Journal of Plant Research

The Journal of Plant Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of botany published on behalf of the Botanical Society of Japan by Springer Science+Business Media. Its predecessor, The Botanical Magazine (植物學雜誌) of Tokyo, first published in 1887, ran until volume 105 in 1992; during this period, over 4,900 plant names were first published in its pages. The journal obtained its current name in 1995.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

• Biological Abstracts

• BIOSIS Previews

• CAB Abstracts

• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences

• EBSCO databases

• Embase

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed

• ProQuest databases

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.629.