Taxon

Taxon is the bimonthly journal of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, issued by Wiley on behalf of the association and given over to the systematics, phylogeny and taxonomy of algae, fungi and plants. It began in 1952 and still prints nomenclatural acts beside evolutionary work, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, Q3 in Plant Sciences at rank 145 of 285.《分类群》（Taxon）是国际植物分类学协会的双月刊，由 Wiley 代表协会出版，专事藻类、菌物与植物的分类学、系统发育与系统学。刊物 1952 年创刊，至今仍在演化研究之外刊载命名举措，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在植物科学类目列 Q3，排名 145/285。

Two features mark it out. It is the one place where formal proposals to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants are printed, the fungal rules excepted, and its output is small, 73 papers in the 2025 count against 6039 citations to the whole run, which leaves a cited half-life of 14.2 years.该刊有两处与众不同。修改《国际藻类、菌物和植物命名法规》的正式提案只在此刊发表，菌物部分另循他途；2025 年统计的年发文量为 73 篇，全刊累计被引 6039 次，引用半衰期 14.2 年，体量小而寿命长。

Scope

• The stated scope is systematic and evolutionary biology with emphasis on plants and fungi, and each section of the journal is organised around that remit rather than around applied botany.范围写明为以植物与菌物为重点的系统学与演化生物学，刊物的各个栏目都围绕这条主线组织，并不向应用植物学倾斜。
• Descriptions of new taxa, new combinations, lectotype and neotype designations and the other formal acts of nomenclature take a steady share of every volume, printed with the exact citations the Code demands.新分类群描述、新组合、选模式与新模式指定，以及命名上的其他正式举措，在各卷里稳定占一席，行文按法规要求给出精确引证。
• Molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics supply much of the recent content, from plastome and nuclear marker sets to coalescent and concatenation analyses of groups whose relationships had resisted morphology.分子系统发育与系统基因组学构成近年内容的大宗，从质体基因组与核标记组合，到对形态难以裁决的类群所作的合并分析与溯祖分析。
• Species delimitation is handled as an empirical problem, and integrative studies that combine morphology, molecules, karyology and ecology appear alongside narrower single-locus treatments.物种界定按经验问题处理，形态、分子、核型与生态合用的整合研究，与范围较窄的单基因座处理并列出现。
• Historical biogeography, divergence dating and diversification analysis belong to the evolutionary side, often for groups whose distributions cross the southern continents and the islands between them.历史生物地理、分化时间估算与多样化分析属于演化一侧，取材常是分布跨越南半球各大陆及其间岛屿的类群。
• Character evolution, pollination biology and the genetics of speciation enter wherever they bear on classification, which keeps the journal nearer to organismal biology than to general ecology.性状演化、传粉生物学与物种形成的遗传学，凡与分类相关都可进入，刊物的重心因此落在个体生物学，而不在普通生态学。
• Method papers are accepted where the technique changes what can be resolved, covering morphometrics, geometric analysis, imaging, DNA barcoding and the statistical treatment of herbarium records.方法类论文在技术改变分辨力的前提下录用，涵盖形态测量、几何形态分析、成像、DNA 条形码，以及标本记录的统计处理。
• Digital taxonomy is a standing interest, so taxonomic databases, electronic publication of novelties, name registration systems and the linking of names to specimens all find room.数字分类学是常设兴趣，分类数据库、新分类群的电子发表、名称注册系统，以及名称与标本的关联，都留有余地。
• The organismal spread runs from cyanobacteria and algae through fungi and lichens to bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms, and no group is given formal priority.取材从蓝细菌与藻类，经菌物与地衣，到苔藓、蕨类、裸子植物与被子植物，没有哪一类享有正式优先。
• Floras, monographs, annotated checklists and revisionary treatments are all in scope, and long revisions are split across issues instead of being compressed into one.植物志、专著、带注记的物种清单与修订处理都在范围之内，长篇修订分期刊出，不压缩在一期之内。
• Nomenclatural proposals form a section of their own, published early enough for the taxonomic community to answer them before the next International Botanical Congress takes up the Code.命名提案自成一栏，刊出时间留足，让分类学界能在下一届国际植物学大会讨论法规之前作出回应。
• Reviews, points of view and book notices appear as well, and they carry argument about method and about the direction of the field rather than summaries of it.综述、观点与书评同样见于版面，承载的是对方法与学科走向的争论，不停留在文献摘要。
• Inventory work and conservation-facing taxonomy are not excluded, since a sound species list is the precondition for any later judgement about what is threatened.编目工作与面向保护工作的分类学并不排除在外，一份可靠的物种清单是后续判断受威胁程度的前提。

