Molecular Horticulture

Molecular Horticulture is a fully open access international journal owned by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and published in collaboration with Springer Nature, founded in 2021 and focused on the molecular mechanisms of horticultural crops including medicinal plants, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.0 that places it first among the forty-five horticulture titles indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded《分子园艺》（Molecular Horticulture）是由上海交通大学主办、与（Springer Nature）合作出版的完全开放获取国际期刊，2021 年创刊，聚焦园艺作物（含药用植物）的分子机制研究，2025 年影响因子为 10.0，在（SCIE）收录的园艺学科 45 种期刊中排名第一。

Scope

• The journal aims to publish research and review articles that significantly advance knowledge of how horticultural crops or their parts operate mechanistically, and it judges importance not by citation count but by the effect on the direction of the horticultural research field该刊旨在发表能显著推进园艺作物或其器官机制认知的研究与综述文章，并以对园艺研究方向的影响而非引用数量来衡量重要性。
• Its scope covers developmental and evolutionary biology, physiology, biochemistry and cell biology, plant-microbe and plant-environment interactions, genetics and epigenetics, molecular breeding and biotechnology, secondary metabolism and synthetic biology, and multi-omics data sets of the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, epigenome and microbiome其范围涵盖发育与进化生物学、生理生化与细胞生物学、植物与微生物及植物与环境的互作、遗传学与表观遗传学、分子育种与生物技术、次生代谢与合成生物学，以及基因组、转录组、蛋白质组、代谢组、表观基因组与微生物组的多组学数据研究。
• Horticultural plants are defined loosely and inclusively so as to embrace fruit, vegetable, ornamental and medicinal species, and the journal also welcomes work on model plants that reveals mechanisms readily applicable to horticultural crops该刊对园艺植物的界定宽泛而包容，涵盖果树、蔬菜、观赏植物与药用植物，并欢迎在模式植物上揭示可迁移应用于园艺作物机制的研究。
• Beyond original Research Articles, Letters and Reviews, the journal publishes novel Methods and Resources of broad interest together with Editorials, News and View, and Commentary and Perspective on current and significant topics of global horticulture除原创研究论文、快报与综述之外，该刊还刊发具有广泛意义的新方法与新资源，以及关于全球园艺学当前重要议题的社论、新闻视点与评论展望。
• Its declared vision is to become the premier horticulture journal with the most profound impact on the field, guided by an advisory board of senior scholars and an international editorial board该刊申明的发展愿景是成为对园艺学科影响最深的一流期刊，由资深学者组成的顾问委员会与国际编委团队共同把关学术方向。
• All content is open access under a（Creative Commons）licence with an article processing charge, peer review is single anonymous, and the publisher reports a median of twenty-four days from submission to first decision全部内容在（Creative Commons）许可下开放获取并收取文章处理费，实行单匿名同行评审，出版方报告投稿至首轮决定的中位用时为 24 天。

