28-10-2025
Plant Science Today is an emerging international journal showcasing high-quality research in plant biology, ecology, and biodiversity. Its steadily rising impact metrics reflect growing recognition and citation among researchers.
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27-07-2025
Plant Science Today offers a 50% publication fee waiver for articles in plant systematics, ethnobotany, and lower plant groups. This initiative supports quality research in these areas. Submit your manuscript now to benefit from this limited-time offer. Visit the journal website for details and submission guidelines.
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02-07-2025
If you have published an article in the Plant Science Today journal after paying the required APC, you can publish an article without paying APC in the Trends in Current Biology journal.
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07-01-2025
The proposed special issue will publish selected papers presented during “Advances in Plant Health Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture” conference to be held during Feb 14-16, 2025 at VOC Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Killikulam, Tamil Nadu, India.
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27-07-2024
Plants support other organisms by providing food, shelter, and protection. Microbes help plants defend against pests and diseases, and provide nutrients. Studying plant science and microbiomes is crucial for sustainable agriculture. The special issue "Current Trends in Plant Science and Microbiome for Sustainability" highlights research on plant-microbe interactions, genomics, and practical applications for sustainability.
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10-06-2024
Plant Science Today (Volume 11, Special Issue No. 3, 2024) will publish selected papers from the "International Seminar on Spices" organized by Kerala Agricultural University, June 5-7, 2024. Guest editors are Dr. Anith K Narayanan and Dr. Sreekala G.S. Submission deadline is August 31, 2024. Manuscripts undergo peer review.
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05-02-2024
The special issue aims to make a comprehensive compilation of papers presented during the International conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches to SDGs: Life Sciences Perception.
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13-11-2023
The special issue aims to make a comprehensive compilation of articles on ethnobotany.
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16-07-2023
The journal has received an impressive impact factor of 0.9 as given in the latest Journal Citation Reports.
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25-02-2023
Web of Science helps you to record, verify, and showcase your peer review contributions for use in promotion applications and other academic or research purposes.
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28-01-2023
Do you know that all authors who are indexed by Scopus can get free profiles? Know how to update or correct it.
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16-12-2022
The special issue aims to make a comprehensive compilation of mini review articles in all areas of plant science.
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21-05-2022
Plant Science Today journal is included in the NAAS list with a score of 5.44.
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09-04-2022
Plant Science Today is accepting manuscripts for a special issue on Climate Resilient Agriculture. Deadline: 30 September 2022. Editor: Dr. Rocío Pineda-Martos (University of Seville, Spain).
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10-10-2021
• Submission Open: October 10, 2021
• Deadline: January 31, 2022
• Publication: Accepted article will be published immediately in the “Special Issue”
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Read more about Special Issue on Plant systematics with special emphasis on revision, description of new taxa, new records and nomenclatural aspects
11-09-2021
Plant Science Today journal has launched a new feature "Forthcoming articles or Early Access articles" where the accepted manuscripts are published immediately after layout and proofreading without waiting for an issue date.
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11-09-2021
Scientists and academics are using various social network platforms in their professional lives. It is relatively easier to grab required information from these media.
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11-06-2021
This special issue is an effort to compile the latest information, innovations, and advancements in the field of all aspects of soil and phytomicrobiomes research.
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06-06-2021
Scopus CiteScore, Scimago Journal Rank, Source Normalized Impact per Paper, Percentile and Google Scholar h-index for Plant Science Today has increased.
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21-09-2020
The Keepers Registry aggregates preservation metadata to report the archival status of digital journals.
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07-08-2020
ORCID provides a registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars that is open, non-proprietary, transparent, and mobile. ORCID invites all researchers to participate without entry fees or maintenance costs.
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26-06-2020
CiteScore 2019 - 0.3 | SJR 2019 - 0.149 | SNIP 2019 - 0.199
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SNIP: Source Normalized Impact per Paper
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12-10-2019
Plant Science Today (PST) Journal is listed in the UGC-CARE list under Group II category.
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05-07-2019
The emerging of omics technology enable plant scientist to analyze dynamic cellular data networks association of changes from biotic and abiotic stress. The complexity of data is impossible to process, examine and manipulate using conventional methods. Omics data is vital to serve as a bridge to collate, present and integrate these data to explain the cell’s metabolism to its phenome, discovery the science of plant systemic biology. This SI serves to collect and to publish research works related to application of high-throughput technologies in plant biological context.
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18-05-2019
Coverage in Scopus resulted in Plant Science Today included in Web of Science Core Collection through BIOSIS Previews and Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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02-05-2019
Registered institutions can now get articles published in Plant Science Today when they search in Scopus!
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30-10-2018
Plant Science Today has been selected for coverage in Clarivate Analytics products and services.
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06-10-2018
The Plant Science Today journal has been evaluated for inclusion in Scopus by the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB). The review of this title is now complete and the CSAB has advised that the title will be accepted for inclusion in Scopus.
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14-06-2018
VAJRA Faculty Scheme offers adjunct / visiting faculty assignments to overseas scientists, faculty members and R&D professionals to undertake high quality collaborative research in Public funded academic and research Institutions of India.
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26-01-2018
EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Massachusetts, the third largest private company in Birmingham, Alabama will index the articles published in Plant Science Today.
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18-11-2017
Index Copernicus Value (ICV) increased for Plant Science Today for the 3rd consecutive year.
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14-07-2017
Mini Reviews are short review articles describing research carried out in a specific area. It may be 3 to 5 pages long including references (maximum 3500 words with optionally 1-2 tables/figures).
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20-05-2017
A book review may be a opinion piece, summary review or scholarly review of a book, either printed or published online.
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20-05-2017
Plant Science Today journal software (Open Journal Systems) has been upgraded from 2.4.4.1 to 3.0.2.
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09-04-2017
Plant Science Today (ISSN:
2348-1900; DOI:
10.14719/PST) published by Horizon e-Publishing Group is conducting a Mini Review contest for researchers - of all age groups - from all countries.
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06-04-2017
First Mini Review Contest results are announced. Prizes worth US4500.
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27-03-2017
You may be carrying out peer reviews for several journals. Publons helps you to get recognition for the reviews you perform for journals and discuss the latest research in your field.
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26-03-2017
1.29 cites per paper resulted from Google Scholar metrics analysis for the papers published during the past 3 years
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25-03-2017
ORCID provides unique persistent identifiers for the benefit of both individual researchers and their institutions.
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25-03-2017
To attract high quality manuscripts, we decided to withdrawn Author Processing Charges (APC) for the next issue.
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12-12-2016
Plant Science Today starts publishing conference papers from Vol. 4, issue no. 1 (publication date: 1 Jan 2017) onwards.
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12-12-2016
The APC for all papers submitted after 10 Dec 2016 has been revised.
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16-08-2016
Official Impact Factor for Plant Science Today is expected to be received by 2021
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20-07-2016
Some researchers are under pressure to publish anywhere, while others are lured by prestigious but often unattainable journals. Either case can lead researchers away from journals that might give them the audience and impact they need.
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07-07-2016
We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for a Special Section on "Role of plants in cleaning environment: Recent trends" in Plant Science Today.
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20-02-2016
Global Impact Factor (GIF) received for Plant Science Today. The GIF value for 2015 is 0.765.
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05-02-2016
To commemorate inclusion of Plant Science Today to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) indexing, we are happy to announce a Special Section on “Target constituents in medicinal, aromatic and food plants” in Plant Science Today.
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05-02-2016
Plant Science Today has been selected for inclusion in the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases
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17-01-2016
One of the popular career websites, TheScienceJobs.com has been relaunched with a simple design.
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16-01-2016
We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for a Special Section on “New Frontiers in Cryptogamic Botany” in Plant Science Today. Both Research and Review papers are welcome for possible publication in this section.
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05-01-2016
Plant Science Today has revised Author Fees with effect from 1 January 2016.
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03-01-2016
A Special Section on “Bioactive compounds from plants and their products” will be published in Plant Science Today. This special section is being edited by Dr. Elizabeth Santos, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde-UFRN, Laboratório Multidisciplinar – LABMULT, Brazil
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31-12-2015
Dr. K. K. Sabu from Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute joined as the new Editor in Chief.
