Journal profile · PLANT SCIENCES
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
ISSN 1469-8137 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · ENGLAND
NEW PHYTOLOGIST: CAS Zone 1 · Biology (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 8.7; hybrid open access; APC about USD 5,790; median 103 days to acceptance (123 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 21% (journal website); 1,014 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
NEW PHYTOLOGIST is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd and is in Zone 1 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant and animal studies and Plant Molecular Biology Research, together about 21.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
New Phytologist publishes excellent, novel, rigorous and timely research and scholarship in plant science and its applications. Falling within five sections – Physiology & Development, Environment, Interaction, Evolution and Transformative Plant Biotechnology – articles cover topics that range from intracellular processes through to global environmental change. Cross-disciplinary approaches are particularly encouraged but for guidance the journal is organized as below. We recognize that techniques from molecular and cell biology, and functional genomics through to modelling and system-based approaches will be applied across the whole spectrum of plant science: Physiology & Development: intra/inter-cellular signalling, long-distance signalling, physiology, development, eco-devo – phenotypic plasticity, transport, biochemistry. Environment: global change and Earth system functioning, environmental stress, ecophysiology, plant–soil interactions, heavy metals. Interaction: plant–biotic interactions (including viruses, prokaryotes, oomycetes, fungi/mycorrhizas, viruses, nematodes and insects), symbionts, endophytes, pathogens, plant microbiome, fungal genomics, multitrophic systems, plant–microbe–soil interactions. Evolution: molecular evolution, population or quantitative ge- netics, mating systems, phylogenetics, speciation, plant–enemy coevolution, evo–devo. Transformative Plant Biotechnology: plant bioengineering, plant and/or algal biotechnology, plant gene editing, genetic manipulation or engineering of plant biosynthetic pathways or regulatory circuits or signalling cascades, plant synthetic biology, sensors.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PLANT SCIENCES
Editor-in-chief Maarja ÖpikPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 41 in mainland China (about 12%); most named United States 98, United Kingdom 59, Mainland China 41, Germany 23, Australia 19 (354 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant InteractionsAgricultural and Biological Sciences8%
- Plant and animal studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.7%
- Plant Molecular Biology ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.5%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsEnvironmental Science6.3%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesEnvironmental Science6%
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolismAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.4%
- Plant Stress Responses and ToleranceAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.9%
- Plant Parasitism and ResistanceAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Biology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Biology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Biology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, AGRICOLA
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 8.7LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 8.7Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 8.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 16.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 16.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 16.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 3.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- h-index
- 196LetPub ·
- h-index
- 419OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 16,829OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.98OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 50.96%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 854LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 922Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 9,362,201Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 23,790 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 754 | 537 | 731 |
| 2025 | 1,014 | 720 | 6,615 |
| 2024 | 881 | 692 | 13,788 |
| 2023 | 825 | 719 | 20,084 |
| 2022 | 781 | 462 | 30,555 |
| 2021 | 799 | 504 | 40,484 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
103 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 74 days – 143 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 25 days (123 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 131 days
- Sample
- 123 articles with submission and acceptance dates (1,950 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 21%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 21%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 17 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 17 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 94 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 25 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 5,790 / EUR 4,850 / GBP 3,860 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7, with length limits
- correspondenceNew Phytologist publishes several types of articles. Where appropriate, these may include supporting information which will be published in addition to the full…Length not stated
- editorialPeer review All manuscripts are allocated to a relevant member of the Editorial board, who decides whether the paper should go forward to peer review. Those tha…Length not stated
- full paperNew Phytologist publishes several types of articles. Where appropriate, these may include supporting information which will be published in addition to the full…Length not stated
- letterNew Phytologist publishes several types of articles. Where appropriate, these may include supporting information which will be published in addition to the full…Length not stated
- methods paperNew Phytologist publishes several types of articles. Where appropriate, these may include supporting information which will be published in addition to the full…Length not stated
- reviewNew Phytologist publishes several types of articles. Where appropriate, these may include supporting information which will be published in addition to the full…main text ≤ 4,000 words
- viewpointged. There are no fixed word limits for Viewpoints, however they are usually in the region of 5–6,000 words, with up to 8 display items and a 200-word summary. …main text ≤ 6,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Authorship and AI-generated content
New Phytologist follows COPE’s position statement on AI tools, and stipulates that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of an article. Authors using AI-generated content (AIGC), or AI tools must describe the use of these tools transparently and in detail in the Materials & Methods or Acknowledgements section, depending upon the level of AIGC tools used. It is the responsibility of the authors to…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
Each article should include an Author contributions section detailing the contribution of each author to the submitted manuscript including their input into the following aspects of the work: design of the research; performance of the research; data analysis, collection, or interpretation; and writing the manuscript. Please include this section after the Acknowledgements section. Individuals liste…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Legal requirements, disclosure, conflict of interest/competing interests
Submissions must not have been published in, or accepted for publication by, any other journal. New Phytologist requires that all Editors, authors, and peer reviewers disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be d…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statement
Authors are required to provide a Data availability statement describing the availability of data, including accession numbers and identifiers as appropriate. Example text you may consider using for your specific dataset can be found in New Phytologist's data sharing policy, below. New Phytologist requires / mandates authors to ensure that all data, materials and code integral to the paper are ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Editorial policies and ethical considerations
Peer review All manuscripts are allocated to a relevant member of the Editorial board, who decides whether the paper should go forward to peer review. Those that do not will be returned at this stage; we make every effort to do this as quickly as possible (usually within six days) so that the authors can take their work forward without delay. Papers sent out for review will, typically, be assessed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Licensing, funder compliance and Open Access
Licensing The policy of the New Phytologist Foundation is to acquire an exclusive licence for all contributions; an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) will need to be signed after any article is accepted for publication. However, the Foundation will not put any limitation on the personal freedom of the author(s) to use material contained in the article in other works. We recognize the need for activitie…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
All manuscripts are allocated to a relevant member of the Editorial board, who decides whether the paper should go forward to peer review. Those that do not will be returned at this stage; we make every effort to do this as quickly as possible (usually within six days) so that the authors can take their work forward without delay. Papers sent out for review will, typically, be assessed by two or t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint policy
New Phytologist will consider articles that have been submitted in part or in full to a preprint server, such as bioRxiv. You may post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server, but this must be done before final acceptance of your article. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Please contact the Managing Editor if you…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1469-8137
- Print ISSN
- 0028-646X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 252, Issue 2 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about NEW PHYTOLOGIST
What CAS zone is NEW PHYTOLOGIST in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, NEW PHYTOLOGIST is in Zone 1 of Biology, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Plant Sciences; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Biology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of NEW PHYTOLOGIST?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 8.7; CiteScore 16.1, h-index 419.
How long does peer review take at NEW PHYTOLOGIST?
Based on the dates recorded on 123 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 103 days (interquartile range 74–143 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 21% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of NEW PHYTOLOGIST?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of NEW PHYTOLOGIST based?
Of the 354 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 41 (about 12%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (98), United Kingdom (59) and Mainland China (41). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index NEW PHYTOLOGIST?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, NEW PHYTOLOGIST is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is NEW PHYTOLOGIST open access, and what is the APC?
NEW PHYTOLOGIST is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 5,790.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .