Journal profile · Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Plant Science
PlantEnvironment Interactions
ISSN 2575-6265 · Wiley · United Kingdom
PlantEnvironment Interactions: impact factor 1.9 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,940; median 125 days to acceptance (97 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 38% (journal website); 93 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
PlantEnvironment Interactions is published by Wiley. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, together about 23.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Plant-Environment Interactions, PEI, provides a unique platform for the publication of sound plant research from across the molecular, ecological and environmental science communities, including plants and people. Our aim is to support progress in the general plant and environmental sciences, and so the scope of the journal is necessarily broad and wide ranging. We always consider direct and referred submissions from authors requiring fast and efficient publication of their work. Topics span everything from plant cell and molecular biology, including development and physiology, through ecology and environmental change, to society and conservation.We welcome all plant research, emphasizing that every plant process ultimately enables it to grow in, and interact with, the environment. Plants can include crops or wild species, and be representative of life in the broadest sense relevant for the plant research community. The scale of investigation and meaning of ‘environment’ are similarly broad. Scale can range from the molecular and cellular level, through to individual plants, genotypes and cultivars, populations, communities, ecosystems and biomes. The environment can include wild, managed and cultivated situations – we make no restrictions. Reasons to publish PEI offers an alternative route for authors to publish their work which may not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. The high-quality research which we publish builds on our understanding of plants and their environment, but is not necessarily ‘novel’ or immediately high impact. We welcome the submission of reviews, ideas and perspectives that may not fit naturally in other journals, but contribute to our understanding of plants We appreciate that reviewers’ time is valuable and that reviews of submissions should be put to greater use so that good science in our field gets published and out into the world. PEI maximises the use of reviewing effort by reusing reviews of initial submissions to other journals when considering these submissions for publication. Before submitting a research manuscript, consider: Is the research sound science? By that, we mean: Is the study appropriately designed? Are the logic, analyses and conclusions valid? Do the methods and results address the main questions or hypotheses? Does the study add useful knowledge to plant and environmental sciences? Is the writing and presentation sufficient for reviewers to focus on the quality of the science? Please see our Autho
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Plant Science
Editor-in-chief Jonathan IngramPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 9 in mainland China (about 23%); most named Mainland China 9, United States 6, Australia 6, United Kingdom 4, Canada 3 (39 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsEnvironmental Science9.2%
- Plant Stress Responses and ToleranceAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.6%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesEnvironmental Science6.6%
- Plant Parasitism and ResistanceAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.8%
- Plant and animal studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.2%
- Plant responses to water stressAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.2%
- Plant responses to elevated CO2Agricultural and Biological Sciences5%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCCASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
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 (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.69LetPub ·
- h-index
- 20OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 62OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.92OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 79LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 81Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 74,375Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 417 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 100 | 100 | 63 |
| 2025 | 93 | 93 | 196 |
| 2024 | 56 | 56 | 218 |
| 2023 | 43 | 43 | 267 |
| 2022 | 34 | 34 | 236 |
| 2021 | 37 | 37 | 339 |
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
125 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 93 days – 168 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (97 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 148 days
- Sample
- 97 articles with submission and acceptance dates (197 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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 38%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 38%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 67 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 67 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 116 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 16 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,940 / GBP 2,180 / EUR 2,520 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,670 / EUR 2,290 / GBP 1,980 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,310 / GBP 1,710 / EUR 1,980 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- 5–8
- Reference style
- Harvard
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted5
- hypothesisResearch Articles Reviews Interaction Insights Methods and Techniques Research Articles Reviews typically have a maximum word limit of 5,000 (excluding abstract…Length not stated
- literature reviewResearch Articles Reviews Interaction Insights Methods and Techniques Research Articles Reviews typically have a maximum word limit of 5,000 (excluding abstract…Length not stated
- protocolResearch Articles Reviews Interaction Insights Methods and Techniques Research Articles Reviews typically have a maximum word limit of 5,000 (excluding abstract…Length not stated
- research articleResearch Articles Reviews Interaction Insights Methods and Techniques Research Articles Reviews typically have a maximum word limit of 5,000 (excluding abstract…Length not stated
- reviewResearch Articles Reviews Interaction Insights Methods and Techniques Research Articles Reviews typically have a maximum word limit of 5,000 (excluding abstract…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Please review Wiley’s policy here. From May 2021 onwards, this journal mandates data sharing. The journal requires, from May 2021, as a condition for publication, that the data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the dat…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Peer Review and Acceptance The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent for peer review if the handling editor determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements. Peer review is single-blind and decisions on acceptance or rejection of submitted papers are b…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review and Acceptance
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent for peer review if the handling editor determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements. Peer review is single-blind and decisions on acceptance or rejection of submitted papers are based on the basis of two re…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint policy:
Please review Wiley’s preprint policy here. However, Wiley also knows that the use of preprint servers is not universally accepted and that individual journals and/or societies may approach submission of preprints differently. Please see below for the specific policy language. This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, …
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
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2575-6265
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 7, Issue 5 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about PlantEnvironment Interactions
What is the impact factor of PlantEnvironment Interactions?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.9 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.5, h-index 20.
How long does peer review take at PlantEnvironment Interactions?
Based on the dates recorded on 97 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 125 days (interquartile range 93–168 days); authors report an average review time of about 15 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 38% (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 PlantEnvironment Interactions?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: 5–8; Reference style: Harvard; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Graphical abstract: Optional. 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 PlantEnvironment Interactions based?
Of the 39 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 9 (about 23%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (9), United States (6) and Australia (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index PlantEnvironment Interactions?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, PlantEnvironment Interactions is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC, CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is PlantEnvironment Interactions open access, and what is the APC?
PlantEnvironment Interactions is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,940.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .