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Editorial board

Editorial oversight is currently maintained solo, with an open call for credentialed reviewers. Every plant profile shows its data sources and last-review date so you can judge trust for yourself.

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Current team

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Dragos (Project lead)

Editor + maintainer · Independent researcher · auto-parts entrepreneur with a long-running interest in herbalism and permaculture

Started PlantSage to fix the gap between dry botanical references and unreliable marketing-driven herbal content online. Codes the platform, curates the data, runs the imports.

Editorial oversightData integritySite direction
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We're looking for

PlantSage is built on radical transparency. We need credentialed reviewers to vouch for the medicinal content. If you have one of the following backgrounds and want to contribute to an open botanical reference, get in touch:

Clinical herbal medicine
MNIMH, MS, ND, MD with herbal training
Review medicinal-plant safety + dosage sections
Ethnobotany
PhD or practising researcher
Verify folk-remedy provenance + regional context
Pharmacology
PhD or clinical pharmacist with phytomedicine background
Validate mechanism notes + drug-interaction flags
Field botany
Botanist with field-ID experience
Spot-check distribution data + ID accuracy

Contact: reviewers@plantsage.eu. We credit every reviewer here, link their professional pages, and acknowledge their reviews in the audit trail of each plant they vetted.

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Review process

  1. Editor-curated plant page is set to in_review status.
  2. Reviewer with relevant expertise receives email notification with the diff.
  3. Reviewer comments / suggests changes via the admin interface — every comment is logged.
  4. Editor resolves comments, page moves to reviewed.
  5. Final publish moves to published and the reviewer is credited in the page's audit trail.
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