American Journal of Botany
Last updated ISSN 0002-9122
American Journal of Botany is published by Wiley in agricultural and biological sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,660.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Journal of Botany concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0002-9122, 1537-2197 |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,660 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 28,686 |
| Publishing since | 1823 |
| Journal website | bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15372197 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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