List of botany journals


The following is a list of botanical scientific journals.

General botany

The following table is a list of scientific journals publishing articles on many areas of botany.
JournalHomepagePublisherPublication HistoryLanguagePublication Frequency
Acta AmazonicaNational Institute of Amazonian Research1971–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Acta Botanica BrasilicaSociedade Botânica do Brasil1987–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Acta Botanica GallicaTaylor & Francis for Société botanique de France1853–presentEnglish and French4 issues per year
Acta Botanica MalacitanaUniversity of Malaga1975–presentSpanish, English and FrenchContinuous, Online
Acta Botanica MexicanaInstituto de Ecologia - CONACYT1998–presentSpanish and EnglishContinuous, Online
Acta Phytotaxonomica et GeobotanicaJapanese Society for Plant Systematics1932–presentEnglish3 issues per year
Acta Societatis Botanicorum PoloniaePolish Botanical Society1923–presentEnglish4 issues per year
AlisoRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden1948–presentEnglish2 issues per year
American Journal of BotanyHighWire Press and the Botanical Society of America1914–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Anales del Jardín Botánico de MadridReal Jardín Botánico de Madrid1941–presentSpanish and English2 issues per year
Annals of BotanyOxford Journals1887–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden Press1914–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews1950–presentEnglish1 issue per year
AoB PLANTSOxford Journals2009–presentEnglishContinuous, Online
Aquatic BotanyElsevier1975–presentEnglish6 issues per year
ArnaldoaAntenor Orrego University1991–presentSpanish3 issues per year
ArnoldiaHarvard University1911–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Australian Journal of BotanyCSIRO1953–presentEnglish8 issues per year
Australian Systematic BotanyCSIRO1988–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Biologia PlantarumCzech Academy of Sciences1959–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Blumeaingentaconnect and National Herbarium of the Netherlands1934–presentEnglish3 issues per year
BlyttiaNorwegian Botanical Association1943–presentNorwegian4 issues per year
BonplandiaUniversidad Nacional del Nordeste1960–presentSpanish, English and Portuguese2 issues per year
Botanica HelveticaSpringer Science+Business Media and the Swiss Botanical Society1890–presentEnglish, German, Italian, French and Romansh2 issues per year
Botanica Pacifica of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian academy of Sciences2012–presentEnglish2 issues per year
Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyWiley Online Library1856–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Botanicheskii zhurnalRussian Botanical Society and Russian Academy of Sciences1916–presentEnglish and Russian12 issues per year
Botanisk TidsskriftDanish Botanical Society1866–1980Danish, German, English and French4 issues per year
BotanyNational Research Council Canada1929–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Brazilian Journal of BotanySpringer and Sociedade Botânica de São Paulo1976–presentEnglish 4 issues per year
BrittoniaNew York Botanical Garden Press1931–presentEnglish4 issues per year
The BryologistAmerican Bryological and Lichenological Society1898–presentEnglish4 issues per year
CaldasiaNational University of Colombia1940–presentSpanish and English2 issues per year
CandolleaConservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva1922–presentEnglish and French2 issues per year
CastaneaSouthern Appalachian Botanical Society1936–presentEnglish2 issues per year
CavanillesiaInstitució Catalana d'Història Natural1928–1938Spanish3-4 issues per year
Chinese Bulletin of BotanyChinese Academy of Sciences1983–presentChinese6 issues per year
Contributions of the University of Michigan HerbariumUniversity of Michigan Herbarium1939–2007EnglishVariable
Curtis's Botanical MagazineWiley and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1787–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Dansk Botanisk ArkivDanish Botanical Society1913–1980Danish, English, French and GermanVariable
DarwinianaInstituto de Botánica Darwinion1922–presentSpanish, English2 issues per year
DinteriaKuiseb Verlag1968–1997EnglishVariable
DumortieraMeise Botanic Garden1975–presentEnglish, Dutch and French1-3 issues per year
Edinburgh Journal of BotanyCambridge University Press for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh1954–presentEnglish3 issues per year
Egyptian Journal of BotanyAcademy of Scientific Research and Technology1960–presentEnglish and Arabic3 issues per year
Environmental and Experimental BotanyElsevier1961–presentEnglish9 issues per year
ErigeniaIllinois Native Plants Society1982–presentEnglishVariable
EvansiaAmerican Bryological and Lichenological Society1984–presentEnglish4 issues per year
FloraElsevier1818–presentEnglish and German 8 issues per year
Folia GeobotanicaSpringer and the Czech Academy of Sciences1966–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Frontiers in Plant ScienceFrontiers 2010–presentEnglishContinuous, Online
Gardens' Bulletin SingaporeNational Parks Board, Singapore1912–presentEnglish2 issues per year
The Great Lakes BotanistMichigan Botanical Club1962–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Harvard Papers in BotanyHarvard University Herbaria1989–presentEnglish2 issues per year
Iheringia. Série Botânica.Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul1958–presentPortuguese and English1 volume per year
International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press1875–presentEnglish9 issues per year
Italian BotanistItalian Botanical Society and Pensoft Publishers1969–presentEnglish2 issues per year
Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford Journals for the Society for Experimental Biology1950–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Botanical Society of China2005–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Journal of Japanese BotanyTsumura1916–presentEnglish, Japanese6 issues per year
Journal of Plant InteractionsTaylor & Francis2005–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Journal of Plant BiologySpringer and Botanical Society of Korea1958–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Journal of Plant PhysiologyElsevier1909–presentEnglishContinuous, Online
Journal of Plant ResearchThe Botanical Society of Japan1887–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Journal of Systematics and EvolutionBotanical Society of China, the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences2008–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of TexasBotanical Research Institute of Texas1962–presentEnglish and Spanish2 issues per year
Journal of the Torrey Botanical SocietyTorrey Botanical Society1973–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Kew BulletinSpringer and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1887–presentEnglish4 issues per year
KirkiaNational Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe1960–presentEnglishVariable
LagascaliaUniversidad de Sevilla1971–presentEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese and French1 volume per year
LankesterianaLankester Botanical Garden2001–presentEnglish and Spanish3 issues per year
MadroñoCalifornia Botanical Society1915–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Makinoa New SeriesN/AKochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden2001–presentEnglish1 volume per year
Mediterranean BotanyComplutense University of Madrid1979–presentEnglish2 issues per year
MissouriensisMissouri Native Plant Society1979–presentEnglish1 volume per year
Molecular PlantChinese Academy of Sciences and Cell Press2008–presentEnglish6 issues per year
New Journal of BotanyTaylor & Francis and Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland1949–2017English3 issues per year
New PhytologistBlackwell Publishing and the New Phytologist Trust1902–presentEnglish16 issues per year
New Zealand Journal of BotanyRoyal Society of New Zealand1963–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Nordic Journal of BotanyWiley and Nordic Society Oikos1981–presentEnglish6 issues per year
NovonMissouri Botanical Garden Press1991–presentEnglish4 issues per year
NuytsiaWestern Australian Herbarium1970–presentEnglish3 issues per year
Pakistan Journal of BotanyPakistan Botanical Society1969–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Palaeontographica Abt. B Schweizerbart Science Publishers1933–presentEnglish2-3 volumes per year
PhytoKeysPensoft Publishers2010–presentEnglishContinuous, Online
PhytotaxaMagnolia Press2009–presentEnglishContinuous, Online
PhytochemistryElsevier1961–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Plant BiologyWiley, German Society for Plant Sciences and Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands1999–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Plant DiversityChinese Academy of Sciences1979–presentChinese6 issues per year
Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis for Botanical Society of Scotland2008–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Plant Ecology and EvolutionRoyal Botanical Society of Belgium and Botanic Garden Meise2010–presentEnglish and French3 issues per year
The Plant GenomeCrop Science Society of America2008–presentEnglish3 issues per year
The Plant JournalBlackwell Publishing and the Society for Experimental Biology1991–presentEnglish24 issues per year
Plant PhysiologyAmerican Society of Plant Biologists1926–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Plant Physiology and BiochemistryFederation of European Societies of Plant Biology and French Society of Plant Biology1998–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Plant ScienceElsevier1973–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Plant Species BiologyWiley and the Society for the Study of Species Biology1986–presentEnglish3 issues per year
Plant Systematics and EvolutionSpringer1851–presentEnglish12 issues per year
PlantaSpringer1973–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Portugaliae Acta BiologicaUniversity of Lisbon1945–presentEnglish and Portuguese1 volume per year
PresliaCzech Botanical Society1914–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Revista Peruana de BiologíaSan Marcos National University1974–presentSpanish and English4 issues per year
RhodoraNew England Botanical Club1899–presentEnglish4 issues per year
RichardianaJardin Botanique de Guyane2001–presentFrench and EnglishContinuous, Online
RodriguesiaRio de Janeiro Botanical Garden1935–presentEnglish 2 issues per year
SelbyanaMarie Selby Botanical Gardens1975–presentEnglish2 issues per year
South African Journal of BotanySouth African Association of Botanists1932–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Svensk Botanisk TidskriftSwedish Botanical Society1907–presentSwedish5 issues per year
Systematic BotanyAmerican Society of Plant Taxonomists1976–presentEnglish4 issues per year
TaiwaniaNational Taiwan University1947–presentEnglish4 issues per year
TaxonInternational Association for Plant Taxonomy1951–presentEnglish6 issues per year
TelopeaNational Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust1975–presentEnglish1 issue per year
Thai Forest Bulletin Forest Herbarium, Bangkok1954–presentEnglish1 issue per year
Thai Journal of BotanyThe Botanical Garden Organization,Thailand2009–presentEnglish2 issue per year
WebbiaFirenze University Press1905–presentEnglish2 issues per year
WilldenowiaBotanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin1895–presentEnglish3 issues per year
WrightiaSouthern Methodist University & University of Texas at Dallas1945–1984English?

Agronomy and horticulture

The following table is a list of botany journals specialising in agronomy, including crop science and horticulture.
JournalHomepagePublisherPublication HistoryLanguagePublication Frequency
Agronomy JournalThe American Society of Agronomy1907–presentEnglish6 issues per year
AgronomieINRA and EDP Sciences1981–2004English and French6 issues per year
Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentINRA and EDP Sciences2005–presentEnglish4 issues per year
American Journal of Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media and The Potato Association of America1924–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchBlackwell Publishing and the Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology1995–presentEnglish3 issues per year
The Biology of Canadian WeedsAgricultural Institute of Canada?–presentEnglishVariable
British Sugar Beet ReviewBritish Sugar1926–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Cereal Research CommunicationsAkadémiai Kiadó1972–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Cereal ChemistryAACC International1923–presentEnglish6 issues per year
CeibaN/AEscuela Agricola Panamericana1950–presentEnglish?
Crop Protection Elsevier1982–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Crop Science The Crop Science Society of America1961–presentEnglish6 issues per year
DavidsoniaUBC Botanical Garden1970–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Economic BotanySociety for Economic Botany1946–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Erwerbs-ObstbauSpringer Science+Business Media1958–presentGerman4 issues per year
EuphyticaSpringer Science+Business Media1952–presentEnglish12 issues per year
European Journal of AgronomyElsevier and the European Society for Agronomy1994–presentEnglish8 issues per year
European Journal of Horticultural ScienceUlmer1935–presentEnglish and German 6 issues per year
Field Crops ResearchElsevier1978–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Genetic Resources and Crop EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media1953–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Grass and Forage ScienceBlackwell Publishing and the British Grassland Society1946–presentEnglish4 issues per year
HilgardiaN/AUniversity of California, Berkeley1925–1996English9 issues per year
The HorticulturistInstitute of Horticulture1992–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Horticultural ReviewsJohn Wiley & Sons1979–presentEnglish1 volume per year
Industrial Crops and ProductsElsevier1992–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Invasive Plant Science and ManagementWeed Science Society of America2008–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Journal of Agronomy and Crop ScienceBlackwell Publishing1987–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Journal of Applied HorticultureSociety for the Advancement of Horticulture1999–presentEnglish3 issues per year
Journal of Bamboo and RattanSpringer Science+Business Media2001–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier1983–presentEnglish6 issues
Journal of Horticultural Science and BiotechnologyInternational Society for Horticultural Science1925–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Journal of Fruit and Ornamental Plant ResearchResearch Institute of Pomology and Floriculture1993–presentEnglish1 volume per year
Journal of plant nutrition and soil scienceWiley-VCH1923–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Journal of Plant RegistrationsCrop Science Society of America2007–presentEnglish3 issues per year
Journal of the American Society of HorticultureAmerican Society for Horticultural Science1875–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media1995–presentEnglish4 issues per year
PHMHortilien1826–presentFrench11 issues per year
Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media and the Royal Netherlands Society of Agricultural Science1948–presentEnglish12 volumes per year
Plant Breeding Blackwell Publishing1986–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier1991–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media and the European Association for Potato Research1958–presentEnglish4 issues per year
RiceSpringer Science+Business Media2007–presentEnglish?
Rice ScienceElsevier and China National Rice Research Institute2007–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Scientia HorticulturaeElsevier1973–presentEnglish16 issues per year
Weed Biology and ManagementBlackwell Publishing and the Weed Science Society of Japan2001–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Weed ResearchBlackwell Publishing and the European Weed Research Society1961–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Weed ScienceWeed Science Society of America1952–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Weed TechnologyWeed Science Society of America1986–presentEnglish4 issues per year

