''The Plant Journal'' is a
peer-reviewed scientific journal of
plant science
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
published by
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...
for the
Society for Experimental Biology
The Society for Experimental Biology is a learned society for animal, cell and plant biologists. It was founded in 1923 at Birkbeck College to "promote the art and science of experimental biology in all its branches". It aims to demonstrate the i ...
. It was established in 1991 and is currently edited by
Lee Sweetlove. The journal is published twice per month.
Indexing and abstracting
''The Plant Journal'' is
abstracted and indexed in several
bibliographic database
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s:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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of 7.091, ranking it 17th out of 238 journals in the category "Plant Sciences".
References
Further reading
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External links
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''The Plant Journal''at the Society of Experimental Biology
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Publications established in 1991
English-language journals
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
Delayed open access journals
Semi-monthly journals
Botany journals