| Name of journal | Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research |
| ISO Abbreviation | Iran. J. Field Crops Res. |
| Print ISSN | 2008-1472 |
| Online ISSN | 2423-3978 |
| Website | https://jcesc.um.ac.ir |
| cesc@um.ac.ir | |
| Date of foundation | 2003 |
| Publisher | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad |
| Journal Frequency | Quarterly |
| Editor-in-Chief | Dr. Hamid Reza Khazaei |
| Type of review | Double blind peer review |
| License | International License (CC BY 4.0) |
| Document Identifier Type | DOI |
| Status | Active |
Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research was established in 2003 by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. From 2003 to 2008 as a quarterly, in 2009 as a bi-monthly and from 2010 until now as a quarterly.
The journal is published on a quarterly basis, and the table below shows the exact dates of publication for each volume in a given year. The journal adheres to this publishing schedule unless there are exceptional circumstances.
| Issue | Date of publication |
| Issue 1 | April |
| Issue 2 | July |
| Issue 3 | October |
| Issue 4 | January |
Website Archiving
All of our electronic content, including the Journal's website and manuscripts, is archived in two different ways. Firstly, the PDF format of the journal's content is accessible online to readers from our main server. Secondly, a copy of all content is kept as a backup on another server. In case of any content failure, it can be made available online again within 24-36 hours from our backup server.
Moreover, every published issue of the journal is sent to the following databases: [Internet Archive (since 2018) & Iran Scientific Journals System]
Therefore, the content can be accessed at any time even in the absence of website operation.
Abstracting/Indexing Services
Our journal's Abstracting/Indexing services store all essential information about the articles. The list of these services can be found in the 'Indexing and Abstracting' section.
Self-Archiving
Authors can archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories, after their article’s publication.
This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requiring prior permission from the publisher or author.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
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This journal is a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. Journal's Membership link
The Editorial Board, Reviewers, and Authors are encouraged to study the Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement for the Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research. If they encounter any issues, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, or data falsification/fabrication in submitted or published articles, they should contact the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Khazaie: h.khazaie@um.ac.ir or the publisher's principal contact at fumpress@um.ac.ir, who will follow COPE flowcharts.
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad owns and manages this journal, as indicated on the homepage of the journal's website.
The editorial board members of this journal are recognized experts in the subject areas stated in the Journal's aims and scope. The full names and affiliations of each board member are provided on the journal's website under the 'Editorial Board' section, and the list is regularly updated. To ensure that the journal maintains its integrity and to avoid association with predatory or deceptive practices, the journal periodically reviews its editorial board in collaboration with the publisher to ensure its relevancy and appropriateness.
All articles of the Journal are Open Access; They are available online at no cost to read, distribute and/or reuse. To support Open Access publishing, Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research charges a publication fee of 2,000,000 Rials. The payment is taken when the Iranian Journal of Field Crop Research accepts the article for publish. The corresponding author of the manuscript is responsible to pay the publication fee.
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the publisher of the journal, supports it for each published issue by paying a defined budget according to its published annual rank in Portal of Scientific Journals of Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The allocated budget includes those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the Journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving.
The other financial source of this journal is fees paid by authors whose articles have been accepted for publishing. Revenue sources do not influence on editorial decision making.
This Journal does not accept any advertising.
There are no direct marketing activities in this journal.
Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research, to prevent plagiarism, uses Hamyab system for persian paper and iThenticate system for identifying Latin abstracts.
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