Economic Botany is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers all aspects of economic botany. The editor-in-chief is Ina Vandebroek. The journal was established in 1947 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press on behalf of the Society for Ethnobotany. Authors have a choice to publish articles under the traditional subscription model or an Open Access model.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • AGRICOLA • Biological Abstracts • BIOSIS Previews • Chemical Abstracts Service • Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences • EBSCO databases • Elsevier Biobase • EMBiology • Global Health • MLA International Bibliography • PASCAL • Science Citation Index • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.731.