Organisms Diversity & Evolution

Organisms Diversity & Evolution (commonly abbreviated as ''Org. Divers. Evol.') is the official journal of the German Society for Biological Systematics, published by Springer. Founded in 2001 and issued quarterly, it publishes on all facets of organismal diversity and evolution, with a 2025 impact factor of 1.8.Organisms Diversity & Evolution（常用缩写 Org. Divers. Evol.）是德国生物系统学学会的官方会刊，由 Springer 出版，2001 年创刊，按季刊出版，发表生物多样性与演化的各层面研究，2025 年影响因子为 1.8。^[1]

Scope

• Disciplinary focus: the journal is a peer-reviewed outlet publishing on all facets of organismal diversity and evolution. It covers all groups of eukaryotic organisms and is owned by the Society for Biological Systematics, which holds the copyright and supports it together with its partner societies.学科定位： 期刊是发表生物体多样性与演化各方面研究的同行评审刊物，覆盖所有真核生物类群，由生物系统学学会直接拥有并在其各合作学会的支持下出版，其版权亦归该学会所有。
• Taxonomic coverage: associate editors are assigned by group, covering insects and nomenclature, lophotrochozoans, fungi, non-insect arthropods, non-vertebrate deuterostomes, protists and vertebrates. The scope reaches from algae and protists through plants and invertebrates to mammals, and fossil groups fall within it.分类阶元覆盖： 副总编辑按类群分工，分别负责昆虫与命名、冠轮动物、真菌、非昆虫节肢动物、非脊椎棘皮动物、原生生物与脊椎动物，范围上溯自藻类与原生生物、植物、无脊椎动物乃至哺乳动物，其鼓励也包括化石类群。
• Evidence base: priority goes to papers with a strong evolutionary or phylogenetic focus, and the journal encourages work that brings together phylogenetic, systematic, morphological, developmental and biogeographic material. Manuscripts presenting methods and tools of importance for the theoretical, methodological or philosophical foundations of the study of organismal diversity are equally welcome.证据偏好： 期刊优先刊发带有明确演化或系统发育论证的稿件，鼓励把系统发育学、系统学、形态学、发育与生物地理学的材料结合起来，凡介绍对生物多样性研究具有重要方法论、认识论或哲学意义的新方法与新工具者亦受欢迎。
• Specimens and nomenclature: species descriptions are welcome, but only as part of a manuscript of broader interest, and the description must be integrated with evolutionary or phylogenetic discussion going beyond the taxonomic record. Designation of type material and argument at the level of the nomenclatural code are accordingly routine components of such papers.标本与命名： 期刊欢迎物种描述，但要求其作为一份更宏观、更有普遍意义的稿件的一部分出现，描述须与分类信息之外的演化或系统发育讨论整合呈现，模式标本的指定与命名法规层面的论证因此成为这类稿件的常规内容。
• Open access: the journal is hybrid, and authors may publish by subscription or pay to convert to open access. It also runs an open call for special-issue proposals, each special issue having its own guest editor and submission deadline, with proposals emailed directly to the Editor-in-Chief.开放获取： 期刊为混合开放获取模式，作者可选择按订阅方式发表或付费转为开放获取，期刊另公开征集专刊方案，专刊设客座主编并有独立的截稿期限，专刊方案需以电子邮件形式直接寄给主编。^[2]

