Recently, Prof. Xueping Zhou, the Director General of Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, was invited by Dr. Richard Gallagher, the Editor-in-Chief of Annual Reviews, to be a member of the Editorial Board for Annual Review of Phytopathology, the top scientific journal in the fields of plant pathology. Dr. Zhou's tenure is from 2016-2020.

Annual Review of Phytopathology is an internationally acknowledged top journal in the fields of plant pathology. There is one volume every year. The published articles reflect incisively not only the recent progress achieved in the fields, the expressed opinions lead also the researches in the future years. The most recent five-year averaged journal impact factor is 14.284 for Annual Review of Phytopathology.