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New Special Issue: Current Trends in Plant Science and Microbiome for Sustainability

Plant Science Today — 2024-07-27

PLANT SCIENCE TODAY (PST)

Volume 12 | Special Issue No. 1 | 2025

Plants are one of the most important creatures on the planet as they have been playing a beneficial role in other creatures’ lives. The plant provides food and shelter to animals and microbes. Microbes show synergism with plants help in the protection from biotic (pest and pathogens) and abiotic (moisture, salt, temperature, ionic and heavy metals) stresses, and provides nutrients to plants. The plant science and microbiome have various applications in agriculture and the environment for sustainability. The special issue on “Current Trends in Plant Science and Microbiome for Sustainability” is an effort to compile the latest information, innovations, and advancements in the field of plant sciences and microbiome. Moreover, it will cover the different aspects of plant microbial synergistic interactions, plant microbiome, genomics, and their application for sustainability.

Topics to be covered include:
• Bioactive compounds and Secondary Metabolites of plants
• Plants stress
• Plants, pests, and pathogens
• Plants, microbes, and climate change
• Cross-talk between plants and microbes
• Phytoremediation and bioremediation
• Phytohormones and their roles
• Microbial diversity from diverse plants host
• Plant-microbes Interactions
• Mechanisms of plant growth promotion under natural and abiotic stress conditions
• Plant microbes for bioactive compound production for industrial sustainability
• Microbiomes diversity (Epiphytic/endophytic/rhizospheric/soil)
• Role of microbiomes in plant growth, protectivity, and productivity
• Omics Sciences in plant, soil and phytomicrobiome research
• Biotechnological applications of microbes for agriculture and environments

GUEST EDITORS
1. Dr. Ajar Nath Yadav, GPB and Biotechnology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, HP, India
2. Dr. Tanvir Kaur, Biotechnology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India
3. Dr. Joginder Singh, Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Nagaland, India
4. Prof. Dr. Abd El-Latif Hesham, Faculty of Agriculture, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

Dr. Ajar Nath Yadav is Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) and Assistant Controller of Examination at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has 9 years of teaching and 15 years of research experience in the field of Microbial Biotechnology, Microbial Diversity, and plant-microbe interactions. Dr. Yadav obtained doctorate in Microbial Biotechnology, jointly from IARI, New Delhi and BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, India. Dr. Yadav has 350 publications, with h-index of 90, i10-index of 312, and 22777 citations. Dr. Yadav is editor of 18 Springer-Nature, 7 Taylor & Francis, 2 Elsevier and 1 Wiley book. Dr. Yadav is Editor-in-Chief of "Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology". He has been serving as an editor/associate editor for 10 national & international journals and a reviewer for 130 different national & international peer-reviewed journals. He has lifetime membership of Association of Microbiologist in India, and Indian Science Congress Council, India. Dr. Yadav is listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientist in 2022 and 2023 (Stanford University, California, United States). Dr. Yadav is listed in the World’s Top 2% Most Influential Scientists (in a Single Year)- 2022. Dr. Yadav is among the 1% leading scientists in the world by the 3rd edition of Research.com. Dr. Yadav received the University Best Researcher Award 2022 & 2023 and the University Best Teacher Award 2018 by Eternal University. Dr. Yadav is the University Best Scientist (First Rank) 2020-2024 by AD Scientific Index. Dr. Yadav is First Rank in the University in SCOPUS (215 publications with h-index of 46)- 27% of University publications.
Please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ajarnathyadav/ for more details.
E-Mail: ajarbiotech@gmail.com
Contact: +91-9882545085

Dr. Tanvir Kaur is Assistant Coordinator, IQAC at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India. She obtained her doctorate degree in Biotechnology (Microbial Biotechnology) from Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India; Dr. Kaur has 76 publications with h-index 29, i10-index 49, and 2845 citations. In her credit ~400 microbes (bacteria and fungi) isolated from diverse sources. She has deposited 31 nucleotide sequences. Dr. Kaur has developed NPK microbial consortium for the crops growing in hilly region of Himachal Pradesh. She has been serving as reviewer for 18 different national and international peer-reviewed journals and reviewed 61 manuscripts.

Dr. Joginder Singh is working as a Professor at the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Nagaland, India. Previously, he worked as a Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India and as a Young Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University, in a research project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations, including Association of Microbiologists of India, Indian Society of Salinity Research Scientists, Indian Society for Radiation Biology, and European Federation of Biotechnology. He has more than 160 research and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited 27 books published by Springer International Publishing, Elsevier Science Publishing and authored/co-authored 60 chapters in edited books. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals. Dr Singh attended several International and National Seminars, Symposia, and conferences, chaired technical sessions, and presented papers.

Prof. Abd El-Latif Hesham is Professor of Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology, and presently working as Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Beni-Suef University (BSU), Egypt. He is PhD degree from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He awarded postdoctoral studies about "Meta-Genome Biotechnology" from CAS-TWAS. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in reputed journals, two books and 9 book chapters in international reputed publishers like Elsevier, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and John Wiley & Sons. Prof. Hesham has been the scientific & organizing committee member and invited speaker in various international conferences. Prof. Hesham serves as an associate editor and editorial board member for international reputed journals such as, Scientific Reports; Frontiers in Microbiology; BMC Microbiology; Current Bioinformatics; International Journal of Genomics; Journal of Food Biochemistry; All Life Journal (Frontiers in Life Science); Biocatalysis & Agricultural Biotechnology, and Current Research in Microbial Sciences.

Submission deadline: November 30, 2024

Manuscript submission
Authors are invited to submit the high-quality articles (Research, review as well as short communications). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. All the submitted papers will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin and will be subjected to peer review. Accepted papers will be published under the special issue on the journal’s website. Manuscripts should be submitted online through the journal’s online submission system. Please visit this link for further details: https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/login

Authors are requested to read the journal’s policies and author guidelines available here: https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions and arrange your manuscripts as per journal’s instructions.

Article processing charges: Regular article processing charges will be applicable to all the accepted articles. The details of APC are available at author guidelines page: https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/apc

New Special Issue: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON SPICES KAU - 2024

Plant Science Today — 2024-06-10

PLANT SCIENCE TODAY (PST)
Volume 11 | Special Issue No. 3 | 2024

The special issue will include selected papers presented during the "International Seminar on Spices: Innovative and Green Technologies for Sustainability" organized by Faculty of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, Kerala, India 5-7 June 2024.

GUEST EDITORS:

Dr. Anith K Narayanan
Professor and Head
Department of Agricultural Microbiology
College of Agriculture (Kerala Agricultural University)
Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram 695 522, Kerala, India
Phone: +91-9446413861 (mobile)
E-mail: anith.kn@kau.in

Dr. Sreekala G.S.
Assistant Professor
Department of Plantation, Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops
College of Agriculture (Kerala Agricultural University)
Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram 695 522, Kerala, India
Phone: +91-7511105571
Email: sreekala.gs@kau.in

Submission deadline: 31 August 2024

T&C: Once the manuscripts are submitted to the journal, they will be subjected to the journal's manuscript handling process and review policy. The manuscripts will be sent for peer review and the acceptance will be based on the review comments and recommendation. Acceptance email will be sent to authors from the journal. The original Article processing fee of Rs. 30,000/- (USD 300/-) has been subsidized to Rs. 5,000 for conference participants from India and USD 200 for those from abroad which is to be directly paid to the journal by the authors. GST at 18% rate will be charged extra.

For queries, please contact the Guest Editors.

Manuscript submission: Submit online using the PST template available at the PST submission portal - https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

New Special Issue: International conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches to SDGs: Life Sciences Perception

Plant Science Today — 2024-02-05

PLANT SCIENCE TODAY (PST)
Volume 11 | Special Issue No. 2| 2024

The special issue will include selected papers presented during the "International conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches to SDGs: Life Sciences Perception" organized by Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous) & Rajagiri Business School, Kochi, Kerala, India from 10-11 January 2024.

Guest Editors:

Dr. N. M. Krishnakumar MSc., Ph.D.
Scientist B
Department of Biosciences
Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous)
Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala, India

Dr. Jiya Jose MSc., PhD.
Scientist D
Department of Biosciences
Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous)
Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala, India

SUBMISSION UNTIL: 31 March 2024

APC: Rs. 11,800 (includes GST)

For queries, please contact the Guest Editors: Dr. Krishnakumar (Email: krishnakumar@rajagiri.edu) or Dr. Jiya Jose (Email: jiyajose@rajagiri.edu).

Manuscript submission: Submit online using the PST template available at the PST submission portal. Visit https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Issue: Recent advances in ethnobotanical research

Plant Science Today — 2023-11-13

PLANT SCIENCE TODAY (PST)
Volume 11 | Special Issue No. 1| 2024

The special issue will include only articles reporting recent advances in ethnobotanical research, comprising of research/review articles and short communications.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Carmelo Maria Musarella, Department of Agriculture, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Mr. Mitta Mahendra Nath, Department of Botany, Sri Venkateswara University, India
Dr. Sateesh Suthari, Centre for Floristic and Ethnobotanical Studies (Botany), Vaagdevi Degree & PG College, India
Prof. Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Botany Department, Hazara University, Pakistan
Dr. Wajid Zaman, Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, South Korea
Dr. J. M. Sashikumar, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Haramaya University, Ethiopia

SUBMISSION UNTIL: 31 March 2024

APC: $150 (includes GST)

For queries, please contact: Ms. Rithika (WhatsApp Chat: +91 9995680230 / Email: pst.assist4@horizonepublishing.com), Editorial Assistant, Horizon e-Publishing Group, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Fee waiver queries: Send mail to pst@horizonepublishing.com

Manuscript submission: Submit online using the PST template available at the PST submission portal. Visit https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

Plant Science Today Receives Its First Journal Impact Factor!

Plant Science Today — 2023-07-16

We are glad to announce the exciting news that Plant Science Today has achieved its first Journal Impact Factors (JIF)™, as revealed in the Journal Citation Reports 2023. The journal has received an impressive impact factor of 0.9, highlighting its significance within the research community.

This remarkable achievement is a testament to the invaluable contributions made by our esteemed authors, reviewers, and editorial team.

For those who are interested in submitting their articles, we warmly invite you to share your work with us through the following link:

Submit your article here.

Quick guide to Web of Science Reviewer Recognition Services and How you can Use it

Plant Science Today — 2023-02-25

The core of effective scientific communication is expert peer review. When study findings are made public, we rely on reviewers to make sure they are trustworthy and pertinent. Plant Science Today journal uses Web of Science reviewer recognition services (formerly Publons) to give you official acknowledgment for your peer review work in order to promote the value of reviewing.

How it works?

You will get a review invitation by Email.
Once you complete the review, you can submit it on the PST journal website.
You will receive an email when your review is verified by an Editor of the PST journal
Forward this email to reviews@webofscience.com

You have done!

By default, only the title of the article, the name of the journal, and the date of the review submission will be published on a reviewer profile for PST journals on Web of Science.

Register or Sign-in to personalize your Web of Science experience

Scopus: Profile and content corrections

Plant Science Today — 2023-01-28

Check out your free author profile!
Did you know Scopus offers free profiles to all indexed authors? Review yours, claim it, and update it — all for free!

Remember to keep UpToDate your Scopus author profile: This is very important for several reasons.

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You can even use the Author Feedback Wizard at Scopus Support Centre. See how to use it.

Finally, you can even Email to Scopus - See options at Scopus: Profile and content corrections Support Center

CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Issue: Mini Reviews on Advances in Plant Science

Plant Science Today — 2022-12-16

Under Mini Reviews, short review articles of max. 5 printed pages including references can be published.

Guest Editor: Dwaipayan Sinha

SUBMISSION UNTIL 31 March 2023

APC: $100

PLANT SCIENCE TODAY (PST)
Volume 10 | Special Issue | 2023

The special issue will include only mini review articles on all areas of plant science including, but not limited to the following sections:

Agriculture
Anatomy
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
Biophysics
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Conservation Biology
Cryptogamic Botany
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
Developmental Biology
Ecology
Phytoremediation
Environmental Biology
Ethnomedicine and ethnopharmacology
Evolutionary Biology
Food Science
Genetics
History of Plant Science
Molecular Biology
Morphology
Nanotechnology
Nomenclature
Palaeobotany
Pharmacology
Phylogenetics
Physiology
Phytochemistry and Natural products
Structural Biology
Taxonomy
Theoretical and Systems Biology

For queries, please contact:
Horizon e-Publishing Group
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Email: pst@horizonepublishing.com

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Plant Science Today is included in NAAS list of journals

Plant Science Today — 2022-05-21

The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences is a think tank that provides a forum to scientists to present their views on critical issues relating to agricultural research, education and extension. The Academy initiated a process of rating/scoring of scientific research journals with the primary objective to bring uniformity in the evaluation of publications by the nominees for Fellowship/ Associateship by different Sectional Committees. Thus the score has been developed for use of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Current score of PST journal is 5.44.

To download List of NAAS scored Journals 2022 click here.

Special Issue on Climate Resilient Agriculture

Plant Science Today — 2022-04-09

About the journal: The Journal “Plant Science Today” is an open access peer reviewed international journal Indexing in “Scopus, Web of Science, and many more”.

Topics / Scope of the Special Issue:

Climate resilient agriculture
Agricultural environment
Nature-based agricultural solutions
Urban agriculture
Food-water-energy nexus

Submission and publication

Deadline: Closed
Publication: Accepted article will be published immediately in the “Special Issue”

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Article Processing Charges (APC): US$100

Editor for the Special Issue: Dr. Rocío Pineda-Martos

Dr. Rocío Pineda-Martos is an active participant of the Working Group (WG) 4 - Urban Farming of the COST Action CA17133 Circular City: Implementing nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city, and member of its extended Core Team (eCT). She also participates as a member of the WG1 and WG5 of the COST Action CA20138 NEXUSNET: Network on water-energy-food nexus for a low-carbon economy in Europe and beyond. She is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering and Environmental Science and part of the NatUrIB research group on Urban Greening and Biosystems Engineering at the School of Agricultural Engineering (ETSIA), University of Seville (US), Spain. Professional member of the Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Observatory in Spain, her main scientific research interests and expertise are in line with innovative urban NBS implementation to facilitate the circular economy system and to cope with major challenges in cities; together with her background in digitalization which supports the concept of introduction of new technologies and developments within a city for its sustainability assessment. Dr. Pineda-Martos has experience in the framework on NBS units and interventions related with the sectors of urban farming (food and biomass production; remediation, treatment, and recovery) and the built environment (vertical greening systems and green roofs; (public) green space).

Special Issue on Plant systematics with special emphasis on revision, description of new taxa, new records and nomenclatural aspects

Plant Science Today — 2021-10-10

About the journal: The Journal “Plant Science Today” is an open access journal Indexing in “SCOPUS, Emerging Science Citation Index, Web of Science, Chemical Abstracts Service, and many more” and also listed in UGC-CARE (Group II).

Submission and publication
• Submission Open: October 10, 2021
• Deadline: January 31, 2022
• Publication: Accepted article will be published immediately in the “Special Issue”

Plant Systematics/Taxonomy is the basic branch of Botany dealing with the naming, identification and classification of plants. The main objectives of this subject are to describe the Plant Kingdom and to classify it in distinct units. The resulting classification has to reflect phylogenetic relationships between the plant groups. In this age of increased awareness on the importance of conservation of Biodiversity, Plant Systematic studies have gained major importance globally. In order to create awareness in this discipline, a Special issue of the Journal is proposed.

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The potential topics
• Original papers on taxonomic revision
• New taxa
• New records
• Critical notes on nomenclature and typification of plant names

Article Processing Charges (APC)

Articles with word count more than 2500
- US$240 - Authors from high income countries
- US$120 - Authors from lower middle income countries
Articles with word count less than 2500
- US$120 - Authors from high income countries
- US$60 - Authors from lower middle income countries

Editor for the Special Issue

Dr. Tapas Chakrabarty, retired as Scientist “D” from Botanical Survey of India, Industrial Section, Indian Museum, Kolkata, in December, 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Visva-Bharati in 1988 for his revisionary study on Indian Croton. He has also considerable knowledge in other genera of Euphorbiaceae and Phyllanthaceae. He has more than 250 papers to his credit, published in various peer-reviewed journals. He is also the author of three books (e.g. The family Euphorbiaceae in India, Indo-Burmese Phyllanthaceae, Ethnobotany of the Jarawa tribe of Andaman Islands, India). He has special interest on the flora of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, taxonomic revisions and typification of plant names.
Email: tchakrab@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=FUWFwq0AAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tapas_Chakrabarty

Forthcoming (Early Access) Articles - New feature lunched

Plant Science Today — 2021-09-11

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.

The DOI number will be the same for early access articles and when it is added to an issue. This means, when an article is published as an early access article, it will be assigned a DOI number. When a new issue is published (PST has 4 issues in a year), the already published early access article will be shifted to the new issue, but the DOI number remains the same.

Download statistics of the Early access article will be carried forward when it is added to an issue. This means you will not loose any download or even abstract view statistics from your early access version of your article.

Article version number changes. When the early access article is shifted to an issue, it will be assigned a new version and it will be displayed on the journal web page. But this will not affect the PDF copy of your article, which remains the same.

Explore https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/forthcoming

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Plant Science Today in Social Networks

Plant Science Today — 2021-09-11

Scientists and academics are using various social network platforms in their professional lives. It is relatively easier to grab required information from these media. Plant Science Today uses the following social networks to disseminate published articles.

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Special Issue on: Soil and Phytomicrobiomes for Plant Growth and Soil Fertility

Plant Science Today — 2021-06-11

Special issue on “Soil and Phytomicrobiomes for Plant Growth and Soil Fertility” is an effort to compile the latest information, innovations, and advancements in the field of all aspects of soil and phytomicrobiomes research, including providing fundamental insights into the understanding of plant-microbes interactions, microbial biodiversity of soil and microbes associated with plant systems. Moreover, it will cover the different aspects of microbial i.e. archaeal, bacterial, fungal and algal biodiversity in normal as well as extreme habitats and their potential role in plant growth promotion, mitigation of biotic/abiotic stress and nutrient cycling in ecosystems.

Potential topics

Plant-microbes Interaction
Biodiversity of soil microbiomes
Biodiversity of endophytic, phyllospheric and rhizospheric microbiomes
PGP mechanisms (Solubilization, nitrogen fixation, phytohormones productions)
Beneficial microbes for nutrient uptake, cycling and soil fertility
Extremophiles (Archaea, Bacteria, Fungi etc.) in improving crop productivity
Microbe-mediated drought/salinity/heat/cold stress in plants
Microbes in biotic stress management
Metabolic engineering for strain improvements for plant growth promotion
Nanotechnology in agriculture for plant growth and soil fertility
Biofertilizers and biopesticides

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021

Publication: Accepted article will be published immediately in the “Special Issue”

Article processing charges (APC): Discounted (50%) APC is applicable upon acceptance of the submissions (see details here)

Special Issue Editors:

Guest Editor 1
Title and Name: Dr. Ajar Nath Yadav
Affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Dr. Khem Singh Gill Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour-173001, Himachal Pradesh, India
E-Mail: ajarbiotech@gmail.com; ajar@eternaluniversity.edu.in
Research Interests: Plant Microbe- Interaction; Microbial Biotechnology
Webpages:
• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6911-7050
• https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Drt5z1gAAAAJ&hl=en

Guest Editor 2
Title and Name: Dr. Divjot Kour
Affiliation: Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
E-Mail: kourdivjot@gmail.com
Research Interests: Microbial Biotechnology, Plant-Microbe Interactions
Webpage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1384-5104

Guest Editor 3
Title and Name: Dr. Amrik Singh Ahluwalia
Affiliation: Department of Boatny, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour-173001, Himachal Pradesh, India
E-Mail: pvc@eternaluniversity.edu.in
Research Interests: Applied Mycology; Phycology, Plant-microbe Interactions
Webpage: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1136-7310

Biography of Guest Editors

Dr. Ajar Nath Yadav is Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) and Assistant Controller of Examinations at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has 8 years of teaching and 12 years of research experience in the field of Microbial Biotechnology, Microbial Diversity, and Plant-Microbe-Interactions. Dr. Yadav obtained doctorate in Microbial Biotechnology, jointly from IARI, New Delhi and BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, India. Dr. Yadav has 245 publications, with h-index of 56, i10-index of 153, and 8330 citations (Google Scholar- on 05/05/2021). Dr. Yadav is editor of 18 Springer-Nature, 7 Taylor & Francis, 2 Elsevier and 1 Wiley book. Dr. Yadav is editor-in-chief for "Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology". He has been serving as an editor/editorial board member and a reviewer for 29 different national and international peer-reviewed journals. He has lifetime membership of Association of Microbiologist in India, and Indian Science Congress Council, India. Please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ajarnathyadav/ for more details.

Dr. Divjot Kour is currently working as Senior Researcher at Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Dr. Kour obtained doctorate degree in Microbial Biotechnology from Department of Biotechnology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. Her research areas include microbial diversity, stress adaptive microbes, and biofertilizers. In her credit 79 publications in different reputed international, national journals and publishers. She is editors of 04 books in Springer-Nature and as editor for “Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology". In her credit more than 700 microbes (bacteria and fungi) isolated from diverse sources. She has the membership of National Academy of Sciences and Agro Environmental Development Society, India.

Dr. Amrik S. Ahluwalia is Pro Vice Chancellor, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is Professor at Department of Botany, Akal College of Basic Sciences. Dr. Ahluwalia has 39 years of teaching and 43 years of research experiences in experimental phycology, algal biofertilizers and biotechnology, algae in aquaculture, food and environmental phycology, allelopathy, Azolla biology, carbon sequestration and biodiesel from microalgae, medicinal plants. Dr. Ahluwalia obtained doctorate in botany from Banaras Hindu University, M.Sc. from Panjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. In his credit more than 150 national and international publications. He delivered more than 155 lectures in national/Internationally. He is editor of many national and international books. He has been on the editorial board of reputed international and national journals. He has supervised many M. Phil and Ph.D. students and completed many research projects. Dr Ahluwalia has lifetime membership of Indian Science Congress Association, Calcutta; National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad; Indian Botanical Society, India; International Allelopathy Society, USA.; Asian Allelopathy Society, China.

Improved Scopus CiteScore, Journal Rank, Percentile and Google Scholar h-index for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2021-06-06

Scopus CiteScore 2020: 0.7 (link) - 2019 - 0.3
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) 2020: 0.204 (link) - SJR 2019 - 0.149
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2020: 0.693 (link) - SNIP 2019 - 0.199
CiteScoreTracker 2021: 0.8 (link) - 2019: 0.7
Google Scholar h-index 2021: 15 (link) - h-index 2020: 12

The Keepers Registry is now indexing Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2020-09-21

The Keepers Registry collects preservation metadata, supplied on a regular basis by archiving agencies globally. Following information has been taken from https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2348-1900

Title proper: Plant science today.
Abbreviated key-title: Plant sci. today
Original alphabet of title: Basic roman
Subject: UDC : 58
Subject: Botany
Publisher: Thiruvanthapuram: Horizon e-Publishing Group
Dates of publication: 2014- 9999

Frequency: Quarterly
Type of resource: Periodical
Language: English
Country: India
Medium: Online

Indexed by: THE KEEPERS
Indexed by: ROAD
Indexed by: GLOBALHEALTH
Indexed by: CROSSREF
Indexed by: CABABSTRACTS
Indexed by: SCOPUS

Last modification date: 06/02/2020
ISSN Center responsible of the record: ISSN National Centre for India
Record creation date: 01/02/2014
Original ISSN Centre: ISSN National Centre for India

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Why You Need an ORCID iD Now: Benefits for faculties, scientists and student researchers

Plant Science Today — 2020-08-07

ORCID reduces the time-consuming process of maintaining up-to-date records. For example, individuals with ORCID records who use their ORCID during manuscript or grant submission can receive updates to their record when manuscripts are published or grants awarded.

ORCID is an open registry. ORCID records hold non-sensitive information such as name, email, organization name, and research activities. ORCID understands the fundamental need for individuals to control how their data are shared, and provides tools for individuals to manage data privacy.

You may register for an ORCID identifier at http://www.orcid.org. Registration is free and fast: you need only enter your name and email address and create a password. You need not have an official affiliation and there is no set of requirements to qualify as a researcher.

During submission of manuscripts to Plant Science Today, we encourage our authors to authorize their ORCID iD. ORCID’s guidelines state that ORCIDs should not be manually entered, but rather authenticated via the ORCID service.

