Annual Review of Plant Biology


Annual Review of Plant Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Annual Reviews Inc. It was first published in 1950 as Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology. The editor-in-chief is Sabeeha Merchant.

Aims and scope

The journal covers developments in the field of plant biology, including cell biology, genetics, genomics, molecular biology, cell differentiation, tissue, acclimation, and methods.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 23.654. According to and , Annual Review of Plant Biology ranked 2nd in the category of Agricultural and Biological Sciences in 2020 and has a 2018 impact factor of 18.939.