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Journal of Plant Research is an international publication focusing on fundamental knowledge in all areas of plant sciences.

  • Encourages work based on unique approaches and unprecedented findings.
  • Welcomes interdisciplinary studies and newly developing areas of basic plant biology.
  • Papers should be hypothesis-driven, not purely descriptive.
  • Manuscripts in applied plant sciences accepted only if they contribute to basic plant sciences.
  • Covers a broad range of disciplines including taxonomy, phylogeny, evolutionary biology, and more.

Editor-in-Chief
  • Maki Katsuhara
Impact factor
2.8 (2022)
5 year impact factor
3.0 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
10 days
Downloads
395,870 (2023)

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Journal updates

  • JOURNAL INFORMATION

    The Journal of Plant Research is the official journal of The Botanical Society of Japan. 
    Society information, Journal of Plant Research Paper Award.

  • JPR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & JPR SYMPOSIA

    The JPR Special Collection (formerly Virtual Issue) puts together articles previously published in various issues, all centered around a specific topic. The JPR Symposium is a special feature published in a single issue.

  • COVER GALLERY

    Each issue of the Journal of Plant Research has a different cover. In this cover gallery, you can browse the covers of past issues as well as their captions.

  • JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH AWARDS

    The Editorial Committee of the Botanical Society of Japan annually select papers for the Journal of Plant Research 'Best Paper Award' and 'Most-Cited Paper Award'.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1618-0860
Print ISSN
0918-9440
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. AGRICOLA
  2. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  3. BFI List
  4. BIOSIS
  5. Baidu
  6. Biological Abstracts
  7. CAB Abstracts
  8. CLOCKSS
  9. CNKI
  10. CNPIEC
  11. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  12. Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  13. Dimensions
  14. EBSCO
  15. EMBiology
  16. Google Scholar
  17. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  18. Medline
  19. Meta
  20. Naver
  21. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  22. Pathway Studio
  23. Portico
  24. ProQuest
  25. SCImago
  26. SCOPUS
  27. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  28. TD Net Discovery Service
  29. UGC-CARE List (India)
  30. Wanfang
  31. Zoological Record
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