Phytotaxa

Aims & Scope

Phytotaxa is a peer-reviewed, international journal for rapid publication of high quality papers on any aspect of systematic and taxonomic botany, with a preference for large taxonomic works such as monographs, floras, revisions and evolutionary studies and descriptions of new taxa.

Phytotaxa covers all groups covered by the International Code of Nomenclature foralgae, fungi, and plants ICNafp (fungi, lichens, algae, diatoms, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and vascular plants), both living and fossil.

Phytotaxa was founded in 2009 as botanical sister journal to Zootaxa.

It has a large editorial board, who are running this journal on a voluntary basis, and it is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland , New Zealand).

It is also indexed by SCIE, JCR and Biosis.

All types of taxonomic, floristic and phytogeographic papers are considered, including theoretical papers and methodology, systematics and phylogeny, monographs, revisions and reviews, catalogues, biographies and bibliographies, history of botanical explorations, identification guides, floras, analyses of characters, phylogenetic studies and phytogeography, descriptions of taxa, typification and nomenclatural papers.

Monographs and other long manuscripts (of 60 printed pages or more) can be published as books, which will receive an ISBN number as well as being part of the Phytotaxa series.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1
2024	1.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.337

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	54

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15509

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2769

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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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.

• The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase

  Citation: 1552

  Authors: MAARTEN J.M., JAMES W.

• A new classification and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms

  Citation: 376

  Authors: M. J. M., J. L., A., M. F., R. R., M. W.

• A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns

  Citation: 280

  Authors: M. J. M., X. C., H.

• One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity

  Citation: 158

  Authors: H. T., T., S., G. A., A., U., A. B., P. A., M. N., L., C. R., K., M., F., M. E. S., M., J. L., P., R., B. J., A., M., P. K., M. V., J. A., A., J. D., E., L. I., E., D. J., E., M., T., M., J., J. E., M. D. H., K., I., G., D., P., K., H., S., J. D., A., M. P., B., M. I., A., R. M., B., A., M. P., D. O., Z., K., S., S., C., V. J., E. R., J., D., U., N. S., L., L. S., T. S., M., M. R. D., E., I., H. J. M., M., U., M. Z., L. B., A., T., J., A., A., G., H., E., C., R., L. U., D. K., P., M. V., M., S., V., N., R., K., F., T., R.

• Counting counts: revised estimates of numbers of accepted species of flowering plants, seed plants, vascular plants and land plants with a review of other recent estimates

  Citation: 152

  Authors: EIMEAR NIC, RAFAËL, IRINA, NICHOLAS, HEATHER, ROBERT, ROBERT E., NICKY

• Moss diversity: A molecular phylogenetic analysis of genera

  Citation: 144

  Authors: C. J., B., N. J., S. B., A. J.

• An updated classification for Apocynaceae

  Citation: 134

  Authors: Mary E., SIGRID, ULRICH

• Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and six new genera containing 14 species

  Citation: 122

  Authors: TRUC, JEFFREY R., NICOLE, MARKÉTA, MICHAEL P.

• An inventory of vascular plants endemic to Italy

  Citation: 117

  Authors: LORENZO, FABIO, FABRIZIO

• Taxonomic revision of Bromeliaceae subfam. Tillandsioideae based on a multi-locus DNA sequence phylogeny and morphology

  Citation: 116

  Authors: MICHAEL H.J., WALTER, ELTON M.C., JUAN P., JOSÉ M., HEIDEMARIE, ROSABELLE, GREGORY K.

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