Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (IJABE, https://www.ijabe.org) is a peer reviewed open access international journal. IJABE, started in 2008, is a joint publication co-sponsored by US-based Association of Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers (AOCABFE) and China-based Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE). The ISSN 1934-6344 and eISSN 1934-6352 numbers for both print and online IJABE have been registered in US. Now, Int. J. Agric. & Biol. Eng (IJABE) is published in both online and print version by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering.

As an Open Access journal, our papers are freely accessible online immediately upon publication. With the Open Access policy, our journal can reach a broader spectrum of readership by removing price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) that some individual readers may experience. IJABE International Editorial Board is made up of over 300 leading researchers from about 50 countries who are dedicated to ensuring that authors get a fair, efficient and friendly peer-review service. To benefit from the specialist advice and support of these internationally recognized experts, publish your next article with IJABE.

Openly accessible IJABE provides wider sharing of knowledge and the acceleration of research, and is thus in the best interest of authors, potential readers, and increases the availability, accessibility, visibility and impact of the papers, and the journal as a whole. IJABE aims at promoting agricultural and biological engineering, increasing academic prosperity, and fostering international academic exchange and cooperation.

This journal provides a platform for sharing the latest high-quality research concerning the agricultural, food and biological engineering and the application of these engineering techniques in all areas of agriculture. The journal features works of great significance, originality, and relevance in all the concerned areas. Our readers are from the international scientific community and may include educators, policy makers, agricultural engineers and scientists, and interested members of the public around the world.

Up to August 08, 2016, over 3000 submissions were received from over 30 countries, and 9 volumes with 38 issues and over 450 papers were published. The website of IJABE attracts over one million visits from over 90 countries around the world. Many papers published in IJABE were cited by other prestigious journals. The total registered users in IJABE database reached over 10 000 up to date.

Although IJABE is a newly-launched journal, it has been growing quickly and steadily. So far, online and print IJABE has been covered and indexed by SCIE, JCR, Current Contents, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Preview, Ei Compendex, CA, INSPEC, Indian NAAS Journal Scoring, Abstract Journals (VINITI RAN), Agricola, AGRIS, Scopus, CSA, OCLC, ProQuest, Index Copernicus, Google scholar, CAB International, CAB ABSTRACTS Full Text Select, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries-Open Access Digital Library, EBSCOhost --- Academic Search Complete, Academic Search R&D, Academic Source Complete, and Food Science Source, Socolar, China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation. All the papers published in IJABE can be searchable via the Thomson ISI Web of Science-All Databases. IJABE is also the Abstracting & Indexing Sources for AgBiotech News and Information (Active) (Print), Genetics Abstracts (Active) (Print), Index Veterinarius (Active) (Print), Pig News & Information (Active) (Print), Pollution Abstracts (Active) (Print), Postharvest News and Information (Active) (Print), Review of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants (Active) (Print), Virology and AIDS Abstracts (Active) (Print), Wheat, Barley and Triticale Abstracts (Active) (Print). And it has been listed on the world’s biggest online OA journals platform: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open J-Gate, and also Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.

Most importantly, received its first impact factor of 1.007, according to 2016 update of its Journal Citation Reports®(JCR) released by The Intellectual Property (IP) Science Business of Thomson Reuters on June 13, 2016. Based on the Journal Impact Factor(JIF) values, IJABE ranks 7th out of 14 SCI-indexed journals in the category of agricultural engineering in the world, locating in Q2 Quartile. According to the latest statistics from Thomson Reuters Web of Science All Databases Citation Report, till July 9 2016 (Data on June 28 2015 in comparison), 474(355) items including articles, news, editorials and cover stories published in IJABE were found, and the sum of times cited reached 1144 (735). Average citation per item is 2.41 (2.07), and h-index is 12 (10).

Please note that you can help to maintain and achieve a greater success by Publishing your high-quality research papers in IJABE, Reviewing papers for IJABE if requested, and Citing related papers published in IJABE as much as possible in your own publications (short for supporting IJABE via PRC), and also by encouraging your colleagues, students and friends to do so. You are invited to submit your next high quality manuscript (in particular review papers) to IJABE.

