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New PLANT journals (yay!)

Until this item, the last launch of a new plant journal I shared with you was for the august publication Nature Plants (although in its 3rd year of publication, it still awaits an Impact Factor. Will it get one before...

Image: From a translation of Euclid’s Elementa, attributed to Adelard of Bath, c. 1309–1316.

Women on top…

As debates continue over gender-bias in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects and careers for women (e.g. Karen Purcell), it is timely to celebrate three high-achieving female botanists. First...

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Rice finally makes impact!

The Springer-published, peer-reviewed, economically entitled research journal Rice, which is devoted to… err… rice, has received its first Impact Factor (a metric by which journals are evaluated and ranked – rightly or...