Journal of Plant Studies is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal. JPS is published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education in both print and online versions. Authors are encouraged to submit complete, unpublished, original works that are not under review in any other journals.  Read More

Announcements

  • JPS, Vol. 13, No. 1, September 2024: Call for Papers

    Posted on Oct 22, 2022 Journal of Plant Studies (JPS) is calling for papers for the Vol. 13, No. 1, 2024 issue. You are cordially invited to submit manuscripts to JPS. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to JPS, please view the jo Read More

  • JPS Indexed in ERA

    Posted on Jul 5, 2019 Journal of Plant Studies (JPS) has been indexed in ERA, Excellence in Research for Australia, Australia’s national research evaluation framework. ERA identifies and promotes excellence across the full spectrum of research activity in Australia’s higher ed Read More

  • Policy Change of Free Print Journals

    Posted on Jan 25, 2018 As you are aware, printing and delivery of journals results in causing a significant amount of detrimental impact to the environment. Being a responsible publisher and being considerate for the envi.. Read More

Current: Vol. 13, No. 1 (2024)

Competing Interests Statement

All authors of Journal of Plant Studies are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest along with the paper, including financial, professional, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations. Download MS-Word

AGRICOLA

Journal of Plant Studies has been indexed by AGRICOLA, which is one of four national libraries of the United States, housing one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural information collections and serves as the nexus for a national network of state land-grant and U.S.

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)

Journal of Plant Studies has been indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, is the world’s authority for chemical information. CAS is the only organization in the world whose objective is to find, collect and organize all publicly disclosed substance information. A team of scientists worldwide curates and controls the quality of our databases, which are recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative by chemical and pharmaceutical companies, universities, government organizations and patent offices around the world.

What is e-Version FirstTM

e-Version First is a feature offered through our journal platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted, to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final printed journal. Readers can freely access or cite the article.
We aim to publish accepted manuscripts in e-Version First in two week's time after the final draft completed.

Paper Selection and Publication Process

a). Upon receipt of paper submission, the Editor sends an E-mail of confirmation to the corresponding author within 1-3 working days. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission/e-mail may be missed. Please contact the Editor in time for that.

b). Peer review. We use double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by three experts; two reviewers from outside and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission. The review process may take 4-10 weeks.

c). Notification of the result of review by E-mail.

d). The authors revise paper and the article processing charge (formatting and hosting).

e). After publication, the authors are requested to kindly complete an application form if they need free print copies.

f). E-journal in PDF is available on the journal’s webpage, free of charge for download.

NOTE:

The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (ithenticate.com).

All submissions will be checked by iThenticate before being sent to reviewers.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

  • ISSN(Print): 1927-0461
  • ISSN(Online): 1927-047X
  • Started: 2012
  • Frequency: annual

Journal Metrics

h-index (December 2021): 17

i10-index (December 2021): 37

h5-index (December 2021): N/A

h5-median(December 2021): N/A

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