The Iranian Journal of Botany is published in English since 1976 and has been indexed as a Scientific-Research journal according to the no. 3/2910/1152 letter from the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. This Journal is indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC: www.isc.gov.ir) and Iran Journal Database which is the indexing system of Regional Information Center for Science and Technology. This Journal is listed on the ISI Journals and its abstracts are available on the CABI Publishing website at www.Cabi-Publishing.Org. The Iranian Journal of Botany is also indexed in the Scopus databases, and in 2021 it was assigned a Q4 rank.

The Iranian Journal of Botany publishes original papers in the field of plant taxonomy and related subjects such as plant geography, cytology, morphology, anatomy, embryology and phytochemistry.