Scopus Impact Factor (CiteScore) and Scimago Journal Rank announced for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2020-06-26

Scopus CiteScore 2019

Source: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100902612

SCImago Journal Rank

Source: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100902612&tip=sid&clean=0

Plant Science Today

Open Access
Scopus coverage years: from 2018 to Present
Publisher:Horizon e-Publishing Group
E-ISSN:2348-1900

Scopus - Subject areas covered by PST

Environmental Science: Ecology
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Plant Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

With the improved CiteScore methodology, CiteScore 2019 counts the citations received in 2016-2019 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2016-2019, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2016-2019.

Plant Science Today and UGC-CARE List

Plant Science Today — 2019-10-12

Plant Science Today journal (e-ISSN 2348-1900) is included in the UGC CARE list of journals under Group II category.

To find out the status of a journal, you may contact ugc.journalcell@gmail.com or search UGC-CARE list at http://ugccare.unipune.ac.in

Call for Papers: The Omics Revolution in Plant Science

Plant Science Today — 2019-07-05

Manuscripts, including critical reviews and research articles, in the theme of the special issue are welcomed. Review contributions are expected to present sound critical overviews of the state-of-the-art of a topic from the proposed subjects.

Indexed by: Clarivate Analytics (ESCI), SCOPUS, EBSCO, UGC, CAS

Deadlines:
• Submission of full manuscript: October- December 2019
• Completion of review process: June 30, 2020
• Publication: October, 2020

Guest Editors:
1. Dr Nyuk Ling Ma, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
2. Dr Vijitra Luang-In Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Editor-in-Chief of Plant Science Today:
Dr. K. K. Sabu, Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, India

The special issue would be based on the papers presented in:

(1) 2nd Seminar on Biological Security and Sustainability (http://bioses.umt.edu.my) held on 29 – 30 October 2019, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

(2) The 6th International Conference on Food Agriculture & Biotechnology (ICoFAB 2019). (https://techno2.msu.ac.th/icofab2019/) held on Taksila Hotel, Mahasarakham, Thailand

(3) The 31st Annual Meeting of the Thai Society for Biotechnology and International Conference (TSB 2019) “BIO innovation for sustainability” (http://www.tsb2019.com) held on Duangjitt Resort & Spa, Phuket, Thailand

For details, please contact:

Ts. Dr. Ma Nyuk Ling
School of Fundamental Science,
University Malaysia Terengganu
21030 Kuala Terengganu,
Terengganu, Malaysia

Tel: +609 - 6683845
Email to: nyukling@umt.edu.my
Fax: +609 - 6683326
Web: www.umt.edu.my

PST's Scopus coverage leads to inclusion in Web of Science through BIOSIS Previews and Emerging Sources Citation Index

Plant Science Today — 2019-05-18

Plant Science Today has been included in Web of Science Core Collection through BIOSIS Previews and Emerging Sources Citation Index followed by the Scopus coverage.

The following list is from the Clarivate Analytics (by Scopus) website:

Web of Science Core Collection
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Sciences Citation Index
Emerging Sources Citation Index*

Subject Indexes on the Web of Science platform
Biological Abstracts
BIOSIS PREVIEWS*
Biological Abstracts/RRM
Zoological Record

* Plant Science Today inlcuded in those databases.

Web of Science (previously known as Web of Knowledge) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), later maintained by Clarivate Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters), that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline. Read more..

BIOSIS Previews is an English-language, bibliographic database service, with abstracts and citation indexing. It is part of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science suite. BIOSIS Previews indexes data from 1926 to the present. Read more..

The Emerging Sources Citation Index is a citation index produced since 2015 by Thomson Reuters, and now by Clarivate Analytics. According to the publisher, the index includes "peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields". Read more..

Thank you for your support!

Plant Science Today is on Scopus

Plant Science Today — 2019-05-02

Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, is now listing articles published in Plant Science Today.

You need institutional access to fully benefit from Scopus. If you have it, please click here to see PST search results in Scopus..

Plant Science Today will be indexed and abstracted in Clarivate Analytics

Plant Science Today — 2018-10-30

Plant Science Today (PST) has been selected for coverage in Clarivate Analytics products and services. Beginning with Volume 5 (2018), PST will be indexed and abstracted in:

♦ Emerging Sources Citation Index

In the future Plant Science Today may be evaluated and included in additional Clarivate Analytics products to meet the needs of the scientific and scholarly research community. Thank you for your support!

Plant Science Today has been selected for indexing in Scopus

Plant Science Today — 2018-10-06

Horizon e-Publishing Group has submitted a request in April 2017 for indexing Plant Science Today by Scopus, Elsevier’s abstract and citation database. Currently, Scopus holds nearly 69 million articles from nearly 36,377 journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.

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.

On this happy occasion, I thank all those who have stood with the Plant Science Today journal. Anticipating your kind co-operation in the future as well.

Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty Scheme (VAJRA)

Plant Science Today — 2018-06-14

VAJRA Faculty Scheme is to bring a strong international connect to the R&D ecosystem of India. The scheme offers adjunct / visiting faculty assignments to overseas scientists, faculty members and R&D professionals including Non-resident Indians (NRI) and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) to undertake high quality collaborative research in Public funded academic and research Institutions of India. VAJRA Faculty will engage in collaborative research in cutting edge areas of science and technology including interdisciplinary areas of priority such as energy, water, health, security, nutrition, materials and manufacturing, etc. with one or more Indian Collaborators.VAJRA Faculty is expected to co-guide research students and may also be involved in technology development, innovation, start ups, etc.

The initial assignment will be for a period of one year extendable to subsequent years based on the collaborative outcome and interest. The residency period of VAJRA Faculty in the host institution would be for a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 3 months every year. VAJRA Faculty will be provided US$15000 in the first month of residence and US$10000 in each of the subsequent month.

More details at http://serbonline.in/SERB/vajra

Should you need a collaborator in India to take up the above scheme, drop a mail to Plant Science Today!

Email: pst@horizonepublishing.com

Plant Science Today signed agreement with EBSCO for indexing

Plant Science Today — 2018-01-26

EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For over 70 years, EBSCO has partnered with libraries and publishers to improve research with quality content and technology.

Currently Plant Science Today is indexed by AGRIS, CABI, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, Agro-Know Stem (CGIAR), J-Gate, Open Archives Initiative (OAI), ResearchGate, etc.

Indexing by EBSCO will certainly disseminate the articles published in Plant Science Today to more researchers around the world.

Index Copernicus Value increased for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2017-11-18

We would like to inform you that Plant Science Today (ISSN: 2348-1900) has been indexed in ICI Journals Master List 2016. Based on the information available for the PST journal, Scientific Journals Evaluation Team of the Index Copernicus International calculated the ICV (Index Copernicus Value) for 2016.

ICV 2016 = 88.17

The ICV for 2016 is shown on the list of indexed journals at

ICI Journals Master List 2016

and in Journal's Passport, at ICI World of Journals.

ICI value for Plant Science Today increased for the 3rd consecutive year!

ICV 2014: 81.54, 2015: 85.22, 2016: 88.17.

Publish a Mini Review

Plant Science Today — 2017-07-14

To submit a mini review, register to this journal web site and submit the article using the 'New Submission' link visible after log in to the journal site. To register, visit http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/user/register

Submission and Review process

Submit the Mini Review article similar to any other submission through our manuscript submission system.
The submission will be sent for review to at least 2 external reviewers.
Acceptance of the paper is subjected to the final decision of the Editor.

Subject area

Research findings that involve plants or plant products can be submitted to the journal.

Author charges

There will be no publication charges (author processing fees, APC) required for publishing the Mini Review papers (this special offer is valid only for a limited period).

Invites Book Reviews

Plant Science Today — 2017-05-20

A book review may be a opinion piece, summary review or scholarly review of a book, either printed or published online. A book review's length may vary from a single paragraph to few paragraphs.

Normally, Book reviews shall not exceed 1500 words.

For a sample review, click here.

Journal software upgrade

Plant Science Today — 2017-05-20

Glad to inform that Plant Science Today journal software (Open Journal Systems) has been upgraded from 2.4.4.1 to the latest 3.0.2 which is feature rich. But there may some minor issues with this upgrade and we are working hard to solve those bugs as and when have came across them. Thank you for your continued support.

Mini Review Contest 2017

Plant Science Today — 2017-04-09

Write a Mini Review and Get $5000 worth publishing credits!

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).

Prize details

For the best review article selected based on number of citations appear in Google Scholar and number of reads in ResearchGate, we will award $1500 worth publishing credits in our journal, Plant Science Today. This amount can be equally divided among the co-authors of the paper for multi-authored paper.
Besides, consolation prizes will be given away, each worth $100 or more depending on the number of citations.

Submission and Review process

First, submit the Mini Review article similar to any other submission through our manuscript submission system on or before 31 May 2017.
The submission will be sent for review to at least 2 external reviewers.
Acceptance of the paper is subjected to the final decision of the Editor.
Only published papers will enter into the contest.

Subject area

Research findings that involve plants or plant products can be submitted to the journal.

Important dates

The last date of submission is 31 May 2017.
Prizes will be announced only after 2 years (in order to give sufficient time to generate citations).

Terms & Conditions

There will be no publication charges (author processing fees, APC) required for publishing the contest papers.
Only those Mini Review papers that are recommended by the peer reviewers will be published in the journal.
Manuscripts must be submitted on or before 31 May 2017.
One could submit the Mini Review in more than one topic which would enhance the chance of winning the prize. However, only one prize will be given to an author.
The Publisher reserves the right to make suitable change in the above selection criteria in order to make the right decision.

Results of First Mini Review Contest

Plant Science Today — 2017-04-06

Prizes worth US4500 will be given to the winners of First Mini Review Contest. There is one first prize, four each second and third, and seven consolation prizes. See details below:

Rank	Article Title	Citations	URL
1	Functional properties of Okra Abelmoschus esculentus L. (Moench): traditional claims and scientific evidences	10	Link
2	Grapevine rootstock effects on abiotic stress tolerance	10	Link
2	Electrospun plant-derived natural biomaterials for Tissue engineering	9	Link
2	Biosynthesis of the Amaryllidaceae alkaloids	7	Link
2	Impact of Pyraclostrobin (F-500) on Crop Plants	7	Link
3	Distribution of betulinic acid in plant kingdom	4	Link
3	Effect of Exclusion of Solar UV radiation on Plants	3	Link
3	Smart-use of fertilizers to manage spider mites (Acari: Tetrachynidae) and other arthropod pests	3	Link
3	Anti-acne activity of Garcinia mangostana L.: A review	2	Link
4	Antitumor properties and toxicity effects of Peganum harmala L. (Zygophyllaceae)	0	Link
4	Carboxymethyl starch as a polymeric plant based excipient in drug delivery	0	Link
4	Conservation relevance of terrestrial herbaceous vegetation studies	0	Link
4	DNA polymerase λ - a novel DNA repair enzyme in higher plant genome	0	Link
4	Germplasm and conservation of rare and endangered tree species endemic to east China	0	Link
4	Plant polyphenolic extracts as potential anti-human hepatocarcinoma agents	0	Link
4	Taxonomy of the Truffles	0	Link

The winners were selected primarily based on the number of citations. Number of reads in ResearchGate and Facebook were also considered.

The corresponding author of the articles who won the various prizes may contact the PST office for more details.

How is Publons harnessing the power of peer review?

Plant Science Today — 2017-03-27

Publons rewards you for documenting your review history by providing you with a verified record which you can use in funding and promotion campaigns.

Researchers understand the power and importance of great peer review. Unfortunately, in today's publish or perish world, it becomes harder and harder to find the time to commit to reviewing.

Publons is bringing balance back to the system. We turn peer review into a measurable indicator of a researcher's expertise and contributions to their field.

With Publons, researchers can effortlessly track each review they perform across the world's journals, demonstrating how often top editors rely on their expertise to vet novel research.

When we acknowledge the importance of peer review contributions, there is greater incentive to review and to review better.

With more experts committed to evaluating the world's research through peer review, it becomes easier for editors to get review done. This speeds up the peer review process and help us to communicate breakthrough research to the world faster.

Raising the status of reviewing is just the first step.

