Plant Ecology
Last updated ISSN 1385-0237
Plant Ecology is published by Springer Science+Business Media in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,090.
Is your paper a fit?
The surest way to know is to compare your own abstract against what this journal has actually been publishing, rather than against its aims-and-scope page. Paste your abstract and Journal Hunt will tell you how close Plant Ecology is — and show you journals like it.
What it publishes
Recent work in Plant Ecology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest ecology and management
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1385-0237, 1573-5052 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,090 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,565 |
| Publishing since | 1950 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/life+sciences/plant+sciences/journa |
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.
Journals like Plant Ecology
Other established journals in environmental science, if this one is not the right home for your paper:

