Plant Ecology (original) (raw)

Overview

Plant Ecology publishes original scientific papers that report and interpret the findings of pure and applied research into the ecology of vascular plants in terrestrial and wetland ecosystems. Empirical, experimental, theoretical and review papers reporting on ecophysiology, population, community, ecosystem, landscape, molecular and historical ecology are within the scope of the journal.

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Editor-in-Chief

• William Edward Rogers,
• Neal Enright

Journal Impact Factor

1.9 (2023)

5-year Journal Impact Factor

1.9 (2023)

Submission to first decision (median)

4 days

Latest articles

Journal updates

• Recent advances in studying vegetation at forest edges

LATEST SPECIAL ISSUE | Volume 225, issue 4, April 2024
Issue editors: Karen A. Harper, Javad Eshaghi Rad, Christina Rinas
This special issue highlights recent research on natural and anthropogenic edges in temperate, boreal, tropical, and dry open-canopy forests in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.

• Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals

ACHIEVEMENT
Over 50% of the articles published in Plant Ecology in 2023 are related to one or more of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• In Review: Preprint Service

AUTHOR SERVICE
Plant Ecology, in partnership with Research Square, now offers In Review: a journal-integrated preprint service.

• Students & Early Career Researchers

AUTHOR INCENTIVE
As a student or ECR (defined as being no more than 2 years since award of your PhD degree) listed as first author of any article type accepted, you will receive a voucher for free access to any Springer publication in eBook form (up to a maximum value of 250 Euros/US dollars, and maximum one per year) in perpetuity, and your article will be made freely accessible for 8 weeks after online first publication.

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN

1573-5052

Print ISSN

1385-0237

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1. AGRICOLA
2. ANVUR
3. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
4. BFI List
5. BIOSIS
6. Baidu
7. Biological Abstracts
8. CAB Abstracts
9. CLOCKSS
10. CNKI
11. CNPIEC
12. Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
13. Dimensions
14. EBSCO
15. EMBiology
16. Engineering Village – GEOBASE
17. Gale
18. Google Scholar
19. JSTOR
20. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
21. Meta
22. Naver
23. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
24. Portico
25. ProQuest
26. SCImago
27. SCOPUS
28. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
29. TD Net Discovery Service
30. UGC-CARE List (India)
31. Wanfang

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