Phytoneuron 2012 Report

The online journal Phytoneuron (www.phytoneuron.net/; ISSN 2153 733X) was begun in January 2010. It publishes studies of taxonomy, floristics, and geographic distribution of plants from North America (including Mexico), Central America, and the West Indies. Publication is at no cost to contributors and all papers are completely open-access.

All Phytoneuron publications are available through the journal website.  All also are archived and available through the Botanicus Digital Library (www.botanicus.org/), the whole set mirrored in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (www.biodiversitylibrary.org/).

Through the end of 2012, at the end of its third year, a total of 236 manuscripts (from a total of 99 authors) have been published in Phytoneuron. 57 papers were published in 2010, 65 in 2011, and 114 in 2012. In all, 2640 pages have been published. Many new geographical records have been documented and major revisions were presented for a number of genera and families. In total for the 3 years, Phytoneuron has published 4 new genera, 80 new species, 126 new suprageneric taxa, and more than 300 new nomenclatural combinations. Many typifications have been validated.

For 2012, a total of 10,550 visits (from 86 countries) to the journal website were recorded. Articles were read and/or downloaded a total of 17,610 times.

Sincerely,

Guy Nesom, Editor

29 December 2012