About this journal

Aims and scope

Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection accepts the following types of article: Original Article, Short Communication (Comment), View Point (Technical Support) and Review Article. Subjects include phytopathological virology, bacteriology, mycology, herbal studies and applied nematology and entomology as well as strategies and tactics of protecting crop plants and stocks of crop products against diseases.

The journal devotes much space to articles dealing with scientific aspects of integrated plant protection within the framework of ecologically sound and economically reasonable land cultivation. Relevant topics include advanced methods of diagnosis, computer-assisted diagnosis, research and new findings in the field of plant and soil hygiene, biological methods of plant protection, selective chemical methods of plant protection, and the effects of plant-protecting agents and their toxicology, methods to induce and utilize crop resistance, techniques of application and economic aspects of plant protection.

The journal provides a permanent forum for discussion of questions relating to the influence of plant protection measures on soil, water and air quality and on the fauna and flora, as well as to their interdependence in ecosystems of cultivated and neighbouring areas.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 55K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.0 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 2.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.565 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.315 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 24 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 82 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 16 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 29% acceptance rate

Editorial board

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Each year the Editor-in-Chief recognises a number of Editors for their outstanding contribution to the journal. The latest acknowledgements are:
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Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Shahrokh Khanizadeh - Saint-Lazare, Quebec, Canada

Editorial Board:

Adly Abd-Alla - Joint FAO/IAEA Division, Department of Nuclear Application, Austria

Ajay Kumar Tiwari - U P Council of Sugarcane Research, Uttar Pradesh, India

Akbar Karegar - Department of Plant Protection, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Ali Taheri - Department of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Tennessee State University, USA

Allison Da Silva Santana - Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho Faculdade de Ciencias Agronomicas Campus de Botucatu, Brazil

Andre Freire Cruz - Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan

Ani Widiastuti - Department of Plant Protection, Fac. of Agriculture, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Anthony O. Adesemoye - Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Arash Zibaee - Faculty of Agriculture Science, Department of Plant Protection, Guilan, Iran

Artemio Mendoza - BioProtection Research Center, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Ashraf El-kereamy - University of California, USA

Assunta Bertaccini - Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Bologna, Italy

Aswati Ravindranathan Nair - Central University of Kerala, Tejaswini Hills, Kasaragode, Kerala, India

Atef Nassar - Damanhour University, Dept Plant Protection, Egypt

Bahram Samanfar - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, ORDC, Canada

Behzad Sadeghzadeh - Dryland Agricultural Research Institute (DARI), Maragheh, Iran

Barbara Caoili - College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

Champa Wijekoon - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Government of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Chetan Keswani - Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Dheeraj Rathore - Teagasc, Crops Research Centre, Oak Park, Carlow. Ireland

Giacinto Salvatore Germinara - Department of the Sciences of Agriculture, University of Foggia, Italy

Harvinder Singh Bennypaul - Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Government of Canada, Canada

Hesham El Enshasy - Institute of Bioproduct Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.

Hassan Salehi - Department of Horticultural Science, Shiraz, Iran

Hilal Tunca - Ankara University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection, Ankara-Turkey.

Jagajjit Sahu - National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India

José López-Bucio - Michoacan University of Saint Nicholas of Hidalgo, Mexico

Juan Ignacio Vílchez - ITQB NOVA, Healthier plant nutrition for food security and quality, Lisbon, Portugal

Kamal Abo-Elyousr - Sugar Technology Research Institute/ Plant Pathology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

Khondoker M.G. Dastogeer - Department Plant Pathology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Kallol Das - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

Kamran Saleem - Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Pakistan

Alisson Da Silva Santana - Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho Faculdade de Ciencias Agronomicas Campus de Botucatu, Brazil

Kanthaiah Kannan - Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

Laith Khalil Tawfeeq Al-Ani - Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

Lidiya T. Mishchenko - National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

Lucia Lopez-Reyes - Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

Madhu Kamle - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Mark Angelo Balendres - De La Salle University, Philippines

Maria L. Pappas - Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Agricultural Development, Orestiada, Greece

Masumeh Ziaee - Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Entomology, Ahvaz-Iran

Matiyar Rahaman Khan - ICAR - Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi, INDIA

Melanie Kalischuk - Guelph University, Edmund C. Bovey Building, Ontario, Canada

Mohammed Abbas Jasim - University of Anbar, Biology Department, Al-Anbar province, Iraq

Mohammad Nematollahi - Isfahan Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Isfahan, Iran

Nabil El-Wakeil - Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Nawres Al-Kuwaiti - Plant Protection Dept./College of Agriculture-University of Baghdad, Iraq

Nguyễn Xuân Cảnh - Vietnam National University of Agriculture: Hanoi, VN 

Oyeboade Adebayo - Crop Production Services, High River, Alberta, Canada

Qunkang Cheng - Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, Knoxville, USA 

Ram Prasad - Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, India

Rachid Lahlali - Department of Plant Protection, Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture de Meknès, Morocco

Rene Kizek - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic

Reza Mohammadi‏ - Dryland Agricultural Research Institute (DARI), Kermanshah, Iran

Samina Mehnaz - Department of Biological Sciences, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan

Sangeeta Srivastava - Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-IISR, Lucknow, India

Sedighe Azimi - Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran

Seloame Tatu Nyaku - Department of Crop Science, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana

Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan - Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Excellence in Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India

Shawkat Ali - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Government of Canada, Nova Scotia, Canada

Shawn P. Brown, Ph.D. - Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA

Sílvia Barcellos Rosa - Wheat breeding and genetics, Centre de recherche sur les grains (CÉROM) inc., Quebec, Canada

Simon Francis Shamoun - Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Soum Sanogo - College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, USA

Srdan G. Acimovic - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Winchester, VA, USA

Tariq Mukhtar - Department of Plant Pathology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan

Tim Dumonceaux - Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, Saskatoon, Canada

Trinh Xuan Hoat - Plant Protection Research Institute, Vietnam

Viet-Cuong Han - Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Australia 

Vijay Yadav Tokala - Amity Institute of Horticulture Studies & Research, UP, India

Vinodkumar Selvaraj  - SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Baburayanpettai, India

Xu Yan - Ramapo College of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA

Xuan Hoan Dinh - Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences: Tsukuba, Japan.

Youssef K.Y. Ahmed - Agriculture Research Center, Plant Pathology Research Institute, Egypt

Abstracting and indexing

Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection is currently abstracted and indexed in: Biosis Previews®; Biological Abstracts®; CAB International; Derwent Publs; EBSCO; Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA); Review of Agricultural Entomology; SCOPUS; Web of Science - Emerging Sources Citation List (ESCI) and Zoological Record.

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