The 2025 journal impact factor for Phytotaxa is 1.2 according to Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports—2026 June edition). This represents a significant increase (20%) over that of the previous year.
Read more about The 2025 journal impact factor for Phytotaxa is 1.2 (JCR 2026 June edition)During the third quarter of 2025, Phytotaxa received 400 manuscripts, accepted 256 manuscripts, declined 147 manuscripts and published 245 manuscripts; days to first decision is 4, to accept is 53 and to reject is 20; rejection rate is 64% (32% desk reject and 32% after review reject).
Read more about Acceptance rate 36% during the third quarter of 2025Since 2009, Phytotaxa has published 12,000 articles and other items. About 14.5% of these are for open access.
Read more about 12,000 articles and other items published in Phytotaxa!
The most-cited paper in Phytotaxa is "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase" by MAARTEN J.M. CHRISTENHUSZ and JAMES W. BYNG. It has been cited 3001 times (data as of 1 July 2025 according to Google Scholar).
Read more about The most-cited paper in Phytotaxa has over 3000 citationsThe 2024 journal impact factor is 1.0 according to the June 2025 release of JCR.
Read more about The 2024 journal impact factor is 1.0During the second quarter of 2025, Phytotaxa received 462 manuscripts, accepted 230 manuscripts, declined 150 manuscripts and published 222 manuscripts; days to first decision is 6, to accept is 58 and to reject is 18; rejection rate is 72% (28% desk reject and 43% after review reject).
Read more about Rejection rate is 72% during the second quarter of 2025During the first quarter of 2025, Phytotaxa received 378 manuscripts, accepted 253 manuscripts, declined 131 manuscripts and published 266 manuscripts; days to first decision is 7, to accept is 64 and to reject is 36; rejection rate is 57% (25% desk reject and 32% after review reject).
Read more about During the first quarter of 2025, Phytotaxa received 378 manuscriptsSince 2009, Phytotaxa has published more than 10,000 papers!
Read more about Over 10,000 papers published in PhytotaxaPhytotaxa has published many open access papers over the last 15 years. Our open access collection now has over 1500 papers.
Read more about Open access collection now has over 1500 papersThe 2022 impact factor is 1.1 according the 2023 release of JCR.
Read more about 2022 impact factor is 1.1The Manuscript submission/review site was moved to this new site in May. All manuscripts should be submitted to this site from now on. You need to register a new account here with "author" role to submit new papers here. Old manuscripts submitted to Biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/ will remain there until rejection/acceptance/publication. Please continue to access these manuscripts in review there. These two sites are located on different servers and we have not moved user accounts from the old to the new site. The software/platform used is the same (Open Journal Systems).
Read more about Manuscript submission/review site movedThe 2020 journal impact factor for Phytotaxa is 1.171 according to JCR 2021 June edition. It is ranked 174 among 235 journals (Q3) in JCR Category Plant Sciences.
Read more about The 2020 journal impact factor for Phytotaxa is 1.171A new species of heterotrophic flower, Sciaphila sugimotoi, published in Phytotaxa (314: 279-284) by Suetsugu, K. and T. Nishioka was voted among TOP 10 new species described in 2017: http://www.esf.edu/top10/2018/07.htm
Read more about A heterotrophic flower from Phytotaxa named a TOP 10 new species 2018The 2016 impact factor for Phytotaxa is 1.24 (JCR 2017 June edition)
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