Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences focuses on presenting in-depth and up-to-date reviews of timely and/or cutting-edge subjects in the broad discipline of plant science, ranging from molecular biology/biochemistry through the areas of cell biology, plant pathology and physiology, genetics, classical botany, and ecology, to practical agricultural applications. Articles in the journal provide an up-to-date literature base for researchers and students, pointing the way towards future research needs. The journal is also a significant source of credible, objective information to aid decision makers at all levels.
An Editorial Advisory Board with widely diverse interests and expertise assists to identify topic areas and suggests authors who are known contributors in those areas to prepare thorough critical reviews. Contributors survey and synthesize the most significant papers in the recent and current literature and present an evaluation of research and advances in the topic area, as well as identify major problems and prospects for the future.
Manuscripts for Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences are by invitation only; however prospective authors may suggest unsolicited projects by following the guidelines found here. Note that the journal does not publish literature reviews from theses or dissertations.
Peer Review Statement: Prior to submission of an invited manuscript, authors must have their work reviewed so that it is acceptable for publication, both technically and grammatically.Manuscripts found to be suitable for further consideration are reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees before the Editor-in-Chief make a final determination of its suitability for the journal.
Journal metrics
Usage
139K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
6.0 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
8.0 (2023) 5 year IF
12.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.921 (2023) SNIP
1.585 (2023) SJR
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
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Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Robert Trigiano Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology Room 370 Plant Biotechnology Building The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996
HONORARY EDITOR
B. V. Conger Editor 1981-2003 723 Robertsville Road Oak Ridge, TN 37830
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Feng Chen -Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Zong-Ming (Max) Cheng -College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PRC Diego Hernán Hojsgaard -Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany Yi Li -Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Thomas J. Molnar -Plant Biology Department, Rutgers University, NJ, USA Marcin Nowicki -Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA David Songstad -Songstad Consulting, San Marcos, CA, USA Marco Thines -Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, University of Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany; and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Joao Carlos Serafim Varela -Centre of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal Anna Sliwinska-Wyrzychowska -Department of Applied Biology, Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice, Poland Liangsheng Zhang -College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC
Abstracting and indexing
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences abstracted & indexed in:
Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts (Online); CABI (listed in various services in CABI); Cotton and Tropical Fibres; CSA (listed in various services in CABI); EBSCOhost (listed in various services in EBSCOhost); Elsevier BV (BIOBASE, Scopus); Food Science and Technology Abstracts; OCLC (ArticleFirst, Biology Digets, Electronic Collections Online); Personal Alert (Email); Plant Science; ProQuest (listed in various services in ProQuest); Thomson Reuters (listed in various services in Thomson Reuters)
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