Development

Development’s scope covers all aspects of plant and animal development, including stem cell biology and regeneration. The single most important criterion for acceptance in Development is scientific excellence. Research papers (articles and reports) should therefore pose and test a significant hypothesis or address a significant question, and should provide novel perspectives that advance our understanding of development. We also encourage submission of papers that use computational methods or mathematical models to obtain significant new insights into developmental biology topics. Manuscripts that are descriptive in nature will be considered only when they lay important groundwork for a field and/or provide novel resources for understanding developmental processes of broad interest to the community.

Development includes a Techniques and Resources section for the publication of new methods, datasets, and other types of resources. Papers describing new techniques should include a proof-of-principle demonstration that the technique is valuable to the developmental biology community; they need not include in-depth follow-up analysis. The technique must be described in sufficient detail to be easily replicated by other investigators. Development will also consider protocol-type papers of exceptional interest to the community. We welcome submission of Resource papers, for example those reporting new databases, systems-level datasets, or genetic resources of major value to the developmental biology community. For all papers, the data or resource described must be made available to the community with minimal restrictions upon publication.

To aid navigability, Development has dedicated sections of the journal to stem cells & regeneration and to human development. The criteria for acceptance into these sections is identical to those outlined above. Authors and editors are encouraged to nominate appropriate manuscripts for inclusion in one of these sections.

《Development》是一本由Company of Biologists Ltd出版商出版的專業(yè)生物學(xué)期刊，該刊創(chuàng)刊于1987年，刊期Semimonthly，該刊已被國(guó)際權(quán)威數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)SCIE收錄。在中科院最新升級(jí)版分區(qū)表中，該刊分區(qū)信息為大類學(xué)科：生物學(xué)2區(qū)，小類學(xué)科：發(fā)育生物學(xué) 2區(qū)；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分區(qū)等級(jí)為Q1。該刊發(fā)文范圍涵蓋DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY等領(lǐng)域，旨在及時(shí)、準(zhǔn)確、全面地報(bào)道國(guó)內(nèi)外DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY工作者在該領(lǐng)域取得的最新研究成果、工作進(jìn)展及學(xué)術(shù)動(dòng)態(tài)、技術(shù)革新等，促進(jìn)學(xué)術(shù)交流，鼓勵(lì)學(xué)術(shù)創(chuàng)新。2023年影響因子為3.7，平均審稿速度 約3.0個(gè)月 。