''AoB Plants'' (''AoBP'') is a

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established in 2009 ''and'' publishing on all aspects of plant biology. The

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is Tom Buckley (

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) and the journal is published through

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but owned and managed by the Annals of Botany Company a non-profit educational charity registered with the

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. ''AoBP'' was one of the first plant science journals to adopt a fully open access publishing model. ''AoBP'' is one of few plant science journals that use double-blind peer review (neither authors nor reviewers know one another's identities); its "sound-science ethos and mission" statement reads, "The mission of AoBP is to provide an outlet for plant-focused research without the biases that affect much of scientific publishing. These biases include the devaluing of confirmatory or negative results and prejudices against authors based on their personal characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity, affiliation, seniority and reputation). Thus, we base decisions to accept or reject papers solely on rigor, clarity and substance, and we use double-blind peer review, concealing the identities of authors and reviewers during the review process. We prefer to leave judgments about the wider importance of papers to the scientific community." An account of the thinking behind launching the journal and its progress over the first 10 years has been published. ''AoB Plants'' has two sister journals, '' Annals of Botany'', a subscription-based general botanical journal and ''in silico'' Plants, an open access journal devoted to all aspects of plant modelling.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to

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, the journal has a 2022

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of 2.9.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://aobplants.oxfordjournals.org
AoB Plants
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