IJABE covers but is not limited to the following 10 technical disciplines:

1 Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (ASET)
2 Animal, Plant and Facility Systems (APFS)
3 Biosystems, Biological and Ecological Engineering(BBEE)
4 Power and Machinery Systems (PMS)
5 Natural Resources and Environmental Systems (NRES)
6 Information Technologies, Control Systems and Sensors (ITCSS)
7 Renewable Energy and Material System (REMS)
8 Agro-product & Food Processing Systems (AFPS)
9 Safety, Health and Ergonomics (SHE)
10 Emerging Science, Engineering and Technologies (ESET)

Types of articles:
Cover Caption, Editorial, Research Highlights, Science News, Policy & Education Forum, Perspectives, Correspondence, Commentary, Brief Communications, Previews, Mini-reviews, Review, Research Articles, Book and Media Reviews, Corrections, Advance Online Publication, Advertisement.
Languages: English

Method of submission:
The authors are required to visit IJABE website to register as IJABE authors, then they can submit their manuscripts to IJABE through the Open Journal System (OJS) online. The detailed Author Guidelines for submission are available at https://www.ijabe.org. Online submission is quick and easy to follow. So why not submit your good research to IJABE now?

Contact Person:

Dr./Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Editor-in-chief
Tel: 86-10-59197090,59197086, 86-13691070263
Add: No.41, Maizidian Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100125, China
Email: ijabe@sina.com; wangyingkuan@163.com
https://www.ijabe.org

Section Policies

Editorials

Editors

Wang Yingkuan

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Invited Review/Research Article

Only papers invited by editors can be included in this section.

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

Applied Science, Engineering and Technology

Applications of physical and mathematical techniques to fundamental investigations and emerging areas within the physical and life sciences; How to use engineering methods and the principles of biology to make the most of natural resources and to solve problems related to agriculture, aquaculture, forest, and environment. Major areas of emphasis are in applied physics, engineering sciences, engineering basics, biomaterial sciences, Biology, biological engineering fundamentals, bioprocessing, biological kinetics, biosystem modeling, and bioelectronics, chemistry, chemical engineering, heat/mass transport, and other types of engineering, hydrology and ecological engineering, technology for improving environmental quality, engineering for sustainability.

Open Submissions

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Animal, Plant and Facility Systems

Encompasses environment within structures for animal housing, plant production, and commodities storage; environmental air quality; climatic and meteorological data for engineering design, Environment of animal and plant structures, design and management of environmental control systems for animal production facilities; analysis, design, and construction of agricultural structures, imposed loads on structures, and materials of construction, climate control technologies (heating, cooling, and dehumidification), and control strategies for plant production under protective structures, i.e.: greenhouses, plant growth chambers, plant factories, and high tunnels; environment air quality; facilities & systems for human and animal housing, agricultural waste management, pollution source and emission, and animal care; Beef and dairy facilities and systems; milk handling equipment and systems for on-farm processing of milk and milk products; Swine housing, manure management and environmental control strategies for improved production efficiency and enhanced animal well-being and welfare；poultry housing including environmental control strategies for improved production efficiency and enhanced animal well-being；animal welfare and care; Electrical Code for Agriculture -development of practical electrical codes and standards for safety in electrical wiring systems used in agricultural production and processing. Plant growth LED lighting, Electric fence controller.

