Edinburgh Journal of Botany

Edinburgh Journal of Botany

Discipline	Botany
Language	English
Edited  by	Peter Wilkie
Publication details
Former name(s)	Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
History	1900
Publisher	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh  (Scotland)
Frequency	Annual
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Edinb. J. Bot.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0960-4286  (print) 1474-0036  (web)
LCCN	90648365
OCLC  no.	21684344
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The scope of the journal is plant systematics and related subjects, including biodiversity, conservation science and phytogeography.

The journal adopted a diamond open access mode of publishing, using the Creative Commons Attribution License for published works since volume 78 (2021). ^[1]

Publication History

For most of its history, the journal was published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), until 1995 when it changed to Cambridge University Press. ^[2] Then in 2021 it changed again to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s journal-hosting service. ^[1]

Notable editors-in-chief of the journal over the years have included: Isaac Bayley Balfour, William Wright Smith, B.L. Burtt, Ian Charleson Hedge, James Alexander Ratter, Brian John Coppins, John Albert Raven, and Mark Fleming Newman.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• AGRICOLA ^[3]
• Biological Abstracts ^[4]
• BIOSIS Previews ^[4]
• EBSCO's Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index ^[5]
• EBSCO's STM Source ^[6]
• OpenAlex ^[7]
• Scopus ^[8]

See also

• Kew Bulletin
• Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Davidsonia

References

1. Wilkie, Peter (2021). "EDITORIAL: MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF BOTANY". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. doi: 10.24823/EJB.2021.321 .
2. Coppins, B.J. (1994). "Announcement". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. doi: 10.1017/S0960428600000901 .
3. "CSV file journals list". USDA. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
4. "Clarivate's Master Journal List". Clarivate. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
5. "Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index". EBSCO. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
6. "STM Source". EBSCO. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
7. "Edinburgh Journal of Botany". OpenAlex. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
8. "Journal profile for Edinburgh Journal of Botany". Source Details. Elsevier . Retrieved 2025-04-15.

External links

• Official website