''Annals of Botany'' is a monthly

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publishing experimental, theoretical and applied papers on all aspects of plant biology. The current (2022) Chief Editor is Rowan Sage, replacing John Seymour (Pat) Heslop-Harrison ( University of Leicester, UK and the

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appointed in 2008). The journal is owned and managed by th
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. It is published monthly through Oxford University Press in paper form and online, and is paid for primarily by institutional annual subscriptions. Regular extra issues, published free-of-charge, focus on topical themes. The journal does not levy page charges but authors may choose to pay a standard fee to secure

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status for their papers. According to '' Journal Citation Reports'', in 2019 (published 2020) ''Annals of Botany''’s impact factor was 4.005 and was ranked 27th out of 234 journals in the Plant Sciences category. The Journal's Eigenfactor was 0.01652, its H-Index 165 and th
SCImago score
1.615. Also owned by the educational charity, ''Annals of Botany'' has two sister journals, ''

AoB Plants ''AoB Plants'' (''AoBP'') is a peer-reviewed open-access, non-profit scientific journal established in 2009 ''and'' publishing on all aspects of plant biology. The editor-in-chief is Tom Buckley (University of California, Davis) and the journal i ...

'', an online only open access botanical journal and
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', an online open access journal devoted to plant modelling. It is also closely associated with the informal online plant science publication
Botany One
'' ''Annals of Botany'' was established in 1887 by

Isaac Bayley Balfour Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxfor ...

(Sir Isaac from 1920) and Sydney Howard Vines with support from eight other prominent botanists of the time including Sir Francis Darwin and William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (Sir William from 1899). An extensive collection of letters, Minutes and accounts covering the first 125 years of the Journal's existence has been archived as the Annals of Botany Papers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A two-part history has been published based on this archive. Former Chief Editors (or equivalent) and their sometimes overlapping periods of office are as follows: Sydney Howard Vines FRS, 1887–1900;

Dunkinfield Henry Scott Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott FRS HFRSE LLD (28 November 1854 – 29 January 1934) was a British botanist. Biography Scott was born in London on 28 November 1854, the fifth and youngest son of architect Sir George Gilbert Scott and his wife Caro ...

FRS, 1900–1912; Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS.,1912-1921; Vernon Herbert Blackman FRS, 1921–1947; William Harold Pearsall FRS 1948–1964; John ( Jack) Heslop-Harrison FRS, 1961–1967; James Frederick Sutcliffe, 1967–1983; John A. Bryant, 1983–1984; John Anthony Abbott, 1983–1984; David Frederick Cutler, 1984-1990; Roderick Hunt, 1990–1996; Michael Barson Jackson, 1996–2008. There was an earlier periodical ''Annals of Botany'' edited by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (Charles Konig) and John Sims which started in 1804 and published two volumes before ceasing.

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