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

Power and Machinery Systems

Design and manufacturing, Mechanization and automation, Man-machine system interaction, Precision agriculture and emerging technologies, application of agricultural fans,standby electric power; control and/or communications network systems for mobile agricultural equipment; electronics as applied to animal identification and tracking; wireless communications in agricultural applications; agricultural machinery common tests; testing procedures for positioning & guidance systems in agricultural applications; agricultural tractor and self-propelled implement cabs used during the application of pesticides; safety and comfort of the operator(s) of agricultural machinery; agricultural equipment braking, agricultural loaders; mobile agricultural equipment lighting and marking; engineering technology for agricultural pest control and fertilizer application; ground application of liquid materials; agricultural aviation, aerial application of dry and liquid materials; development, evaluation and implementation of engineering technology for agricultural pest control and fertilizer application by ground application of dry materials. computer modeling of spray application; engineering technologies for agricultural harvest and grain harvesting systems, mechanical aspects of harvesting, handling, storing and processing of forages and biomass and derivatives there from; all engineering aspects of cotton production, harvesting, handling and processing; soil-machine and soil-plant dynamics; design of components for agricultural tractors and self-propelled machines; all engineering aspects of specialty crop production, post-harvest operations, storage and distribution; engineering for all turf and landscape equipment systems. Tractor & Implement Hydraulics, Tractor Implement Interface/PTO-implement and implement to implement mechanical interfaces, PTOs, and general hitching issues; Cultural Practices Equipment- engineering technology for tillage, planting, seeding, and other cultural practice equipment for field crop production. Agricultural Machinery Management & Logistics- efficient and profitable production systems. Precision Agriculture-development, evaluation, and adoption of technologies and systems for use in precision agriculture. Agricultural Equipment Automation-Collects and disseminates technical information on the automation of agricultural equipment.

Open Submissions

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Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

Safety, Health and Ergonomics

All engineering aspects of ergonomic human safety and health for users of equipment systems and facilities in agriculture; agricultural safety and health, food security and safety, life cycle analysis

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Overview Articles

Overview, either research review or literature review papers submitted by authors voluntarily, can be included in this section.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Expert Forum

Editors

Wang Yingkuan

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Science News

Editors

Wang Yingkuan

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Special Column of Orchard Information System

This special column is only used to publish cooperated papers from an international conference. The regular submission should not go to this section.

Editors

Wang Yingkuan

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Cover Captions

Editors

Wang Yingkuan

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Color Insert Pages

Color pages of figures, maps and other graphs from papers will be printed in order to be more clear and listed in this section.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Special Section of SWAT-related Submissions

IJABE publishes a special issue or special column of SWAT papers presented in SWAT Conferences or free submissions.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Information

Editors

Wang Yingkuan

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Book Review

Editors

Wang Yingkuan

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

AUS SEAG 2013 Special Issue

We will publish a special issue online only after getting all the papers ready, which come from SEAG 2013 conference proceedings.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Perspective and Insight

Perspective articles are intended to provide a forum for authors to discuss models and ideas from a personal viewpoint. They are more forward looking and/or speculative than Reviews and may take a narrower field of view. They may be opinionated but should remain balanced and are intended to stimulate discussion and new experimental approaches.

Perspectives follow the same formatting guidelines as Reviews. Both are peer-reviewed and edited substantially by IJABE's editors in consultation with the author.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Special Column

IJABE publishes a special issue or special column .

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Special Column of 2021 CASE Meeting

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts will be critically reviewed by the editor and invited referees within 2 months. All manuscripts submitted to IJABE are peer-reviewed according to the following procedure:

Initial review: A Division Editor evaluates all manuscripts sent his/her division to determine if submitted manuscripts are appropriate for consideration by IJABE. Manuscripts that do not meet the minimum criteria are returned to the authors within one week of receipt. This is in the best interest of the authors who could then decide to fix the problems or to submit the manuscript to a more appropriate venue, avoiding delay caused by a lengthy review process that would nonetheless lead to rejection.

Peer review: Manuscripts passing the initial review are assigned to an Associate Editor, who selects and invites two reviewers based on their expertise in the particular field. A manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers. Reviewers are asked to evaluate the manuscript based on

Material is original and timely
Writing is clear
Study methods are appropriate
Data are valid
Conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data
Information is important
Topic has general engineering interest and practical significance

To facilitate timely publication, reviewers are asked to complete their reviews within one month. If the two reviewers have very different opinions on the manuscript, the Associate Editor or Division Editor's review will weigh in. After collecting the referees' reports, the Associate Editor makes a recommendation on the acceptability of the manuscript to the respective Division Editor.

