Journal profile
Agricultural Science and Technology
ISSN 1313-8820 · eISSN 1314-412X · Trakia University. Faculty of Agriculture, Stara Zagora · Bulgaria
Agricultural Science and Technology: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 11 weeks (community reports); 50 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Agricultural Science and Technology is published by Trakia University. Faculty of Agriculture, Stara Zagora. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Educational Reforms and Innovations and Agriculture and Biological Studies, together about 27.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Agricultural Science and Technology /AST/ was founded in 2009 by Faculty of Agriculture, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.It’s is published in English in one volume of 4 issues per year, as a printed journal and in electronic form. This issue in 2025 is printed with the financial support by Contract No. 06-НП6/73 from 10.12.2024, financed by Bulgaria National Science Fund (BNSF), grant "Bulgarian scientific periodicals". Learn more
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, United States 1, France 1, Italy 1, Australia 1 (10 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Crop Yield and Soil FertilityAgricultural and Biological Sciences10.1%
- Educational Reforms and InnovationsEnvironmental Science9.6%
- Agriculture and Biological StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.5%
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and PathologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.4%
- Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop ManagementAgricultural and Biological Sciences7%
- Agricultural Productivity and Crop ImprovementAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.6%
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestockBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.4%
- Chinese history and philosophySocial Sciences4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
AGRIS (FAO), CABI, EBSCO-host, ROADPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 13OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.38OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,308 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | 23 | 0 |
| 2025 | 50 | 50 | 10 |
| 2024 | 48 | 48 | 36 |
| 2023 | 43 | 43 | 51 |
| 2022 | 49 | 49 | 68 |
| 2021 | 68 | 68 | 198 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 11 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 350 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access
- License & copyright Copyright
As a rule authors are not provided with article off prints. However, they (as well as other riders) can freely and without charge read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in the PDF format at the website of the journal, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access statement
The AST is an open-access journal, distributed under Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 4.0. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits free of charge, unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction of articles, if they are correctly cited, as well as their using for any other lawful purposes.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Trakia University. Faculty of Agriculture, Stara Zagora
- Country or region
- Bulgaria
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1313-8820
- Electronic ISSN
- 1314-412X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Agricultural Science and Technology
How long does peer review take at Agricultural Science and Technology?
Authors report an average review time of about 11 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Agricultural Science and Technology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 350 words; Keywords: ≤ 6; Reference style: Author–date; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Agricultural Science and Technology based?
Of the 10 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (2), United States (1) and France (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Agricultural Science and Technology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Agricultural Science and Technology is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Agricultural Science and Technology open access, and what is the APC?
Agricultural Science and Technology is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .