A professional could probably answer this easily, but a quick look at ISI JSR (which determines the "impact factors" of scientific journals, basically by the frequency of cited articles) shows that Taxon has the highest factor (2.524) of any journal devoted specifically to systematics. Systematic Botany (NYBG) is 1.632; Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society is 1.075. They don't cover Bot. Jb. fur Systematik. The Annual Review of Plant Biology has the highest impact factor in the plant sciences, at 18.712, but all the rest are below 10. Nature, by contrast, is 28.751. Max Withers Oakland CA > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:00:37 -0800 > From: "Pacific Rim" <paige@hillkeep.ca> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Status of Merendera > > .... > > The Botanische Jahrb?cher f?r Systematik has considerable whomp. Can anyone > suggest a journal in English with the same status? I was thinking perhaps > the Journal of the Linnean Society. (Blurt in haste, repent at leisure). > > Paige Woodward > paige@hillkeep.ca > http://www.hillkeep.ca/