Economic Botany

Economic Botany was a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal about the uses people make of plants, issued by Springer for the New York Botanical Garden and the society now called the Society for Ethnobotany, which went by the name Society for Economic Botany until 2023.《经济植物学》是由 Springer 为纽约植物园与如今的民族植物学会出版的季刊，实行同行评议，讨论人对植物的各种利用，该学会在 2023 年以前名为经济植物学会。

Its run began in 1947 and closed with volume 79 at the end of 2025, when a Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 placed it 145th among 285 plant science journals.该刊自 1947 年创办，止于 2025 年底的第 79 卷，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在 285 种植物科学刊物中列第 145 位。

Scope

• The editors present the journal as interdisciplinary, bridging pure and applied botany by concentrating on the uses of plants by people in every region of the world.编辑部把刊物定为跨学科刊物，以世界各地的人对植物的利用为中心，在纯植物学与应用植物学之间架桥。
• Five kinds of contribution are accepted, namely original research articles, review articles, brief reports on culturally important plants, book reviews and guest editorials.刊物接受五类稿件，即原创研究论文、综述、关于有文化意义植物的简报、书评与客座社论。
• Food plants hold a central place, with work on wild gathered species, home gardens and the part plant use plays in food security and food sovereignty.食用植物占据中心位置，野生采集种类、庭院种植，以及植物利用对粮食安全与粮食主权的作用都在其中。
• Medicinal plants and local healing systems form the largest body of published work, from ethnopharmacological field surveys to studies of how remedies move between village and clinic.药用植物与地方医疗体系构成发表量最大的一块，从民族药理学的野外调查，到药物在村落与诊所之间如何流动的研究。
• Fibres, resins, oils, dyes and timber carry the material side of the remit, and a paper on craft production is expected to reach the plant behind the object.纤维、树脂、油脂、染料与木材承担选题的物质一面，关于手工制作的论文须落到物件背后的那种植物。
• Fungi appear alongside plants in the society's statement of purpose, which covers the past, present and potential uses of plants and fungi by humankind.真菌与植物并列出现在学会的宗旨表述里，涵盖人类对植物与真菌的过往利用、当下利用与潜在利用。
• Historical depth is welcome, so archaeobotanical assemblages, herbarium sheets and colonial-era trade records are read as evidence of how plant use changed.历史纵深受到欢迎，考古植物遗存、腊叶标本与殖民时期的贸易档案，都被当作植物利用如何变化的证据来读。
• Local knowledge gets attention on its own terms, including naming systems, transmission between generations and the erosion of plant vocabulary in shifting economies.地方知识按其自身脉络受到关注，包括命名体系、代际传承，以及经济转型中植物词汇的流失。
• Harvest and trade are followed from the gathering site to the market, whether the species is a wild mushroom, a medicinal bark or an ornamental succulent.采集与贸易被从采收地一路追到市场，无论对象是野生菌、药用树皮，还是观赏性的多肉植物。
• Domestication and landrace diversity interest the editors when the question is how people selected, named and kept a crop rather than how much it yielded.驯化与地方品种多样性在编辑部眼里有意义，前提是问题落在人如何选育、命名与保存作物，而非产量本身。
• Papers that are mainly agronomic, anatomical or horticultural fall outside the remit, and so do analyses concerned chiefly with the chemical constituents of plants.以农艺、解剖或园艺为主的论文落在范围之外，主要处理植物化学成分的分析同样不予接收。
• A bare list of useful plants is refused unless it reports a first record for a culture or region and carries an analysis of why those species are used.单纯罗列有用植物会被退回，除非它记录了某一文化或地区的首次使用，并对这些物种为何被使用作出分析。
• Systematic and phylogenetic work is admitted only when it tests hypotheses tied to useful traits, and the loss of botanical knowledge on its own is not a sufficient justification.系统学与系统发育研究只有在检验与有用性状相关的假说时才被接受，仅以植物知识正在流失为由不足以立论。

