Bulletin of Botanical Research

Bulletin of Botanical Research (BBR) is a multi disciplinary academic journal in plant sciences and is sponsored by Northeast Forestry University, and governed by Ministry of Education,P.R. of China. It was established in 1959, named as Bulletin of the Herbarium of North-Eastern Forestry Academy, Prof. CHOU Yi-liang, a Chinese known botanist, took charge of the editor-in-chief. BBR is one of the earliest periodicals started publication in botany fields, it plays an important role in reporting the academic achievements and promoting academic communication and exchange between and western scientist and scholars in plant sciences. Many famous botanists, scholars, and academicians at home and abroad also published their research results on BBR. The new species and new taxa published in BBR have drawn widely attention from domestic and foreign scholars. These research achievements make great effects on Chinese forestry, forest sustainable development, and improvement of ecological environments.

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Category	Year	Quartile
Forestry	2023	Q4
Plant Science	2023	Q4

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
2023	0.137

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
2021	118
2022	114
2023	98

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	0.492
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	0.345
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	0.492
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	0.345
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	0.492
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	0.345

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	2021	0
Self Cites	2022	14
Self Cites	2023	16
Total Cites	2021	0
Total Cites	2022	58
Total Cites	2023	80

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	2021	0
External Cites per document	2022	0.373
External Cites per document	2023	0.276
Cites per document	2021	0.000
Cites per document	2022	0.492
Cites per document	2023	0.345

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
2021	0.85
2022	0.88
2023	1.02

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.