Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The focus and scope of Agrotech Journal cover five disciplines namely

  • Plant Disease, The study of plant diseases includes the study of causes of disease, studies of interactions between causes of diseases - host plants and the environment, studies of the physiology of diseased plants. The study of plant diseases in its growing population is called epidemiology. The current expansion of epidemiological science also covers the epidemiology of agro-complex agriculture (including fisheries, plantations, fisheries) and microbiology. This expansion is deemed necessary because the benefits of epidemiology are very evident in these fields of science. Epidemiological depth includes computer-based forecasting and agroecosystem management.
  • Horticulture, Horticulture is a branch of agronomy. In contrast to agronomy, horticulture focuses on the cultivation of fruit plants (pomology/fruticulture), flower plants (floriculture), vegetable plants (olericulture), medicinal plants (biopharma), and gardens (landscaping). One characteristic of horticultural products are perishable or easily damaged due to freshness. The term horticulture is used in the types of plants that are cultivated. Horticulture works include hatcheries, nurseries, tissue culture, crop production, pests and diseases, harvesting, packaging, and distribution. Horticulture is one method of modern farming.
  • Soil Science, Soil science is divided into two focus studies: pedology and edaphology. Pedology studies land as a geological object. Edaphology, or the science of soil fertility, study soil as a life-supporting object. Both use tools and often the same methodology in studying soil, so scientific disciplines such as soil physics, soil chemistry, soil biology (or soil ecology), and soil conservation science. Soil Science also has a spatial and civil aspect, disciplines such as soil mechanics, mapping (cartography), geodesy and land surveys, and pedometrics or pedostatistics are also developing. The use of informatics also gave birth to several mixed sciences such as geomatics.
  • Agronomy, Agronomy is one of the applied sciences based on plant biology that studies the influence and manipulation of various biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) components on an individual or a group of individual plants to be utilized for human interests. Agronomic activities include activities in the fields of plant physiology, plant genetics, meteorology and soil science and the application of a combination of biological, ecological, genetic, chemical, topographic, economic and political-economic policies.
  • Plant Breeding, Plant breeding involves selective breeding of plants to produce the best plants in a variety of conditions. Plant breeding has increased the yield and nutritional value of various types of plants grown throughout the world, including corn, soybeans, and wheat. Plant breeding has also developed a new type of plant which is the result of a hybrid called hybrid plants. Fruits and vegetables are also the subjects of plant breeding.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Several reviewers involved in this journal that comes from focused discipline-based. There are some criteria by which reviewers judge the submissions. The criteria present strict surveillance from the editorial board in order to keep the journal content to be more qualified and original. Therefore, it takes several days to read on the reviewers’ biography before recruiting them. It takes at least four weeks to conduct the reviews starting from the invitation to the review report.

Editors will email selected Reviewers the title and abstract of the submission, as well as an invitation to log into the journal web site to complete the review. Reviewers enter the journal web site to agree to do the review, to download submissions, submit their comments, and select a recommendation.

The final decision

The editor ultimately decides whether to accept or reject the article. USN-SJ plays no part in this decision. The editor will weigh all views and may call for a third opinion or ask the author for a revised paper before making a decision.

This Journal process with Blind Peer Review


 

Publication Frequency

Agrotech Journal publishes articles for one volume in a year (semester) with two issues that consist of six (6) articles for each issue. This aims to make our published articles more credible, especially for the editorial process. We do commit to this since 2016. This is ethically conducted with a reason for keeping all processes, policies, and quality running well. The frequency of the publication is two (2) issues a year which is from January to June (Issue 1) and July to December (Issue 2).

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

  1. This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
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