History

• Edmund H. Fulling founded the journal at the New York Botanical Garden in 1947, and the first volume carried papers on the chicle industry, tung oil, seaweed and California cork oak.Edmund H. Fulling 于 1947 年在纽约植物园创办该刊，第 1 卷刊出的是关于糖胶树胶工业、桐油、海藻与加州栓皮栎的论文。
• The title itself came from Ralph Cheney, who remarked at a Torrey Botanical Club meeting that economic entomology and economic geography had journals while economic botany did not.刊名出自 Ralph Cheney，他在托里植物俱乐部的聚会上提到，经济昆虫学与经济地理学都有刊物，经济植物学却没有。
• William J. Robbins, then director of the garden, set the aim in the opening volume as a meeting place for botanists concerned with principles and with the industrial use of plants.时任植物园主任的 William J. Robbins 在创刊卷里定下宗旨，要让关注原理的植物学家与关注植物工业利用的人在此会合。
• The journal was turned over to the garden in 1957, and a conference held there the following year led to the founding of the Society for Economic Botany.1957 年刊物移交纽约植物园，次年在该园举行的一次会议促成了经济植物学会的成立。
• By the late 1950s it had become the society's flagship, and its pages have since carried the field's book reviews, bibliographies and short notes on useful plants.到 1950 年代末它已是学会的旗舰刊物，版面此后一直承载本领域的书评、文献题录与有用植物短记。
• Four issues have made a volume from the start, the first being dated January to March 1947, and the quarterly rhythm held across all seventy-nine volumes.每卷四期自创刊即已确定，第 1 卷第 1 期标注的日期是 1947 年 1 月至 3 月，这一季刊节奏贯穿全部 79 卷。
• The imprint has stayed at the Bronx garden, first as publisher of record and later as the body for which Springer issues the journal.出版印记始终留在布朗克斯的植物园，先是以出版者身份具名，后来则由 Springer 代其印行。
• Print ISSN 0013-0001 was joined by an electronic ISSN 1874-9364, and the digital file in Crossref now holds 4,339 records reaching back to volume one.印刷版标识 0013-0001 之外另有电子版标识 1874-9364，Crossref 的数字档案现存 4339 条记录，可一直追到第 1 卷。
• Science Citation Index Expanded has carried the title throughout, while MEDLINE and PubMed list it for selected citations only, an arrangement set by the indexing agreement.科学引文索引扩展版全程收录该刊，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 则按选择性引用著录，这一安排由收录协议决定。
• In the 2025 release the journal sits in the third quartile of plant sciences at 145 of 285, with a five-year impact factor of 2.1 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.4.2025 年榜单把该刊放在植物科学第三区，285 种刊物中列第 145 位，五年影响因子为 2.1，期刊引证指标为 0.4。
• Citation totals have reached 2,911 against an annual output near 28 articles, and a cited half-life of 23.3 years points to a literature read long after publication.总被引达到 2911 次，年发文量约 28 篇，被引半衰期 23.3 年，说明这批文献在发表多年之后仍被阅读。
• The impact factor has moved between 1.3 and 2.4 across five years, at 1.731 in 2021, 2.351 in 2022, 1.7 in 2023, 1.3 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025.影响因子五年间在 1.3 与 2.4 之间摆动，2021 年为 1.731，2022 年为 2.351，2023 年为 1.7，2024 年为 1.3，2025 年为 1.9。
• Gold open access accounts for 33.75 per cent of recent output under a hybrid model, so most papers still sit behind a subscription while about a third are free.混合模式下金色开放获取占近年产出的 33.75%，多数论文仍在订阅墙后，约三分之一可免费阅读。
• In June 2023 the sponsoring society renamed itself the Society for Ethnobotany, and its council approved a new journal title on 8 August 2023 after a member survey.2023 年 6 月，主办学会更名为民族植物学会，同年 8 月 8 日的理事会依会员调查结果通过了新的刊名。
• Ethnobotany alone was already taken by another journal, so the dual title Ethnobotany and Economic Botany was chosen, effective 1 January 2026, with volume 80 continuing the sequence.单用民族植物学一名已被另一刊物占用，于是选定双名《民族植物学与经济植物学》，自 2026 年 1 月 1 日起生效，卷次由第 80 卷接续。
• An editorial in the final volume set out the reasoning, citing a 2022 survey in which 54 per cent of respondents named ethnobotany as a main discipline and 6 per cent economic botany.末卷的一篇社论交代了取舍的理由，并引用 2022 年的一次调查，其中 54% 的受访者以民族植物学为主要学科，以经济植物学作答的只有 6%。^[1]

Editors

• Ina Vandebroek, based at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, serves as editor-in-chief, and her own research sits within medical ethnobotany.主编 Ina Vandebroek 任职于牙买加金斯敦的西印度大学，其本人研究落在医学民族植物学范围之内。
• Lawrence M. Kelly of the New York Botanical Garden is managing editor, and Wendy Applequist of the Missouri Botanical Garden handles the book review section.执行编辑 Lawrence M. Kelly 来自纽约植物园，书评部分由密苏里植物园的 Wendy Applequist 负责。
• Twenty-one associate editors are listed, working in the United States, Brazil, Spain, Nepal, Italy, China, Mexico, South Africa and several other countries.副编辑名单列有 21 人，所在地包括美国、巴西、西班牙、尼泊尔、意大利、中国、墨西哥与南非等国。
• Michael J. Balick, attached to the garden's Institute of Economic Botany, appears among them, a standing link to the institution that founded the journal.任职于植物园经济植物学研究所的 Michael J. Balick 也在副编辑之列，与创办该刊的机构保持着长期联系。
• Median time from submission to first decision is three days, a figure the publisher reports alongside 228,200 article downloads in 2025.从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为三天，出版方同时公布 2025 年的文章下载量为 22.82 万次。
• Manuscripts enter through Springer Nature's online submission system, and scope screening comes first, since the exclusion list is applied before referees are approached.稿件经 Springer Nature 的在线投稿系统进入流程，范围筛查排在最前，排除清单在送审之前就已适用。
• Referees are chosen for work in the submitted field, and the handling editor weighs their reports against the scope printed on the journal's site.审稿人按稿件所属领域遴选，处理编辑把各份意见与站点上申明的范围放在一起权衡。
• The journal asks authors to read an editorial on ethical accountability in ethnobotany and ethnobiology research, which sets expectations for consent and for returning results to communities.刊物要求作者阅读一篇讨论研究伦理责任的社论，其中列明民族植物学与民族生物学田野工作中的知情同意要求，以及向社群回馈成果的做法。
• The journal is hybrid, so an author chooses between the subscription route and an open access charge once a paper is accepted, and both choices leave the final version in the record.刊物实行混合模式，论文录用后作者可在订阅通路与支付开放获取费之间选择，两种选择都让终稿留在档案里。
• Special issues and guest-edited collections are announced on the journal's updates page, and brief reports pass through the office that handles full articles.专辑与客座编辑的论文集在刊物的动态页公布，研究简报由处理全文论文的同一套编辑流程负责。
• Corrections and retractions follow the publisher's ethics guidelines, and a withdrawn paper stays in the record with a notice attached rather than disappearing from the archive.更正与撤稿依出版方的伦理准则处理，被撤论文留在记录之中并附上声明，不会从档案里消失。