Plant Ecology & Diversity

Plant Ecology & Diversity is published by Routledge and is in Zone 4 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, together about 40.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Plant Ecology and Diversity is an international journal for communicating results and novel ideas in plant science, in print and online, six times a year. All areas of plant biology relating to ecology, evolution and diversity are of interest, including those which explicitly deal with today's highly topical themes, such as biodiversity, conservation and global change. We consider submissions that address fundamental questions which are pertinent to contemporary plant science. Articles concerning extreme environments world-wide are particularly welcome. Plant Ecology and Diversity considers for publication original research articles, short communications, reviews, and scientific correspondence that explore thought-provoking ideas. Original Article: Original scientific research (~7000 words) Rapid Communication Article: As above but shorter format (~2500 words) Review Article: In depth review of a specific area (~12,000) N.B. Grubb reviews are invited reviews Perspectives Article: Editorial/opinion piece: short articles that foster academic debate To aid redressing ‘publication bias’ the journal is unique in reporting, in the form of short communications, ‘negative results’ and ‘repeat experiments’ that test ecological theories experimentally, in theoretically flawless and methodologically sound papers. Research reviews and method papers, are also encouraged. Plant Ecology & Diversity publishes high-quality and topical research that demonstrates solid scholarship. As such, the journal does not publish purely descriptive papers. Submissions are required to focus on research topics that are broad in their scope and thus provide new insights and contribute to theory. The original research should address clear hypotheses that test theory or questions and offer new insights on topics of interest to an international readership. A structured cover letter at submission is required that outlines: (1) Why the submitted work is important and timely (what lacunae in knowledge it addresses), (2) What hypotheses or questions the reported work addresses (hypotheses must test theory and not be ‘paper tiger’ questions), (3) How the work fills the identified gaps in knowledge and how the work overall advances our understanding (not only in the context of the reported paper but in the broad context of plant biological sciences Peer review is double-anonymized, unique in ecological journals. All manuscripts are allocated by the Editor-in-Chief to a suitable Associate Editor, w

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PLANT SCIENCES

Editor-in-chief Laszlo NagyPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 7%); most named United States 13, United Kingdom 7, Mainland China 3, Netherlands 3, Australia 2 (42 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Web of SciencePubMedCAB AbstractsPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, AGRICOLA, OCLC, CABI AgBiotechNet, Animal Science Database, Biofuels Abstracts, Crop Physiology Abstracts, Crop Science Database, Environmental Impact, Forest Products Abstracts, Forest Science Database, Forestry Abstracts, Grasslands and Forage Abstracts, Horticultural Science Database, Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts, Leisure Tourism Database, Ornamental Horticulture, Plant Breeding Abstracts, Plant Genetics and Breeding Database, Seed Abstracts, Soil Science Database, Soils and Fertilizers, TropAg & Rural, Veterinary Science Database, Weed Abstracts, CSA AGRICOLA (AGRIcultural OnLine Access), OCLC AGRICOLA (AGRIcultural OnLine Access), ProQuest AGRICOLA (AGRIcultural OnLine Access), Thomson Reuters Biological Abstracts (Online), VINITI RAN Referativnyi Zhurnal

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Impact

Impact factor

1.69LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.42LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.42Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

30LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

58OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

413OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.59OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

11.67%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

28LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

66,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

19%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

55 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

135 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Routledge

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Tri-annual

Founded

2008

ISSN

1755-0874

Electronic ISSN

1755-1668

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website