Plant Direct

Plant Direct is a monthly, sound science journal for the plant sciences.

Plant Direct Journal

Plant Direct Journal

 

Overview

Plant Direct is an open access, sound science journal for the plant sciences that strives to be a leader in supporting evolving community needs. Plant Direct is a collaboration between the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Society for Experimental Biology, and Wiley. In addition to direct submissions, we accept transfers from our society-journal partners The Plant Journal, The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, and Journal of Experimental Botany.   Topics include but are not limited to genetics, biochemistry, development, cell biology, biotic stress, abiotic stress, genomics, phenomics, bioinformatics, physiology, molecular biology, and evolution.
 

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Editor-in-Chief: Larry York, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

 

Key Details 

Publisher: Wiley

Owners: SEB, American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), Wiley

Publishing model: Online-only, open access

Peer-review model: Single-anonymous

 

Benefits of publishing

  • Prompt and equal consideration to papers reporting work dealing with a variety of subjects
  • Rigorous peer review
  • Pre-prints and society members receive discounts
  • Publishing quality research with speed and efficiency
  • Immediate open access
  • Rapid evaluation of transfers with reviews
  • Supports two societies with all their benefits

 

2023 metrics

  • Journal Impact factor:  2.3 (rank 98/265 in ‘Plant Sciences’ category)
  • Journal Citation Indicator:  0.77 (rank 84/265 in ‘Plant Sciences’ category)
  • CiteScore:  5.0 (rank 118/516 in ‘Plant Sciences’ category)
  • Output:  84 papers
  • Downloads:  224,000
  • Acceptance rate:  45%
  • Turnaround time:  36 days (median, submission to first decision, all papers)
  • Indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, PubMed

 

Types of articles

Research, Reviews, White Papers, Editorials, Registered Reports.

 

Links to important webpages

Journal homepage:   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24754455

Submission site:   https://plantdirect.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex

Editorial board:   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/24754455/homepage/editorialboard.html

Plant Direct on Twitter:   https://twitter.com/PlantDirectJ

 

Contact

Editorial office e-mail address [email protected]