New Phytologist
New Phytologist (commonly abbreviated as ''New Phytol.') is a peer-reviewed academic journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation and published on its behalf by Wiley, issued twenty-four times a year. One of the longest established and most broadly cited general journals in plant science, it publishes original research ranging from intracellular processes to global environmental change.《新植物学家》（New Phytologist'，常用缩写为 New Phytol.'''''）是由新植物学家基金会（New Phytologist Foundation）所有、威立出版代为出版的同行评审学术期刊，每年出版二十四期。该刊是植物科学领域历史最悠久、引用最广的综合刊物之一，刊载从细胞内过程到全球环境变化的原创研究。
Scope
The journal treats plant science problems as objects of study in their own right, and expects a paper to carry a generalizable mechanistic claim within botany rather than one confined to a particular species and set of conditions. The foundation groups its research into five sections: physiology and development, environment, interaction, evolution, and transformative plant biotechnology. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的取稿立场是「以植物科学问题本身为研究对象」，论文须在植物学内部具有可推广的机制含义，而非仅在特定物种与条件下成立。基金会将研究归为五个板块：生理与发育、环境、互作、演化，以及变革性植物生物技术。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：[1]
- Physiology and development: plant hormones and signal transduction, photosynthesis and carbon metabolism, cell and organ development, and polarity and growth regulation.生理与发育： 植物激素与信号转导、光合作用与碳代谢、细胞与器官发育、极性与生长调控。
- Environment: light and water stress, salinity and heavy-metal tolerance, rhizosphere and soil interactions, and the effects of global change on plants.环境： 光与水分胁迫、盐与重金属耐性、根际与土壤互作、全球变化对植物的影响。
- Interaction: relations among plants, pathogens and pollinators, symbiosis and mycorrhizae, nodules and nitrogen fixation, and interactions between plants and herbivores.互作： 植物与病原菌及传粉者的关系、共生与菌根、根瘤与固氮、植物与植食动物。
- Evolution: speciation and phylogeny, morphological evolution across plant lineages, and palaeobotany and the fossil record.演化： 物种形成与系统发育、植物类群的形态演化、古植物学与化石证据。
- Genes and genomes: plant genome structure and function, gene regulatory networks, epigenetic variation, and applications of gene editing and synthetic biology.基因与基因组： 植物基因组结构与功能、基因调控网络、表观遗传变异、基因编辑与合成生物学应用。
- Transformative plant biotechnology: crop improvement and molecular breeding, plant biorefining and industrial uses, and the molecular basis of biotic stress tolerance.变革性植物生物技术： 作物改良与分子育种、植物生物炼制与工业用途、生物胁迫耐性的分子机制。
The journal publishes original research articles alongside reviews and editorials, and runs special issues and columns, within which the Tansley Review series is kept free to read by funding from the foundation. The publisher discloses an acceptance rate and a time to first decision for this title on its official metrics page.本刊以原创研究论文为主，另收综述与社论，并常设专刊与专栏，其中坦斯利综述系列由基金会出资而保持免费可读。出版社在其官方指标页公布本刊的录用率与首决时长。[2]
History
- Founding context (1902): the first issue appeared in January 1902, founded by Sir Arthur G. Tansley, then aged thirty and an assistant lecturer at University College London. He raised £130 of his own to start it, the journal was printed by a cheap printer off Tottenham Court Road in London, and the first-year subscription was ten shillings for ten issues创刊背景（1902年）： 本刊于 1902 年 1 月出版创刊号，创办者是当时三十岁、任教于伦敦大学学院的阿瑟·坦斯利爵士。他自筹 130 英镑作为启动资金，刊物由伦敦托特纳姆考特路后街一家廉价印刷商承印，首年订阅价为十先令、每年十期；两年内即自负盈亏并收回投入。创刊号所取代的刊物是《英国植物学杂志》。 within two years it was self-supporting and the investment repaid. The title it replaced was the British Botanical Journal.[3]
- Origin of the name: the title was taken from The Phytologist, a magazine-style periodical published between 1842 and 1863, but the foundation records explicitly that this was a separate publication that supplied a more memorable name rather than a predecessor of this journal. The title has never been changed since founding.刊名来源： 本刊的刊名取自 1842 至 1863 年间出版的一份杂志式刊物《植物学家》，但基金会明确记载那是一份独立的刊物、只是提供了一个更悦耳的名字，并非本刊的前身。本刊自创刊起从未更名。[3]
