Zoologica Scripta

Zoologica Scripta (commonly abbreviated as Zool. Scr.) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, established in 1971 and issued bimonthly. Centred on systematic zoology, it is the direct continuation of the Nordic tradition of zoological publishing.《动物学志》（Zoologica Scripta，常用缩写为 Zool. Scr.）是一份由挪威科学院与文学院与瑞典皇家科学院共同主办、威立出版代为出版的同行评审学术期刊，1971 年创刊，双月刊。该刊以系统动物学为核心取向，是北欧动物学出版谱系的直接延续。

Scope

The journal takes systematic questions themselves as its orientation, requiring that a paper pose or test a substantive claim about evolutionary relationships, patterns of classification or nomenclature rather than merely record species. The publisher states plainly that purely taxonomic papers are not considered and that new species descriptions may appear only as supplementary material, an unusual threshold among zoological journals. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的取稿立场是「以系统学问题本身为取向」，即要求论文须提出或检验关于演化关系、分类格局与命名法的实质问题，而非仅作物种记载。官方明文规定纯分类学记录不予考虑，新种描述只能作为补充材料发表，这一门槛在动物学期刊中相当罕见。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Animal systematics and phylogeny: taxonomic revision, the integrated analysis of morphological and molecular evidence, phylogenetic inference, and the estimation of divergence times.动物系统学与系统发育： 分类群修订、形态学与分子证据的综合分析、系统发育推断与分化时间估计。
• Phylogeography and biogeography: population history, phylogeographic pattern, the evolution of ranges, and their relation to palaeoclimate and geological events.系统地理学与生物地理学： 群体历史、谱系地理格局、分布区演化及其与古气候和地质事件的关联。
• Nomenclature and method: naming questions under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, standards of classification, and the development of phylogenetic methodology itself.命名法与分类学方法： 《国际动物命名法规》下的命名问题、分类标准与系统发育方法学本身的发展。
• Ecological and ecosystem context of diversification: adaptive radiation, niche divergence, speciation, and their relation to ecosystem structure.分化的生态与生态系统背景： 适应性辐射、生态位分化、物种形成与生态系统的关联。
• Extinct taxa and conservation application: the systematic placement of extinct and fossil groups, and application notes on the use of taxonomy in biodiversity conservation.灭绝类群与保护应用： 灭绝与化石类群的系统位置，以及分类学在生物多样性保护中的应用说明。

The journal is a hybrid title. The subscription route charges authors nothing, while open access carries an article processing charge of US$4,300, and the platform maintains a dedicated open access articles section. The publisher states an official acceptance rate of 36 per cent and a median of 8 days from submission to first decision, a figure that includes editorial desk review, since the website states plainly that manuscripts insufficiently focused on the journal's scope may be returned without external review. It should not be read as a measure of external review time.该刊属混合出版模式：订阅路线不向作者收费，选择开放获取需支付文章处理费 4300 美元，平台另设开放获取文章专栏。出版方官方公布录用率为 36%，投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 8 天，该口径包含编辑部桌审，官网明确写明未充分聚焦刊内范围的稿件可能未经外审即被退回，因此这一数字不可解读为外审周期。