History

• Volume 1 is dated 1952 and was issued from Amsterdam, the association itself having been founded two years earlier at the International Botanical Congress held in Stockholm.第 1 卷标为 1952 年，在阿姆斯特丹印行，协会本身则早两年在斯德哥尔摩的国际植物学大会上成立。
• For its first decades the title was run through the association's own taxonomic bureau rather than a commercial house, and the editorial office still sits at the Institute of Botany in Vienna.最初几十年由协会自设的分类局经办，不经商业出版社，编辑部至今仍设在维也纳大学植物研究所。
• Online delivery first ran through IngentaConnect, so for years the official address of the title was an Ingenta page rather than a publisher's own platform.网络发行最初经 IngentaConnect 承接，官方网址有多年指向该平台，而不指向出版社自有站点。
• Wiley-Blackwell took over publication around 2010, and the journal now sits on Wiley Online Library under the electronic number 1996-8175, with the print number kept for citation.2010 年前后由 Wiley-Blackwell 接手出版，刊物现挂在 Wiley Online Library，电子刊号 1996-8175，纸本刊号保留用于引证。
• Ownership never moved. The association retains the title and the editorial line while Wiley supplies production and hosting, which is why the imprint names Wiley as publisher on behalf of IAPT.归属始终未动，协会保留刊名与编辑方针，Wiley 承担制作与托管，版权页因此把 Wiley 标为代表协会的出版方。
• Issues appear in the six even months, February through December, and a supplement has been added in some years to carry material that will not fit an ordinary issue.一年六期，落在 2 月至 12 月的双月，个别年份另加增刊，用来容纳常规期次放不下的材料。
• Volume 75 is being filled during 2026, seventy-four years after volume 1, and the count has never restarted, which makes a volume number a usable date.2026 年正在编定第 75 卷，距第 1 卷七十四年，卷号从未重起，看卷号即可推年份。
• The formal machinery of plant nomenclature has been carried by the journal since the 1950s, and amendments to the Code reach the community as printed proposals before they are voted on.自 1950 年代起，植物命名的正式程序就由该刊承载，法规修正案先以提案形式在此刊出，再交付表决。
• Longer reference works go elsewhere in the association's programme, to the Regnum Vegetabile series, so the journal keeps to articles while the books keep the codes and the indexes.篇幅更大的工具书走协会的另一条线，即《Regnum Vegetabile》丛书，刊物因此守住论文，法规与名录类大部头交给丛书。
• Membership of the association includes a subscription, and the arrangement has kept the readership personal as well as institutional through the move to digital delivery.协会会籍含订阅，读者群因此既有机构也有个人，这一格局在转向数字发行后仍未改变。
• The 2025 metrics put the title at a Journal Impact Factor of 1.9, a five-year figure of 2.5 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.52, with 6039 citations to the run.2025 年指标为影响因子 1.9，五年影响因子 2.5，期刊引文指标 0.52，全刊累计被引 6039 次。
• Plant Sciences ranks it Q3 at 145 of 285 and Evolutionary Biology Q3 at 40 of 54, a placing that reflects the small annual output as much as the citation record.植物科学类目列 Q3，排名 145/285，演化生物学类目列 Q3，排名 40/54，这一位置既反映引用记录，也反映年发文量之少。
• The impact factor went from 2.338 in 2021 and 2.586 in 2022 up to 3 in 2023, then slipped to 2 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025.影响因子从 2021 年的 2.338、2022 年的 2.586 升到 2023 年的 3，2024 年为 2，2025 年回落到 1.9。
• A cited half-life of 14.2 years is the clearest evidence of what the journal is for, since a taxonomic paper stays citable long after the group it treats has been revised.14.2 年的引用半衰期最能说明刊物的用处，分类学论文在所涉类群被修订之后仍长期可引。
• Open access is offered article by article through Wiley's hybrid option, and the 2025 gold share of 27.25 per cent is well below what fully open titles record.开放获取按篇通过 Wiley 的混合模式提供，2025 年金色开放获取占比 27.25%，低于完全开放刊物的水平。