History

• The journal was created by the School of Agriculture and Biology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in partnership with Springer Nature, with its website and submission system opened in January 2021 and its first volume released the same year该刊由上海交通大学农业与生物学院与（Springer Nature）合作创建，网站与投稿系统于 2021 年 1 月开通，同年出版第 1 卷。
• Volume 1 opened on 16 June 2021 with article number one, an editorial titled Horticulture in a molecular age written by the two editors-in-chief, which explains why a new journal was needed第 1 卷于 2021 年 6 月 16 日开通，首篇文章编号为 1，是由两位主编撰写的创刊社论（Horticulture in a molecular age），文中阐明创办新刊的必要性。^[1]
• That editorial records the pressure behind the launch: only one horticultural plant genome had been sequenced in 2007 while forty-two were sequenced in 2017 alone, and the number of molecular horticulture publications rose from about three thousand in 2002 to about twelve thousand in 2012该社论记录了创刊背后的驱动力：2007 年园艺植物基因组仅完成 1 个，而 2017 年一年就完成 42 个，分子园艺相关论文量则由 2002 年的约 3000 篇增至 2012 年的约 12000 篇。
• It was taken into（Scopus）in March 2023, into the Emerging Sources Citation Index in December 2023 and into the Science Citation Index Expanded in November 2024, and in the same period it was selected for the high-start new journal programme of the national excellence plan for science and technology journals该刊于 2023 年 3 月被（Scopus）收录，2023 年 12 月进入（ESCI），2024 年 11 月被（SCIE）正式收录，同期入选中国科技期刊卓越行动计划高起点新刊项目。
• One volume is issued for each calendar year with continuous article numbering, and volume 6 dated December 2026 had carried articles up to number seventy-five该刊按自然年出版一卷并采取连续文章编号，2026 年 12 月的第 6 卷文章编号已排至 75 号。
• Its first Journal Impact Factor of 10.0 for 2023 ranked first of forty-five horticulture titles, the 2024 value of 8.1 ranked second, and the 2025 value of 10.0 returns it to the top of horticulture while also placing it in the first quartile of plant sciences with a five-year impact factor of 14.5该刊首个影响因子为 2023 年的 10.0，在园艺 45 种刊中居首；2024 年为 8.1，排名第二；2025 年以 10.0 重返园艺学科首位，并在植物科学类别同样进入第一四分位，五年影响因子达 14.5。

Editors

• The editorial board page lists three editors-in-chief, namely Su-Sheng Gan of Cornell University in the United States, Hong-Wei Xue of South China Agricultural University and Chao Ma of Shanghai Jiao Tong University官方编委会页列出三位主编，即美国（Cornell University）的（Su-Sheng Gan）、华南农业大学的（Hong-Wei Xue）与上海交通大学的（Chao Ma）。
• Su-Sheng Gan works at the School of Integrative Plant Science of Cornell University and Hong-Wei Xue, who has served as president of South China Agricultural University, leads the plant molecular biology group behind the journal in China, and the two together signed the inaugural editorial（Su-Sheng Gan）任职于康奈尔大学综合植物科学学院，（Hong-Wei Xue）曾任华南农业大学校长并领导该刊在中国方面的植物分子生物学团队，两人共同撰写了创刊社论。
• Twelve associate editors handle manuscripts, including Zhang-Jun Fei of the Boyce Thompson Institute, Kevin Folta of the University of Florida, Jocelyn Rose and Li Li of Cornell University, and Zhen-Chang Liang and Xiao-Quan Qi of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences12 位副主编负责稿件处理，包括（Boyce Thompson Institute）的（Zhang-Jun Fei）、（University of Florida）的（Kevin Folta）、康奈尔大学的（Jocelyn Rose）与（Li Li），以及中国科学院植物研究所的（Zhen-Chang Liang）与（Xiao-Quan Qi）。
• More than thirty editorial board members are based in China, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, Spain, Italy and Austria, among them Yue-Hui He and Li-Jia Qu of Peking University, Graham Seymour of the University of Nottingham and Richard Immink of Wageningen University and Research30 余位编委分布于中国、美国、英国、荷兰、以色列、日本、西班牙、意大利与奥地利，其中包括北京大学的（Yue-Hui He）与（Li-Jia Qu）、诺丁汉大学（University of Nottingham）的（Graham Seymour）以及（Wageningen University and Research）的（Richard Immink）。
• An advisory board of eight senior scholars, among them Richard Amasino of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, James Giovannoni of Cornell University, Cathie Martin of the John Innes Centre and Jing-Quan Yu of Zhejiang University, sets the scientific direction, and the journal also convenes a molecular horticulture webinar series and periodic editorial board meetings由 8 位资深学者组成的顾问委员会负责把握学术方向，成员包括（University of Wisconsin-Madison）的（Richard Amasino）、康奈尔大学的（James Giovannoni）、（John Innes Centre）的（Cathie Martin）与浙江大学的（Jing-Quan Yu），该刊还定期举办分子园艺前沿论坛与编委工作会议。