Overview
AoBP (AoB PLANTS) is a non-profit, sound science, open access journal for plant-focused research. Published by Oxford University Press since 2010, AoBP is dedicated to rapid publication of high quality research on all aspects of plant biology and ecology. All papers are available online to anyone, anywhere, free of charge.
Sound-science Ethos and Mission
The mission of AoBP is to provide an outlet for plant-focused research without the biases that affect much of scientific publishing. These biases include the devaluing of confirmatory or negative results and prejudices against authors based on their personal characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity, affiliation, seniority and reputation). Thus, we base decisions to accept or reject papers solely on rigor, clarity and substance, and we use double-blind peer review, concealing the identities of authors and reviewers during the review process. We prefer to leave judgments about the wider importance of papers to the scientific community.
Convenient, Fast and Economical
AoBP is committed to simple and rapid processing of manuscripts and online publication of accepted works. Authors can submit their work as a single-PDF with few formatting requirements, and we accept reviews cascaded from any other journal, including our sister journal, Annals of Botany. We strive to provide initial decisions within 30–40 days of submission. Our publication charge of $1350 per article is one of the lowest levied by any open-access journal in the biological sciences.