Vertebrate Zoology

Vertebrate Zoology is an open access journal on the study of vertebrates, published by the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden.《Vertebrate Zoology》是一份聚焦脊椎动物研究的开放获取期刊，由德累斯顿的森根堡自然史收藏馆出版。

Its line reaches back to 1875, and the present name dates from 2007, when a title of the Dresden museum was renamed for the group it had come to treat.该刊血脉上溯至 1875 年，现名始于 2007 年，当时德累斯顿博物馆的一份刊物因其转向处理的类群而改名。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.2, and it stands in the first quartile of zoology.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.2，在动物学类目列第一区。

Scope

• The journal takes the study of vertebrates as its subject, and it asks what a specimen shows about a group and its history.该刊以脊椎动物的研究为题材，追问标本对某一类群及其历史说明了什么。

• Taxonomy is named, and the journal carries work on how a species is delimited and named.分类学被点名，该刊刊载物种如何被界定与命名的工作。

• Morphology is treated, and the journal admits work on the form and the structure of an animal.形态学得到处理，该刊收载动物外形与结构方面的工作。

• Anatomy is named, and the journal carries work on how an organ is laid out and how it is read.解剖学被点名，该刊刊载器官如何构成、如何被解读的工作。

• Phylogeny is treated, and the journal takes work that reconstructs how lineages branch.系统发育得到处理，该刊收载重建谱系如何分支的工作。

• Molecular phylogeny is named alongside the morphological, and the journal admits work that draws on either or on both.分子系统发育与形态系统发育一并被点名，该刊收载取其一或兼取二者的工作。

• Historical biogeography is part of the remit, and the journal carries work on how a group came to be where it is.历史生物地理学属于收稿范围，该刊刊载类群如何抵达其现居之地的工作。

• Palaeontology is treated, and the journal admits work on how a fossil adds to the picture of a living group.古生物学得到处理，该刊收载化石如何增益对现生类群之认识的工作。

• New taxa are described, and the journal asks that a description be set within a wider frame rather than stand alone.新类群被描述，该刊要求描述置于更广的框架之内，而非孤立自证。

• Revisions are named, and the journal carries work that takes a whole genus or family in hand.修订被点名，该刊刊载把整个属或科一并处理的工作。

• Specimens and collections are treated, and the journal takes work that draws on the holdings of a museum.标本与收藏得到处理，该刊收载取用博物馆藏品的工作。

• Distribution and range are named, and the journal carries work on where a species is found and where it is not.分布与范围被点名，该刊刊载物种见于何处、不见于何处的工作。

• A studied specimen is asked to be deposited in a public collection, and the journal states that requirement plainly.所研究标本须存入公共收藏，该刊把这一要求写明。

• Original contributions are taken alongside reviews, and the journal asks that a survey set out where a group stands.原创论文与综述一并收载，该刊要求述评陈明某一类群的现状。

• The journal is meant to serve a field that reaches across the world, and it takes work on a group from any region.该刊意在服务一个遍及世界的领域，任何地区的类群研究均予收载。

History

• The line began in 1875, when the Royal Zoological Museum at Dresden put out a journal under a name of its own.该血脉始于 1875 年，当时德累斯顿的皇家动物博物馆以其自身的名义推出一份刊物。

• It was founded by the museum's then director, and its scope widened at first to take in anthropology and ethnography.该刊由该馆时任馆长创办，其范围起初扩展至人类学与民族志。

• The title was altered more than once over the years, and it settled for a long stretch under a name meaning zoological treatises.该题名经年累月不止一次更改，并在一个意为动物学论著的名下长期安定下来。

• In 2007 the journal was renamed once more, and it took the name of the group it had come to treat.2007 年该刊再度改名，启用了其已转向处理的类群之名。

• The volume number ran on across the change, and the series had reached volume 76 by 2026.卷号在更名前后一路接续，到 2026 年该系列已出至第 76 卷。

• The title was moved onto an open publishing platform in 2021, and it became free to read and free to publish.该刊于 2021 年迁入一个开放出版平台，转为免费阅读、免费发表。

• Only one number is in use for the title, and the journal is published online.该刊只使用一个刊号，以在线形式出版。

• A volume is published for each year, and articles are added continuously rather than held for an issue.该刊每年出版一卷，论文连续增入而非留待某一期。