Editors

• Dirk C. Albach of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg is editor-in-chief, and his own work on Veronica, polyploidy and genome size sits close to the journal's core.主编为奥尔登堡卡尔·冯·奥西茨基大学的（Dirk C. Albach），他本人研究婆婆纳属、多倍化与基因组大小，与刊物的核心相近。
• The editorial office is at the Institute of Botany of the University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, and correspondence goes to one editors address rather than to board members individually.编辑部设于维也纳大学植物研究所，地址为 Rennweg 14，来信统一投到编辑邮箱，不分别寄给编委。
• Manuscripts arrive through Wiley's submission portal for the title, and the guidelines set the expected shape for taxonomic papers, nomenclatural proposals and reviews separately.稿件经 Wiley 为该刊设的投稿系统提交，作者指南对分类学论文、命名提案与综述分别规定体例。
• Each paper is sent to at least two specialists, and the reports return to the handling editor, who weighs them before a decision goes out to the author.每篇论文至少送两位专家评审，意见回到责任编辑手上，由其权衡之后再向作者下达决定。
• Associate editors are appointed by organismal group, so algae, fungi and lichens, bryophytes, ferns and seed plants each have a named handler on the board.副编辑按类群分派，藻类、菌物与地衣、苔藓、蕨类、种子植物各有专人负责。
• Nomenclatural proposals take a separate route, read by a nomenclature editor and then by the relevant committee before the printed proposal opens for public comment.命名提案走另一条流程，先经命名编辑审读，再交相关委员会过目，刊出之后才向学界公开征求意见。
• The association's council appoints the editor and the board, which keeps editorial policy answerable to the membership rather than to the publisher.主编与编委由协会理事会任命，编辑方针因此对会员负责，而不对出版社负责。
• The board draws on herbaria, botanic gardens and university departments across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Africa, which is what work on a global flora requires.编委来自欧洲、美洲、亚洲、澳洲与非洲的标本馆、植物园与大学系所，全球区系的活需要这样的分布。
• Sections for systematics, methods, points of view and book reviews are edited apart, and a submission landed in the wrong section is moved by the editor rather than returned.系统学、方法、观点与书评分栏编辑，栏目归属有误的稿件由编辑挪到合适位置，不必退回作者。
• Research articles, short communications, reviews and nomenclatural notes are all taken, and length limits are set per section instead of by one cap for the whole journal.研究论文、短通讯、综述与命名札记都收，篇幅上限按栏目分设，不设全刊统一标准。
• Sequence data must be deposited with accession numbers given, and alignments or trees that carry a taxonomic conclusion are expected to be available to referees.序列数据须存入公共数据库并给出登录号，支撑分类结论的比对与树文件应可供评审人调阅。
• Papers appear in English, and the guidelines ask for prose that a referee outside the specialist group can follow, though the office does not undertake language editing.论文以英文发表，指南要求行文让本行之外的评审人也读得懂，编辑部本身不做语言润色。
• Accepted papers are posted ahead of the issue on Wiley's early view service, and the final pagination is attached once the volume is closed.录用稿先在 Wiley 的预出版栏目上线，等到卷次编定再补上正式页码。