这批文献仍在使用。

• Two Journal Citation Reports categories carry it, geography, physical, where it ranks 48th of 71, and geosciences, multidisciplinary, where it ranks 156th of 259.《期刊引证报告》把它列入两个类目，自然地理类 71 种中排第 48，多学科地球科学类 259 种中排第 156。

• Both placings fall in the third quartile, and the journal carries a hybrid open access route that 58.73 per cent of recent authors have taken.两个排名都落在第三四分位，刊物走混合开放获取路线，近年有 58.73% 的作者选择了这条通道。

• The run has stayed with one publisher, John Wiley & Sons, and the imprint named on the 1986 volumes is the one catalogued today.刊物始终由同一家出版方 John Wiley & Sons 承印，1986 年各卷所印的出版者名目与今天编目记录里的相同。

Editors

• G. A. T. Duller of Aberystwyth University holds the editor-in-chief post and works from the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences in Ceredigion, Wales.主编由阿伯里斯特威斯大学（Aberystwyth University）的 G. A. T. Duller 担任，办公地点在该校位于锡尔迪金的地理与地球科学研究所。

• His own research lies in luminescence dating, so geochronology papers are handled close to laboratory practice rather than at arm's length.他本人的研究在释光测年，年代学稿件因此在贴近实验室实践的判断下处理。

• N. L. Balascio, of the Department of Geology at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, is the editor for the Americas.美洲稿件由弗吉尼亚州威廉与玛丽学院（College of William & Mary）地质系的 N. L. Balascio 负责。

• R. Newnham, at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences of Victoria University of Wellington, answers for Asia and Australasia.亚洲与大洋洲由惠灵顿维多利亚大学（Victoria University of Wellington）地理、环境与地球科学学院的 R. Newnham 负责。

• The three-way division routes submissions by region, so a paper from China or New Zealand is first read by an editor working in a similar time zone.三区分工按地区分流稿件，来自中国或新西兰的论文先由时区相近的编辑处理。

• The president of the Quaternary Research Association, N. Glasser of Aberystwyth's Institute of Geography, sits with the board as an ex officio member.第四纪研究协会主席、阿伯里斯特威斯大学地理研究所的 N. Glasser 以当然成员身份列席编委会。

• An editorial advisory board of more than forty members backs the three editors, with addresses that run from Lund and Stockholm to Lanzhou, Beijing, Hong Kong and Ahmedabad.四十余位学者的编辑顾问委员会支持三位编辑的工作，机构地址从隆德、斯德哥尔摩一直排到兰州、北京、香港与艾哈迈达巴德。

• Museums and archaeology departments sit beside geology and geography departments, since the British Museum, the Iziko South African Museum and Oxford's archaeology laboratory are all represented.博物馆与考古系同地质系、地理系并列，大英博物馆、伊齐科南非博物馆与牛津大学考古实验室都有人在册。

• Manuscripts reach the journal through ScholarOne Manuscripts, the submission site Wiley runs for it, and the author guidelines and board roster sit on its Wiley Online Library pages.稿件经出版方为该刊开设的 ScholarOne Manuscripts 投稿系统递交，作者指南与编委名册则放在 Wiley Online Library 的本刊页面上。

• Short communications and correspondence are weighed inside the same editorial structure, with no separate letters desk standing between author and editor.短篇通讯与通信在同一套编辑结构内评估，作者与编辑之间不另设独立的来信部门。