{{short description|Academic journal}} {{Infobox journal | title = Edinburgh Journal of Botany | formernames = Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh | cover = Journal_cover_of_volume_82_(2025)_of_the_Edinburgh_Journal_of_Botany,_celebrating_125_years_of_publishing_plant_science.jpg | discipline = Botany | abbreviation = Edinb. J. Bot. | editor = Peter Wilkie | language = English | publisher = Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh | country = Scotland | history = 1900 | frequency = Annual | impact = | impact-year = | openaccess = Yes | license = Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License | website = https://journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb/index | link1 = | link1-name = | link2 = | link2-name = Online archive | ISSN = 0960-4286 | eISSN = 1474-0036 | OCLC = 21684344 | CODEN = | LCCN = 90648365 }} '''''Edinburgh Journal of Botany''''' is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The scope of the journal is plant systematics and related subjects, including biodiversity, conservation science and phytogeography.
The journal adopted a diamond open access mode of publishing, using the Creative Commons Attribution License for published works since volume 78 (2021).<ref name=EJB2021>{{Cite journal|title=EDITORIAL: MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF BOTANY|year = 2021|journal=Edinburgh Journal of Botany|doi = 10.24823/EJB.2021.321|last1 = Wilkie|first1 = Peter|doi-access = free}}</ref>
==Publication history==
For most of its history, the journal was published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), until 1995 when it changed to Cambridge University Press.<ref name=CUP1995>{{Cite journal|title=Announcement|year = 1994|journal=Edinburgh Journal of Botany|doi = 10.1017/S0960428600000901|last1 = Coppins|first1 = B.J.|doi-access = free}}</ref> Then in 2021 it changed again to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s journal-hosting service.<ref name=EJB2021></ref>
Notable editors-in-chief of the journal over the years have included: Isaac Bayley Balfour, William Wright Smith, B.L. Burtt, Ian Charleson Hedge, James Alexander Ratter, Brian John Coppins, John Albert Raven, and Mark Fleming Newman.
== Abstracting and indexing == The journal is abstracted and indexed in: {{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* AGRICOLA<ref name=AGRICOLA>{{cite web |url=https://www.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/files/page-files/jia.csv|title=CSV file journals list |publisher=USDA |accessdate=2025-04-15}}</ref> * Biological Abstracts<ref name=Clarivate1>{{cite web |url=https://mjl.clarivate.com/journal-profile|title=Clarivate's Master Journal List |publisher=Clarivate |accessdate=2025-04-15}}</ref> * BIOSIS Previews<ref name=Clarivate1></ref> * EBSCO's Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index<ref name=EBSCO1>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/garden-landscape-horticulture-index|title=Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index |publisher=EBSCO |accessdate=2025-04-15}}</ref> * EBSCO's STM Source<ref name=EBSCO2>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/stm-source|title=STM Source |publisher=EBSCO |accessdate=2025-04-15}}</ref> * OpenAlex<ref name=OpenAlex>{{cite web |url=https://openalex.org/sources/S115394524 |title=Edinburgh Journal of Botany |publisher=OpenAlex |accessdate=2025-04-15}}</ref> * Scopus<ref name=Scopus>{{cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/17999 |title=Journal profile for Edinburgh Journal of Botany |publisher=Elsevier |work=Source Details |accessdate=2025-04-15}}</ref>
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== See also == *''Kew Bulletin'' *''Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden'' *''Davidsonia''
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|https://journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb}}
Category:Botany journals Category:Publications established in 1900 Category:Annual journals Category:English-language journals Category:Diamond open-access journals