NEWS

One of the few internationally peer-reviewed journals from Georgia currently indexed in the SCOPUS database, is Ethnobotany Research and Applications: A Journal of Plants, People and Applied Research, the scientific journal with the highest citation score, published by the Institute of Botany at Ilia State University. Its current citation score is 3.9.

The journal features cutting-edge research across a wide range of domains within ethnobotany. Its scientific editor is Prof. Rainer W. Bussmann of Ilia State University, founder of Springer’s Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions series, who has directed the Ethnobotany Research Center at the Institute of Botany since 2017.

Prof. Bussmann is ranked 310th among 88,725 authors worldwide in the field of Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry, according to Stanford University’s annual ranking of the top 2% of scientists globally.  

Journal link: https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/index

2025