The Journal of Comparative Neurology

The Journal of Comparative Neurology is a systems neuroscience journal published by Wiley, and by its publisher's account it is the oldest basic neuroscience journal still appearing without a break.《比较神经学杂志》由 Wiley 出版，按出版方自己的说法，它是至今仍在连续出版的最老的基础神经科学刊物。

The founding date on the publisher's page is 1891, which puts the opening volume more than a century and a third back.出版方页面上写的创刊年是 1891，第一卷距今已有一百三十多年。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3, and the five-year figure carries the same value.2025 年影响因子为 2.3，五年影响因子也是同一个数。

Clarivate files the title under two categories, at 236 of 330 in neurosciences and at 22 of 183 in zoology, the second placing giving it a Q1 slot.科睿唯安把它归进两个类目，神经科学 330 种里排第 236，动物学 183 种里排第 22，后一个位次让它落在 Q1。

The 2026 volume is the 534th, and it comes out in twelve monthly numbers.2026 年出到第 534 卷，全年十二期按月发行。

Scope

• Editing rests on systems neuroscience, which the journal defines as communication within systems of neurons and the relation of those systems to function, development, plasticity, degeneration and repair.编辑工作以系统神经科学为轴，刊物把它定义为神经元系统内部的通讯，以及这些系统与功能，发育，可塑，退变和修复之间的关系。

• Molecular, anatomical, physiological, pharmacological and behavioral methods all qualify, and the mix of them is what the editors call the journal's interdisciplinary scope.分子学，解剖学，生理学，药理学与行为学方法都算在受理范围内，编辑把这种混合称作刊物的跨学科底色。

• Two research lines run side by side, one on basic systems neuroscience and one on the molecular mechanisms behind disorders of the central nervous system.两条研究线并行，一条做基础系统神经科学，一条做中枢神经系统疾病背后的分子机制。

• Coverage reaches every species from invertebrates to humans, and the editors want the species comparison used to explain how a nervous system works rather than how it evolved.覆盖面从无脊椎动物一直拉到人类，编辑希望物种比较用来解释神经系统如何运作，而不是用来讲演化本身。

• Primary research is accepted only as full-length investigative reports, and the journal states plainly that it does not take short communications.原始研究只收完整长度的调查报告，刊物明说不受理短篇通讯。

• A Commentary runs to 1,500 words as continuous prose, and subheadings are not allowed in it.评论类稿件限 1500 词的连续行文，其中不许加小标题。

• Topical Reviews, the shorter review track, come in at about 3,000 words with a 150-word abstract, and authors are told to avoid leaning on their own work.短一档的专题综述定在 3000 词上下，配 150 词摘要，须知要求作者别只盯自己实验室的成果。

• Classic Reviews sit outside any length limit, but an author has to consult the editor-in-chief first, and the piece carries a 250-word abstract plus a table of contents.经典综述不受篇幅限制，前提是作者先与主编商定，成稿要带 250 词摘要和一份目录。

• That second review track has an unusual resource behind it, since the journal's own archive runs back to the 1891 first issue and authors are pointed to it for historical depth.这类综述背后有个不常见的资源，刊物自己的过刊从 1891 年第一期起就在线，须知提示作者用它来加深历史层次。

• Research Articles carry a 250-word abstract and follow introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion in that order, with numbered sections cross-referenced in the text.研究论文配 250 词摘要，正文按引言，材料与方法，结果，讨论的顺序排，各节编号并在文内互相指引。

• A Toolbox paper is a research article whose major component is a new technology, and it has to answer a systems question rather than simply present a method.工具箱论文属于研究论文，主体成分是一项新技术，它必须回答一个系统层面的问题，而不只是展示一套方法。

• Methods papers in the plain sense are not published, and the guide adds that small improvements on established techniques do not qualify either.纯方法学论文不发，须知还补上一句，对既有技术的细部改良同样不算数。

