Journal History

The international journal Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae is the oldest scientific journal promoting all aspects of plant science, functioning continuously (with the exception of WWII) in Poland since 1923.

The subsequent editors-in-chief have been: Dezydery Szymkiewicz (1922–1930), Kazimierz Bassalik (1930–1937), Kazimierz Piech (1938–1939), Dezydery Szymkiewicz and Kazimierz Bassalik (1945–1947), Kazimierz Bassalik (1948–1949), Kazimierz Bassalik and Wacław Gajewski (1949–1960), Wacław Gajewski and Henryk Teleżyński (1960–1977), Bohdan Rodkiewicz (1980–1990), Stefan Zajączkowski (1991–1992), Jerzy Fabiszewski (1993–2010), Beata Zagórska-Marek (2011-2022) and Jakub Sawicki (since 2023).

Until 2011, electronic versions of the articles were published on the website of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany PAS. Since 2016 the journal has been published exclusively in electronic editions.