The Plant Journal

Not to be confused with "Plants Journal" the publisher of "Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies" (ISSN 2394-0530) or the journal Plants published by MDPI.

The Plant Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of plant science published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Society for Experimental Biology. It was established in 1991 and is currently edited by Lee Sweetlove. The journal is published twice per month.

The Plant Journal

Discipline	Plant science
Language	English
Edited by	Lee Sweetlove
Publication details
History	1991–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell (United States)
Frequency	24/year
Open access	After 6 months
Impact factor	7.091 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Plant J.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0960-7412 (print) 1365-313X (web)
Links
Journal homepage

Indexing and abstracting

The Plant Journal is abstracted and indexed in several bibliographic databases:^[1]

• Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases
• Academic Search
• Academic Search Premier
• AgBiotech News & Information
• AgBiotechNet
• AGRICOLA
• Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
• Agricultural Engineering Abstracts
• Animal Breeding Abstracts
• Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index
• Biocontrol News & Information
• Biofuels Abstracts
• Biological Abstracts
• Biological Science Database
• BIOSIS Previews
• Biotechnology Citation Index
• Botanical Pesticides
• CAB Abstracts
• Crop Physiology Abstracts
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
• Current Contents/Life Sciences
• Dairy Science Abstracts
• Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database
• Field Crop Abstracts
• Food Science & Technology Abstracts
• Global Health
• Grasslands & Forage Abstracts
• Helminthological Abstracts
• Horticultural Science Abstracts
• InfoTrac
• Irrigation & Drainage Abstracts
• Leisure, Recreation & Tourism Abstracts
• Maize Abstracts
• Materials Science & Engineering Database
• MEDLINE/PubMed
• Natural Science Collection
• Nematological Abstracts
• Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews Series B: Livestock Feeds & Feeding
• Ornamental Horticulture
• Plant Breeding Abstracts
• Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts
• Plant Growth Regulator Abstracts
• Postharvest News & Information
• Potato Abstracts
• ProQuest Central
• ProQuest Central K-450
• Protozoological Abstracts
• Research Library
• Research Library Prep
• Review of Agricultural Entomology
• Review of Aromatic & Medicinal Plants
• Review of Medical & Veterinary Entomology
• Review of Medical & Veterinary Mycology
• Review of Plant Pathology
• Rice Abstracts
• Science Citation Index
• SciTech Premium Collection
• Scopus
• Seed Abstracts
• Soils & Fertilizers Abstracts
• Soybean Abstracts Online
• Sugar Industry Abstracts
• Technology Collection
• Tropical Diseases Bulletin
• Weed Abstracts
• Wheat, Barley & Triticale Abstracts
• World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.091, ranking it 17th out of 238 journals in the category "Plant Sciences".^[2]

References

1. "The Plant Journal: Overview". John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
2. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Plant Sciences". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.

Further reading

• Benning, Christoph (December 2011). "The future is bright for The Plant Journal, now in its 20th year". The Plant Journal. 68 (6): 939–940. doi:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04838.x. PMID 22150932.

External links

• Official website
• The Plant Journal at the Society of Experimental Biology