The official name of this Journal is Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research, which is a unique journal’s name and is not the one that is easily confused with other journals.
The journal’s website is supported and maintained, with particular attention given to security aspects that help protect users from viruses and malware. All traffic of this website is redirected through https.
The journal’s publishing frequency is Quarterly and the table below shows exact dates of different volumes of each year. The journal keeps to this publishing schedule unless there are exceptional circumstances.
| Issue | Date of publication |
| Issue 1 | 04-April |
| Issue 2 | 06-July |
| Issue 3 | 07-October |
| Issue 4 | 05-January |
The journal's plan for electronic backup and long term digital preservation of the journal content is to store them on different sources. Every published issue of the journal is sent to the following databases and so can be reachable anytime in absence of website operation.
Under open access license and due to journal’s publisher policy, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly. The copyright holder is named on the full text of all published articles (HTML and PDF).
Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research is fully compliant with open access mandates, by publishing its articles under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). That means readers are free to:
In this journal The Creative Commons license is indicated on the full text of all published articles (HTML and PDF). Licensing policies about the posting of author manuscripts and published articles in third party repositories: Authors can archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories after their article’s publication.
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 journal’s publisher (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the scholarly literature and has a publication Ethics statement on handling issues such as:
So Editorial Board, Reviewers and Authors are encouraged to study these guidelines and if face with any issues including plagiarism, citation manipulation and data falsification/fabrication in submitted or published articles should contact the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Khazaie: h.khazaie@um.ac.ir or publisher’s principal contact fumpress@um.ac.ir whom will follow cope flowcharts.
The peer reviewers of this journal according to publisher’s policy are not part of the journal's editorial team except in some special cases that there are no external reviewers in the manuscript subject area.
All of the online content is freely accessible to everyone, and there is no need of registration, subscription, or pay-per-view fees.
This journal editorial board members are recognized experts in the subject areas stated in the journal's aims and scope.
The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors as well as contact information for the editorial office are provided on Editorial Board section.
Iranian Journal of Field Crops Research charges a publication fee of 2,000,000 Rials including (article review processing charges, language editing fees) which is taken when the manuscript is accepted for publication. The corresponding author of the manuscript is responsible for paying the publication fee. Author fees does not influence editorial decision making.
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 are 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.