Journal profile · AGRONOMY-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT
ISSN 1370-6233 · eISSN 1780-4507 · Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux · BELGIUM · Quarterly · Founded 1997
BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.7; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review 6–12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 24 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT is published by Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux and is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Agriculture and Rural Development Research, African Botany and Ecology Studies and Insect Pest Control Strategies, together about 40.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
BASE publishes original papers in the fields of life sciences: environmental science and technology, forest and natural space management, agronomical science, and chemistry and bio-industries.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): AGRONOMY-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Editor-in-chief Gilbert BerbenPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Agriculture and Rural Development ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences19.5%
- African Botany and Ecology StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences16.6%
- Insect Pest Control StrategiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.6%
- Horticultural and Viticultural ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.4%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.5%
- Plant and animal studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.5%
- Insect-Plant Interactions and ControlAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.3%
- Forest ecology and managementEnvironmental Science3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Agronomy | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Agronomy | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Agronomy | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceCASPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, AGRICOLA, AGRIS, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CABI, Environment Complete, FSTA, Inside, Journal Citation Report, PASCAL, Paperity, ProQuest Environmental Science Collection, Zoological Record
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
- Impact factor
- 0.7LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.22LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.71LetPub ·
- h-index
- 28LetPub ·
- h-index
- 33OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 107OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.47OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 94.64%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 19LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,011Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 480 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 2025 | 24 | 24 | 4 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 19 |
| 2023 | 22 | 22 | 65 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 82 |
| 2021 | 34 | 34 | 130 |
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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 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 | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
Author guidelines and submission process hosted on ojs.uliege.be Model summary
The author guidelines and the submission process are on the website ojs.uliege.be.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access 3. Provides Open Access (gold OA)
Gold open access under CC BY-SA 4.0 license at no charge Model summary
BASE in member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association). All papers appearing in BASE are published with free and open access to the full text (platinium OA) under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en at no charge. The author retains his rights and has the right to publicly self-archive his/her article (green OA) in the edito…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 8. Impartial selection (peer review)
Peer review with at least two reviewers Model summary
All manuscripts are submitted to at least two reviewers from the international scientific community. The reviewers are selected by the 15 members of the editorial board. For the period 2010-2014, the reviewing process resulted in an average rejection rate of 77.41%.
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
- Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux
- Country or region
- BELGIUM
- Language
- English, French
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1997
- ISSN
- 1370-6233
- Print ISSN
- 0435-2033
- Electronic ISSN
- 1780-4507
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT
What CAS zone is BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Agronomy / Environmental Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.7; CiteScore 1.4, h-index 33.
How long does peer review take at BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT?
Authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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.
Which databases index BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and CAS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT open access, and what is the APC?
BIOTECHNOLOGIE AGRONOMIE SOCIETE ET ENVIRONNEMENT 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, 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 2026-08-24). Last updated: .