Journal profile · AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
ISSN 0570-1783 · eISSN 2090-8377 · Elsevier · Egypt
ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES: CAS Zone 2 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.08; fully open access; APC about USD 1,000; review about 272 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); 13 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Agricultural pest management studies and Agricultural Science and Fertilization, together about 20.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Faculty of Agriculture, Ain-Shams University. Peer review under the responsibility of Faculty of Agriculture, Ain-Shams UniversityAnnals of Agricultural Sciences (AOAS) is the official journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University. AOAS is an open access peer-reviewed journal publishing original research articles and review articles on experimental and modelling research at laboratory, field, farm, landscape, and industrial levels. AOAS aims to maximize the quality of the agricultural sector across the globe with emphasis on the Arabian countries by focusing on publishing the high-quality applicable researches, in addition to the new methods and frontiers leading to maximizing the quality and quantity of both plant and animal yield and final products. The journal will consider research that uses comprehensive and explanatory approaches. The AOAS covers the following topics:Animal & Plant PhysiologyAnimal Breeding and NutritionAnimal & Plant BiotechnologyAnimal & Plant Molecular BiologyGenetic Diversity in Animal and Plant SpeciesFood Science and TechnologyPlant Production and Management Including Irrigation, Fertilization and Soil ManagementPlant EcophysiologyPlant Ecology and FloraPlant Abiotic and Biotic Stress Physiology and Adaptation ProcedureBotanyMedicinal Plants and Natural Active CompoundsTissue Culture TechnologyPlant-Soil RelationshipsSoil Sciences and Soil FertilityLand Resources, Land Use, and Remote SensingWater ManagementPlant NutritionOrganic AgriculturePhytoremediationModelling of Crop and Animal SystemsBionergy And Energy CropsPlant Quality and Post-Harvest PhysiologyPost-Harvest TechnologyFarming and Cropping SystemsAgroecosystems and The EnvironmentPlant-Weed Interactions and ManagementHorticultural CropsBreeding and production of Pomology, Vegetables and Ornamental plantsAgriculture Arid Land ReclamationSoilless CultureAgronomy and Crop ScienceAgricultural MicrobiologyAgricultural Virology and BacteriologyPlant-Microbe RelationshipsAgricultural EngineeringAgricultural Mechanization, Modern Irrigation Systems, Renewable Energy and BiosystemsAgricultural EconomicsFarm ManagementPlant Pest ManagementPlant ProtectionAgricultural Economic EntomologyPlant PathologyPoultry Breeding, Physiology & NutritionFish Breeding & ProductionFor queries related to the journal, please contact annals_agrsci@agr.asu.edu.eg
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Hussein AliPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Egypt 10, Saudi Arabia 4, United States 2, India 1, Italy 1 (19 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 Sciences7.6%
- Agricultural pest management studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.8%
- Agricultural Science and FertilizationAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.5%
- Insect Pest Control StrategiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.3%
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping SystemsAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.2%
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6%
- Plant tissue culture and regenerationBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.2%
- Food composition and propertiesNursing3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 4.08LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 4.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 8.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.76LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- h-index
- 67OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 322OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.82OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 13LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,062 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 13 | 13 | 36 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 71 |
| 2023 | 20 | 20 | 185 |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 | 444 |
| 2021 | 33 | 33 | 622 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
272 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports about 20 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 77 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 166 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 272 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 40 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 1,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,000 / EUR 940 / GBP 800 / JPY 121,010 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 60 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 1,000 | — | — |
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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author contributions
For transparency, we require corresponding authors to provide co-author contributions to the manuscript using the relevant CRediT roles. The CRediT taxonomy includes 14 different roles describing each contributor's specific contribution to the scholarly output. The roles are: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration;…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places:…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Declaration of interests required. Model summary
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'License Agreement' (see more information on this). Permitted third party reuse of open access articles is determined by the author's choice of user license.Author rightsAs an author you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. More information.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Please visit our Open Access page for more information about open access publishing in this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
Single anonymized review process. Model summary
This journal operates a single anonymized review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor'…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint references
Where a preprint has subsequently become available as a peer-reviewed publication, the formal publication should be used as the reference. If there are preprints that are central to your work or that cover crucial developments in the topic, but are not yet formally published, these may be referenced. Preprints should be clearly marked as such, for example by including the word preprint, or the nam…
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
- Elsevier
- Country or region
- Egypt
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0570-1783
- Electronic ISSN
- 2090-8377
- Society / sponsor
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
What CAS zone is ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Agriculture, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.08; CiteScore 8.2, h-index 67.
How long does peer review take at ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES?
The publisher reports about 272 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of about 20 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.
Where are the editorial board members of ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES based?
Of the 19 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Egypt (10), Saudi Arabia (4) and United States (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES open access, and what is the APC?
ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,000.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .