The Plant Journal
Overview
The Plant Journal publishes exciting, high quality science that addresses fundamental and important questions in plant biology. The journal aims to publish work that constitutes a significant contribution to our understanding of plants and is of general interest to the wider plant science community. Typically, Plant Journal papers provide insight into an as yet unknown mechanism or poorly understood process. The journal also publishes Technical Advances and Resource articles, the latter providing a unique home for large datasets, including genome sequences, and other resources that will be of significant value to the community. All areas of plant biology are welcome and research into any plant or algal species, as well as biotechnology research that provides new biological insight, will be considered. The journal also commissions high profile review articles as part of an annual special issue and, throughout the year publishes Focused reviews, Perspective reviews and Foundation reviews.
Editor-in-Chief: Katherine Denby, University of York, UK
Key Details
Publisher: Wiley
Owners: SEB, Wiley
Publishing model: Online-only, hybrid open-access (free and OA licenses available)
Peer-review model: Single-anonymous
Benefits of publishing
- A journal of choice for the plant sciences community with over 500 articles published in 2023
- A global readership with ~4 million articles downloaded per year
- Highly experienced editors who take care over every decision and who aim to be fair, transparent and supportive towards authors
- No formatting requirements for initial submission of papers
- Full scoop protection once a paper is submitted
- No page charges
- Open Access fees covered for an increasing number of countries that have transitional deals with Wiley
- Promotion of the best papers via a Research Highlight piece on one paper in every issue and regular posts about TPJ papers and authors on social media
- Additional engagement with TPJ authors, prize winners, TPJ fellows and the wider plant sciences community via “In Conversation With” pieces published in the journal
- Annual award of TPJ-SEB-Wiley prizes for outstanding papers (Original research, Technical Advance, Resource), including a special set of awards for those with student first authors
- Annual award of TPJ fellowships that provide financial support and mentoring for new group leaders at a crucial and, often challenging, career stage
- Online research talks given by authors of TPJ papers, organised by the SEB
2024 metrics
- Journal Impact factor: 5.7 (rank 24/273 in ‘Plant Sciences’ category)
- Journal Citation Indicator: 1.68 (rank 17/273 in ‘Plant Sciences’ category)
- CiteScore: 11.6 (rank 19/534 in ‘Plant Sciences’ category)
- Output: 716 papers
- Downloads: 4.1 million
- Acceptance rate: 29%
- Turnaround time: 29 days (median, submission to first decision, all papers)
- Indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, PubMed
Types of articles
Original research articles; technical advances; resource articles; commissioned reviews
Links to important webpages
Journal homepage: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1365313x
Submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpj
Author guidelines: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/forauthors.html
Editorial board: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/editorialboard.html
Contact
Andrea Lewis, Associate Managing Editor: [email protected]