Marine Ecology

Marine Ecology is a peer-reviewed serial for benthic and pelagic marine ecology, issued by Wiley and descended from a title founded in Berlin in 1980.《海洋生态学》是一份同行评审的海洋底栖与浮游生态学期刊，由 Wiley 出版，其前身于 1980 年创刊于柏林。

Six numbers now make up a volume, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports put the title at 1.9 in Marine and Freshwater Biology, 57th among 124 journals.当前每卷出版 6 期，2025 年《期刊引证报告》在海洋与淡水生物学类目给出 1.9 的影响因子，124 种期刊中列第 57 位。

Its pages read ecology through evolutionary questions, moving from population genetics and the evolution of life histories to the composition of sea-floor communities.刊物所载研究以演化问题切入生态学，从种群遗传与生活史演化，延伸到海底群落的组成与动态。

Roughly 70 to 90 papers appear in a year, and the 2025 count of indexed articles stands at 69 against 2571 citations recorded.每年刊出论文约 70 至 90 篇，2025 年收录论文 69 篇，记录总被引 2571 次。

Scope

• The scope statement opens with structure and dynamics, and it names marine benthic and pelagic ecosystems, communities and populations as the material the journal works on.范围声明以结构与动态开篇，把海洋底栖与浮游生态系统、群落及种群列为刊物所处理的材料。

• Benthic and pelagic work sit side by side in that phrase, so a study of sediment infauna and a study of open-water plankton belong to one remit.该表述把底栖与浮游并列，沉积物内栖动物的研究与开阔水体浮游生物的研究因此同属一个范围。

• The opening sentence fixes the units of interest at community and population level, not at the level of a single-species account.首句把关注单位定在群落与种群层面，并未落在单一物种的描述上。

• What follows is the pairing of ecology with evolution, which the statement calls the critical links between the two for marine organisms.接下来是生态学与演化论的接合，声明称之为两者在海洋生物身上的关键联系。

• Priority goes to contributions that clarify fundamental aspects of species interaction and of adaptation to the environment, a bar set above description alone.优先刊发阐明物种相互作用与环境适应之基本面向的稿件，门槛因此高于单纯描述。

• The statement asks for integration of information from several levels of organisation, running from molecules through cells and organisms up to ecosystems.声明要求整合多个组织层次的信息，从分子、细胞与个体一直贯通到生态系统。

• A companion list sets out the disciplines to be drawn on, among them molecular biology and genetics, and it adds biochemistry and physiology.与之相配的清单列出可供调用的学科，分子生物学与遗传学在其列，生物化学与生理学亦被写入。

• Natural history and geography appear on that list as well, with palaeontology and modelling closing it, which admits field observation, spatial analysis and quantitative work alike.博物学与地理学同在该清单之上，古生物学与建模收尾，野外观察、空间分析与定量工作因此都被容纳。

• The angle of view stays ecological throughout, and each borrowed discipline is expected to serve an ecological question rather than to stand on its own.视角自始至终是生态学的，每一门借用的学科都须服务于生态学问题，而非自成一体。

• Population genetic processes come next in the statement, together with the evolution of life histories and the morphology of traits.声明随后转向种群遗传过程，生活史演化与性状形态亦在其列。

• Microevolutionary questions therefore sit inside the remit, and a paper on gene flow among disconnected populations needs no special pleading at the desk.微观演化问题因此在范围之内，关于隔离种群间基因流的论文无须在编辑台前另作辩解。

• Molecular and biochemical methods are treated as means rather than ends, since the statement files them among the disciplines that feed an ecological reading.分子与生化方法被当作手段，声明把它们列在供给生态学解读的学科之中。

• Physiological work on stress tolerance finds a place beside behaviour and life history, provided the ecological consequence is argued rather than assumed.胁迫耐受的生理学工作同样在范围之内，但它须像行为与生活史研究那样把生态学后果论证清楚。

• Only original contributions are named as the journal's fare, so the scope fixes a genre as well as a subject for what arrives.声明只把原创论文列为刊物的内容，范围因此既限定题材，也限定体裁。

History

• The first volume carries the year 1980, and the NLM serial record gives Berlin as the place of publication with Paul Parey Scientific Publishers as the founding house.第 1 卷记年为 1980 年，NLM 期刊记录以柏林为出版地，原始出版方为 Paul Parey Scientific Publishers。

• A subtitle, An Evolutionary Perspective, stood beside the title then and declared the evolutionary reading that the scope still asks for.那些年刊名旁边带有副题「演化视角」，标明范围声明至今仍在要求的演化解读。

• Paul Parey kept the journal through the 1980s and 1990s, and that German imprint accounts for the country of publication recorded for the title.Paul Parey 在 1980 年代与 1990 年代持续出版该刊，这块德国招牌也解释了登记在案的出版国。

• Wiley took the journal over in 1999, the year the imprint line of the same record changes to Wiley of Berlin.1999 年 Wiley 接手，同一份记录中的出版行自这一年起改为柏林的 Wiley。