Dendrology

the following table is a list of journals that specialize in publishing articles on dendrology.
JournalHomepagePublisherPublication HistoryLanguagePublication Frequency
Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNational Research Council Canada1971–presentEnglish12 issues per year
DendrobiologyInstitute of Dendrology1955–presentEnglish and Polish 2 volumes per year
Forest Genetic Resources BulletinFAO1973–presentEnglish, Spanish and French1 volume per year
Journal of DendrologyN/AThe Dendrological Society of South Africa1981–presentEnglish and Afrikaans?
New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media1986–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Revista Forestal del PerúLa Molina National Agrarian University1967–presentSpanish2 issues per year
Tree Genetics & GenomesSpringer Science+Business Media2005–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Tree PhysiologyHeron Publishing1986–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Trees - Structure and FunctionSpringer Science+Business Media1987–presentEnglish4 issues per year

Plant pathology

The following table is a list of botany journals specializing in plant pathology.
JournalHomepagePublisherPublication HistoryLanguagePublication Frequency
African Journal of Plant PathologyAgricultural Research Institute, Egypt2004–presentEnglish3 issues per year
Annales de PhytopathologieN/AInstitut national de la recherche agronomique1969–1980FrenchOnce a year
Annual Review of PhytopathologyAnnual Reviews1963–presentEnglishOnce a year
Archives of Phytopathology and Plant ProtectionTaylor & Francis1967–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Australasian Plant PathologyCSIRO1972–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Canadian Journal of Plant PathologyThe Canadian Phytopathological Society1979–presentFrench and English4 issues per year
Canadian Plant Disease SurveyThe Canadian Phytopathological Society1997–presentFrench and EnglishOnce a year
Crop ProtectionElsevier1982–presentEnglish12 issues per year
EPPO Bulletin - A journal of regulatory plant protectionBlackwell Publishing and the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization1972–presentFrench and English3 issues per year
European Journal of Forest PathologySpringer Science+Business Media1895–presentEnglish and German 8 issues per year
European Journal of Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media1895–presentEnglish8 issues per year
Fitopatologia BrasileiraSociedade Brasileira de Fitopatologia1976–presentEnglish, Spanish and Portuguese6 issues per year
Iranian journal of plant pathology/Bimarihaye GuiahiN/AIranian Phytopathological Society1963–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Journal of General Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media and The Phytopathological Society of Japan1918–presentEnglish and Japanese 6 issues per year
Journal of Phytopathology/Phytopathologische ZeitschriftBlackwell Publishing1929–presentEnglish and German -
Journal of Plant Diseases and ProtectionGerman Phytomedical Society?–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Journal of Plant PathologyItalian Phytopathological Society?–presentEnglish and Italian 4 issues per year
Journal of Plant Protection ResearchPolish Academy of Sciences1968–presentEnglish-
Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsAmerican Phytopathological Society1998–presentEnglish8 issues per year
Molecular Plant PathologyBlackwell Publishing and the British Society for Plant Pathology2000–presentEnglish6 issues per year
New Disease ReportsBritish Society for Plant Pathology2000–presentEnglish2 volumes a year
New Zealand Plant ProtectionNew Zealand Plant Protection Society1948–presentEnglishOnce a year
Pakistan Journal of Plant PathologyN/AAsian Network for Scientific Information2002–2003English3 issues per year
Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier1971–presentEnglish12 issues a year
PhytoparasiticaPriel Publishers1973–presentEnglish5 issues per year
Phytopathologia MediterraneaFirenze University Press and Mediterranean Phytopathological Union1967–presentEnglish3 issues per year
PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society1910–presentEnglish12 issues per year
PhytoprotectionThe Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants1963–presentFrench and English3 volumes a year
Plant DiseaseAmerican Phytopathological Society1916–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Plant Health ProgressPlant Management Network2000–presentEnglishOnline only
Plant PathologyBlackwell Publishing and the British Society for Plant Pathology1952–presentEnglish6 issues per year

Review

The following table is a list of botany journals that contain collections of review papers about general plant science.
JournalHomepagePublisherPublication HistoryLanguagePublication Frequency
Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews1950–presentEnglish1 volume per year
The Botanical ReviewNew York Botanical Garden Press1935–presentEnglish4 issues per year
Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis1981–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Current Advances in Plant ScienceElsevier1972–presentEnglish12 issues per year
Current Opinion in Plant BiologyElsevier1998–presentEnglish6 issues per year
Trends in Plant ScienceCell Press1996–presentEnglish12 issues per year