摘要
As Zoological Research enters its 33rd year of publication,let us reflect back on the last three decades of dramatic change to China and the scientific community.In the latter half of the 20th century,scientific research was almost exclusively published in the United States or Europe.We started Zoological Research in 1980 with the goal of creating a strong Chinese-language journal to support regional and national research and push towards developing an innovative and collaborative Chinese scientific community.Over the next two decades,we worked diligently to make Zoological Research in to one of China’s top life science journals,soliciting manuscripts from across the country.By the mid 1990s,however,we realized these efforts were not enough.Chinese researchers and research on China had begun to play a much larger role in the international scientific community.Accordingly,we decided to open up submissions to include articles published in English by both Chinese and foreign scientists.In 1996,we published our first set of English articles,all by Chinese authors,detailing regional findings:a new genus of dragonfly in Tibet,the nesting patterns of ants,and a study of snake karyotypes from Yunnan province.
