Swarm and Evolutionary Computation

Swarm and Evolutionary Computation is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier in the Netherlands, launched in 2011 to report research on nature-inspired intelligent computation based on swarm and evolutionary algorithms, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.6《群体与进化计算》（Swarm and Evolutionary Computation）是爱思唯尔（Elsevier）在荷兰出版的同行评审期刊，2011 年创刊，报道基于群体与进化算法的自然启发智能计算研究，2025 年影响因子为 9.6。

Scope

• The journal states that it is the first peer-reviewed publication of its kind, aiming to report the most recent research and developments in nature-inspired intelligent computation based on the principles of swarm and evolutionary algorithms该刊自称为同类中首个同行评审出版物，旨在报道基于群体与进化算法原理的自然启发智能计算的最新研究与进展。
• It publishes advanced, innovative and interdisciplinary research covering the theoretical, experimental and practical aspects of the two paradigms and their hybridizations该刊发表先进、创新且跨学科的研究，涵盖这两类范式的理论、实验与实践方面以及它们的混合方法。
• Optimization is described as lying at the heart of many natural processes, including Darwinian evolution, social group behaviour and foraging strategies, which scientists have studied as both model and metaphor该刊将优化描述为许多自然过程的核心，包括达尔文进化、社会群体行为与觅食策略，科学家把它们同时作为模型与隐喻加以研究。
• The covered algorithm families include evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, differential evolution and genetic programming, together with swarm intelligence methods such as particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization and artificial bee colony其覆盖的算法族既包括遗传算法、进化策略、差分进化与遗传规划等进化算法，也包括粒子群优化、蚁群优化与人工蜂群等群体智能方法。
• Submissions are expected to advance the state of the art on complex real-world problems and to report very high-quality, peer-reviewed, original articles in a timely manner来稿须推动复杂现实问题的前沿进展，并及时刊发质量极高的同行评审原创论文。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and is placed in the first quartile of the Computer Science theory and methods category, ranked 9th of 146 titles, and also in the artificial intelligence category, ranked 27th of 210该刊被（SCIE）收录，在计算机科学理论与方法类位居第一四分位、于 146 种刊中排名第 9，在人工智能类于 210 种刊中排名第 27。
• Authors may choose the subscription route, which charges no publication fee, or open access under an article publishing charge of USD 3,160 excluding taxes, which the publisher labels open access support作者可选择不收发表费的订阅路线，也可按开放获取发表并支付 3160 美元（不含税）的文章处理费，出版方将该刊标注为支持开放获取。

History

• The journal was launched by Elsevier and its first issue appeared as Volume 1, Issue 1 in March 2011该刊由（Elsevier）创办，首期以 2011 年 3 月第 1 卷第 1 期面世。
• At launch the editorial board was led by founding editors-in-chief Swagatam Das of Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India and Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore创刊时的编委会由创刊主编（Swagatam Das）与（Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan）领衔，前者来自印度加尔各答的（Jadavpur University），后者来自新加坡的（Nanyang Technological University）。
• Ling Wang, a professor in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in Beijing, was appointed editor-in-chief with effect from January 2024 and became the journal's first Chinese editor-in-chief清华大学自动化系教授（Ling Wang）自 2024 年 1 月起被任命为主编，成为该刊首位华人主编。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 7.177 in 2021 and 10.267 in 2022 to 8.5 in 2024 and 9.6 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 7.177 与 2022 年的 10.267 变化到 2024 年的 8.5 与 2025 年的 9.6。
• The DOI registry counts 2,307 deposited articles for the journal, of which 1,246 belong to the backfile and 1,061 are current, and recent years show several hundred articles a year（DOI）注册机构为该刊计得 2307 篇登记论文，其中 1246 篇属回溯库、1061 篇为近年文章，近年每年均有数百篇。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, and in 2011 its first volume already carried the widely cited tutorial on nonparametric statistical tests for comparing evolutionary and swarm intelligence algorithms该刊被（SCIE）与（Scopus）收录，其 2011 年第 1 卷已刊出那篇被广泛引用的、用于比较进化与群体智能算法的非参数统计检验教程。^[1]

Editors

• Ling Wang, the current editor-in-chief, is a professor in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in Beijing and works on intelligent optimization and scheduling现任主编（Ling Wang）是清华大学自动化系教授，从事智能优化与调度研究。
• The founding editors-in-chief were Swagatam Das, now at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, and Ponnuthurai Suganthan, now at Qatar University in Doha创刊主编为（Swagatam Das）与（Ponnuthurai Suganthan），前者现任职于加尔各答的（Indian Statistical Institute），后者现任职于多哈的（Qatar University）。
• Senior editors are Efren Mezura-Montes of Veracruzana University in Mexico and Hong-Yan Sang of Liaocheng University in China高级编辑为墨西哥（Veracruzana University）的（Efren Mezura-Montes）与中国（Liaocheng University）的（Hong-Yan Sang）。
• The associate editor team spans many countries and includes, among others, Aimin Zhou of East China Normal University, Handing Wang of Xidian University and Kai Qin of Swinburne University of Technology副编辑团队遍布多国，其中包括华东师范大学的（Aimin Zhou）、西安电子科技大学的（Handing Wang）以及（Swinburne University of Technology）的（Kai Qin）。
• An editorial advisory board of leading evolutionary computation researchers includes Kalyanmoy Deb of Michigan State University, Carlos Coello Coello of Cinvestav and David Fogel of Natural Selection Inc由进化计算领域领军学者组成的编辑顾问委员会包括（Michigan State University）的（Kalyanmoy Deb）、（Cinvestav）的（Carlos Coello Coello）与（Natural Selection Inc）的（David Fogel）。
• The publisher reports that a submission takes 3 days to a first decision, 45 days to a decision after review, 140 days to acceptance and 14 days from acceptance to online publication出版方公布的数据为投稿到初审决定 3 天、到评审后决定 45 天、到录用 140 天、录用到在线发表 14 天。