Plant Science Today (PST), a New Open Access Journal with Traditional Review Process

Online, November 18, 2013 (Newswire.com) - The journal is now open for manuscript submission that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish Original articles (research paper, short communications, etc), Review articles, opinions, Conference reports, Book reviews, etc.

All papers published in PST are open access in full text and free to download and use.

Rugang Li from U.S. Vegetable Laboratory (USDA-ARS) commented "Plant Science Today will be reflecting new research progress in any subject of plant science. PST should publish high quality research papers. If PST define the impact factor between 2 to 3, it could attract more submissions".

The journal has a truly international Editorial Team from many countries. We believe in quality and use traditional review process which would help to weed out shoddy research papers.

Partha Pratim Dhar, Associate Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia says "PST is going to publish its first issue. I wish all the best for the journal and I hope in future PST will be an ISI journal with Impact Factor".

Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting manuscripts.

"Plant Science Today's editorial board has to work harder and select only the quality papers. I think PST should affiliate to National academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) and also should keep a good impact factor for the journal" - Ms. Neha Sharma, Research Scholar, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, India

Researchers with excellent track record can still join if their country is not represented in the Team. Currently, researchers from 42 countries has been registered with the journal site.

Acha BELKADHI, Researcher at the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia commented: "I believe that PST will serve as an excellent journal to promote research by keeping a focus on the future of plant science in the world. As an Editorial Board member in PST, I can be expected to recommend high quality papers for publication. It is also expected that this journal will have an impact factor to start with and I will do my best to help for raising it".

Horizon e-Publishing Group (HePG) is an online publisher of scientific information in the form of eJournals, career news and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences. Currently HePG publishes an Open access journal: Plant Science Today, Job Portal: TheScienceJobs and Career News Blog: MyDailyCareerNews.

Read more about the PST journal at http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST