Journal profile · AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
BRAGANTIA
ISSN 0006-8705 · eISSN 1678-4499 · Instituto Agronomico · BRAZIL
BRAGANTIA: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.55; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 4 weeks (community reports); 52 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
BRAGANTIA is published by Instituto Agronomico 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 Growth and nutrition in plants, Soil Management and Crop Yield and Banana Cultivation and Research, together about 39.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Bragantia publishes original scientific papers in English on Agricultural Sciences. The following areas are accepted: Basic Area (Botany, Cytogenetics, Plant Physiology, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, and Phytochemistry); Crop Breeding; Crop Production; Crop Protection; Soil and Plant Nutrition; Seed and Fiber Technology; Postharvest Technology; Irrigation; and Agrometeorology.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Gabriel Constantino BlainPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Growth and nutrition in plantsAgricultural and Biological Sciences17.1%
- Soil Management and Crop YieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences14.8%
- Banana Cultivation and ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.6%
- Agricultural and Food SciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5%
- Crop Yield and Soil FertilityAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.7%
- Genetics and Plant BreedingAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.7%
- Sugarcane Cultivation and ProcessingAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.1%
- Coffee research and impactsMedicine3.9%
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 | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | 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 | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
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 | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceSciELOPublisher website
Other: Latindex, CABI Abstracts, Internet Archive, National Library of Australia Catalogue, WorldCat
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
- 1.55LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.36LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.61LetPub ·
- h-index
- 28LetPub ·
- h-index
- 56OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,274OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.44OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 96.53%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 55LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,237 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 32 | 5 |
| 2025 | 52 | 52 | 55 |
| 2024 | 48 | 48 | 130 |
| 2023 | 48 | 48 | 242 |
| 2022 | 49 | 49 | 304 |
| 2021 | 62 | 62 | 482 |
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 4 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Peer reviewLetPub
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 accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LetPub | USD 50 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- BRL 90
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 prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Chicago
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- translated articles
Article types accepted1
- editorialPreprints Bragantia recommends that authors deposit manuscripts as preprints to accelerate the circulation of article data before peer review. A preprint is a m…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteConflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Conflicts of interest Policy on Conflict of Interest
Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. Conflicts of interest can be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial. When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is, ev…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
Bragantia is committed to the best practices on ethics in the management of manuscripts, involving authors, editors, and reviewers on ethical and responsible behavior: Authors: By submitting manuscripts, authors undertake to respect scientific integrity practices, strictly observe the criteria for attribution of authorship, and report the individual contributions of each author. They must also dec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
All Bragantia content, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0. The license provides free and immediate access to the work. It allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full texts of the articles or create links to them, track the articles for indexing, use them as data for software or use them for any other legal purpose, includ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open Access Model summary
Bragantia follows the open-access model, allowing access to all texts published without restrictions (including financial restrictions). Bragantia offers immediate open access to its content, adhering to the principles of free access and the democratization of scientific knowledge. To maximize the dissemination and use of published material, Bragantia adopts the Creative Commons license with CC BY…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Peer Review Process Model summary
Bragantia is committed to Open Science communication practices and employs either a single-blind or double-blind peer review system. Under the single-blind model, the authors’ identities are disclosed to the reviewers, who may, at their discretion, reveal their own identities and engage in direct communication with the authors. Under the double-blind model, both authors and reviewers remain anonym…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Digital Preservation Model summary
Bragantia adheres to the SciELO Program Digital Preservation Policy. Bragantia utilizes the PKP Preservation Network system to establish a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, enabling them to create permanent journal archives for preservation and future access.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints Model summary
Bragantia recommends that authors deposit manuscripts as preprints to accelerate the circulation of article data before peer review. A preprint is a manuscript ready for submission to a journal and deposited on reliable servers before or in parallel with submission to a journal. Preprints are optional for authors, and it is assumed that, when submitting the manuscript, the name of the preprint ser…
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
- Instituto Agronomico
- Country or region
- BRAZIL
- Language
- English, Portuguese
- ISSN
- 0006-8705
- Electronic ISSN
- 1678-4499
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about BRAGANTIA
What CAS zone is BRAGANTIA in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, BRAGANTIA is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Agriculture, Multidisciplinary. 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 BRAGANTIA?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.55; CiteScore 2.9, h-index 56.
How long does peer review take at BRAGANTIA?
Authors report an average review time of about 4 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 BRAGANTIA?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Chicago; 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.
Which databases index BRAGANTIA?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, BRAGANTIA is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is BRAGANTIA open access, and what is the APC?
BRAGANTIA is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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: .