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Journal History

2012 The inaugural issue was released. Plants was published as a quarterly journal.
2015 Plants was indexed in BIOSIS Previews.
2016 Plants was indexed in Scopus. Citations were available in MEDLINE (PubMed), full-text archived in PubMed Central.
Plants held the first online Editorial Board Member meeting.
2017 Plants received its first CiteScore (2017) of 3.21.
Plants announced the first edition of the Travel award.
2018 Plants became an affiliated journal of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS).
Plants was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).
2019 Plants adopted a monthly publication schedule.

Plants established the following sections:

  • Plant Physiology and Metabolism;
  • Phytochemistry;
  • Plant Protection;
  • Molecular Botany;
  • Plant Development and Morphogenesis;
  • Plant Ecology;
  • Plant Cell Biology;
  • Plant Systematics, Taxonomy and Classification;
  • Plant Genetics and Genomics;
  • Plant Modeling.

Plants receive its first Impact Factor (2.632).
Plants published its 1,000th Paper.
Plants became an affiliated journal of the Spanish Phytopathological Society (SEFV).
2020

Plants received an Impact Factor of 2.762, ranked 58/234 (Q1) in ‘Plant Sciences’.

Plants became an affiliated journal of the Spanish Society of Plant Physiology (SEFV), the Spanish Society of Horticultural Sciences (SECH) and the Italian Society of Phytotherapy (S.I.Fit.).

Plants announced the first edition of the Young Investigators Award.

Plants established the following sections:

  • Plant–Soil Interactions;
  • Plant Nutrition;
  • Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change;
  • Plant Protection was renamed as Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions;
  • Molecular Botany was renamed as Plant Molecular Biology;
  • Plant Genetics and Genomics was renamed as Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology.

Plants organized the 1st International Electronic Conference on Plant Science.
2021

Plants received an Impact Factor of 3.935, ranked 47/235 (Q1) in ‘Plant Sciences’.

Plants established the following sections:

  • Crop Physiology and Crop Production;
  • Plant Structural Biology;
  • Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology;
  • Horticultural Science and Ornamental Plants.

The year 2021 marked the 10th Anniversary of Plants.

Plants established the following sections:

  • Crop Physiology and Crop Production;
  • Plant Structural Biology;
  • Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology;
  • Horticultural Science and Ornamental Plants;
  • Plant Genetic Resources.

Plants was indexed in Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) - International Food Information Services (IFIS).

Plants published its 5,000th paper.
2022 Plants adopted a semimonthly publication schedule.

Editor-in-Chief

2012–present Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Dilantha Fernando

Section Editor-in-Chief

2019–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Roberto Bassi for the section on Plant Physiology and Metabolism
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Suresh Awale for the section on Phytochemistry
2020–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paula Baptista for the section on Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Luigi Sanita' di Toppi for the section on Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Khalid Meksem for the section on Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Adriano Sofo for the section on Plant–Soil Interactions
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso for the section on Plant Cell Biology
2021–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Baohong Zhang for the section on Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Yong-Bi Fu for the section on Plant Genetic Resources
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Fermin Morales for the section on Crop Physiology and Crop Production
2022–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Karl H. Mühling for the section on Plant Nutrition
 
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