Plant Biotechnology Journal

Plant Biotechnology Journal is a plant biotechnology journal published by John Wiley and Sons in association with the Society for Experimental Biology and the Association of Applied Biology of the United Kingdom. Founded in 2003 and appearing monthly, it has been fully open access since January 2016, carries print ISSN 1467-7644 and electronic ISSN 1467-7652, and reports a 2025 impact factor of 12.8.Plant Biotechnology Journal 是约翰·威利父子出版公司与英国实验生物学会及应用生物学会合作出版的植物生物技术期刊，2003 年创刊，月刊，自 2016 年 1 月起完全开放获取，印刷版编号 1467-7644、电子版编号 1467-7652，2025 年影响因子为 12.8。^[1]

Scope

• Scope: the journal publishes highly impactful original research and incisive reviews by leading researchers in applied plant science, with a specific emphasis on molecular plant sciences and their applications through plant biotechnology, and a strong focus on reporting results obtained in crop species.学科定位： 发表应用植物科学领域高影响的原创研究与犀利的综述，强调分子植物科学及其通过植物生物技术的应用，重视作物物种成果的报道。^[1]
• Topics: molecular plant sciences and crop biotechnology, functional genomics, proteomics and metabolomics with molecular breeding, transgenic and gene editing technologies, metabolic engineering and molecular farming, biofuels, biomaterials and phytoremediation, and improvement of stress tolerance and nutritional quality.收录主题： 分子植物科学与作物生物技术，功能基因组学、蛋白质组学与代谢组学及分子育种，转基因与基因编辑技术，代谢工程与分子农场，生物燃料、生物材料与植物修复，抗逆与营养品质改良。
• Article types: research articles, review articles, brief communications and special issue articles, with unsolicited reviews requiring an outline to be sent to the editorial office first.文章体裁： 原创研究论文、综述、短通讯与专题文章；主动投稿的综述须先向编辑部提交提纲。^[2]
• Publishing model: fully open access since 1 January 2016, with all published articles open access and Creative Commons attribution licences mandatory where funder requirements apply.出版模式： 完全开放获取，自 2016 年 1 月 1 日起全部论文开放获取，符合基金要求的论文须采用知识共享署名许可。^[3]
• Indexing and metrics: covered by the SCIE, Scopus, Medline, PubMed and DOAJ, with all articles archived in PubMed Central, a 2025 impact factor of 12.8 and a median of 17 days to first decision.收录与指标： 被 SCIE、Scopus、Medline、PubMed 与 DOAJ 收录，全部论文在 PubMed Central 存档，2025 年影响因子 12.8，投稿至首次决定中位数 17 天。

History

• Founded: the journal was founded in 2003, with volume one issue one appearing that year, and the editorial office based in Oxford in the United Kingdom.创刊： 2003 年创刊，第 1 卷第 1 期出版于 2003 年，编辑部设于英国牛津。
• Society partnership: the journal is published by Wiley in association with the Society for Experimental Biology and the Association of Applied Biology, with copyright held jointly by the three parties.学会合作： 刊物由威利与英国实验生物学会及应用生物学会合作出版，版权由三方共同持有。
• Open access transition: the journal became fully open access in January 2016, with all accepted articles immediately free to read thereafter.开放获取转型： 2016 年 1 月转为完全开放获取，此后全部录用论文立即免费公开。
• Title history: no renaming on record, the title Plant Biotechnology Journal has been in use since 2003.更名史： 无更名记录，创刊至今沿用 Plant Biotechnology Journal 刊名。

Editors

• Editor-in-chief: Johnathan Napier, of Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom, working on plant metabolic engineering and the biosynthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, who joined the editorial team in 2014 and rose to editor-in-chief.现任主编： Johnathan Napier，英国洛桑研究所，研究方向为植物代谢工程与长链多不饱和脂肪酸的生物合成，2014 年起参与编辑工作并升任主编。^[4]
• Executive editor: Shuangxia Jin, of the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement at Huazhong Agricultural University in China, working on molecular interactions between cotton and pests and on gene editing.执行编辑： Shuangxia Jin，中国华中农业大学作物遗传改良全国重点实验室，研究方向为棉花与害虫的分子互作与基因编辑。
• Senior editors: three in all, namely Dominique Michaud of Université Laval in Canada, Nicola J. Patron of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Rajeev Varshney of Murdoch University in Australia.资深编辑： 共 3 名，分别为加拿大拉瓦尔大学的 Dominique Michaud、英国剑桥大学的 Nicola J. Patron 与澳大利亚默多克大学的 Rajeev Varshney。
• Submission and review: submissions go through the Wiley submission portal under single-blind peer review with at least two independent experts, and both a cover letter and an ORCID are mandatory.投稿与评审： 经威利投稿门户投稿，实行单盲评审，送至少 2 名独立专家；投稿须知与开放研究者身份编号为必填项。