Have you reviwed an article for Plant Science Today? Check your Publons status

Google Scholar metrics: 161 citations from 125 papers

Plant Science Today — 2017-03-26

It was revealed that 1.29 cites per paper resulted from the 161 Google Scholar citations for the 125 papers published during the past 3 years. See details below:

Cites	Authors	Title	Year	Article URL
10	M Corso, C Bonghi	Grapevine rootstock effects on abiotic stress tolerance	2014	Link
10	A Roy, SL Shrivastava, SM Mandal	Functional properties of Okra Abelmoschus esculentus L.(Moench): traditional claims and scientific evidences	2014	Link
9	JR Venugopal, S Sridhar…	Electrospun plant-derived natural biomaterials for Tissue engineering	2014	Link
7	S Biswas, M Maiti, G Bhandari…	Floral diversity and ecology in Kalyani area of Nadia district, West Bengal, India	2015	Link
7	M Kanungo, J Joshi	Impact of pyraclostrobin (F-500) on crop plants	2014	Link
7	A Singh, I Desgagné-Penix	Biosynthesis of the Amaryllidaceae alkaloids	2014	Link
6	Y Zhou, A Zhang, H Sun, G Yan…	Plant-derived natural products as leads to antitumor drugs	2014	Link
5	Y Tsago, M Andargie, A Takele	In vitro selection of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) for polyethylene glycol (PEG) induced drought stress	2014	Link
4	KK Rawat, A Alam, PK Verma	Moss flora of Rajasthan and Punjab plains	2015	Link
4	M ul Islam, J Alam, M Fiaz, M Ali…	Taxonomic studies of Bartramiaceae from district Mansehra (Pakistan)	2015	Link
4	SR Pai, RK Joshi	Distribution of betulinic acid in plant kingdom	2014	Link
4	RK Joshi, SL Hoti	Chemical composition of the essential oil of Ocimum tenuiflorum L.(Krishna Tulsi) from North West Karnataka, India	2014	Link
4	A Lamboro, Y Petros, M Andargie	Correlation and path coefficient analysis between yield and yield components in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)	2014	Link
4	A Sarker, NM Talukder, MT Islam	Phosphate solubilizing bacteria promote growth and enhance nutrient uptake by wheat	2014	Link
4	H Enneb, A Belkadhi, A Ferchichi	Changes in henna (Lawsonia inermis L.) morphological traits under different deficit irrigations in the southern Tunisia	2015	Link
4	AD Sharma, G Rakhra, S Mamik…	Accumulation of class-III type of boiling stable Peroxidases in response to plant growth hormone ABA in Triticum aestivum cultivars	2014	Link
3	K West, C Nansen	Smart-use of fertilizers to manage spider mites (Acari: Tetrachynidae) and other arthropod pests	2014	Link
3	V Upadhya, GM Ankad, SR Pai…	Comparative HPTLC analysis of stem and leaf of Achyranthes coynei with Achyranthes aspera	2015	Link
3	K Pooja, A Katoch	Past, present and future of rice blast management	2014	Link
3	S Kataria, SS Baroniya, M Kanungo…	Effect of Exclusion of Solar UV radiation on Plants	2014	Link
3	RK Joshi, AK Sharma	Cis-ocimenone chemotype essential oil of green mint (Mentha viridis L.) from Western Ghats region of North West Karnataka, India	2014	Link
2	AED Daniels, PM Biju	Two species of Isopterygium Mitt.-new to the Eastern Ghats in Peninsular India	2016	Link
2	A Shanker	An update on sequenced chloroplast genomes of Bryophytes	2015	Link
2	T Pócs	Bryophytes from the Fiji Islands, VII. Cololejeunea renneri sp. nov.(Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta)	2015	Link
2	P Khumsupan, W Gritsanapan	Anti-acne activity of Garcinia mangostana L.: A review	2014	Link
2	M Mishra, PK Dash, A Alam, S Sahoo…	Current status of diversity and distribution of Bryophytes of odisha	2016	Link
2	S Patil, R Lavate, V Rawat…	Diversity and distribution of Pteridophytes from Satara District, Maharashtra (India)	2016	Link
2	I Degefa, Y Petros, M Andargie	Genetic Variability, Heritability and Genetic Advance in Mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) Accessions	2014	Link
2	A Alam, S Pandey	Marchantia polymorpha L.: An Emerging Model Plant System to Study Contemporary Plant Biology–A Review	2016	Link
2	A Alam, KK Rawat, PK Verma…	Moss flora of Central India	2015	Link
2	A Makhzoum, S Tahir, MEO Locke…	An in silico overview on the usefulness of tags and linkers in plant molecular pharming	2014	Link
1	R Sreebha, KC Kariyappa…	Symphyodon erraticus (Symphyodontaceae): an addition to the moss flora of the Western Ghats	2015	Link
1	AK Asthana, V Sahu	Archilejeunea minutilobula Udar et US Awasthi (Lejeuneaceae-Marchantiophyta) New to Gangetic plains of India	2015	Link
1	M ul Islam, J Alam, M Fiaz	Checklist of Lithophytic Mosses of Kaghan Valley, Mansehra-Pakistan	2016	Link
1	P Mallick	New Record of the four species of Riccia from Bankura district, West Bengal (India)	2015	Link
1	GR Jyothilakshmi, MC Nair…	Bryophyte diversity in the Sacred Groves, with special reference to Vallikkattukavu of Kozhikode district in Western Ghats	2016	Link
1	A Shanker	Detection of simple sequence repeats in the chloroplast genome of Tetraphis pellucida Hedw.	2016	Link
1	SS Deo, DK Singh	Plagiochila parvivittata Inoue var. siangensis var. nov.(Plagiochilaceae, Marchantiophyta) from Arunachal Pradesh, India	2016	Link
1	M Rai, P Srivastava, SN Srivastava	Observations on fertile populations of two Porella (Porellaceae, Marchantiophyta) species from Kumaun Region in the Western Himalaya, India	2016	Link
1	G Asthana, S Srivastava	Cololejeunea microscopica var. exigua (A. Evans) Pócs: new to Asia	2015	Link
1	M Rai, BK Kushwaha…	The state of Scapania ligulata Steph.(Scapaniaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Western Himalaya, India	2015	Link
1	DG Shah, R Gujar	Diversity and Distribution of Liverworts in Gujarat–Current Status	2016	Link
1	ME Barrandeguy, MV García	Back to the future: Evidence of ancestral polymorphism in current populations of Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil by means of Population Graphs	2015	Link
1	NV Pawar, SR Pai, MS Nimbalkar…	RP-HPLC analysis of phenolic antioxidant compound 6-gingerol from in vitro cultures of Zingiber officinale Roscoe	2015	Link
1	AK Asthana, R Gupta	Hornwort diversity at Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve (Madhya Pradesh), India	2015	Link
1	J Alam, I Ali, S Karim, M Islam…	Check list of Anthocerophyta and Marchantiophyta of Pakistan and Kashmir	2016	Link
1	PK Verma, KK Rawat, A Alam	Plagiochila sisparensis Steph.-a vulnerable liverwort from Nilgiri Hills, Western Ghats	2015	Link
1	G Asthana, S Yadav	Macromitrium hymenostomum Mont.-A New record for South India	2015	Link
1	SA Bagwan, BA Kore	Species diversity of genus Riccia (Mich.) L. in Satara district (Maharashtra) India	2015	Link
1	S Jamali	First report of Septoria silybi associated with leaf blotch of Silybum marianum from Iran	2015	Link
1	KK Rawat, PK Verma, A Alam	Nomenclatural updates in Kashyap's 'Liverwort flora of western Himalayas and Panjab Plains'	2015	Link
1	MA Alattar, FN Alattar, R Popa	Effects of microaerobic fermentation and black soldier fly larvae food scrap processing residues on the growth of corn plants (Zea mays)	2016	Link
1	SK Marwat, IU Khan	Ethnobotanical Importance and Phytochemical constituents of Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.)–A Review	2015	Link
1	IL de Jesus Freitas, WP Rodrigues…	Maximum quantum yield of photosystem II to assist in the measurement of herbicide selectivity in popcorn	2014	Link
1	H Sun, H Xu, A Zhang, P Wang, Y Han…	In vitro anticancer activity of acetylshikonin action against cervical cancer	2014	Link
1	S Das, GD Sharma	Some noteworthy and new records of Liverworts from Barail Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India	2016	Link
1	SC Srivatava, D Chakraborty…	Bryology in India-Retrospect and Prospects	2015	Link
1	M Halder, R Karim, S Islam…	Seasonal variation of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi colonization with some medicinal plant species of Chittagong BCSIR forest	2015	Link
1	S Agarwal, S Khan	Sodium fluoride (NaF) induced changes in growth and DNA profile of Vigna radiata	2016	Link
1	TS Bansode, A Gupta, BK Salalkar	In silico and in vitro assessment on antidiabetic efficacy of secondary metabolites from Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels	2016	Link
1	T Talukdar	Taxonomic significance of Cyspsela in Vernonia anthelmintica Willd. and V. cinerea Less.(Asteraceae; tribe–Vernonieae): Structural manifestations	2015	Link
1	DK Singh, D Singh	Epiphyllous Liverworts of India: An Overview	2016	Link
1	D Talukdar, T Talukdar	RAPD-based DNA fingerprinting in Lantana camara L. ecotypes and development of a digital database platform 'LANRAD'	2016	Link
1	C Uma, M Kalaiselvi, D Gomathi…	Therapeutic effect of Ananus comosus peel on 7, 12 dimethylbenz (a) anthracene induced breast cancer in female wistar albino rats	2014	Link

If you need the full list, please contact the Editor.

Why ORCID is important to researchers?

Plant Science Today — 2017-03-25

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor iD) launched its global, free-to-use registry in 2012 to provide researchers with unique persistent identifiers (ORCID iDs).

Plant Science Today implements ORCID id for the benefit of its authors. Please visit your Profile page to create/add your ORCID id.

ORCID id has several uses:

ORCIDs protects your unique scholarly identity
There are thousands of people per unique surname in China. That’s a lot of “Wang”s! Same for lots of other names.. You’ll probably still need ORCID if you plan to assume your family name, or accidentally omit your middle initial from the byline when submitting a manuscript. ORCID solves the author name problem by giving individuals a unique, 16-digit numeric identification number that lasts over time.
ORCID supports 37 types of “works,” from articles to dance performances
Any type of scholarly output you create, ORCID can handle. Are you a traditional scientists, who writes only papers and the occasional book chapter? ORCID can track ‘em. Are you instead a cutting-edge computational biologist who releases datasets and figures for your thesis, as they are created? ORCID can track that, too.
ORCID is glue for all your research services
You can connect your ORCID account with websites including Web of Science, Figshare, and Impactstory, among many others. Once they’re connected, you can easily push information back and forth between services–meaning that a complete ORCID record will allow you to automatically import the same information to multiple places, rather than having to enter the same information over and over again on different websites.
Journals, funders & institutions are moving to ORCID
Some of the world’s largest publishers, funders, and institutions have adopted ORCID. Over 1000 journals, including publications by PLOS, Nature, and Elsevier, are using ORCID as a way to make it easier for authors to manage their information in manuscript submission systems. ORCID can also collect your publications from across these varied services, making it possible to aggregate author-level metrics.
When everyone has an ORCID identifier, scholarship gets better
How many hours have you wasted by filling in your address, employment history, collaborator names and affiliations, etc when applying for grants or submitting manuscripts? For many publishers and funders, you can now simply supply your ORCID identifier, saving you precious time to do research.

Publication fees withdrawn for next issue

Plant Science Today — 2017-03-25

To attract high quality manuscripts, we decided to withdraw Author Processing Charges (APC) for the next issue (Vol. 4, No. 2). You may submit original research papers or review articles. See instructions to authors’ page for more details of preparing the manuscripts and submission process. Our review, editorial and other policies are described at the Policies section.

Publishing conference papers

Plant Science Today — 2016-12-12

For efficient delivery of research findings presented in a conference, speedy publication of the papers based on the conference presentation is inevitable. Plant Science Today starts publishing conference papers from Vol. 4, issue no. 1 (publication date: 1 Jan 2017) onwards.

How it works

The following conditions are applicable for considering a conference paper for publishing in Plant Science Today:

The paper must have accepted for a conference or presented either as oral or poster in a recently held event.
The full paper of the presentation should not be available on the Internet (which would attract plagiarism).
The submitted paper will be subjected to peer review from at least one subject expert and acceptance will be decided by the Editor in Chief based on the recommendation provided by the independent reviewer.
The length of the paper may vary depending on the study. Manuscript may be prepared after consulting the author's instructions. Total number of figures and tables together should not exceed 8.

