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| Discipline | Botany |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Rowan Sage |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1887–present |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 5.040 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Ann. Bot. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0305-7364 (print) 1095-8290 (web) |
| LCCN | 23015643 |
| OCLC no. | 611985336 |
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Annals of Botany is a monthlypeer-reviewedscientific journal publishing experimental, theoretical and applied papers on all aspects of plant biology. As of 2024, the Chief Editor is Rowan Sage. The journal is owned and managed by theAnnals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity registered with theCharity Commission for England and Wales. It is published monthly throughOxford University Press in paper form and online, and is paid for primarily by institutional annual subscriptions. Regular extra issues, published free-of-charge, focus on topical themes. The journal does not levy page charges but authors may choose to pay a standard fee to secureopen access status for their papers. According toJournal Citation Reports, in 2019 (published 2020)Annals of Botany’simpact factor was 4.005 and was ranked 27th out of 234 journals in the Plant Sciences category. The Journal's Eigenfactor was 0.01652, its H-Index 165 and theSCImago score 1.615. Also owned by the educational charity,Annals of Botany has two sister journals,AoB Plants, an online only open access botanical journal andin silico PLANTS, an online open access journal devoted to plant modelling. It is also closely associated with the informal online plant science publicationBotany One.
Annals of Botany was established in 1887 byIsaac Bayley Balfour (Sir Isaac from 1920) andSydney Howard Vines with support from eight other prominent botanists of the time includingSir Francis Darwin andWilliam Turner Thiselton-Dyer (Sir William from 1899). An extensive collection of letters, minutes and accounts covering the first 125 years of the Journal's existence has been archived as the Annals of Botany Papers at theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A two-part history has been published based on this archive.[1][2] Former Chief Editors (or equivalent) and their sometimes overlapping periods of office are as follows:
There was an earlier periodicalAnnals of Botany edited by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (Charles Konig) and John Sims which started in 1804 and published two volumes before ceasing.[3][4]