• Every paper that uses antibodies needs a section headed Antibody Characterization, describing the evidence that the reagent binds its target and not something else.凡用到抗体的稿子都要有一节题为抗体表征，说明有什么证据表明该试剂结合的是目标物而不是别的东西。

• Supplementary files are not accepted apart from video and audio, because the journal puts all relevant material into the article itself.除视频与音频之外不收补充材料，刊物的做法是把相关内容一律放进正文。

• Page limits are deliberately loose, and the guide gives the reason that data should sit where it matters rather than in an appendix.篇幅限制放得很宽，须知给的理由是数据该摆在用得上的地方，而不是挪去附录。

• Submission runs in free format, so references may come in any consistent style, but an ORCID identifier is required of every author.投稿走自由格式，参考文献只要全篇一致即可，但每位作者都必须提供 ORCID 标识。

History

• The journal began in 1891 and has appeared without interruption since, which is the claim the publisher makes on its own overview page.刊物始于 1891 年，此后没有中断，这是出版方在自己概览页上作出的说法。

• Its first imprint was the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia, and that name stayed on the title for decades.最早的出版方是费城的威斯塔解剖与生物学研究所，这个名字在刊头挂了几十年。

• Volume numbering has not run at one volume a year for the whole history, and 2009 alone carried volumes 515, 516 and 517.卷号并非一直一年一卷，仅 2009 年就出了第 515，516 与 517 三卷。

• Those volumes were built from semimonthly parts dated the first, the tenth and the twentieth of the month, which is how the journal reached eighteen numbers a year.那几年的卷由每月三批分期拼成，出版日期在 1 日，10 日与 20 日，一年十八期的密度就是这么来的。

• The National Library of Medicine still records eighteen numbers a year, while the current volume is issued in twelve, so the recorded frequency no longer matches the printed one.美国国家医学图书馆的记录仍写着每年十八期，而现行卷是十二期，档案里的刊期与实物已经对不上。

• The rhythm changed with the 2012 volume, which is numbered 520, and from there the count has advanced by exactly one a year to 534 in 2026.节奏在 2012 年那卷改了，那卷编号 520，此后每年正好加一卷，到 2026 年是 534。

• Volume and year therefore line up as year plus 508 across the recent run, an arithmetic that holds for every volume in the last fifteen years.近年的卷号因此等于年份加 508，最近十五卷条条对得上。

• MEDLINE opened with volume 124, number 3 in June 1965 and has carried the title since, and the pre-1965 run sits in OLDMEDLINE.MEDLINE 从 1965 年 6 月的第 124 卷第 3 期起收录，此后一路不断，1965 年之前的部分留在 OLDMEDLINE 里。

• Index Medicus also lists the journal, which places it in the paper era of biomedical indexing as well as the electronic one.《医学索引》同样列了这本刊，纸本索引与电子索引两边都有它的位置。

• The publisher's imprint moved from Philadelphia to Hoboken, New Jersey, and the current copyright line reads Wiley Periodicals.出版地由费城迁到新泽西州霍博肯，现行版权行写的是 Wiley Periodicals。

• Recent impact factors wander in a narrow band, at 3.215 in 2021, 3.028 in 2022, 2.3 in 2023, 2.1 in 2024 and 2.3 in 2025.近年影响因子在窄区间内摆动，2021 年 3.215，2022 年 3.028，2023 年 2.3，2024 年 2.1，2025 年 2.3。

• The 2025 JCI is 0.89 and the percentile 88.3, a pair of figures well above what a 2.3 impact factor usually suggests.2025 年 JCI 为 0.89，百分位 88.3，这两个数与 2.3 的影响因子放在一起略显不搭。

• Total citations reach 21,047 with a cited half-life of 22.7 years, the longest memory among the five journals in this batch.总被引 21047 次，引用半衰期 22.7 年，是本批五本刊里记忆最长的一本。

• About 90 articles appear each year, and open access accounts for 56.01 percent of the 2025 output.每年发稿约 90 篇，2025 年的开放获取比例是 56.01%。