- Internationalization and the formation of a school (1911–1917): in 1911 Tansley organized the first International Phytogeographic Excursion, and the journal became the vehicle of that international network国际化与学派形成（1911—1917年）： 1911 年坦斯利组织了第一次国际植物地理考察，本刊随之成为该国际网络的载体；1917 年他促成发表那份主张重建植物学基础教学的文件，即后世所称的坦斯利宣言，确立了本刊在植物学界的方法论地位。1931 年底，坦斯利将编辑权移交给罗伊·克拉彭、哈里·戈德温与威尔·詹姆斯三人。 in 1917 he secured publication of the document calling for the reconstruction of elementary botanical teaching, known since as the Tansley Manifesto, which fixed the journal's methodological standing in botany. At the end of 1931 Tansley handed over the editorship to Roy Clapham, Harry Godwin and Will James.[3]
- Publisher and ownership: the journal is owned by the non-profit New Phytologist Foundation. It was published by an academic press in its earlier years, and from 2005 by the foundation itself as publishing body, with Wiley handling publication and printing. As a title owned by a non-profit body, its author charges differ from those of a commercial publisher.出版方与所有权安排： 本刊由非营利性质的新植物学家基金会所有，早期曾由学术出版社代为出版，2005 年起由基金会自行作为出版主体，出版印制则交由威立承担。作为一份非营利机构所有的刊物，作者费用政策与商业出版社不同。[4]
- Cadence and format: the journal moved from monthly to sixteen issues a year in 2006, and later to twenty-four issues a year. Print issues ceased after volume 192, number 4, in December 2011, and publication became online-only from January 2012, after 110 years of appearing in print as well.刊期与载体演进： 2006 年由月刊改为每年十六期，其后调整为每年二十四期；2011 年 12 月末出完第 192 卷第 4 期后停止印刷版，自 2012 年 1 月起转为纯在线出版，此前 110 年一直同时发行纸刊。[5]
- Metric standing: the publisher's official metrics page reports a 2025 impact factor of 8.7, a 2025 Scopus CiteScore of 16.1 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 2.01, together with an acceptance rate of 21%, a median of 17 days from submission to first decision, 94 days from submission to acceptance and 25 days from acceptance to publication.指标水平： 威立官方指标页显示，本刊二〇二五年影响因子 8.7、斯科普斯引用分数 16.1、期刊引证指数 2.01；出版社同时公布录用率 21%，投稿至首次决定的中位数为 17 天，投稿至接受 94 天，接受至发表 25 天。[2]
Editors
The journal is edited by an editor-in-chief with deputy editors covering the separate sections and an international editorial advisory board in support. Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's online system, with editorial judgement and publishing execution shared between the foundation and the publisher. Because the title is foundation-owned, the editor-in-chief post carries unusual weight in botany, and its holders have traditionally come from British research institutions, a pattern first broken in 2025.本刊实行主编统筹、副主编按板块分设、另设国际顾问编委会的架构。稿件通过威立的在线投稿系统递交，编辑判断与出版执行由基金会与威立分担。由于本刊为基金会所有，主编职位在植物学界具有相当的分量，历任主编多来自英国本土研究机构，这一状况在 2025 年首次改变。[6]
- Maarja Öpik (editor-in-chief since January 2025): professor of molecular ecology at the University of Tartu and director of its Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences. She took office in January 2025 for an initial term of five years, having joined the journal's editorial board in 2013. She is both the first woman and the first editor-in-chief from outside Britain to hold the post, and her appointment was announced in the journal itself as a published paper.玛雅·厄皮克（2025年1月起任）： 塔尔图大学分子生态学教授、生态与地球科学研究所所长，2025 年 1 月上任，首个任期五年；她自 2013 年起担任本刊编委。她是本刊首位女性主编，也是首位来自英国以外的主编，其任命公告同时以期刊论文形式发表。[7]
- Alistair M. Hetherington (predecessor): left the post at the end of 2024 after twelve years, a tenure that covered the journal's decisive expansion from traditional plant physiology towards molecular ecology and evolutionary genomics.阿利斯泰尔·赫瑟林顿（前任）： 任职十二年后于 2024 年底卸任，其任期覆盖本刊从传统植物生理学向分子生态学与演化基因组学扩展的关键阶段。[8]
- Founding editor: Arthur Tansley edited the journal from its founding in 1902 until 1931, and ranks among the most consequential editors in botany创刊主编： 阿瑟·坦斯利自 1902 年创刊起主编本刊至 1931 年，是植物学界影响最深远的编辑之一；他同时也是英国生态学与植物群落学的奠基性人物，本刊在创刊后的头三十年里实质上就是他个人的学术平台。 he was also a foundational figure in British ecology and plant community science, and for the journal's first three decades it was in effect his own academic platform.[3]
- Standing in the field: the journal ranks eleventh of 265 worldwide in plant science in the Journal Citation Reports and is among the ten most cited titles in its field in the Scopus database学科地位： 本刊在期刊引证报告的植物科学类中列全球第十一位，在斯科普斯数据库中同属该领域引用量前十的刊物，其综述系列与专刊常被后续研究作为领域坐标引用。 its review series and special issues are regularly cited as field coordinates by later research.[8]