The Pakistan Journal of Botany (print: , online: , CODEN

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: PJBB6) is a bimonthly scientific journal

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 published by the Pakistan Botanical Society

Pakistan Botanical Society

The Pakistan Botanical Society was established in 1968 and is a learned society dedicated to botany. Its head office is located in University of Karachi in Karachi, Pakistan and its current president is Ikram-ul-Haq....

. The journal was established in 1969 and publishes peer-reviewed

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 full length research articles. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2009 impact factor

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 is 0.520. Currently its contents are available from 2003 to date. However, on the completion of Digitalization Project, started in 2003 by Muhammad Ashraf all issues will be available back to 1969.