Focus and Scope

Ciencias Agronómicas is a biannual scientific journal published by the college Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias of UNR [National University of Rosario], Argentina. It is only available online, although it was also published in hard copy until Issue Nº 24 of December 2014.

Ciencias Agronómicas publishes original research papers, both theoretical and experimental, brief communications, review articles, and letters to the editor in a wide range of topics related to farming and Agricultural Sciences.

Its aim is to spread the results of research carried out by domestic and foreign institutions, placing special emphasis on the multidisciplinary approach that characterizes research on the Agricultural Sciences.

This journal is included in international indexes, academic databases, repositories, search engines and directories, thus ensuring a global distribution that increases the visibility, availability, and readership of published papers.

Peer review process

All submitted works must pass through three stages:

1. Review by the Editorial Board, the Director, or Editors. Only articles that comply with the scientific and editorial standards of the Journal and its objectives and approach are accepted.
2. Evaluation by experts. The double-blind arbitration protocol is used to evaluate each article, in which the authors and referees are unknown to each other. Each article will be evaluated by at least two experts in the subject who will suggest: a) accept without modifications, b) accept with modifications, or c) reject.
3. In case of discrepancies between the two evaluators, the article will be sent to a third referee, who will decide whether to publish it or not.

The results of the academic opinion evaluation process will be final in all cases.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides free and immediate access to its content under an Open Access policy. The journal aims to facilitate access to scientific production free of charge and without restrictions, while promoting a greater exchange of global knowledge.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons license.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Until 2021, the works were published with a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Article Processing Charge

Ciencias Agronómicas welcomes article submissions and does not charge a publication fee.

Data availability policy

Research data includes those obtained or used by researchers during the research process, which allow its validation and support new knowledge. Data can be physical or digital, raw or analyzed, qualitative or quantitative. Digital data can be found in many formats and can be stored on various media.

To promote the scientific values of replication, verification, reanalysis and reinterpretation, the journal Ciencias Agronómicas requires that the data obtained during the research described in the article be available for others. This requirement is established in the “New quality and relevance criteria for the evaluation and incorporation of publications to the Basic Core of Argentine Scientific Journals” (RESOL-2019-1183-APN-DIR#CONICET) based on Federal Law 26,899.

The research data of articles accepted for publication in Agronomic Sciences must be deposited, curated and published in the RDA-UNR Academic Data Repository. Each data publication has a unique DOI identifier and a corresponding citation. If there are limitations that prevent data sharing, check the Sensitive and Confidential Data Policy.

Once the data are published, they must be cited in the bibliographic references of the article.

Code of ethics

Ciencias Agronómicas is based on principles of impartiality, objectivity and honesty and its Code of Ethics is intended for editors, reviewers and authors. It is based on the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Editorial Board undertakes to publish any correction, clarification, retraction and apology when necessary.

Digital Archiving and Preservation

Ciencias Agronómicas uses the National University of Rosario Repository (RepHip) to archive its articles. All articles have an identifier DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) provided by CrossRef.

Likewise, backup copies are made on physical hard drives owned by the Editorial Team and on cloud storage services - Microsoft Onedrive and Dropbox.

Periodicity

Ciencias Agronómicas is a biannual publication that publishes its articles continuously. The journal releases two issues by year, in December and June. There are no date restrictions on the receipt of articles for evaluation.