Dear colleagues,

we hope all of you are well in these challenging times! 

Many of us have been using the worldwide shutdowns to engage in writing up our data, and submissions to ERA have increased tremendously in the last few months. The new sections "Notes on Ethnobotany", "Repatriation of Ethnobotanical Studies" and "Mini-Reviews" have been particularly successful.

ERA is by no means an "easy" journal - our current rejection rate is around 80%. Still, we had so many good submissions this year, that for the first time, we will have two regular issues in 2020. You have now Volume 21 (2021) in front of you. For Volume 19 and 20 (2020) please see the journal archives.

SCOPUS is now tracking all papers in ERA.

This success has come with lots of work for the editorial and layout team, and the reviewers. Many thanks to all of them!

Ethnobotany Research and Applications is an electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary open access  journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research, published by the Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.

The journal seeks manuscripts that are novel, integrative and written in ways that are accessible to a wide audience. This includes an array of disciplines (biological and social sciences) concerned particularly with theoretical questions that lead to practical applications. Articles can also be based on the perspectives of cultural practitioners, poets and others with insights into plants, people and applied research.

We encourage manuscripts in the language of the country research has been conducted in, and also in indigenous languages. Authors are also encouraged to submit bilingual manuscripts, rather than simply to translate their original work into English.

BEFORE STARTING YOUR SUBMISSION, KINDLY CONSULT THE AUTHOR GUIDELINES: 

http://journals.sfu.ca/era/index.php/era/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Ethnobotany Research and Applications (ISSN 1547-3465) is published online by the Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University.
All articles are copyrighted by the author(s) and are published online by a license from the author(s).