Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution is a monthly open access journal published by Wiley for the British Ecological Society, established in 2010 as the society's fifth journal and devoted to methodological advances in ecology and evolution, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.7.《生态学与进化方法》（Methods in Ecology and Evolution）由（Wiley）代表英国生态学会出版，2010 年创刊，为该学会的第五种期刊，为月刊且完全开放获取，专事生态学与进化生物学的方法学进展，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7。

Scope

• The journal exists to promote new methods in ecology and evolution and to secure their uptake by the research community, rather than to report new natural history.期刊旨在推动生态学与进化学新方法的发展，并促使其被研究群体采用，而非报道新的博物学发现。
• Analytical, practical and conceptual methodological developments all qualify, provided the method is genuinely new and useful beyond a single study system.分析型、实践型与概念型方法学进展均在范围之内，前提是方法确属新颖且效用不限于单一研究体系。
• Statistical and modelling papers form a large share of the content, including work on inference, uncertainty and model selection.统计与建模类论文占内容的一大部分，涉及推断、不确定性与模型选择等议题。
• Field and laboratory techniques, from tagging and tracking to imaging and molecular protocols, are treated as publishable methods in their own right.从标记与追踪到成像与分子操作，野外与实验室技术本身即可作为可发表的方法。
• Software, code and workflow papers are welcomed, and reproducibility of the method is an explicit editorial value.软件、代码与工作流类论文受到欢迎，方法的可复现性是期刊明确的编辑价值。
• Submissions are expected to be accessible to ecologists and evolutionary biologists who are not specialists in the method concerned.投稿须让并非该方法专家的生态学者与进化生物学者也能读懂。
• The journal serves a wide range of subdisciplines, from population and community ecology to phylogenetics, macroecology and conservation science.期刊覆盖广泛的分支学科，从种群与群落生态学到系统发生学、宏观生态学与保护科学。

History

• The title was established in 2010 as the fifth journal in the British Ecological Society's portfolio, which already included the Journal of Ecology and Functional Ecology.本刊于 2010 年创办，为英国生态学会期刊系列的第五种，该系列此前已包括（Journal of Ecology）与（Functional Ecology）。
• It was placed with Wiley-Blackwell, the society's long-standing publishing partner, and has appeared monthly since launch.期刊交由学会长期合作的出版方（Wiley-Blackwell）出版，自创刊起即为月刊。
• In June 2022 the society announced a move to a full open access model from January 2023, with papers submitted from 6 July 2022 published open access.2022 年 6 月，学会宣布自 2023 年 1 月起转为完全开放获取，2022 年 7 月 6 日以后投稿的论文一律以开放获取方式发表。
• Conversion to open access removed the subscription barrier and made the journal dependent on article processing charges and on institutional agreements.转为开放获取后，订阅壁垒消除，期刊转而依赖论文处理费与机构协议。
• Reported acceptance is about 25 per cent, with a median of fifteen days from submission to first decision.公开的录用率约为 25%，自投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 15 天。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.7, against 6.2 in 2024 and 8.335 in 2022, and the journal ranks 25th of 205 in ecology.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7，2024 年为 6.2，2022 年为 8.335，在生态学类 205 种期刊中位列第 25。

Editors

• Aaron Ellison of Harvard University is executive editor, an ecologist and statistician known for work on forest dynamics and on reproducible analysis.执行主编（Aaron Ellison）任职于哈佛大学，为生态学家与统计学家，以森林动态与可复现分析研究著称。
• Natalie Cooper of the Natural History Museum in London is a senior editor and works on macroevolution and phylogenetic comparative methods.资深编辑（Natalie Cooper）任职于伦敦自然历史博物馆，研究宏观演化与系统发生比较方法。
• Nicolas Lecomte of the Universite de Moncton in Canada, a senior editor, studies trophic dynamics and food-web change in polar ecosystems.资深编辑（Nicolas Lecomte）任职于加拿大蒙克顿大学，研究极地生态系统的营养动态与食物网变化。
• Huijie Qiao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a senior editor whose work concerns ecological niche modelling and species distribution algorithms.资深编辑（Huijie Qiao）任职于中国科学院，研究生态位建模与物种分布算法。
• Hooman Latifi of K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Iran serves as commissioning editor and handles remote sensing and spatial methods.约稿编辑（Hooman Latifi）任职于伊朗赫瓦贾·纳西尔丁·图西理工大学，负责遥感与空间方法方向。
• The editorial office is run from the British Ecological Society, with a managing editor and an assistant editor coordinating peer review and production.编辑部设于英国生态学会，由一名执行编辑与一名助理编辑统筹同行评审与出版流程。