| Discipline | Botany |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Peter Wilkie |
| Publication details | |
Former names | Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh |
| History | 1900 |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Yes | |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Edinb. J. Bot. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0960-4286 (print) 1474-0036 (web) |
| LCCN | 90648365 |
| OCLC no. | 21684344 |
| Links | |
Edinburgh Journal of Botany is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The scope of the journal is plant systematics and related subjects, including biodiversity, conservation science and phytogeography.
The journal adopted a diamond open access mode of publishing, using the Creative Commons Attribution License for published works since volume 78 (2021).[1]
Publication history
[edit]For most of its history, the journal was published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), until 1995 when it changed to Cambridge University Press.[2] Then in 2021 it changed again to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s journal-hosting service.[1]
Notable editors-in-chief of the journal over the years have included: Isaac Bayley Balfour, William Wright Smith, B.L. Burtt, Ian Charleson Hedge, James Alexander Ratter, Brian John Coppins, John Albert Raven, and Mark Fleming Newman.
Abstracting and indexing
[edit]The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Wilkie, Peter (2021). "EDITORIAL: MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF BOTANY". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. doi:10.24823/EJB.2021.321.
- ^ Coppins, B.J. (1994). "Announcement". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. doi:10.1017/S0960428600000901.
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