Biosystems Engineering

Biosystems Engineering is published by Academic Press Inc. and is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics, Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses and Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization, together about 23.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Biosystems Engineering publishes advances in engineering science that strengthen the understanding and management of biological systems. Biosystems of primary interest relate to land use and the environment, agriculture and amenities, bioproduction processes and the food chain.The journal envisions engineering science as an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical engineering, focusing on applying fundamental principles of physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology to solve complex problems.Research should focus on the performance, optimisation and sustainable development of the studied biosystem through the application of quantitative, analytical, and design-based methods. Papers may report the results from experiments, modelling, theoretical analyses, data-driven findings, design of, or innovations related to, machines and mechanisation systems, processes or processing methods, equipment and buildings, experimental setups, laboratory and analytical techniques and instrumentation.Submissions should:demonstrate new insights in engineering science (i.e. science-based novelty)provide a clear summary of relevant previous research on the topic and show how the presented work advances the state of the artand discuss how the knowledge gap has been narrowed and outline the key challenges that remain.Science-based novelty is of crucial importance for our journal, and it is linked with our focus on Science4Impact. Thus, research in ‘biosystems engineering’ should aim to deliver ‘solutions for the future’ with respect to e.g. climate change, food security, biodiversity and animal welfare. Our journal wishes to demonstrate to its readership how its individual publications link to these societal challenges. Therefore, authors are encouraged to include a Science4Impact Statement, describing how their scientific findings could support advisory and/or decision-making processes with stakeholders(e.g. land managers, agricultural businesses, environmental pressure groups and charities, governments and regulators etc. ).Biosystems Engineering does NOT wish to publish:findings obtained under conditions which are not sufficiently representative of practice, making the usefulness of the results and conclusions not well demonstrated;application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) or Deep Learning (DL) techniques, without independent operational validation and/or analysis of their impact on the specific biological application under investigation;results from non-validated models, primarily based on assumptions;work where the novelty is centred on property testing of products being processed using standard techniques;calibration and verification results using well-known approaches for a specific application.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Agricultural Engineering

Editor-in-chief P. DemeyerPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 7 in mainland China (about 13%); most named Mainland China 7, United Kingdom 7, Greece 6, United States 5, Italy 3 (52 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

7.83LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

7.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

11.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

11.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.82LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

95LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

153OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,418OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

7.08OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

24.84%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

218LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Figures by source

Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

74%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

10%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

11 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

71 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

234 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Academic Press Inc.

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

2002

ISSN

1537-5110

Electronic ISSN

1537-5129

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website