''Edinburgh Journal of Botany'' is an annual
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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published by the
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies ...
. The scope of the journal is plant systematics and related subjects, including biodiversity, conservation science and phytogeography.
The journal adopted a
diamond open access
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mode of publishing, using the Creative Commons Attribution License for published works since volume 78 (2021).
Publication History
For most of its history, the journal was published by
Her Majesty's Stationery Office
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(HMSO), until 1995 when it changed to Cambridge University Press.
Then in 2021 it changed again to the
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies ...
in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s journal-hosting service.
Notable editors-in-chief of the journal over the years have included:
Isaac Bayley Balfour
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, KBE, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Prof ...
,
William Wright Smith,
B.L. Burtt,
Ian Charleson Hedge
Ian Charleson Hedge (18 August 1928 – 7 August 2022) was a Scottish botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Hedge made important contributions to the flora of Iran and Iraq, and was a recognised authority on the flora of south-wes ...
,
James Alexander Ratter,
Brian John Coppins,
John Albert Raven, and
Mark Fleming Newman.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
See also
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Kew Bulletin
The ''Kew Bulletin'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal on plant and fungal taxonomy and conservation published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Articles on palynology, cytology, anatomy, ...
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Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
The ''Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden'' is a long-established major peer-reviewed journal of botany, established in 1914 by the Missouri Botanical Garden, under the directorship of botanist and phycologist, George Thomas Moore, and still ...
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Davidsonia''
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb
Botany journals
Publications established in 1900
Annual journals
English-language journals