Recently, Dr. Zhang Weiting published a paper in the world-famous journal on evolutionary biologyCladistics. The name of the paper isPhylogenetic analyses with four new Cretaceous bristletails revealinter-relationships ofArchaeognatha and Gondwana origin of Meinertellidae.The study has filled up the blank of Archaeognatha in China.

Cladisticsis a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in cladistics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Willi Hennig Society.Cladisticspublishes papers relevant to evolution, systematics, and integrative biology. Papers of both a conceptual or philosophicalnature, discussions of methodology, empirical studies on taxonomic groups from animals to bacteria, and applications ofsystematics in disciplines such as genomics and paleontology are accepted. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has aimpact factor of4.309.

Dr. Zhang is the first teacher from colleges and universities of Hebei Province who publishes papers inCladistics.This is also the very first time for HGU faculty to publish paper inCladisticsasfirst author. These all indicate that the scientific research level of our young teachers has reached the international frontier.

Dr. Zhang Weiting, who started to work in the museum of HGU since 2013, has achieved financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China for young scholars and Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province for young scholars. She has published over 20 papers. Over 12 of them are published in SCI journals such asCladistics, Journal of Systematic, Journal of Paleontology and Alcheringa.