History

• Founding (1971): the first issue of volume one was in fact published in December 1971, the first volume spanning 1971 and 1972, which is why the German serials database records it as the 1971/72 volume. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences lists the journal as beginning in 1972, a conventional citation year rather than the catalogued start.创刊（1971年）： 本刊首卷第 1 期实际出版于 1971 年 12 月，首卷跨 1971 与 1972 两个年份，德国期刊书目数据库据此按 1971/72 卷著录；瑞典皇家科学院官网标作 1972 年起，属通行引用年而非编目起点。^[1]
• Predecessor: the formal predecessor is the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Arkiv för zoologi (ISSN 0004-2110), founded in 1903 and published independently until 1974, running alongside the present journal for four years, a succession rather than a renaming. The commonly encountered claim of an 1948 founding is unsupported by any authoritative source.前身： 正式前身为瑞典皇家科学院的《瑞典动物学档案》（Arkiv för zoologi，ISSN 0004-2110），该刊 1903 年创刊并独立出版至 1974 年，与本刊并行四年，属承接关系而非改名；库内常见「1948 年创刊」的说法未获任何权威源支持。^[2]
• Absorption of a sister journal (1977): Norwegian Journal of Zoology, published independently from 1971 to 1976, was absorbed into this journal in 1977, creating a single outlet for systematic zoology under the two academies of Norway and Sweden.吸收姊妹刊（1977年）： 独立出版于 1971 至 1976 年的《Norwegian Journal of Zoology》于 1977 年被并入本刊，形成挪、瑞两院统一的动物系统学发表出口。^[1]
• Publisher history: the journal was published by Almqvist & Wiksell in Stockholm from 1971 to 1981, moved to Pergamon in Oxford from 1982 to 1998, was subsequently taken over by Blackwell and ultimately joined the Wiley portfolio, undergoing the full evolution from print to electronic publishing.出版方沿革： 1971 至 1981 年由斯德哥尔摩的 Almqvist & Wiksell 出版，1982 至 1998 年转至牛津的 Pergamon，其后由 Blackwell 承继并最终纳入威立体系，形态上历经从纸本到网络化的完整演变。^[1]
• Subtitle change: the publisher now uses the subtitle An International Journal of Systematic Zoology, while the evolutionary zoology subtitle recorded in the library is the earlier one. The change corresponds to the selection threshold described above and marks the journal's return to a systematic basis.副题变更： 官方现用副题为「系统动物学国际期刊」，库内所记的演化动物学为旧副题；这一改动与前述选稿门槛相互对应，标志着刊物向系统学本位的回归。^[3]
• Metric trend: the impact factor eased from 3.185 in 2021 to 2 in both 2024 and 2025, with 2.3 in 2023 and 2.5 in 2022. In the 2025 Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking, zoology is placed in zone 1 and evolutionary biology in zone 3.指标走势： 影响因子自 2021 年的 3.185 回落至 2024 与 2025 年的 2，2023 年 2.3、2022 年 2.5，在中科院分区中 2025 年动物学列一区、进化生物学列三区。^[3]
• Conference activity: the journal held a symposium in Oslo on 25 August 2022 on the role of systematics in understanding ecosystem function, with the proceedings published in volume 52, issue 3 of the same year.学术组织活动： 该刊于 2022 年 8 月 25 日在奥斯陆举办专题研讨会，主题为系统学对理解生态系统功能的角色，成果发表于同年第 52 卷第 3 期。^[4]

Editors

The journal uses the titles chief editor and executive editors rather than the usual editor-in-chief and associate editors, a nomenclature characteristic of Nordic academy journals. Representatives of the two sponsoring academies take part in editorial decisions, giving the journal its cross-national academy setting. Manuscripts are submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts system.本刊采用首席主编与执行编辑两级职衔，而非一般刊物的主编与副主编，层级称谓具有北欧科学院刊物的特点；两所主办科学院的代表参与编辑决策，构成其跨国的科学院层面背景。稿件经 ScholarOne Manuscripts 系统投递。

• Lutz Bachmann (chief editor since 2023): senior curator at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo, working on arthropod systematics and molecular barcoding. His inaugural editorial appeared in volume 52, issue 3.卢茨·巴赫曼（2023年起任，现任）： 奥斯陆大学自然史博物馆首席策展人，研究方向为节肢动物系统学与分子条形码；其就职社论发表于第 52 卷第 3 期。^[5]
• Torsten H. Struck and Hege Vårdal (current executive editors): the former is based at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo, working on annelid phylogeny and comparative genomics, and the latter at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, working on arachnid systematics.托尔斯滕·斯特鲁克与黑格·沃达尔（现任执行编辑）： 前者供职于奥斯陆大学自然史博物馆，研究方向为多毛类系统发育与比较基因组学；后者供职于瑞典自然史博物馆，研究方向为蛛形纲系统学。^[5]
• Per Sundberg (former chief editor): professor at the University of Gothenburg, who moved to the advisory council after stepping down. During his tenure the journal's shift toward a systematic basis was carried through.佩尔·松德贝里（前任首席主编）： 哥德堡大学教授，卸任后转入顾问编委会，任内推动了刊物向系统学本位的转型。^[5]
• Nomenclature position statement: the website issues an explicit statement on the controversy over whether refusing purely taxonomic records remains effective under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, an unusually public position for a systematic journal.命名立场声明： 官网就「纯分类学记录不予发表」这一做法在《国际动物命名法规》下的效力争议主动作出声明，这在系统学期刊中是少见的公开立场。^[6]
• Standing in the field: one of the longest-established journals in animal systematics, it stands as the direct continuation of the Nordic tradition of zoological publishing, and its papers routinely serve as base citations for later taxonomic revisions and nomenclatural rulings.学科地位： 该刊是动物系统学方向历史最悠久的刊物之一，长期作为北欧动物学出版谱系的直接延续，其论文常成为后续系统学修订与命名裁决的基础引用来源。^[3]