''AoB Plants'' (''AoBP'') is a

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established in 2009 ''and'' publishing on all aspects of plant biology. The

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is Tom Buckley (

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) and the journal is published through

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but owned and managed by the Annals of Botany Company a non-profit educational charity registered with the

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. ''AoBP'' was one of the first plant science journals to adopt a fully open access publishing model. An account of the thinking behind launching the journal and its progress over the first 10 years has been published. ''AoB Plants'' has two sister journals, ''

Annals of Botany ''Annals of Botany'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal 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 ...

'', a subscription-based general botanical journal and in silico Plants, an open access journal devoted to all aspects of plant modelling.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to

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, the journal has a 2018

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of 2.270, ranking it 77th out of 288 journals in the category "Plant Sciences" and 84th out of 165 journals in the category "Ecology".

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://aobplants.oxfordjournals.org
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