Economic Botany is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers all aspects of economic botany.

The editor-in-chief is Ina Vandebroek.

The journal was established in 1947 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press on behalf of the Society for Ethnobotany.

Authors have a choice to publish articles under the traditional subscription model or an Open Access model.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.731.