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Environmental and Experimental Botany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ15756093 ↗
Source-derived summary

Environmental and Experimental Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of botany. It was established in 1961 as Radiation Botany, obtaining its current name in 1976. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Sergi Munné-Bosch (University of Barcelona). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 6.028.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Environmental and Experimental Botany” as journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1976, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Environmental, Experimental and Botany can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q15756093. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1976 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Environmental and Experimental Botany” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.