The provision of healthy food in dynamic market environments, the viability of agricultural production systems affected by risk and shocks, or natural resource management under uncertain conditions, represent some of the multi-dimensional challenges central to NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences. This journal offers a platform for multi-disciplinary and impact-driven research that addresses these agricultural and societal challenges.
As a journal fostering integrative research, NJAS recognises that this requires opportunities to jointly travel uncharted terrains, to synthesise empirical research and to accept the uncertainties of working across boundaries within the natural and social sciences and between science and society.
We encourage papers that demonstrate the value of versatile research in topical domains, evaluate the methodological choices enabling integrative research, show the workings of creatively combined methods, or discuss innovative conceptualisations conducive to integrating multiple dimensions of major societal challenges.
The journal aims to do so through the publication of:
i) research papers with a clear empirical, methodological, or conceptual contribution to the field of integrative studies in agricultural and life sciences;
ii) special issues focusing on a complex problem in life science through a combination of disciplinary and/or multi-disciplinary papers with a strong editorial to place the papers in a broader societal and scientific context;
iii) review papers that provide a multi-perspective view on a current issue in agricultural and life sciences, and;
iv) synthesis papers building on a set of research papers (e.g. from a PhD thesis) where the synthesis has an added value by providing a multi-dimensional view on a complex problem in agricultural and life sciences.
The journal also aims to build communities of scholars around special issues. We welcome proposals for special issues that collect papers, which, individually or collectively, display how to do collaborative research and address major agricultural and societal challenges. The journal also pro-actively encourages young scholars (including PhD candidates) to propose and organise special issues and offers organisational and editorial support for realising these.
Please note that NJAS converted to full Open Access from Volume 93 (2021). Archive content from Volume 48 onward have been made free to access.
Journal metrics
Usage
163K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
1.6 (2023) 5 year IF
0.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.000 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
10 days avg. from submission to first
decision
31% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Jetse Stoorvogel, Wageningen University & Research
Editorial Board
Prof Karin Schroen, Wageningen University & Research
Prof Paul Struik, Wageningen University & Research
Abstracting and indexing
NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Science is indexed in:
BIOBASE
Biological Abstracts (online)
BIOSIS Previews
CABI
Cotton and Tropical Fibres
Current Contents
EBSCOhost
Gale
GEOBASE
INIS Repository
OCLC ArticleFirst
Ovid GeoRef
Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
Personal Alert
ProQuest
Scopus
All papers published in NJAS for the period 1953-1999/2008 are available via the library of Wageningen University & Research ( https://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/njas/issue/archive). The Taylor & Francis archive covers all volumes starting in 2000.
Open access
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Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences
(2021 - current)
Formerly known as
NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
(2000 - 2020)
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