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14-12-2015
In two years, Plant Science Today (ISSN 2348-1900) has rapidly grown into a highly successful journal, publishing over 70 high quality research articles which span all subject areas of plant science.
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08-12-2015
We would like to inform you that journal Plant Science Today (ISSN 2348-1900) has been successfully evaluated in the evaluation procedure for the ICI Journals Master List 2014.
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28-10-2015
We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for a Special Section on "
Cytology and Cytogenetics in Higher Plants" in
Plant Science Today. Both Research and Review papers are welcome for possible publication in this section. [
Download Invitation PDF]. The deadline of the submission has been revised to 30th May 2016.
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24-10-2015
We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for a Special Section on "
Genomics and transcriptomics approaches in tree species" in
Plant Science Today. Both Research and Review papers are welcome for possible publication in this section. [
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17-10-2015
We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for a Special Section on "Soil amendments and crop productivity" in Plant Science Today. Both Research and Review papers are welcome for possible publication in this section.[Download Invitation PDF]
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15-10-2015
Invite proposals for Special Sections in upcoming issues of Plant Science Today (Volume 3 - issues 1 to 4, publishing in 2016, January to December) from academicians and researchers having adequate expertise in their area of specialization.
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15-10-2015
We are pleased to announce that Plant Science Today has been selected for indexing by CABI for listing in their CAB Abstracts database.
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16-09-2015
The Plant Science Today will be publishing 4th issue of the 2nd volume on 1st October 2015.
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08-08-2015
The AGRIS Network is an international initiative based on a collaborative network of institutions, whose aim is to promote free access to information on science and technology in agriculture and related subjects.
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06-08-2015
The Agro-Know Data Framework is being used to support the FAO AGRIS online service.
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Read more about PST selected as AkStem's beta tester from India
16-07-2015
Plant Science Today wishes to publish a special issue on "Advances in Bryophytes Research" soon.
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09-07-2015
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
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28-06-2015
Plant Science Today has an impact factor (IF) of 0.45
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27-06-2015
Another happy occasion for Plant Science Today! The journal has been included in AGORA database.
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13-06-2015
HINARI Programme set up by WHO recognized Plant Science Today.
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13-06-2015
Citefactor has started adding PST's articles for indexing.
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20-05-2015
Citefactor is a directory for indexing of international research journals. Plant Science Today's INDEXING IS CONFIRMED WITH citefactor.org.
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20-04-2015
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09-04-2015
See list of top ten articles accessed in April 2015. Congrats if you are author of one of those top 10 papers!
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08-04-2015
Plant Science Today (PST) is inviting manuscripts for the Vol 2 (issue No.3) to be published in July 2015.
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19-12-2014
Here we will post updates in PST's reference style, development of new tools for citation, etc.
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06-10-2014
By enabling Google Translation, Plant Science Today can now read in 80 languages.
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14-09-2014
We are glad to announce promotion of short papers for the January 2015 issue.
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28-08-2014
PST is planning to bring out Print issues annually soon.
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29-06-2014
Prof. Noureddine Benkeblia, Department of Life Science, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica has joined as Editor-in-Chief of Plant Science Today.
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01-06-2014
Currently our user registrations are from 154 countries.
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24-05-2014
Manuscripts are invited from non-English speaking countries written in any language other than English for publishing in Plant Science Today.
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19-05-2014
Increase your RG score! When you publish a paper in Plant Science Today, the same will be available through ResearchGate.
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17-05-2014
We would like to use the power of social media to promote papers published in our journal.
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14-05-2014
J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. Plant Science Today has been included in the J-Gate for distribution to participating libraries.
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24-03-2014
Write a Mini Review and Get up to $1000 worth publishing credit.
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28-01-2014
ISSN number has been assigned for Plant Science Today as 2348 – 1900.
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12-01-2014
Google Scholar and all major search engines started indexing Plant Science Today.
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02-01-2014
PST is now indexed in OCLC's WorldCatDigital Collection
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24-12-2013
Glad to announce the receipt of DOI number and CrossRef membership to PST.
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13-11-2013
Press Releases, Reports and News Coverage about Plant Science Today are listed here as and when the same appear on the Internet and Print Media.
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12-11-2013
To avoid delay in publishing the accepted manuscripts, individual items will be published as soon as they are ready.
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