Scientia Agricola is a journal of the University of São Paulo edited at the Luiz de Queiroz campus in Piracicaba, a city in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Scientia Agricola publishes original articles which contribute to the advancement of the agricultural, environmental and biological sciences.
The journal covers a broad spectrum of topics, including Crop and Animal Production, Agricultural Engineering, Agroindustrial Technology, Forestry, and Applications in Agricultural, Environmental, Soil, and Biological Sciences.
Four manuscript categories can be submitted: original research article, note, review, and point of view.
Original research articles are grouped by subject matter into the following categories: Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Microbiology; Agrometeorology; Animal Science and Pastures; Biometry, Modeling, and Statistics; Crop Science; Ecology; Entomology; Food Science and Technology; Forestry Science; Genetics and Plant Breeding; Plant Pathology; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry; Soils and Plant Nutrition; and Zoology.
Scientia Agricola journal supports the good practices of Open Science, which results in a more transparent editorial process. This way, manuscripts deposited in the SciELO Preprints server can be submitted to our journal. However, the peer-review process for the manuscripts already posted as preprints will be decided by the journal’s Editorial Board. Preprints are considered an author’s version of the manuscript before the peer-review process, which is posted on a free access website. Preprints can be posted at any moment during the peer-review process, it is not considered a formal publication, and it will not compromise the submission of any manuscript to Scientia Agricola. Once the manuscript is approved and published by Scientia Agricola, the preprint version should be changed to present a link directed to the final version published by our journal.
Articles published in Scientia Agricola are indexed or abstracted by Current Contents ®/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch ®), Scopus, DOAJ, CAB Abstracts, SciELO, AGRIS, AGROBASE, Chemical Abstracts, INIS and Tropag & Rural.
Original manuscripts evaluated by the Editorial Board may be submitted to peer review or rejected without further review.
All articles published on Scientia Agricola will be copyrighted to the authors. The articles are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 open-access license so that they can be downloaded and read by anyone. Furthermore, the article can be reused and cited if the original published version is cited. In this way, the study will have maximum exposure, and the authors will receive due credit.
Brazilian authors
R$ 150,00 per page
Foreign authors
US$ 90.00 per page
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