Article Processing Fees (APC)

The author of the accepted conference paper has to pay 50% of the standard APC (see APC details). More number of figures and tables or multi-page tables or figures would attract additional processing fees.

Contact

For details, contact the Editor in Chief.

New Article Processing Charges (APC) policy

Plant Science Today — 2016-12-12

If a paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Processing Charges (APC) to cover part of our expenses including those of journal production (copy editing, proof reading, layout preparation, etc), indexing, DOI numbering, online hosting, etc. The APC for all papers submitted after 10 Dec 2016, plus transaction charges, VAT or local taxes where applicable:

Regular APC: US$300

Authors from developing countries: US$150*

Upon submission of an original research paper, authors will be asked to confirm that they take responsibility for payment of the APC. By paying this fee authors are permitted to post the final, published, PDF of their article on a website, blogs, academic or social media sites, institutional repository or other free public server immediately on publication. Contact us if you have any query.

* Further discounts may be given on a case by case basis.

Our fee waiver policy offers to waive or further reduce the publication fees for authors who cannot pay the full amount charged for publication, remains in effect. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Impact Factor for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2016-08-16

Scopus CiteScore 2019

Source: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100902612

SCImago Journal Rank

Source: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100902612&tip=sid&clean=0

ResearchGate is is the largest academic social network for scientists and researchers. RG has come up with impact factor for Plant Science Today as 0.37* (2018/2019 data). Click here to see the latest RG IF for PST.

*This value is calculated using ResearchGate data and is based on average citation counts from work published in this journal. The data used in the calculation may not be exhaustive.

How to target a journal that’s right for your research

Plant Science Today — 2016-07-20

Hitting a target is not easy, and neither is selecting a journal for your research paper. An appropriate target journal is one that publishes work on the subject your paper addresses and which, because of its various qualities, serves your needs and aspirations.

How to target the right journals

Stay away from predators
Look for verifiable claims
Understand the open access model
Don't be swayed by the impact factor
Care about your audience
Develop a research communication strategy

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Special Section on Role of plants in cleaning environment: Recent trends

Plant Science Today — 2016-07-07

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. Both Research and Review papers are welcome for possible publication in this section.

This special section is being edited by:

Dr. Bhupinder Dhir
Department of Genetics
University of Delhi South Campus
New Delhi-110021, India

The due-date for submissions has been revised to 10 September 2016, and the target publishing date is 1 October 2016.

You may submit your paper online at http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

Please specify the title of the special section (i.e. Role of plants in cleaning environment: Recent trends) in the cover letter when you submit your manuscript.

Benefits of the special section

High-quality, rapid peer-review and publishing
Enhances the visibility of the author and published article due to free dissemination and frequent citation
Easy and immediate Online access, hence more downloads and citations
More circulation among the peers and hence higher chances of getting cited, thus enhances the author′s H Index

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. We would appreciate it if you could let us know at your earliest convenience (but no longer than three weeks please) whether or not you will be submitting a paper. We are looking forward to hear from you soon!

With kind regards,

Dr. Bhupinder Dhir
Editor of the Special Section
Email: bhupdhir@gmail.com
&
Dr. K.K. Sabu
Editor-in-Chief, Plant Science Today
& Senior Scientist, Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute, India
Email: sabu@jntbgri.res.in
Journal web: http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST

Global Impact Factor for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2016-02-20

The Global Impact Factor (GIF) provides quantitative and qualitative tool for ranking, evaluating and categorizing the journals for academic evaluation and excellence. This factor is used for evaluating the prestige of journals. The evaluation is carried out by considering the factors like peer review originality, scientific quality, technical editing quality, editorial quality and regularity.

Global Impact Factor: 0.565 (2013), 0.676 (2014), 0.765 (2015) (details)

Other citation statistics:

Estimated IF based on Google Scholar citations: 0.45 (read more)
Index Copernicus value (ICV): 81.54 (details)
Index Copernicus Standardized value: 7.71 (details)

Special Section: Target constituents in medicinal, aromatic and food plants

Plant Science Today — 2016-02-05

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.

This special section is being edited by:
Dr. Alessandra Bertoli
Dipartimento di Farmacia
Università di Pisa
via Bonanno 33 56126 PISA (Italy)
e-mail: alessandra.bertoli@farm.unipi.it

Topics of interest for this section include:
1. Phytochemical screening of wild and cultivated plant species
2. Volatile and non-volatile profiling of plant matrices produced through biotechnological means
3. Standardization of plant raw material (collection and post-harvesting quality)
4. Validation of analytical methods for plant secondary metabolites
5. Plant raw material and derivatives for phytomedicines and botanical food supplements (including technical harmonization)

Due-date for submissions is 30th June 2016, and the target publishing date is 1st July 2016.

How to submit: You may submit your paper by e-mail at alessandra.bertoli@farm.unipi.it or online at http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

Subject of the Email and Covering Letter shall be “Special Section on Target constituents in medicinal, aromatic and food plants in Plant Science Today”.

Benefits of the special section

Indexing: Chemical Abstracts Service, Index Copernicus, AGRIS, CABI, Google Scholar, Citefactor, Agro-Know Ste, Open Access Library, Advanced Science Index, J-Gate, etc.
Author fees: The publication fee for accepted articles in the special section is only US$100 except for developing countries who need to pay only $25. Authors are requested to pay this fee only upon acceptance of the article.
Faster review and publication: Papers submitted on or before the due date will be published on the stipulated date after complying all review and editorial processes.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. We would appreciate it if you could let us know at your earliest convenience whether or not you will be submitting a paper.

With kind regards,
Dr. Alessandra Bertoli
Editor of the Special Section

Dr. K. K. Sabu
Editor-in-Chief, Plant Science Today
Scientist, Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (JNTBGRI), India
Phone: +91-9895211299 Web: http://kksabu.name Email: sabu@jntbgri.res.in

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)

Plant Science Today — 2016-02-05

Chemical Abstracts Service, a not-for-profit division of The American Chemical Society, provides a valuable indexing service to researchers worldwide. We provide pointers to the original literature via our databases and products. We review and intellectually index more than 10,000 major scientific journals and patents from 63 patent authorities, providing pointers to the new and novel science disclosed in them.

CAS provides the bibliographic citation for each journal article selected for inclusion in our product (article title, authors, journal name, issue, pagination, publisher, etc.). This gives our customers enough information to obtain the original article or journal subscription from you. As a value-added service, CAS provides Full Text Options linking services to our mutual customers via SciFinder, any STN product, or CAS electronic products.

We are glad to inform that Plant Science Today has been selected for inclusion in the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. Indexing will be started soon with the first issue of year 2015.

To submit a manuscript, please visit http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

Relaunched TheScienceJobs.com: A decade of service

Plant Science Today — 2016-01-17

TheScienceJobs.com, an international career website launched a decade back has been re-designed and re-launched. There are 1000s of job seekers registered for free email alerts and over 25,000 youngsters are accessing the site regularly through Facebook and Twitter. The new design will help job seekers to access the content more easily. Employers can post vacancy adverts at a very nominal fee. Visit the site now!

Special Section: New Frontiers in Cryptogamic Botany

Plant Science Today — 2016-01-16

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.

This special section is being edited by:

Dr. Afroz Alam
Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Banasthali University
Rajasthan, India
Email: afrozalamsafvi@gmail.com

The topics of interest for this section include:

Fossils, biodiversity, systematics, ecology, environmental botany, morphology, anatomy, biotechnology and related aspects of algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes and pteridophytes.

The due-date for submissions is 15^th March 2016, and the target publishing date is 1^st April 2016.

You may submit your paper by e-mail at afrozalamsafvi@gmail.com or online at http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

Subject of the Email and Covering Letter shall be “New Frontiers in Cryptogamic Botany in Plant Science Today”.

Author fees

The publication fee for accepted articles in the special section is: £70 (UK), €95 (Europe), CN¥660 (China), ₹1500 (India) or $100 (The Americas and RoW). Authors are requested to pay this fee only upon acceptance of the article. Our fee waiver policy offers to fully waive or further reduce the publication fees for authors who cannot pay the full amount charged for publication, remains in effect. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Benefits to authors

Low author fees, rapid publication, full online access, unrestricted use of published paper to academic and social media, free press release, etc are some of the benefits of publication in Plant Science Today.

With kind regards,

Dr. Afroz Alam
Editor of the Special Section

Dr. K. K. Sabu
Editor-in-Chief, Plant Science Today

Scientist, Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (JNTBGRI), Thiruvananthapuram – 695562, India
Phone: +91-9895211299 Web: http://kksabu.name Email: sabu@jntbgri.res.in

Author Fees revised

Plant Science Today — 2016-01-05

If a paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover part of our expenses including those of journal production (copy editing, proof reading, layout preparation, etc), indexing, DOI numbering, online hosting, etc. The APC for all papers accepted from January 2016 is as follows, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable:

£70 (UK)
€95 (Europe)
CN¥660 (China)
₹1500 (India)
$100 (The Americas and RoW)

Special Section on Bioactive compounds from plants and their products

Plant Science Today — 2016-01-03

We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for a Special Section on “Bioactive compounds from plants and their products” in Plant Science Today. Both Research and Review papers are welcome for possible publication in this section.

This special section is being edited by:
Dr. Elizabeth Santos
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde-UFRN
Laboratório Multidisciplinar – LABMULT, Brazil
Tel.: (84) 33429807/ (84) 88780934
Email: elizabethcristina@ig.com.br

The topics of interest for this section include:
1. Antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral activity of plants
2. Extraction, isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds from plants
3. Modern approaches in search for new lead bioactive compounds from plants
4. In vitro screening of bioactive compounds from plants
5. Phytochemical constituents of medicinal plants

The due-date for submissions is 15th March 2016, and the target publishing date is 1st April 2016.

You may submit your paper by e-mail at elizabethcristina@ig.com.br or online at http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/about/submissions

Subject of the Email and Covering Letter shall be “Special Section on Bioactive compounds from plants and their products in Plant Science Today”.

Benefits of the special section
Contributors/authors: On special consideration, the publication fee for accepted articles in the special section is reduced to: $100. Authors are requested to pay this fee only upon acceptance of the article. Our fee waiver policy offers to fully waive or further reduce the publication fees for authors who cannot pay the full amount charged for publication, remains in effect. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

With kind regards,
Dr. Elizabeth Santos
Editor of the Special Section

Dr. K. K. Sabu
Editor-in-Chief, Plant Science Today
Scientist, Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (JNTBGRI)
Thiruvananthapuram – 695562, India
Phone: +91-9895211299 Web: http://kksabu.name Email: sabu@jntbgri.res.in

New Editor in Chief

Plant Science Today — 2015-12-31

Dr. K. K. Sabu from Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (India) joined as the new Editor in Chief. He is a Scientist in the above Institute since 2003.

Dr. Sabu is educated in the field of Plant Sciences and has working experience in plant genetics, biotechnology and bioinformatics since 1995. He has published several research papers in national/international journals. More about him can be found at http://www.kksabu.name

Invitation to Editorial Board

Plant Science Today — 2015-12-14

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.

For this reason, we are looking to expand our Editorial Board.

The extensive team of editors will be responsible for handling submissions through peer review; they will invite reviewers and use the reports to offer advice to the Editor in Chief on accept/reject decisions.

Academies are asked to assess manuscripts for their methodological quality and determine whether the manuscripts add new results to the available body of literature. Plant Science Today will not reject any manuscript because it is of limited interest: as long as it is sound, new, and has passed peer-review then it can be accepted.

Editors should also ensure that manuscripts submitted to Plant Science Today follow all applicable scientific standards, and discipline-specific best practice guidelines. Guidance on handling manuscripts will be provided.

Plant Science Today has an inclusive scope and will consider manuscripts from all disciplines of plant science.

Editorial and Review Board members are listed on our journal homepage.

Applications:

To represent your research community as part of our board of international editors, please first download an application form. Existing Editorial Board members are also requested to submit applications.

Send the completed form with an updated CV to pst@horizonepublishing.com (Editorial Manager) by 25th December2015.

Applications for all research areas in botany are invited, but acceptance is subject to existing topic coverage.

Thank you very much for supporting Plant Science Today.

Thripthi
Managing Editor
Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today has been successfully evaluated in the evaluation procedure for the ICI Journals Master List

Plant Science Today — 2015-12-08

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, PST journal received the ICV (Index Copernicus Value) of 81.54 points.

PST’s passport can be found: HERE

The ICV (Index Copernicus Value) is composed of two elements:

Quality of scientific journal, for which a journal may receive up to 100 points,
Impact of scientific journal, for this criterion a journal may receive from 0 to 400 points based on the complex algorithms.

For this year’s evaluation Index Copernicus also calculated a normalized value of the ICV, PST received 7.71 points. The normalized value is used to compare the ICV for 2014 with the indexes from previous years.

Special Section on 'Cytology and Cytogenetics in Higher Plants' - Invitation

Plant Science Today — 2015-10-28

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.

This special section is being edited by:

Dr. Sonali Dey (Sengupta)
Department of Botany
A.P.C. Roy Govt. College, Siliguri
West Bengal-734010, India

The topics of interest for this section include:

1. Classical cytology and cytogenetics including chromosomal aberrations
2. Cytology and cytogenetics in relation to biodiversity
3. Cytological and cytogenetical aspects of evolutionary pattern
4. Cytology and Environment
5. Cytology and plant breeding

The due-date for submissions is 30th May 2016, and the target publishing date is 1st July 2016.

You may submit your paper by e-mail at sonalidey71@gmail.com or online. Please specify the title of the special section (Cytology and Cytogenetics in Higher Plants) in the subject if you submit by E- mail or in the cover letter if you submit online.

Benefits of the special section

Low author fees: The publication fee for accepted articles in the special section is only $75. Authors are requested to pay this fee only upon acceptance of the article.
Faster review and timely publication of accepted papers.

Terms and Conditions

A Special Section should contain 6-8 articles and each article is restricted to maximum of 6000-7000 words.
First round of screening of the submitted manuscript will be carried out by the Guest Editor. If found unsuitable for the special section, the authors will be advised to submit the manuscript as a standard research paper in Plant Science Today. If the articles are relevant for the Section, the Guest Editor will send the manuscript for peer review through journal's online submission processing system or using email.
No more than three articles for the Special Section should come from one institution/country.

With kind regards,

Dr. Sonali Dey (Sengupta)
Editor of the Special Section

Mrs. Thripthi Krishna Mohan
Managing Editor
Plant Science Today
Horizon e-Publishing Group
Email: pst@horizonepublishing.com

Special Section on 'Genomics and transcriptomics approaches in tree species' - Invitation

Plant Science Today — 2015-10-24

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. [Download Invitation PDF]

This special section is being edited by:

Dr. Ana Carvalho
Department of Genetics and Biotechnology
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal

The topics of interest for this section include:
1. Identification of novel microRNAs in tree species
2. Contributions of the omic tools to forestry improvement
3. Genetic diversity and conservation of resources
4. Cytogenetic studies

The due-date for submissions is 30th November 2015, and the target publishing date is 1st January 2016.

You may submit your paper by e-mail at anacarvalho@mail.com or online. Please specify the title of the special section (Genomics and transcriptomics approaches in tree species) in the subject if you submit by E- mail or in the cover letter if you submit online.

Benefits of the special section
Contributors/authors: On special consideration, the publication fee for accepted articles in the special section is reduced to: $ 100. Authors are requested to pay this fee only upon acceptance of the article. Our fee waiver policy offers to waive or further reduce the publication fees for authors who cannot pay the full amount charged for publication, remains in effect. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Terms and Conditions

A Special Section should contain 6-8 articles and each article is restricted to maximum of 6000-7000 words.
First round of screening of the submitted manuscript will be carried out by the Guest Editor. If found unsuitable for the special section, the authors will be advised to submit the manuscript as a standard research paper in Plant Science Today. If the articles are relevant for the Section, the Guest Editor will send the manuscript for peer review through journal's online submission processing system or using email.
No more than three articles for the Special Section should come from one institution/country.

With kind regards,

Dr. Ana Carvalho
Editor of the Special Section

Mrs. Thripthi Krishna Mohan
Managing Editor
Plant Science Today
Horizon e-Publishing Group
Email: pst@horizonepublishing.com

Special Section on 'Soil amendments and crop productivity' - Invitation

Plant Science Today — 2015-10-17

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]

This special section is being edited by:

Dr. Bhupinder Dhir
Department of Genetics
University of Delhi
South Campus
New Delhi-110021, India

The topics of interest for this section include:

Supplementation of various biofertilizers in soil and changes in plant growth
Biofertilizers and agricultural productivity
Comparison of plant growth using conventional soil supplements and biofertilizers
Organic soil supplements and plant nutrient status
Use of biopesticides in altering crop productivity

The due-date for submissions is 30^th November 2015, and the target publishing date is 1^st January 2016.

You may submit your paper by e-mail at bhupdhir@gmail.com or online. Please specify the title of the special section (Soil amendments and crop productivity) in the subject if you submit by E- mail or in the cover letter if you submit online.

Benefits of the special section

Contributors/authors: On special consideration, the publication fee for accepted articles in the special section is reduced to: US$100. Authors are requested to pay this fee only upon acceptance of the article. Our fee waiver policy offers to waive or further reduce the publication fees for authors who cannot pay the full amount charged for publication, remains in effect. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Terms and Conditions

A Special Section should contain 6-8 articles and each article is restricted to maximum of 6000-7000 words.
First round of screening of the submitted manuscript will be carried out by the Guest Editor. If found unsuitable for the special section, the authors will be advised to submit the manuscript as a standard research paper in Plant Science Today. If the articles are relevant for the Section, the Guest Editor will send the manuscript for peer review through journal's online submission processing system or using email.
No more than three articles for the Special Section should come from one institution.

With kind regards,

Dr. Bhupinder Dhir
Editor of the Special Section

Mrs. Thripthi Krishna Mohan
Managing Editor
Plant Science Today
Horizon e-Publishing Group
Email: pst@horizonepublishing.com

Inviting proposals for Special Section in Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2015-10-15

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.

The main emphasis of a Special Section is on gaining a deeper comprehension of the topic of interest. Any single issue of the journal can have one or more such special sections. The current issue,viz. Vol. 2(4) has a Special Section on Bryophytes* (Guest Editor: Dr. Afroz Alam and assisted by Dr. Dipjyoti Chakraborty of Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India).

You may propose a Special Section and submit justification for the same in not more than 100 words. If you can't handle the Section by yourself, you may suggest name(s) of Guest Editors to handle the manuscripts received.

Please note:-

A Special Section should contain 6-8 articles and each article is restricted to maximum of 6000-7000 words.

Guest Editors need to undertake to have final copy to the Editors. For this, initially they have to examine the suitability of the submitted paper to be considered under the special section and if found unsuitable, advise the author to submit the same as a standard research paper in Plant Science Today. If the articles are relevant for the Section, they may be send for peer review through journal's online submission processing system or using email.

No more than three articles for a Special Section should come from one institution and preferably authors will come from more than one country.

Please submit your proposal to the Managing Editor at pst@horizonepublishing.com

*Special Section on Bryophytes

Bryology in India - Retrospect and Prospects (Editorial)
Bryophytes from the Fiji Islands, VII. Cololejeunea renneri sp. nov. (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta)
Symphyodon erraticus (Symphyodontaceae): an addition to the moss flora of the Western Ghats
Archilejeunea minutilobula Udar et U. S. Awasthi (Lejeuneaceae-Marchantiophyta) New to Gangetic plains of India
Macromitrium hymenostomum Mont.- A New record for South India
Taxonomic studies of Bartramiaceae from district Mansehra (Pakistan)
Hornwort diversity at Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve (Madhya Pradesh), India
Plagiochila sisparensis Steph. - a vulnerable liverwort from Nilgiri Hills, Western Ghats
Moss flora of Rajasthan and Punjab plains
Moss flora of Central India
An update on sequenced chloroplast genomes of Bryophytes
New Record of the four species of Riccia from Bankura district, West Bengal (India)
Nomenclatural updates in Kashyap’s ‘Liverwort flora of western Himalayas and Panjab Plains'
Cololejeunea microscopica var. exigua (A. Evans) Pócs: new to Asia
Species diversity of genus Riccia in Satara district (Maharashtra) India

Please go to http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/index to access the above articles.

PST is selected for indexing by CABI

Plant Science Today — 2015-10-15

We are pleased to announce that Plant Science Today has been selected for indexing by CABI for listing in their CAB Abstracts database.

CAB International is a not-for-profit, international treaty organisation, dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. CABI produce two abstract databases in the applied life sciences: CAB Abstracts (agriculture, crop science, natural resources, animal and human sciences) and Global Health (dedicated to public health, food science and nutrition). CAB International has a long established reputation in the applied life sciences, having begun indexing scientific literature in 1913. This extensive archive is currently being made available in electronic form.

In addition to now being indexed by CAB Abstracts, Plant Science Today is also indexed in AGRIS, Google Scholar, Citefactor, BASE, Agro-Know Stem, OAL, Advanced Science Index, J-Gate, Mendeley, OAI, ResearchGate, HINARI and AGORA.

Two successful years and upcoming changes

Plant Science Today — 2015-09-16

The Plant Science Today journal will be completing two years of successful publication soon. As most of you know, the journal started publishing in 1st January 2014. The 4th issue of the 2nd volume will be publishing on 1st October 2015. The upcoming changes include:

Author fees will be reinstated for papers published in the Volume 3, issue no. 1 onwards
The Editor in Chief is completing 2 years and will be replaced by another one on 1st January 2016
The members of the Editorial Team will be changed
Having 2 years of successful publication, the journal will be eligible for indexing by many such international agencies

We expect your continued support...

Proud moment: AGRIS indexing Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2015-08-08

Happy to announce that Plant Science Today is now an integral part of world famous AGRIS network.

See http://ring.ciard.info/plant-science-today

AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain database with more than 7.5 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. The database is maintained by FAO, and its content is provided by more than 150 participating institutions from 65 countries. The AGRIS Search system, allows scientists, researchers and students to perform sophisticated searches using keywords from the AGROVOC thesaurus, specific journal titles or names of countries, institutions, and authors.

See http://ring.ciard.info/plant-science-today

PST selected as AkStem's beta tester from India

Plant Science Today — 2015-08-06

The Agro-Know Data Framework (Agro-Stem) is an open and scalable system that aggregates data from various data sources and includes tools that may be used for the storage, organisation, curation, enrichment, analysis, exposure & discovery of data.

Agro-Know want to provide to agriculture, food and forestry journals with a simple and intuitive way to present their content to interested audiences, helping the process of searching and navigating through the publications. They wish to set up a dedicated micro-site that presents access to the publications of a specific journal or publisher.

Plant Science Today had applied for the micro-site.

Here is a mail received from the Agro-Stem:

Dear all,

The time has come to announce our 5 micro-sites beta testers!

Firstly, we would like to thank you all for your warm response to our new service! It has been really difficult to choose between all of you that expressed an interest to our new service, but only five institutions can be our beta testers.

In order to select fairly our beta testers, we decided to set two main criteria: a) metadata completeness and b) the geographical distribution. Regarding the first one, we tried to select those collections that provide rich bibliographic information with high quality metadata. At the same time, we aimed at a variety of geographical coverage. Therefore, we have beta testers from different regions around the world! Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America.

But even with these criteria, it has been really difficult to have our final five selected organizations! For this reason, we decided that all of you that expressed an interest to our new service in this phase, you will be high in the list of our newest services coming in the near future.

And now, we proudly announce our five beta testers:
- The Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, RJOAS (Russia)
- Plant Science Today (India)
- Journal of Bioenergy and Food Science (Brazil)
- International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics (Turkey)
- OMICS International (United States)

(Soon we will contact you with further details on how to proceed)

To all of you, we send our warm wishes.. and stay tuned for the next services that are coming up!!

On Behalf of the AKstem team,

Effie Tsiflidou
Information Scientist, MSc

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Effie Tsiflidou|Data Curation Manager
Agro-Know
Email: effie@agroknow.gr
Website: www.agroknow.gr
Tel: +30 210 6897 905
Fax: +30 210 6891 961
Address: 17 Grammou Str., Vrilissia GR15235, Greece

Special Issue on "Advances in Bryophytes Research"

Plant Science Today — 2015-07-16

Bryophytes are small, non-vascular plants, such as mosses, liverworts and hornworts. They play a vital role in regulating ecosystems because they provide an important buffer system for other plants, which live alongside and benefit from the water and nutrients that bryophytes collect.