History

• 2001: the journal was founded as an organ promoted by the Society for Biological Systematics and its predecessor bodies. Its coverage of all groups of eukaryotic organisms was established from the outset, and it has carried the same title throughout, never having been renamed.2001年： 期刊创刊，为生物系统学学会及其前身组织推动创办的会刊，出刊之初即确立覆盖全部真核生物类群的定位，创刊时的刊名与今日完全相同，从未改名。
• 2010: from volume 10 the journal moved from Elsevier's literature platform to Springer. Only the publishing platform changed, with ownership by the society and editorial policy untouched, and the publisher has not been replaced since.2010年： 自第 10 卷起出版平台自爱思唯尔的文献平台转至 Springer，此次易手只涉及出版方，会刊的所有权与编辑方针未变，出版方此后再未更换。
• Cadence and output: the journal has appeared quarterly ever since, reaching volume 26 in 2026, with annual output in the tens of papers and some 264,000 downloads in 2025. The median time from submission to first decision is 41 days, and the journal holds a stable mid-ranking position in systematics and evolutionary biology.年代与体量： 期刊至今按季刊节奏出版，2026 年为第 26 卷，年发文量在数十篇量级，2025 年全年下载量约 26.4 万次，自投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 41 天，在系统学与演化生物学领域维持稳定的中位表现。
• Indexing: the journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, and also appears in the long-standing abstracting services of taxonomy and biodiversity such as the Zoological Record, Biological Abstracts and BIOSIS, so it is frequently cited in nomenclatural and catalogue literature.收录范围： 期刊被科学引文索引扩展版与 Scopus 收录，同时列入动物学记录、生物文摘、野外生物数据库等分类学与生物多样性领域的历史悠久的文摘索引，因此在命名与物种目录类文献中常被引用。
• Meeting-based collections: the journal has in recent years built collections around conferences in its field. In 2026 it published a polychaete collection accompanying the fifteenth International Polychaete Conference, as well as a collection marking the sixtieth anniversary of the International Colloquium on Amphipoda, with many papers in both made open access.会议专辑： 期刊近年围绕分类学界的专业会议组织专辑，2026 年即刊出配合第十五届国际多毛类会议的多毛类专辑，以及纪念两栖类甲壳动物国际讨论会六十周年的专辑，专辑中多篇论文已开放获取。^[3]

Editors

• Editor-in-Chief: the journal is led by Andreas Wanninger PhD, head of the evolutionary biology department and of integrative zoology at the University of Vienna. He also serves as Associate Editor for lophotrochozoans, for non-vertebrate deuterostomes and for reviews, and works on comparative developmental morphology and phylogenetics in molluscs and lophotrochozoans.主编： 主编为维也纳大学进化生物学系主任兼整合动物学系主任 Andreas Wanninger 博士，他同时担任冠轮动物、非脊椎棘皮动物与综述三个方向的副总编辑，研究兴趣为软体动物与冠轮动物的比较形态发育与系统发育学。
• Associate Editors: the Associate Editors are placed across southern Europe and northern Europe according to group. Insects and nomenclature fall to Emily Hartop PhD of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, fungi to Dominik Begerow PhD of the University of Hamburg, non-insect arthropods to Torben Göpel PhD of the University of Göttingen, protists to Marc Gottschling PhD of the University of Munich, and vertebrates to Cathrin Pfaff PhD of the University of Vienna.副总编辑： 副总编辑按类群分布在地中海沿岸与北欧：昆虫与命名由挪威科技大学的 Emily Hartop 博士负责，真菌由汉堡大学的 Dominik Begerow 博士负责，非昆虫节肢动物由哥廷根大学的 Torben Göpel 博士负责，原生生物由慕尼黑大学的 Marc Gottschling 博士负责，脊椎动物由维也纳大学的 Cathrin Pfaff 博士负责。
• International reach of the board: board members come from the United States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Norway, Croatia, Singapore and Japan, and many of them also hold curatorial or committee roles in taxonomic nomenclature institutions.编委的国际分布： 编委成员来自美国、加拿大、德国、荷兰、比利时、英国、爱尔兰、瑞士、西班牙、墨西哥、波兰、挪威、克罗地亚、新加坡、日本等地，其中多人同时担任分类学命名机构的馆员或评审职务。
• Submissions and contact: manuscripts are filed through Springer's online submission system, while special-issue proposals are emailed to the Editor-in-Chief with a copy to the publishing editor. The journal also advertises language-editing services for review and science-writing, and questions on any particular group of organisms go to the responsible Associate Editor.投稿与联系： 稿件通过施普林格的在线投稿系统提交，专刊方案则以电子邮件形式提交给主编并抄送出版编辑，期刊另公开说明其接受专题综述与科技写作类语言服务，各专业方向的收稿问题由相应副总编辑直接负责。^[4]