Castanea (journal)

*Castanea*
Discipline	Botany
Language	English
Edited by	Christopher Randle
Publication details
History	1936–present
Publisher	Southern Appalachian Botanical Society (United States)
Frequency	Biannually (2017–present); Quarterly (1943–2016); 8/year (1937–1942)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Castanea
Indexing;
ISSN	0008-7475 (print); 1938-4386 (web);
LCCN	agr37000334
OCLC no.	183413013
Links
	Journal homepage;

Castanea, The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society, is a biannual,^[1] peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. It was established in 1936 and covers the botany of the eastern United States, in particular systematics, floristics, ecology, physiology, and biochemistry. The journal name Castanea comes from the genus of chestnuts that were fresh in the minds of the founders of the society when the journal was established; the chestnut blight ravaged the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, in the early part of the twentieth century and drastically changed the plant communities of the Appalachians.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 0.255.^[2] Over the years 2006–2021, the impact factor has ranged from 0.255 to 0.7, with an average of about 0.35.

List of editors[edit]

Earl Lemley Core, 1936–1971^[3]
Jessie Clovis, 1972–1982
Audrey D. Mellichamp, 1982–2011^[4]
John Pascarella, 2009-2014
Christopher Randle, 2014-2024

References[edit]

^ Horn, Charles N.; Randle, Christopher P. (2017). "President's Message. Notice: Change of Publication Schedule and Process". Castanea. 82 (1): 1. doi:10.2179/17-PR-001. ISSN 0008-7475. S2CID 198148218.
^ "Castanea". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2021.
^ "Earl Lemley Core Obituary". fordyce.org. 1984.
^ Mellichamp, A. "Remembering ... My Thirty Years with Castanea". Castanea. 76 (4): 345–347. doi:10.2179/0008-7475-76.4.345.

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[HornRandle2017-1] Horn, Charles N.; Randle, Christopher P. (2017). "President's Message. Notice: Change of Publication Schedule and Process". Castanea. 82 (1): 1. doi:10.2179/17-PR-001. ISSN 0008-7475. S2CID 198148218.

[WoS-2] "Castanea". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2021.

[3] "Earl Lemley Core Obituary". fordyce.org. 1984.

[4] Mellichamp, A. "Remembering ... My Thirty Years with Castanea". Castanea. 76 (4): 345–347. doi:10.2179/0008-7475-76.4.345.

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