Plant Science Today invites researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on exploring advances in bryophytes research.

Submit your manuscripts online - See Author Guidelines.

Guest Editor: Dr. Afroz Alam

PST is included in BASE by Bielefeld University Library

Plant Science Today — 2015-07-09

Link to BASE listing of PST

As the open access movement grows and prospers, more and more repository servers come into being which use the "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) for providing their contents. BASE collects, normalises, and indexes these data. BASE provides more than 70 million documents from more than 3,000 sources.

BASE is a registered OAI service provider and contributed to the European project "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER).

In comparison to commercial search engines, BASE is charcterised by the following features:

Intellectually selected resources
Only document servers that comply with the specific requirements of academic quality and relevance are included
A data resources inventory provides transparency in the searches
Discloses web resources of the "Deep Web", which are ignored by commercial search engines or get lost in the vast quantity of hits.
The display of search results includes precise bibliographic data
Several options for sorting the result list
"Refine your search result" options (by author, subject, DDC, year of publication, collection, language and document type)
Browsing by DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) and document type.

Papers published in Plant Science Today are already indexed by BASE, see BASE listing of PST

Impact factor for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2015-06-28

Plant Science Today has published 75 papers in 2014-15 and they were cited 34 times by other journals (as on 1 January 2016) as evidenced from Google Scholar.

The formula to determine the 2016 impact factor for a journal would be calculated as follows:

A = the number of times articles published in the journal during 2014 and 2015 were cited by other journals during 2016.

B = the number of articles or reviews that were published in the journal during 2014 and 2015.

2016 Impact factor (IF) for a journal = A/B

Hence, the estimated 2016 IF for Plant Science Today = 34/75 = 0.45

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

Thripthi Krishna Mohan
Plant Science Today,
Horizon e-Publishing Group
Phone +919495303549
pst@horizonepublishing.com

Plant Science Today included in AGORA (FAO/UN) database

Plant Science Today — 2015-06-27

AGORA is administered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

Research4Life is the collective name for the four programmes – HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI – that provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.

Now, Plant Science Today is included in HINARI and AGORA databases.

Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. Working together with technology partner Microsoft, the partnership’s goal is to help attain six of the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap between industrialized countries and the developing world.

See full list of Indexing and Abstracting platforms for Plant Science Today:

Indexing

Google Scholar
Citefactor
Open Access Library
Advanced Science Index
J-Gate
JournalTOCs.ac.uk
Mendeley
Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
ResearchGate

Listing

e-journals.org
CrossRef
ROAD Directory
Wikipedia - List of botany journals
AcademicKeys
HINARI
AGORA

Plant Science Today added to the list of HINARI journals

Plant Science Today — 2015-06-13

HINARI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 14,000 journals (in 30 different languages), up to 33,000 e-books, up to 70 other information resources are now available to health institutions in more than 100 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health.

Now, with the listing by HINARI, more researchers will discover our journal through HINARI's website:

http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_publisher.php?pub=762

Thank you!

Plant Science Today is now eligible for research paper indexing

Plant Science Today — 2015-06-13

Citefactor informed that Plant Science Today journal is now eligible for research paper indexing. Soon, the journal will be eligible for Real Time Impact factor for individual published papers in our journal.

Papers published in Plant Science Today will be listed at Citefactor page: http://www.citefactor.org/search/keywords/articles/2348-1900

Citefactor homeage for Plant Science Today: http://www.citefactor.org/journal/index/12801/plant-science-today

Citefactor indexing approved for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2015-05-20

We are pleased to announce that our journal,"Plant Science Today" (ISSN 2348-1900) was positively evaluated in Citefactor indexing, now journal page is available online at http://www.citefactor.org/journal/index/12801/plant-science-today.

Research paper indexing will happen in phases. FYI, Citefactor policy says that journal selection is done by advisory board and only few journals meeting the selection criteria will be part of each batch/phase depending upon the citefactor scoring.

Thank you very much for being with us.

Managing Editor
Plant Science Today

Update your Profile

Plant Science Today — 2015-04-20

Thank you very much for your continued association with Plant Science Today. You have filled in your details at the time of registration (here, you need to login to access the page). If you are in PST's Editorial Team or associate as a Reviewer or as an Author, then your profile is available online and accessible to public including your Employer! It may be as important as your resume if you are looking for a new job or to change careers.

Using internet, all kinds of people use all kinds of ways to learn about you. You can control what they discover about your strengths. Who are these people? People you know. People who want to know you. People who matter: Your prospects, employees, manager, clients, competitors. They may access your profile in Plant Science Today to learn about you. They search for you after reading an article that you published in Plant Science Today, or when deciding whether to contact to your email.

Top 10 DOIs for April 2015

Plant Science Today — 2015-04-09

This list gives an indication of the use of the DOIs and the articles attached to the DOIs. The DOI links are largely from links in other publishers' journal references to the articles, but they are also from DOI links in secondary databases, links from libraries using DOIs, and even DOIs in used in print versions.

Call for papers for July 2015 issue

Plant Science Today — 2015-04-08

Plant Science Today is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly. Manuscripts submitted in April will be reviewed in 4-6 weeks and those accepted papers will be published in the next issue, ie. Vol.2(3) scheduled on 1st July 2015.

Thank you

Thripthi

Mrs. Thripthi Krishna Mohan

Managing Editor

Plant Science Today

Horizon e-Publishing Group

Email: pst@horizonepublishing.com

http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST

Reference style for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2014-12-19

During 2014 (Vol. 1 - Nos. 1-4), PST following APA citation output format. But, many of our Authors suggested to adopt a much simplified reference style and accordingly in 2015, we have adopted a new citation output format.

EndNote users can download the Reference style for Plant Science Today

Cite all references in text by last names and year of publication. Grouped text citations should be arranged from the earliest to most recent year, alphabetized by name within the same year. For entries in "References," alphabetize by first author's last name and follow the styles below exactly for capitalization, punctuation, and order of elements. The accuracy in the "References" section is the responsibility of the authors. The Journal will only proofread references for format.

Journal articles: Author, A. B., C. Author, and D. Author. 2014. Title of the paper. Plant Sci Today 2: 1-10. doi: 17364.abc.456.23

Book chapter: Author, A. K., C. Author, and P. Author. 2014. Title of the paper in a Book. In: Plant Sci Today. F. Editor, Ed. Publisger Co., City, Country. Pages 1-10.

Book: Author, A. 2014. Title of book. Publisher Co., City, Country. Pages 256.

Theses: Author, P. 2014. Title of thesis. Academic Department, University/Institution Name. City, Country. Pages 264.

Conference: Author, A. B., and C. Author. 2014. Title of the paper. International Plant Science Conference. London. Plant Science Society. Pages 1-10.

If you are citing an article that only exists as an early online version, including the DOI and PubMed ID (PMID) will allow reviewers to link directly to the article which you should include in the reference as follows:

Author, A. B., C. Author, and D. Author. 2014. Title of the paper. Plant Sci Today. doi: 17364.abc.456.23. PMID: 16723506

Write out in full all one-word journal titles. Use the standard abbreviations (see here or here for abbreviations of open access journals) of multiple-word journal titles; write out in full the names of journals not listed there. Unpublished data (submitted articles and articles in preparation) and personal communications are not acceptable as literature citations, so they must be referred to parenthetically in the text. Please include initials and last names of all authors. Articles that are "in press" may be so designated in "References." Note: An article may be referred to as "in press" only if it has been accepted for publication; cite the journal in which the article will appear. For personal communications, it is the corresponding author's responsibility to ensure that those cited are aware of the citation and have approved the content of the personal communication.

EndNote users can download the Reference style for Plant Science Today

EndNote offers 30 day free trial, hence you need not purchase the software to prepare the references. Simply download and use it. After installation, click the above link and install the PST's Reference Stule. Download EndNote (~85Mb). For learning, please see EndNote getting started guide.

Plant Science Today in 80 languages!

Plant Science Today — 2014-10-06

Find below the 80 languages through which Plant Science Today can now read:

Publish Research communications for free

Plant Science Today — 2014-09-14

While upholding high quality publications in the form of lengthy research papers, we wish that there must be a window for rapid publication of short papers (Research communications) with important new findings that are novel and of fairly broad interest. In this background, we are glad to announce promotion of short papers for the January 2015 issue (Vol.2, No.1).

Important terms and conditions of this promotion are given below:

1. While you submit the paper, mention the promotion code FREE21 in your cover letter.
2. The submission may contain 2500 words, one table and one image.
3. It should include a brief abstract, keywords and text should may or may not be broken up under subheads.
4. After peer review, the accepted papers will be published in the journal.
5. There is no entry fee or publication charge.
6. The last date of the submission of papers is 15 November 2014.

Should you have any queries, please contact the Managing Editor.

Plant Science Today will launch Print issues

Plant Science Today — 2014-08-28

Libraries all over the world are still prefer Print or Print + Online issues of journals. Considering this matter, we plan to bring out Print issues of Plant Science Today (PST). Initially, the print journal will publish once in a year combrising of all 4 issues published during the previous year. The print issues are mainly meant for Libraries archival collections and those who prefer to read printed versions. Where as online journal continue to be free, the Print version will be charges for nominal printing and postage charges. If you need print issues, please let us know.

Contact: pst@horizonepublishing.com

Prof. Noureddine Benkeblia joined as Editor-in-Chief

Plant Science Today — 2014-06-29

Professor of Crop Science in the Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Prof. Noureddine Benkeblia has been working on food sciences and technologies from 1991. He joined Plant Science Today as honorary Editor-in-Chief in June 2014. Dr. Noureddine Benkeblia has established a record of original research in a wide range of areas including food chemistry, postharvest biology of horticulture crops and plant biochemistry in several countries across the world. His research includes biochemical and physiological parameters of crops including respiratory parameters, sugars and fructans metabolism, as well as technological parameters for crop preservation. His work has appeared in a number of high impact journals, including Food Chemistry, New Phytologist, Journal of Food Biochemistry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Tetrahedron Asymmetry, Postharvest Biology and technology, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture among others. Professor Benkeblia serves on a number of editorial boards of international scientific journals and is also engaged as a reviewer for over twenty fiev international scientific and high impact journals. He also serves as the Scientific Expert of the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP). He is a member of a number of local and international scientific and professional organizations including the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS) and the Jamaica Society for Agricultural Sciences (JAGRIS).

Registered users from 154 countries!

Plant Science Today — 2014-06-01

Academicians and researchers from the following countries are registered to the site:

1 Afghanistan
2 Algeria
3 Angola
4 Argentina
5 Armenia
6 Australia
7 Austria
8 Azerbaijan
9 Bahrain
10 Bangladesh
11 Barbados
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18 Bulgaria
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81 Madagascar
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90 Micronesia, Federated States Of
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141 Turkey
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143 Turks and Caicos Islands
144 Tuvalu
145 United Arab Emirates
146 United Kingdom
147 United States
148 Uruguay
149 Uzbekistan
150 Vanuatu
151 Venezuela
152 Viet Nam
153 Wallis and Futuna
154 Yemen

Publish your non-English manuscripts in English!

Plant Science Today — 2014-05-24

Manuscripts are invited from non-English speaking countries written in any language other than English for publishing in Plant Science Today (ISSN: 2348-1900; DOI: 10.14719/PST), a peer reviewed open access journal published by Horizon e-Publishing Group.

This is a special invitation for researchers from non-English speaking countries. Before sending the manuscripts for review, the same will be converted to English by an English language expert. If accepted, the submission will be published in Plant Science Today in English.

For details, read this announcement in YOUR language at http://horizonepublishing.com/pst/non-english-manuscripts

ResearchGate is indexing Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2014-05-19

If you already created your ResearchGate profile, you can add your papers published in Plant Science Today to your profile.

If you do not have a ResearchGate profile, please start from here, https://www.researchgate.net

Read the wiki article about ResearchGate.

Your reputation, your terms: Introducing the RG Score

What is RG score?

How exactly is RG score calculated?

How to increase RG score?

Get more Facebook Likes for your published papers

Plant Science Today — 2014-05-17

When you publish a paper in an online journal, it is very likely that your paper will be read and cited by more number of people than that of a print journal. This way, you could build h-index of your paper quickly.