• Access is free, and a charge is not levied on an accepted paper.该刊免费开放，不对被录用的论文收费。

• Authors keep the copyright of their work, and every article is released under a licence that allows reuse with attribution.作者保留其作品的著作权，每篇文章以允许署名再用的许可发布。

• The impact figure has risen in recent editions, standing at 2.3 for 2024 and reaching 3.2 in the 2025 edition.影响因子在近期各版中上升，2024 年为 2.3，2025 年版为 3.2。

• The journal is indexed in the science citation index expanded, and it is carried in Zoological Record and in the usual biodiversity databases.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，并被《动物学记录》与惯常的生物多样性数据库收录。

• A special issue is assembled from time to time, and the journal gathers work on a single group or a single collection.该刊不时编成专刊，汇集关于某一类群或某一收藏的工作。

Editors

• Uwe Fritz of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden is editor-in-chief, and his own field is the systematics of reptiles.德累斯顿森根堡自然史收藏馆的（Uwe Fritz）担任主编，其本人领域为爬行动物的系统学。

• He has led the title through its move to an open platform, and he wrote the editorial that announced the present name.他带领该刊迁入开放平台，并撰写了宣布现名的那篇社论。

• An associate editor is named for each group, and the journal lists one for fishes, one for birds, one for mammals and one for reptiles.该刊为每一类群各列一位副编辑，为鱼类、鸟类、哺乳类与爬行类各列一位。

• A further associate covers amphibians from a museum abroad, and a technical editor works from Dresden.另有一位副编辑来自国外一家博物馆、负责两栖类，一位技术编辑在德累斯顿工作。

• The journal sets out the classes of manuscript it takes, along with the length and structure each of them should follow.该刊列明所收稿件的类别，以及各类别应遵循的篇幅与结构。

• Each paper is sent to independent referees, and the review is anonymous on the side of the reviewer.每篇论文送交独立审稿人，评审在审稿人一侧为匿名。

• Authors must declare any competing interest, and the journal states its ethical requirements in full.作者必须声明任何利益冲突，该刊完整说明其伦理要求。

• A new species is asked to be registered with a public database, and the journal points to that requirement.新物种须在一个公共数据库中登记，该刊指明这一要求。

• A studied specimen is asked to be deposited in a public collection, and its number is given in the paper.所研究标本须存入公共收藏，其编号在论文中给出。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the platform, and an enquiry may be made before a paper is written.稿件通过该平台投递，在动笔之前可先行询问。

• The journal is read by taxonomists and by museum curators, by palaeontologists and by field biologists, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有分类学家与博物馆馆长，也有古生物学家与野外生物学家，它为这几类人写作。

• Work that settles the position of an obscure group is given room, and the journal asks what the settlement changes for the field.厘清某一鲜为人知类群位置的工作有篇幅可用，该刊追问这一厘清对领域改变了什么。

• Studies that report a range extension are taken, since a locality that moves a boundary is worth recording.报告分布区扩展的研究也在收载之列，因为改变边界的某一地点同样值得记录。

• Work on a type specimen appears among the subjects, and the journal carries papers on how a kind is fixed to a single animal.模式标本方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊刊载类名如何被系于单一动物的工作。

• Work on a sound or a call is treated, and the journal admits papers on what a vocalisation reveals about a species.声音或鸣叫方面的工作得到处理，该刊收载鸣声揭示了物种何物的论文。

• The journal keeps its reviews distinct from its original papers, and a reader can tell from the rubric which is which.该刊把综述与原创论文区分开来，读者可从栏目看出何者为何者。

• Work on a skull is named, and the journal carries papers on what a bone tells about diet and about relation.头骨方面的工作被点名，该刊刊载骨骼对食性与亲缘说明了何物的论文。

• Work that joins a molecular tree to a morphological one is treated, and the journal asks where the two agree.把分子树与形态树相连的工作得到处理，该刊追问二者何处相符。

• Work on a synonymy is named, and the journal admits papers on how two names are shown to mean one animal.异名方面的工作被点名，该刊收载两个名字如何被证明同指一种动物的论文。

• The journal follows the publisher's policy on research integrity, and it records corrections and withdrawals where they arise.该刊遵循出版方的研究诚信政策，出现更正与撤稿时予以记录。