Acta Palaeobotanica

Aims & Scope

Acta Palaeobotanica is an international open-access, fast track journal publishing high quality contributions to palaeobotany and palynology.

It is the only journal in Central and Eastern Europe focused on all fields of palaeobotanical and palynological investigations and publishes original palaeobotanical, palaeoecological, palaeophytogeographical, palynological, and archaeobotanical papers in addition to monographs, comprehensive review and discussion articles and book reviews.

The journal is open to contributors from all over the world.

It is published regularly with one volume per year comprising two numbered parts, in June (No. 1) and in December (No. 2).

The language of the journal is English.

All manuscripts to be published in the journal are peer reviewed by at least two referees, and after the acceptance of any corrected manuscripts the said appears online within 6 months.

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Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and monsoonal climatic changes in Jammu, India

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Md. Firoze

• A Late Würmian and Holocene pollen profile from Tüttensee, Upper Bavaria, as evidence of 15 Millennia of landscape history in the Chiemsee glacier region

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Manfred, Arne, Sabine, Philipp, Dirk

• Archaeobotanical evidence for the emergence of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Jerry, Frank H., Emuobosa, Christine, Mary, Sinethemba, Tanya, Maria H.

• The late Pleistocene and Holocene history of Pinus koraiensis (Korean Pine) in the south of the Russian Far East based on palynological data

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Pavel, Nina

• Palynology of Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian) hydrocarbon (methane) seep carbonates and associated mudstones, Wollaston Forland, Northeast Greenland

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Emil, Hans A., Crispin T.S., Wolfram, Simon R.A., Morten

• Two-seeded cones of probable gnetalean affinity from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of Utah and Colorado, USA

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Steven R., Xiaoqing, Carol L., Scott L., Peter R.

• Late Devonian (Frasnian–Famennian) palynomorphs from the Padeha and Bahram Formations of Shahzadeh Mohammad section, northwest of Kerman, Iran

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Roghayeh, Péter

• Typification of the genus Zizyphoides Seward et Conway (Magnoliophyta, Trochodendraceae)

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Anastasia, Steven, Lina

• New data on pollen morphology of the genus Camphorosma (Chenopodiaceae)

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Zoya M., Sergei L., Lyudmila M.

• Loxopteroides weeksae gen. et sp. nov. (Anacardiaceae) samaras and associated foliage from the Eocene of western North America

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Steven R., Walter S.