About Journal

The Journal of Phytological Research is a peer reviewed and refreed journal, published half yearly by the Phytological Society, India to provide opportunity to researchers, engaged in various fields of Plant Sciences, to publish and disseminate their findings within a reasonable time. Journal has a glorious publishing history since 1988. Journal of Phytological Research is open access for readers and do not charge any processing/publishing fee from authors also. 

Journal of Phytological Research is Indexed/Abstracted in WOS, Science Citation Index, UGC-CARE, Biological Abstracts, USA, Chemical Abstracts, USA, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences ( CABS), U.K., Helminthological Abstracts, U.K., Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstracts (MAPA), and Indian Science Abstracts, India.

Journal Particulars: 

Frequency                 : Biannual (Issue I on June 30 and Issue II on December 31 of every year)

Copyright                  : Phytological Society, Bharatpur 

Starting Year             : 1988

Subject                      : Plant Science

Language                  : English 

Publication Format  :  Online/Print 

Plagiarism Policy

This journal is strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form. Manuscripts found to be plagiarized during initial stages of review are out-rightly rejected and not considered for publication in the journal. We define plagiarism as a case in which a paper reproduces another work with more than 10 % similarity without citation.

If evidence of plagiarism is found before/after acceptance  of the paper, the author will be offered a chance to revise the MS. If the arguments are not found to be satisfactory, the manuscript will be rejected. 

Review Policy 

The journal is single blind peer reviewed and MS will be sent to peer's comment before processing. If commnets of peers are positive than only MS will be process to editorial board. 

Information to Contributors

Types of paper published in the Journal: Research articles, Review articles, Short communications, scientific notes and announcements.

Manuscripts should be typed with adequate margins in A4 paper size, double spacing throughout. All scientific names, to be typed in italics, should be underlined. The metric system should be used throughout.

Manuscripts in general should be organized in the following order: Title author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation(s), Present address (es), a condensed factual abstract, keywords, introduction, material and methods, result and discussion, acknowledgements, references, tables and illustrations.

References: The literature references should be numbered consecutively, typed doubled spaced and indicated by superscripts in the text serially, but not alphabetically.