• Two internal awards carry the names of former editors, the Cowan and Palay prizes, and a virtual issue titled JCN One Thousand marks the thousandth volume milestone.两项内部奖以历任主编命名，即考恩奖与帕莱奖，另有一期题为 JCN 千卷的虚拟专辑用来标记千卷节点。

Editors

• Suzana Herculano-Houzel edits the journal from Vanderbilt University, where she holds appointments in psychology and in biological sciences and is affiliated with the Vanderbilt Brain Institute.主编 Suzana Herculano-Houzel 在范德堡大学主持刊物，同时受聘于心理学系与生物科学系，并挂靠该校脑研究所。

• Her own research counts neurons across species, and her book The Human Advantage came out from MIT Press in 2016.她本人的研究是跨物种清点神经元，专著《人类优势》2016 年由麻省理工学院出版社出版。

• Her stated aim for the journal is that authors in comparative and systems neuroscience should look forward to submission and review.她为刊物定的目标是让比较神经科学与系统神经科学的作者对投稿和评审有所期待。

• Six associate editors handle the field spread, among them Christina Cerkevich at Pittsburgh, Melissa Chee at Carleton and Uwe Homberg at Marburg.六位副编辑分担领域，其中有匹兹堡的 Christina Cerkevich，卡尔顿的 Melissa Chee 与马尔堡的 Uwe Homberg。

• The remaining three sit further afield, with Jorge Mpodozis in Santiago, Rui Oliveira in Lisbon and Anna Wang Roe at Zhejiang University.另外三位离得更远，Jorge Mpodozis 在圣地亚哥，Rui Oliveira 在里斯本，Anna Wang Roe 在浙江大学。

• Board members are listed with their institutions and with direct email addresses, so a prospective author can reach a handling editor without going through the office.编委名单附单位与直邮地址，作者不必经过编辑部就能找到负责的编辑。

• Thirty-seven names make up that board, among them Jon H. Kaas at Vanderbilt, Leah Krubitzer at Davis and Erich Jarvis at Duke.编委共三十七人，其中有范德堡的 Jon H. Kaas，戴维斯的 Leah Krubitzer 与杜克的 Erich Jarvis。

• Patrick Hof at Mount Sinai, Zoltan Molnar at Oxford and Marcello Rosa at Monash extend the group across three continents.西奈山的 Patrick Hof，牛津的 Zoltan Molnar 与莫纳什的 Marcello Rosa 把这批人铺到三大洲。

• Comparative anatomy is well represented, with Ramón Anadón in Santiago de Compostela, Mario Wullimann in Munich and Naoyuki Yamamoto in Nagoya.比较解剖一侧人不少，圣地亚哥德孔波斯特拉的 Ramón Anadón，慕尼黑的 Mario Wullimann 与名古屋的 Naoyuki Yamamoto 都在。

• The median time from submission to first decision is 18 days, and the publisher quotes an acceptance rate of 40 percent.从投稿到首次决定的中间值是 18 天，出版方给出的录用率是 40%。

• Review is single anonymized, and the journal takes part in a transferable peer review scheme that lets a manuscript move between journals with overlapping scopes.评审为单盲，刊物还参加一套可转移评审安排，稿子可以在范围重叠的刊物之间转投。

• Articles may carry a video abstract, and a cover image programme invites authors to supply artwork for the issue front.文章可以配视频摘要，另有一项封面计划邀请作者为当期封面供稿。

• The editorial office answers at jcnoffice@wiley.com, and new manuscripts go in through the Wiley Authors portal under the short code CNE.编辑部信箱挂在 wiley.com 上，新稿经 Wiley Authors 门户按简称 CNE 递交。

• No submission fee is charged, and the journal lists its readership as neuroscientists, anatomists, physiologists, biochemists and cellular and molecular biologists.刊物不收投稿费，读者对象写的是神经科学家，解剖学家，生理学家，生物化学家与细胞及分子生物学家。