As one step ahead, we would like to use the power of social media to promote papers published in our journal. Whenever we publish a paper, we will post the same to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/plantsciencetoday

Author of the paper can click the Like button just below the post and Share the item for posting the same to their Facebook page. Total Likes (shown in red arrow above) of an article will be the sum of Likes in PST's official FB page mentioned above and Likes of your personal FB page. Those who could build more likes will win the prize!

The winner will get $100 publishing credit (or $100 as cash for countries waived from author fees).

Terms & conditions:

You should have published at least one paper in PST
You should have a Facebook account
You must have a ResearchGate account*

* If you do not have a ResearchGate account, you need to create one. You may start from here. Please note that ResearchGate has started indexing papers published in Plant Science Today.

Start creating Likes! The due date and more details be announced soon here. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work.

J-Gate has included Plant Science Today for e-Journal distribution

Plant Science Today — 2014-05-14

J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. Launched in 2001 by Informatics India Limited, J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online offered by 11,428 Publishers including Horizon e-Publishing Group [verify] who publishes 'Plant Science Today'.

It presently has a massive database of journal literature, indexed from 36,987 e-journals with links to full text at publisher sites.

Currently, J-Gate offers:

a. Table of Contents (TOC)- For 36,987 e-journals.

b. Database - A comprehensive searchable database with 36,569,422 articles, with 10,000+ articles added every day.

Horizon e-Publishing Group has been listed as J-Gate Publisher Partner in J-Gates's About page.

Mini Review Contest

Plant Science Today — 2014-03-24

Plant Science Today (ISSN: 2348-1900; DOI: 10.14719/PST) published by Horizon e-Publishing Group is conducting a contest for researchers - of all age groups - from all countries.

Write a Mini Review and Get up to $1000 worth publishing credit!

Mini Reviews are short review articles describing research carried out in a specific area. It may be 3 to 5 pages long including references.

Prize details

For the best review article judged by a panel of experts, we will award $1000 worth publishing credits in our journal, Plant Science Today. At the existing publication fee of $100, the winner can publish 10 papers free of charge.
Besides, 10 consolation prizes will be given away, each worth $100.

Submission and Review process

First, submit the mini review article similar to any other submission through our manuscript submission system.
The submission will be sent for review to at least 3 reviewers.
During evaluation of the paper, reviewers will be asked to submit their recommendation on whether the paper can be accepted or not which is similar to the evaluation of any research paper. If the paper is recommended to accept, it will be published in the journal.

Subject area

Research findings that involve plants or plant products can be submitted to the journal.

Selection of Best paper(s)

Manuscripts submitted on or before the due date (ie. 15 May 2014) will get 10 points.
Popularity of your paper in Social media (i) FaceBook - for each Like and Share, you will get 5 points - as one can see at https://www.facebook.com/plantsciencetoday (ii) Google+ - for each +1 and Share, you will get 5 points as one can see from https://plus.google.com/100097251656734495755/posts - Each of the authors and co-authors can share the artcile from the above pages to their social sites or ask others to do so.
If you and your co-authors have linked your published paper to your Google Scholar or ResearchGate profile page, you will get 10 points (for each of the authors - you need to send links from within your G-Scholar or RG pages).
If you have citations of your paper as seen from Google Scholar or ResearchGate, you will get 100 points per citation.

Important dates

The last date of submission is 15 May 2014.
Evaluation starts on 5 January 2015 and end on 30 Nov 2015
Prizes will be announced in Dec 2015.

Terms & Conditions

Only those mini review papers that are recommended by the peer reviewers will be published in the journal.
In the case of multi-authored papers, the author who submit the paper should mention how to distribute the price value among the co-authors.
One could submit the mini review in more than one topic which would enhance the chance of winning the prize. However, only one prize will be given to an author.
The Publisher reserves the right to make suitable change in the above selection criteria in order to make the right decision.

Assigned ISSN number for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — 2014-01-28

In a letter vide No. NSL/ISSN/INF/2014/188 dated January 28, 2014, the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi has registered and assigned ISSN (Online) number for Plant Science Today published by Horizon e-Publishing Group.

The ISSN number is 2348 – 1900.

NISCAIR is the Indian National Centre responsible for monitoring the use of ISSN assigned to Indian Serials and for supplying up to-date data of the same to the International Centre for ISSN, Paris.

Good news: Google Scholar is indexing PST!

Plant Science Today — 2014-01-12

Glad to inform you that Google Scholar and all major search engines started indexing Plant Science Today.

Have checked how PST articles appear on the Google Scholar's site? If not yet, click here.

Plant Science Today is indexed in OCLC's WorldCat

Plant Science Today — 2014-01-02

Plant Science Today is now indexed in Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)'s WorldCatDigital Collection. Once the metadata is in WorldCat, digital collections are more discoverable by Web searchers through WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local, as well as Google, Yahoo! and other popular Web sites.

DOI number and membership to CrossRef for PST

Plant Science Today — 2013-12-24

Horizon E-Publishing Group is now a member of CrossRef who issues DOI number for research papers.

DOI prefix for PST is: 10.14719

Benefits of CrossRef Membership

There are important benefits of joining CrossRef and these include:

- CrossRef DOI links are stable, persistent links that preserve the scholarly citation record.

- Thousands of other publishers and organizations will automatically link to your content, increasing your traffic.

- Your content will be more useful to readers when they can easily link from your references to other relevant articles.

CROSSREF FOR RESEARCHERS

CrossRef is the citation-linking backbone for online publications. Established in 2000 by scholarly publishers as an independent, non-profit entity, it enables researchers to navigate electronic journals, across publishers, based on open-standards technology (the Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, system).

Citations represent the evolution of ideas, as one author builds on or challenges the research of another. CrossRef allows the user to move from one article to another at the citation level, regardless of journal or publisher. Without full-text citation linking, the user who discovers a desired resource while reading usually has to switch to a different search interface to locate and ultimately access that resource. With CrossRef, it only takes a click or two to get to the full text, either as an authenticated user or through pay-per-view services.

The costs of the CrossRef system are borne by publishers - hence free to the end-user - because publishers recognize the necessity of adding links from references to full text. When you see a reference hyperlink identified as "CrossRef", "article", or "full text" (CrossRef does not insist on branding its links), you'll know it was built using the CrossRef system.

- See more at: http://www.crossref.org/05researchers/index.html#sthash.mdJnApHI.dpuf

Press Releases, Reports and News Coverage

Plant Science Today — 2013-11-13

Press Releases

Sl. No.	Media	Issue Date	Details
1	PRLog.org	12 Nov 2013	Launching of new Open Access journal, Plant Science Today (PST)
2	PR-inside.com	13 Nov 2013	Launching of new Open Access journal, Plant Science Today (PST)
3	1888PressRelease.com	13 Nov 2013	Plant Science Today (PST): Special section on Genetic Diversity
4	nanotech-now.com	13 Nov 2013	New journal invites manuscripts in Nanotechnology
5	pressbox.co.uk	16 Nov 2013	Plant Science Today (PST) could attract more submissions
6	pr.com	17 Nov 2013	Plant Science Today (PST): For Rapid Distribution of Information to the Readers
7	i-newswire.com	18 Nov 2013	Plant Science Today (PST), a New Open Access Journal with Traditional Review Process
8	prlog.org	18 Feb 2014	Plant Science Today has commenced its groundbreaking journey
9	pr-inside.com	19 Feb 2014	Whether plants can really influence our thoughts?
10	i-newswire.com	2 Mar 2014	New Mutants of Sesame Produced
11	pressbox.co.uk	3 Mar 2014	New findings on how plants combat with abiotic stress factors
12	pr.com	4 Mar 2014	New Cis-Ocimenone Chemotype of Green Mint Discovered from Western Ghats, India
13	prlog.org	8 Aug 2015	Plant Science Today journal is Beta Tester for Agro-Know's micro-site
14	prlog.org	19 Feb 2016	Special Section on 'Cytology and Cytogenetics in Higher Plants' - Invitation

Announcements posted in other sites

Sl. No.	Media	Issue Date	Details
1	JamesTimothyWhite.com	13 Nov 2013	Plant Science Today (PST): Special Section On Genetic Diversity
2	Harvard.edu	14 Nov 2013	Feed Item: Plant Science Today
3	TheScienceJobs.com	17 Nov 2013	Plant Science Today (PST) to maintain higher standard of content

Publication Frequency

Plant Science Today — 2013-11-12

The PST Journal will be published as one vulume per year. There will be only one issue per volume. But to avoid delay in publishing the accepted manuscripts, individual items (like research/review papers, book reviews, etc) will be published as soon as they are ready, by adding them to the "current" volume's Table of Contents.

Plant Science Today: Announcements

New Special Issue: Current Trends in Plant Science and Microbiome for Sustainability

New Special Issue: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON SPICES KAU - 2024

New Special Issue: International conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches to SDGs: Life Sciences Perception

CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Issue: Recent advances in ethnobotanical research

Plant Science Today Receives Its First Journal Impact Factor!

Quick guide to Web of Science Reviewer Recognition Services and How you can Use it

Scopus: Profile and content corrections

CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Issue: Mini Reviews on Advances in Plant Science

Plant Science Today is included in NAAS list of journals

Special Issue on Climate Resilient Agriculture

Special Issue on Plant systematics with special emphasis on revision, description of new taxa, new records and nomenclatural aspects

Forthcoming (Early Access) Articles - New feature lunched

Plant Science Today in Social Networks

Special Issue on: Soil and Phytomicrobiomes for Plant Growth and Soil Fertility

Improved Scopus CiteScore, Journal Rank, Percentile and Google Scholar h-index for Plant Science Today

The Keepers Registry is now indexing Plant Science Today

Why You Need an ORCID iD Now: Benefits for faculties, scientists and student researchers

Scopus Impact Factor (CiteScore) and Scimago Journal Rank announced for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today and UGC-CARE List

Call for Papers: The Omics Revolution in Plant Science

PST's Scopus coverage leads to inclusion in Web of Science through BIOSIS Previews and Emerging Sources Citation Index

Plant Science Today is on Scopus

Plant Science Today will be indexed and abstracted in Clarivate Analytics

Plant Science Today has been selected for indexing in Scopus

Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty Scheme (VAJRA)

Plant Science Today signed agreement with EBSCO for indexing

Index Copernicus Value increased for Plant Science Today

Publish a Mini Review

Submission and Review process

Subject area

Author charges

Invites Book Reviews

Journal software upgrade

Mini Review Contest 2017

Prize details

Submission and Review process

Subject area

Important dates

Terms & Conditions

Results of First Mini Review Contest

How is Publons harnessing the power of peer review?

Google Scholar metrics: 161 citations from 125 papers

Why ORCID is important to researchers?

Publication fees withdrawn for next issue

Publishing conference papers

New Article Processing Charges (APC) policy

Impact Factor for Plant Science Today

How to target a journal that’s right for your research

Special Section on Role of plants in cleaning environment: Recent trends​

Global Impact Factor for Plant Science Today

Special Section: Target constituents in medicinal, aromatic and food plants

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)

Relaunched TheScienceJobs.com: A decade of service

Special Section: New Frontiers in Cryptogamic Botany

Author Fees revised

Special Section on Bioactive compounds from plants and their products

New Editor in Chief

Invitation to Editorial Board

Plant Science Today has been successfully evaluated in the evaluation procedure for the ICI Journals Master List

Special Section on 'Cytology and Cytogenetics in Higher Plants' - Invitation

Special Section on 'Genomics and transcriptomics approaches in tree species' - Invitation

Special Section on 'Soil amendments and crop productivity' - Invitation

Inviting proposals for Special Section in Plant Science Today

PST is selected for indexing by CABI

Two successful years and upcoming changes

Proud moment: AGRIS indexing Plant Science Today

PST selected as AkStem's beta tester from India

Special Issue on "Advances in Bryophytes Research"

PST is included in BASE by Bielefeld University Library

Impact factor for Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today included in AGORA (FAO/UN) database

Indexing

Listing

Plant Science Today added to the list of HINARI journals

Plant Science Today is now eligible for research paper indexing

Citefactor indexing approved for Plant Science Today

Update your Profile

Top 10 DOIs for April 2015

Call for papers for July 2015 issue

Special Section on Role of plants in cleaning environment: Recent trends