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A word from the new Editor-in-Chief

Dear authors, readers, and friends of Acta Botanica Croatica

First of all, I want to express my thanks to the Editorial Board of Acta Botanica
Croatica for its vote of confidence by appointing me the new Editor-in-Chief of the jour-
nal. I feel privileged to assume this important role in our botanical journal with a long and
distinguished tradition dating back to 1925. Acta Botanica Croatica has been fortunate to
have had an outstanding editor over the last fifteen years, and I gratefully acknowledge my
immediate predecessor, Professor Damir Vili~i}, for having established and maintained a
particularly high standard of editorship. Thanks to his dedicated work and enthusiasm, sig-
nificant progress in the quality and management of the journal was achieved between 1998
and 2013. Since 1998, ABC has been published regularly twice a year in English, and an in-
ternational editorial board was formed. Since 2001, open access to ABC was established
and in 2010 its Impact Factor was rated at 0.386, with a tendency to increase.

Today ABC is listed in the SCOPUS database, at the Thomson Reuters Master Journal
List and the Web of Science database. Since 2011 ABC has been published in a partnership
between the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb and a foreign co-publisher Versita-
-Walter de Gruyter.

I hope this good practice will increase the reputation of the journal in the future as well.
Professor Vili~i} has a watching brief as a new member of the Editorial Advisory Board.

I am grateful to current and new members of the Editorial Board; the subject editors, the
technical editor-in-chief and other technical editors, the managing editor, language editor
and the Editorial Advisory Board for their willingness to continue their collaboration and
support. I hope and believe that with the excellent collaboration of all members of the Edi-
torial Board we will continue the tradition and contribute to the further improvement of the
quality of the journal.

Best regards

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