AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The American Journal of Botany (ISSN 0002-9122) is a prestigious monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the Botanical Society of America and distributed by Wiley, serving as a leading venue for fundamental research in plant biology within the United States. With a 2022 impact factor of 3.5, the journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) and consistently ranks in the second or third quartile of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) journal ranking for botany, reflecting its solid academic standing and rigorous editorial standards. While it operates as a non-open access publication, it maintains a strong reputation for high-quality scholarship, focusing extensively on core areas such as plant morphology, physiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and genetics, with a particular emphasis on exploring plant diversity, adaptation, and functional mechanisms. Although its scope is deeply rooted in traditional botanical disciplines, which may offer limited coverage of emerging interdisciplinary fields, the journal remains a highly respected outlet for researchers seeking to publish robust, foundational studies in plant science, provided that the manuscript’s focus aligns closely with its established thematic boundaries.