Agricultural Science (AS)

Introduction

Agricultural Science (AS) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal, published by the IDEAS SPREAD in the United States. It publishes original research and applied, and educational articles in all areas of agricultural science.

Journal Name:Agricultural Science (AS)

ISSN: 2690-5396; E-ISSN 2690-4799

Review Period: Three Working Days

Publishing Time: Acceptance 1-2 Months

Retrieval Type: CNKI, CrossRef, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Scilit

Cnki Link: Agricultural Science

Press: IDEAS SPREAD

Aims and Scopes

Topics include but not limited to:

Crop production: grains; legumes; fruits; vegetables; flowers; cotton

Crop protection
Crop breeding and genetics
Crop nutrition, irrigation
Crop physiology
Pests and diseases, weeds, invasive species
Precision agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
Conservation agriculture
Organic agriculture
Ecological agriculture

Animal production: livestock and poultry

Animal breeding
Animal nutrition

Soil and water

Soil physics
Soil chemistry
Soil microbiology
Soil and water quality
Irrigation and water use efficiency

Impacts of environmental factors

Environmental influences on production and products
Impact of changing environments

Rural management and agricultural development

Trade
Livelihoods
Rural communities and aid

Agricultural technology

Machinery
Remote sensing
Geographical Information Systems

Agricultural product health and safety

Post-harvest
Animal and plant inspection
Product freshness

All Issues

For Authors

General Peer-Review and Editorial Procedure

All manuscripts sent for publication in our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts (this includes research and review articles, spontaneous submissions, and invited papers). The Managing Editor of the journal will perform an initial check of the manuscript’s suitability upon receipt. The Editorial Office will then organize the peer-review process performed by independent experts and collect at least two review reports per manuscript. We ask our authors for adequate revisions (with a second round of peer-review if necessary) before a final decision is made. The final decision is made by the academic editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief of a journal or the Guest Editor of a Special Issue). Accepted articles are copy-edited and English-edited.

Editorial Decision and Revision

All the articles, reviews and communications published in Francis journals go through the peer-review process and receive at least two review reports. The in-house editor will discuss each step of the process with the external academic editor and communicate decisions to the authors regarding the following:

Accept in Present Form

The paper is accepted without any further changes.

Accept after Minor Revisions

The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given five days for minor revisions.

Reconsider after Major Revisions

The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point by point response or provide a rebuttal if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within ten days and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.

Reject and Encourage Resubmission

An article where additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experime

Review Process

Peer review is the major quality maintenance measure for any academic journal. In this process, experts in the relevant fields analyze the scholarly work from every perspective, including its writing, the accuracy of its technical content, its documentation, and its impact on and significance to the discipline.

Reviewers play a pivotal role in scholarly publishing, and their valuable opinions certify the quality of the article under consideration. Peer review helps to ratify research, establishing a standard for evaluation within research communities.

Firstly, after a paper is submitted to a journal, a journal editor screens the manuscript and decides whether or not to send it for full peer review. Only after clearing the initial screening is the manuscript sent to two peer reviewers. Finally, journal editors or the journal’s editorial board consider the peer reviewers’ reports and make the final decision to accept or reject the manuscript for publication. The Generic Peer Review Process visualizes this.

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Publishing Ethics

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. We are a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and abides by its Code of Conduct and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.

Plagiarism

All journals published are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism sanctions.

Duplicate Submission

Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission/publication sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.

Citation Manipulation

Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation sanctions.

Data Fabrication and Falsification

Submitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results, including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and falsification sanctions.

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution

All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

Redundant Publications

Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles.

Sanctions

In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above-mentioned policies in any journal, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by Darcy & Roy Press, the following sanctions will be applied: Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.

Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by Darcy & Roy Press by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript.

Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to any journal published by Darcy & Roy Press, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in combination with any other authors. This prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 48 months.

Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal published by Darcy & Roy Press.

In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly egregious, the publisher reserves the right to impose additional sanctions beyond those described above.

Publishing Fee

Article Processing Charges

All articles published in our journals and proceedings are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. We guarantee that no university library or individual reader will ever have to buy a subscription or pay any pay-per-view fees to access articles in the electronic version of our journals and proceedings. This is made possible by Article Process Charges (APC) that covers the range of publishing services we provide. This includes provision of online tools for editors and authors, article production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, and customer services.

APC are due when a manuscript has been accepted for publication. Following peer review, once a manuscript has received editorial acceptance in principle, the APC becomes payable and formatting checks on the manuscript will commence. Once formatting checks are completed, and payment of the APC has been received, the article will be published.

Category	Amount
Single submission	360 USD

The authors must pay an additional fee for mailing and printing costs if the journal's hardcopy is needed. It is a flat fee that does not vary based on word count or use of color figures.Payment can be made by credit card, bank transfer. Instruction for payment is sent to corresponding author as soon as manuscript is accepted. Please ensure that you're aware of the applicable fee before you submit your paper.

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