South African Journal of Botany
Last updated ISSN 0254-6299
South African Journal of Botany is published by Elsevier BV in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,750.
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What it publishes
Recent work in South African Journal of Botany concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0254-6299, 1727-9321 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,750 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 10,209 |
| Publishing since | 1982 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/south-african-journal-of-b |
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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