Aquatic Botany

Discipline	Botany, ecology
Language	English
Edited by	E.M. Gross, T. Wernberg, B. I. van Tussenbroek
Publication details
History	1975–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	8/year
Impact factor	2.473 (2020)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Aquat. Bot.
Indexing;
ISSN	0304-3770;
OCLC no.	2254712
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access;

Aquatic Botany ("An International Scientific Journal dealing with Applied and Fundamental Research on Submerged, Floating and Emergent Plants in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems") is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on structure, function, dynamics, and classification of plant-dominated aquatic communities and ecosystems, as well as molecular, biochemical, and physiological aspects of aquatic plants. It publishes fundamental as well as applied research. The journal was established in 1975 by Cees den Hartog,^[1] who still serves as consulting editor.^[2] It is published by Elsevier and the editors-in-chief are E.M. Gross (University of Lorraine), Thomas Wernberg (University of Western Australia) and Brigitta van Tussenbroek (National Autonomous University of Mexico).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, EMBiology, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.473.^[3]

^ den Hartog, C. (1975). "Aquatic botany — Aims and scope of a new journal". Aquatic Botany. 1 (1): 1–2. Bibcode:1975AqBot...1....1D. doi:10.1016/0304-3770(75)90002-9.
^ "Editorial Board". Aquatic Botany. Elsevier. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
^ "Aquatic Botany". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.