• Registry entries keep the older partnership, since Crossref still lists the publisher as Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) years after Blackwell was folded into the group.登记条目仍留着旧日合作的痕迹，Blackwell 并入集团多年之后，Crossref 的出版方一栏仍写作 Wiley（Blackwell Publishing）。

• Volume numbering has run unbroken from the start, which puts volume 1 in 1980 and volume 47 in 2026.卷次自创刊起未曾中断，1980 年为第 1 卷，2026 年为第 47 卷。

• Four numbers a year were the rule from 1981, the rhythm the NLM record notes for the run that begins that year.1981 年起每年 4 期成为常规，NLM 的记录正把这一年当作该节奏的起点。

• Volumes have since grown to six numbers, and volume 45 in 2024 carried six distinct issue numbers in Crossref.此后每卷增至 6 期，2024 年第 45 卷在 Crossref 中带有 6 个互不相同的期号。

• The registered title is now plain Marine Ecology in Crossref and OpenAlex, while the JCR abbreviation MAR ECOL-EVOL PERSP keeps a trace of the dropped subtitle.Crossref 与 OpenAlex 登记的刊名现为 Marine Ecology，JCR 缩写 MAR ECOL-EVOL PERSP 则留着旧副题的痕迹。

• Front matter of a 2024 issue announced a relaunch of the journal and invited applications for the editorial board, with young board members named as a separate tier.2024 年某一期的前置页宣布刊物改版重启，公开征集编委人选，另设青年编委一档。

• Output has swung widely, from 38 registered items in 2012 to 136 in 2014, before settling near 70 to 90 a year in the mid 2020s.发文量起伏很大，2012 年登记 38 篇，2014 年升至 136 篇，2020 年代中期落在每年 70 至 90 篇。

• Some 2360 DOIs stand under the two ISSNs, and the 2020s run has held between 46 and 90 items a year.两个刊号之下共登记约 2360 条 DOI，2020 年代每年保持在 46 至 90 篇之间。

• The impact factor read 1.733 for 2022, fell to 1.5 for 2023, then recovered to 1.8 for 2024 and 1.9 for 2025.影响因子 2022 年为 1.733，2023 年降至 1.5，2024 年回升至 1.8，2025 年为 1.9。

• The 2025 table records a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.58 and a percentile of 54.4, with a cited half-life of 13.8 years.2025 年列表中期刊引用指标为 0.58，百分位 54.4，被引半衰期 13.8 年。

• Access rests on subscription with a hybrid author option, and gold articles accounted for 37.16 per cent of the output counted for 2025.刊物以订阅制为底，另设混合式作者选项，金色开放获取文章占 2025 年统计产出的 37.16%。

• Indexing runs to Science Citation Index Expanded and to PubMed, the latter limited to selected citations rather than the full run of papers.收录范围包括 Science Citation Index Expanded 与 PubMed，后者只收选登引用，并未覆盖全部论文。

Editors

• Manuscripts enter through Wiley's ScholarOne instance at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mae, which carries submission, revision and decision traffic for the title.稿件经 Wiley 的 ScholarOne 系统递交，地址为 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mae，投稿、修回与决定都在此流转。

• Papers are written in English, and language is weighed at the desk before referees are approached, so a manuscript needing heavy editing may return early.论文须以英语写成，语言在初审阶段即被衡量，文字需大改的稿件可能较早退回。

• The editorial office is registered with Wiley at Malden, Massachusetts, the address carried in the journal's own directory entries.编辑部登记在马萨诸塞州马尔登的 Wiley 处，刊物的名录条目即用这一地址。

• Board recruitment runs in the open, since the 2024 relaunch notice asked interested researchers to write in and offered places to those willing to take an active part.编委征集是公开进行的，2024 年的改版通告请有意者主动联系，并把位置留给愿意实际参与的人。

• A young editorial board forms a second tier for early-career researchers, and it was set up together with the senior board during the relaunch.青年编委构成第二层，面向职业生涯早期的研究者，与资深编委在改版中同时设立。

• The stated aim of that recruitment was to raise the journal's impact within the scientific community, which makes board service a working role rather than an honour.通告所述目标是提升刊物在学术共同体中的影响，编委一职因此带有实际工作，而不只是荣誉头衔。

• Screening follows the scope, and a manuscript confined to one level of organisation or one discipline reads as a weaker fit than one joining several.初审依范围声明进行，停留在单一组织层次或单一学科之内的稿件，被认为不如跨层次与跨学科的稿件贴合。

• Referees are approached after that screening, and a revision is expected to answer their objections rather than to add length.初筛之后才送外部评审，修回须回应评审人的质疑，而不以增加篇幅了事。

• Each number opens with an Issue Information page that prints the editorial and publication particulars of that issue, a habit kept from the print years.每期开头有 Issue Information 页，刊出当期的编辑与出版细目，这一做法沿自纸本时期。

• Because the remit pairs ecology with evolution, the desk looks for a question that the two literatures can answer together, and a purely faunistic report rarely clears that test.范围把生态学与演化论配成对，编辑台因此寻找两套文献能共同回答的问题，纯区系报告很少过得了这一关。