Why submit to JXB?
Founded in 1950, the Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) is a top-ranking journal owned by the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) and dedicated to publishing advances in plant science. There are many reasons to submit your work to JXB including fuss-free formatting, fast publication after acceptance, and publicity for your work. Read more reasons below. Submit today and join our prestigious author community.
Reputation
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Committed to high standards of ethics in publishing. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) & Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) membership.
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Strong metrics for the 2023 window, see a full list on our journal level metrics page (announced June 2024):
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Impact Factor 5.8 (rank 24/265 in plant sciences).
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JCI 1.49 (rank 19/262 in plant sciences).
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CiteScore 12.0 (rank 16/487 in plant science).
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Voted as one of the top 100 most influential journals in biology and medicine by the Special Libraries Association.
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Fast publication after acceptance (average 1.2 weeks).
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Diverse, experienced editorial board.
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High-quality, constructive peer review.
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Dedicated editorial office.
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Professional copyeditors.
Range of content
- Various manuscript types, including: original research articles, several formats of review, method & resource articles, editorials and commentaries.
- Up to ten highly-cited special issues a year.
Committed to open science
- Supportive of preprints and integrated with bioRxiv.
- Progressive open data policy. Authors are encouraged to deposit data in a public archive. The online submission system is integrated with Dryad; authors may submit up to 20GB of data for free.
Promotion of your work
- Editor’s choice (one paper free to read in each issue), table of contents alerts, insight articles, and commentaries in the SEB newsletter.
- Publicity for your work (first author videos, Bluesky and Instagram posts, SEB seminars).
- Supportive of Early Career Researchers (presentation opportunities at SEB seminars, reviewing opportunities).
Community Journal
- All profits are reinvested into the community by our owners, the Society for Experimental Biology.
- SEB member discounts are available.
- No additional page or colour charges.
- Option to transfer declined manuscripts to Plant Direct.
Open Access Opportunities
- JXB authors can publish open access (OA). The cost of publishing OA may be covered under a Read and Publish agreement between our publisher, OUP, and the corresponding author’s institution. Learn more about open access charges and licences here.
- Alternatively, authors have the option to publish for free under a standard (non-Open Access) licence. Papers become free to read after twelve months.
- Open access broadens the reach of your article as it will be freely available online immediately upon publication. Anyone, not just those with a subscription, can read your work. News outlets can easily reference your research to contribute to important stories, and social media users can find and share your article, widening the potential audience.
