The Journal of Crop Improvement provides an international forum to evaluate and review the latest advancements in basic and applied aspects of crop improvement and production, including seed science and technology. The journal directly addresses emerging issues, new strategies for new needs, and future challenges of crop improvement, production, and seed science, especially those leading to a secure world food supply and resource conservation using environmentally-friendly technologies. The Journal of Crop Improvement intends to create a unique niche in the crop improvement, production, and seed science literature by not only publishing research and review articles on varied issues but also by developing a series of thematic issues on cutting-edge topics or research fronts in the field.
The journal is a welcome and respected source of unparalleled, preeminent knowledge. Articles aim to: reveal novel concepts; achieve a new synthesis based on multifaceted, multilevel, and multidisciplinary approaches; identify key gaps in the knowledge that might be addressed by further research; and offer technical solutions to critical global problems in crop improvement, production, and seed science. Articles are presented in an understandable format, which can be directly used by students, teachers, researchers, practitioners, and advisors in the fields of genetics and plant breeding, molecular biology and biotechnology, transgenic crop technology, agronomy, soil science, crop physiology and biochemistry, ecology, agroclimatology, plant pathology, integrated pest management, seed science and technology, agrobiodiversity and other cognate sciences that are of prime interest to crop improvement and production.
Journal metrics
Usage
51K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.0 (2023) Impact Factor
1.4 (2023) 5 year IF
3.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.684 (2023) SNIP
0.389 (2023) SJR
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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
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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.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Professor Anil Shrestha Professor, Weed Science / Interim Director, Viticulture & Enology Research Center (VERC) California State University Website: Anil Shrestha - Weed Science (fresnostate.edu)
EDITORIAL BOARD ADVISORS Dr. James A. Cock, CIAT, Cali, Colombia Dr. Bikram S. Gill, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA Dr. Gurdev S. Khush, University of California, Davis, CA, USA Dr. Mary Beth Kirkham, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA Dr. Rattan Lal, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD Dr Siddique Aboobucker, Iowa State University, USA Dr. Muhanad Akash, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan Dr. Brijesh Angira, Louisiana State University, LA, USA Dr. Gazala Ameen, South Dakota State University, USA Dr. Parvez Anwar, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh Dr. Jackie Atim, University of Calrifornia, USA Dr. S.S. Banga, Department of Plant Breeding/Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India Dr. Sangeeta Bansal, California State University, USA Dr. Sumandeep K. Bazzer, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Dr. Seema Bedi, Botany Department, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India Dr. Mahendra Bhandari, Texas A&M University, USA Dr. Krishna Bhattari, Texas A&M University System, USA Dr. Cecilia Bruno, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina Dr. Michael Cary, Virginia Tech, USA Dr. Christian Torres De Guzman, University of Arkansas, USA Dr. Amandeep K. Dhaliwal, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA Dr. Francesco Di Gioia, Penn State University, USA Dr. Margaret Ellis, California State University, US Dr. Katherine Frels, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Dr. Linda Gorim, University of Alberta, USA Dr. Sara K. Gremillion, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA, USA Dr. Jakir Hasan, University of Alaska, USA Dr. Amir M.H. Ibrahim, Soil and Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA Dr. A K M Mominul Islam, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh Dr. Jamal Javanmardi, California State University, USA Dr. Gaurav Jha, Kansas State University, USA Dr. Gurleen Kaur, University of Florida, USA Dr. Aida Kebede, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada Dr. Vikram Koundinya, University of California Davis, USA Dr. Lavanya Mendu, Montana State University, USA Dr. Barbara Molesini, Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy Dr. Patrick Ongom, IITA, Nigeria Dr. Tapan Pathak, University of California, Merced, USA Dr. Michael Pillay, Department of Biosciences Vaal University of Technology, South Africa Dr. K. Rajasekaran, Food & Feed Safety USDA-ARS-SRRC, New Orleans, LA, USA Dr. Istvan Rajcan, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Dr. Waltram Ravelombola, Texas A&M University System, USA Dr. Jessica Rupp, Kansas State University, USA Dr. H.S. Sandhu, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Dr. Gourav Sharma, United States of America Dr. Keshav D Singh, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada Dr. Henry Sintim, University of Georgia, USA Dr. Shyamal Talukder, Texas A&M University, USA Dr. Guoqi Wen, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada Dr. Sandra Woolfolk, USDA, USA Dr. Marvellous Zhou, South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI), Mount Edgecombe, South Africa
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of Crop Improvement is abstracted and indexed in the various services: CABI (listed in various services in CABI); CSA (listed in various services in CSA); De Gruyter Saur (IBZ); EBSCOhost (listed in various services in EBSCOhost); Elsevier BV (BIOBASE, Scopus); Food Science and Technology Abstracts; OCLC (ArticleFirst, Electronic Collections Online); ProQuest (listed in various services in ProQuest); VINTI RAN (Referatiynyi Zhurnal)
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