Recommendation: Based on the reviewers' comments and the Associate Editor's recommendation, the Division Editor makes a final decision on the acceptability of the manuscript, and communicates to the authors the decision, along with reviewers' reports. The decision can be:

accept as is
minor revision
major revision
reject

A revised manuscript should be re-submitted within six months of the decision. It will usually be returned to the original reviewers for evaluation.

A rejection decision is made typically because the manuscript does not meet the criteria outlined above such as originality, importance to the field, cross-discipline interest, or sound methodology.

If the Division Editor and Associate Editor have conflicting opinions on a manuscript, they will seek consultation with the Editor in Chief who may make the final decision.

Honest and Polite
After each round of the review, review reports will be sent to the author(s) and all reviewers of the manuscript under consideration. It is important for a reviewer to be honest but not offensive when providing comments. Review reports with opinions expressed in a kind and constructive way will persuade the authors of the merit of the review more effectively.

Writing the Review
The purpose of the review is to provide the editors with an expert's opinions on the quality of the manuscript under consideration. A good review report should identify both the strengths and the weaknesses of the paper, and should also provide constructive and specific comments on how to improve the paper. If the reviewer believes that the paper is not suitable for publication in IJABE, the review report should provide brief but sufficient information that enables the author(s) to understand the reasons for the decision.

Publication Frequency

Two issues in 2008. First issue in August and second in December in 2008.

Quarterly from 2009 to 2013.

Currently, IJABE is Biomonthly from 2014.

It may be Monthly in the near future.

Open Access Policy

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

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives.

By “open access” to this literature we published, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

We adopt the latest version of license CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Archiving

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...

Indexed and abstracted by

IJABE JIF=2.4, ranking 7 out of 14, locating Q2 according to JCR2022.

IJABE JIF=1.885, ranking 7 out of 14, locating Q2 according to JCR2021.

IJABE JIF=2.032, ranking 6 out of 14, locating Q2 according to JCR2020.

IJABE JIF=1.731, ranking 6 out of 14, locating Q2 according to JCR2019.

IJABE JIF=1.349, ranking 6 out of 14, locating Q2 according to JCR2018.

Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®)
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
Current Contents®/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences
Biological Abstracts
BIOSIS Previews
Ei Compendex
Web of Science Core Collection
Agricola
AGRIS
Abstract Journals (VINITI RAN)
CA
CAS
CSA
Google scholar
INSPEC
Index Copernicus
OCLC
ProQuest
Scopus
CAB International
CAB ABSTRACTS Full Text Select
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries-Open Access Digital Library
EBSCOhost---Academic Search Complete, Academic Search R&D, Academic Source Complete, and Food Science Source
Socolar
China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation

IJABE has been listed on the world's biggest online OA journals platform:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open J-Gate
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

IJABE are also the Abstracting & Indexing Sources for AgBiotech News and Information (Active) (Print), Genetics Abstracts (Active) (Print), Index Veterinarius (Active) (Print), Pig News & Information (Active) (Print), Pollution Abstracts (Active) (Print), Postharvest News and Information (Active) (Print), Review of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants (Active) (Print), Virology and AIDS Abstracts (Active) (Print), Wheat, Barley and Triticale Abstracts (Active) (Print).

Author-side Fees or Article-Processing Charges(APC)

We charge the authors of accepted papers the publication fees similar to APC. Definitely, IJABE has no submission charge as well as peer-review fee. The flat APC is $1000 per manuscript within 5 formatted (print) pages, with $150 for every extra page.
The flat APC is RMB6500 per manuscript within 5 formatted (print) pages, with RMB1000 for every extra page in mainland China.
US$500 or RMB3000 for one printing color page.
Publication fees will be billed upon acceptance. However, the ability of authors to pay publication charges will never be a consideration in the decision whether to publish. And we provide waiver policy for authors from low-income countries according to the updated list by World Bank.

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