''The Plant Journal'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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of
plant science
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published by
Wiley-Blackwell
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for the
Society for Experimental Biology
The Society for Experimental Biology is a learned society for animal, cell and plant biologists. It was founded in 1923 at Birkbeck College to "promote the art and science of experimental biology in all its branches". It aims to demonstrate the im ...
. It was established in 1991 and is currently edited by
Katherine J. Denby. The journal is published twice per month.
Indexing and abstracting
''The Plant Journal'' is
abstracted and indexed in several
bibliographic database
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s:
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 7.091, ranking it 17th out of 238 journals in the category "Plant Sciences".
References
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External links
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''The Plant Journal''at the Society of Experimental Biology
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Academic journals established in 1991
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