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Journal of Agronomy Research
ISSN 2639-3166·Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302·CC BY 4.0
Peer-reviewed research in agronomy — field trials and applied studies in crop production, soil fertility and nutrient management, crop protection, soil biology, agricultural systems and precision agriculture. Published continuously since 2017 by Open Access Pub.
Published by Open Access Pub, Rancho Cordova, California. Not affiliated with Agronomy Research (ISSN 1406-894X), published by the Estonian University of Life Sciences.
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub · established 2010
- Access
- Fully open access · CC BY 4.0, authors retain copyright
- Peer review
- Single-blind · double-blind on request
- Article processing charge
- US$1,200 · charged only on acceptance
What belongs in this journal
Aims & scopeThe Journal of Agronomy Research publishes original research and reviews on the management of crops, soils and agricultural systems. Its center of gravity is field-based, replicated work that connects measured agronomic evidence to practice.
- Soil biology, biofertilizers and rapid spectroscopy
- Crop protection and plant pathology
- Soil fertility and nutrient management
- Crop production and cultivar performance
- Agricultural systems, climate and land use
- Precision agriculture and farm engineering
- Plant genetics, breeding and stress physiology
What a strong submission looks like
Studies conducted under field or realistic production conditions, with stated cultivars, soil type and site characteristics, replicated treatments and a described statistical model. Controlled-environment or laboratory work is considered where it is explicitly linked to an agronomic outcome. Reporting requirements are set out in the instructions for authors, which require SI units and reproducible reporting of site, cultivar and method.
Not considered
- Work not directly related to agronomy or to crop and soil systems.
- Purely clinical or medical studies.
- Basic laboratory work with no agronomic linkage.
- Manuscripts that lack field or applied relevance.
Submissions outside the scope may be declined without review.
What the journal has published
76 articles classifiedAll 76 articles published between 2017 and 2025, grouped by subject. Counts are derived from the journal's own record, and the full corpus is openly readable in the archive.
Soil biology, biofertilizers and rapid spectroscopy15
Mycorrhizal and symbiotic inoculants, litterbag and foliar NIRS methods, foliar pH as a field indicator.
- Soluble Biobased Substances in soil or Salicylic Acid on leaves affect the foliar pH and soil biovariability of Grapes-as explained by the NIR Spectroscopy of Litterbags and Teabags 2023
- Vineyard Clusters Monitored by Means of Litterbag-NIRS and Foliar-NIRS Spectroscopic Methods 2021
Crop protection and plant pathology15
Integrated and biological pest control, botanical insecticides, parasitic weeds, soil-borne and foliar disease.
- Effect of Bio-Controlling Methods (Proplis and Bacteria) on the 3rd_larval Instar of Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) 2023
- Screening Sorghum Genotypes for Striga Resistance 2023
Soil fertility and nutrient management14
Fertilizer strategy, nitrogen use, composts and amendments, leaching and soil health assessment.
- Soil Fertility Dynamics and Xanthomonas Wilt Incidence in Enset (Ensete Ventricosem) Based Farming at Chencha, Southern Ethiopia 2025
- Response of Sorghum Varieties to Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Strategies in Sudan Savanna of Nigeria: Productivity, Nitrogen, and Water Use Efficiencies 2024
Crop production and cultivar performance9
Replicated field trials on yield, sowing date, spacing, intercropping and cultivar response.
- Evaluating St. Augustinegrass (Stenotaphrum Secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze) Cultivars to Reduced Light Environments 2023
- Effects of Seed bed, Cultivars and Seed rates on Yield and Quality of Onion Sets (Allium cepa L.) 2022
Agricultural systems, climate and land use9
Cropping-system strategy, land degradation and food security, rural labor and water resources.
- Bioremediation To Reduce Pesticide Pollution On Agricultural Land 2023
- A Long-Term Polydromic Function to Disentangle Personal Remittance, Migration and Employment in Agriculture in Order to Raise the GDP of the Donor aid Ratio in Five African Countries 2021
Precision agriculture and farm engineering8
Remote sensing and geomatics, UAV application, implement performance and machinery economics.
- Evaluation Of Physicochemical Separation Characteristics of Pig Manure According to the Type of Solid-Liquid Separator Processes 2023
- Effect of Hours of Use and Age in Years in Estimating Repair and Maintenance Costs for Two Sizes of Agricultural Tractors in Northern Sudan 2021
Plant genetics, breeding and stress physiology6
Genotype by environment interaction, selection indices, root phenotyping, germplasm conservation.
- Reproductive Ability of Currant–Gooseberry Hybrids After Cryopreservation of Pollen in Liquid Nitrogen 2025
- Evaluation of selection indices for heat tolerance and their correlation with yield in some chickpea (Cicer Arietinum L.) genotypes of sudan 2023
Selected research
Every article open accessRecent work from the journal, with the full bibliographic record and a resolving DOI on every entry. The current issue and the complete archive are open to all readers.
Reproductive Ability of Currant–Gooseberry Hybrids After Cryopreservation of Pollen in Liquid Nitrogen
O. A. Tikhonova · A. A. Khokhlenko · V. G. Verzhuk
Vol. 5, Issue 4 ·pp. 2–14 ·23 December 2025
Soil Fertility Dynamics and Xanthomonas Wilt Incidence in Enset (Ensete Ventricosem) Based Farming at Chencha, Southern Ethiopia
Tesfaye Hajiso Hadaro · Sabura Shara · Zenebe Mekonnen Adare
Vol. 5, Issue 3 ·pp. 44–59 ·10 May 2025
Response of Sorghum Varieties to Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Strategies in Sudan Savanna of Nigeria: Productivity, Nitrogen, and Water Use Efficiencies
Hakeem A. Ajeigbe · Folorunso M. Akinseye · Abdulazeez Tukur · Abubakar Hassan Inuwa · Anthony M. Whitbread
Vol. 5, Issue 3 ·pp. 15–34 ·7 May 2024
A Review on Response of Root System Architecture and Root Phenotypic for Biotic And Abiotic Stress
Arega Wole Damena
Vol. 5, Issue 3 ·pp. 1–14 ·31 October 2023
Evaluation Of Physicochemical Separation Characteristics of Pig Manure According to the Type of Solid-Liquid Separator Processes
Sooryang Kim · Seunghyun Park · Suchan Lee · Jiwon Jung · Sanghyean Ahn · Kwonwoong Ham · Myunggyu Lee
Vol. 5, Issue 2 ·pp. 42–53 ·15 August 2023
Evaluating St. Augustinegrass (Stenotaphrum Secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze) Cultivars to Reduced Light Environments
Lambert B. McCarty · Nathaniel J. Gambrell
Vol. 5, Issue 2 ·pp. 1–9 ·8 July 2023
Editorial oversight
36 of 51 with a registry ORCID iDThe board comprises 51 members across 26 countries. A selection is shown below; each name links to a public ORCID record giving their employment history and publications. The full board is listed in the journal.
Editorial Board
De Li Liu
NSW Department of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Australia
Climate risk and crop systems modeling
Editorial Board
Teodor Rusu
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Soil tillage, conservation agriculture
Editorial Board
Soner Soylu
Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Department of Plant Protection, Türkiye
Plant pathology and disease management
Editorial Board
Vera Popović
Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, Serbia
Field crop production and cropping systems
Editorial Board
Anita Maienza
Institute of BioEconomy (IBE), National Research Council (CNR), Florence, Italy
Soil biology and soil quality
Editorial Board
Tran Dang Khanh
Department of Nematology, University of California, Riverside, United States
Plant genetics, allelopathy, nematology
How manuscripts are handled
COPE and ICMJE alignedReview and decision
- Peer review
- Single-blind (double-blind on request)
- Screening
- Every submission is checked with iThenticate or an equivalent tool before review
- Decisions
- Made by the handling editor on scientific merit, independently of any fee, membership or service
- Measured record
- Across the 75 published articles that record both dates, the median interval from submission to acceptance was 26 days (interquartile range 14–46). Measured from the published record; not a service commitment.
- Appeals
- Authors may appeal with a clear rationale and supporting evidence; appeals and complaints follow COPE guidance
Integrity and the published record
- Ethics
- Policies follow COPE and ICMJE guidance on research ethics and publication integrity
- AI use
- AI tools cannot be listed as authors; any use for language support must be disclosed and authors remain responsible for all content
- Preprints
- Permitted. Authors disclose any preprint at submission and update the record with the published DOI
- Data
- A data availability statement is required; deposits in Dryad, Zenodo, Figshare, PANGAEA, GenBank and comparable repositories are cited with a persistent identifier
- Corrections
- Corrections, expressions of concern and retractions follow COPE guidance and are linked to the original article
Full detail in the editorial policies, instructions for authors and data archiving policy.
What publication costs, and what you keep
Charged only on acceptance- Charged only after acceptance. There are no submission fees and no review fees.
- Covers editorial handling and peer review, copyediting, typesetting, XML and PDF production, DOI registration and permanent hosting. No page, color or figure surcharges.
- Articles are published under CC BY 4.0 and authors retain copyright — the journal does not require a copyright transfer.
- Authors may deposit the preprint, the accepted manuscript and the published version in any institutional or subject repository.
- Waiver and discount requests are considered at submission and are evaluated independently of the editorial decision.
Full charge schedule and waiver policy Copyright and licensing
Registration and discoverability
Independently verifiableWhat carries a JAR article once it is published. Every item below can be checked directly against the register that holds it.
Crossref DOI
All 76 articles are registered under prefix 10.14302, matching the journal's own record exactly.
Similarity Check
The journal participates in Crossref Similarity Check, the iThenticate-backed screening service.
ISSN Register
Registered as 2639-3166, key title Journal of agronomy research (New York).
Open metadata
Article metadata is openly harvestable over OAI-PMH and is carried by OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar.
Licensing
Every article is published under CC BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors.
Digital preservation
Open Access Pub has partnered with Portico; content deposits are in progress.
Before you submit
Is my study in scope?
If it reports field-based or applied research on crop production, soil fertility and nutrient management, crop protection, soil biology, agricultural systems or precision agriculture, it is in scope. Purely clinical or medical work, and laboratory studies with no agronomic linkage, are not.
How will my manuscript be reviewed?
Review is single-blind, with double-blind review available on request. Every submission is screened with iThenticate or an equivalent tool before it reaches reviewers, and the decision rests with the handling editor on scientific merit.
How long does it take?
Across the 75 published articles that record both dates, the median interval from submission to acceptance was 26 days, with an interquartile range of 14 to 46 days. That is a measurement of the published record, not a commitment — individual manuscripts vary widely with the availability of reviewers.
What do I pay, and what do I keep?
US$1,200 per accepted manuscript, charged only after acceptance; there are no submission or review fees. You keep copyright, and the article is published under CC BY 4.0, so you may reuse and deposit it without asking permission.
Will my article be findable?
Every article receives a Crossref DOI under prefix 10.14302, and its metadata is openly harvestable over OAI-PMH and carried by OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar. The journal is registered with the ISSN Register as 2639-3166.
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