Botany Letters is an international scientific journal, published by the French Botanical Society (Société botanique de France) in partnership with Taylor & Francis. Botany Letters replaces Acta Botanica Gallica, which was created in 1993, building on over a century of renowned publications by the Société botanique de France.
Every year the editorial board vote on the best paper published in each volume. The author of this paper will win the Jussieu Research Prize. Botany Letters welcomes all manuscripts dealing with botany. The scope covers the list of sections presented below, and covers land plants, algae and fungi. All organisation levels are considered. Botany Letters aims at allowing fast dissemination of quality research, for a large audience of readers interested in plant sciences.
Sections: Systematics, taxonomy Molecular genetics Domestication & agriculture Evolution Ecology Biogeography Biodiversity & conservation biology Physiology, anatomy and morphology Ethnobotany & pharmacology Palaeobotany & archaeobotany History of botany Curation Invasive Plants Short communications Letters Reviews Book review
We welcome description of new species, provided that they introduce several new taxa, based on an integrative approach (morphological and molecular).
In order to support plant research and Botany Letters contribution to development of botany, the Société Botanique de France distributes each year one or several research price(s) for a total of 5000 euros. These prices are awarded to the best paper(s) published in the previous year, and is aiming at supporting the future research of the corresponding author(s). Monographs on invasive species at European level will be welcome as part of a series launched in 2016.
If you are submitting a Monograph as part of the "
Monographs on Invasive Plants in Europe" collection, please contact the editors for specific formatting guidance.
Botany Letters will consider submissions of articles recommended by Peer Community In (PCI), (e.g. PCI Ecology, PCI Evolutionary Biology, PCI Genomics etc.) and may use PCI reviews and recommendations for their own review processes, if appropriate.
Journal metrics
Usage
415K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.5 (2023) Impact Factor
1.8 (2023) 5 year IF
3.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.801 (2023) SNIP
0.396 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
5 days avg. from submission to first
decision
46 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
23 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
20% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
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
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
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
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
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.
Professor Sophie Nadot University of Paris Sud-Orsay Bâtiment 360 - Rue du Doyen André Guinier 91405 Orsay Cedex
Dr Florian Jabbour National Museum of Natural History 57 rue Cuvier CP39 75005 Paris
Outgoing Editor-in-Chief
Elisabeth Dodinet University of South Brittany 4 rue Jean Zay, BP 92116 F-56 321 LORIENT Cedex France
Editorial Board
Juan Arroyo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Anders Barfod, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Sylvie Baudino, University Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France Guillaume Besnard, CNRS, Toulouse, France Renato A.F. de Lima, University of São Paulo, Brazil Laure Civeyrel, Toulouse 3 University, Toulouse, France Guillaume Decocq, Amiens University, Amiens, France Jean-Yves Dubuisson, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France Guillaume Fried, ANSES (Plant Health Laboratory),Montferrier-sur-Lez, France Finn Kjellberg, CNRS, Montpellier, France Marie-Aleth Lacaille-Dubois, Université de Bourgogne, UFR de Pharmacie, Dijon, France Sébastien Lavergne, CNRS, Grenoble, France Timothee Le Pechon, Jardin botanique de Meise, Belgium Valery Malécot, West Agrocampus, Angers, France Frédéric Médail, Université d’Aix-Marseille IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France Anne-Claire Mitaine-Offer, Université de Bourgogne, UFR de Pharmacie, Dijon, France Andriy Novikov, State Museum of Natural History, Lviv, Ukraine Benoît Pujol, CNRS, Toulouse, France Germinal Rouhan, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France Vincent Savolainen, Imperial College London & Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK Benoît Schoefs, Le Mans University, Le Mans, France Marc-André Selosse, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France Katalyn Solymosi, University Eötvös Lorànd, Budapest, Hungary Tatiana Souza-Chies, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Gábor Sramkó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Christine Strullu-Derrien, Université d'Angers, France Alexander Sukhorukov, Moscow State University, Moscow; Russian Federation Richard Thompson, AgroSup/INRA, Dijon, France Thierry Thibaut, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France Alain Vanderpoorten, Liege University, Belgium
Abstracting and indexing
Botany Letters is indexed in: AgBiotechNet, Agricultural Economics Database, Agroforestry Abstracts, Animal Science Database, ArticleFirst, Biocontrol News and Information, Biological Abstracts, Biological Sciences, BIOSIS Previews, Botanical Pesticides Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Crop Physiology Abstracts, Crop Science Database, Current Contents, Environmental Impact, Field Crop Abstracts, Forest Products Abstracts, Forest Science Database, Forestry Abstracts, GeoRef, Global Health, Grasslands and Forage Abstracts, Horticultural Science Database, Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts, Leisure Tourism Database, Maize Abstracts, Nematological Abstracts, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series B: Livestock Feeds and Feeding, Nutrition and Food Sciences Database, Organic Research Database, Ornamental Horticulture, Parasitology Database, Plant Breeding Abstracts, Plant Genetics and Breeding Database, PubMed, Review of Plant Pathology, Rural Development Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Seed Abstracts, Soil Science Database, Soils and Fertilizers, Soybean Abstracts, Sugar Industry Abstracts, TropAg & Rural, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, Vitis - Viticulture and Oenology Abstracts, Web of Science, Weed Abstracts, World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts.
Open access
Botany Letters is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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