Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 1 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 Smart Agriculture and AI, Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses, together about 39.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture provides international coverage of advances in the development and application of computer hardware, software, electronic instrumentation, and control systems for solving problems in agriculture, including agronomy, horticulture (in both its food and amenity aspects), forestry, aquaculture, and animal/livestock farming. Its new companion journal, Smart Agricultural Technology provides continuity for smart application being applied in production agriculture.The journal publishes original papers, reviews, and applications notes on topics pertaining to advances in the use of computers or electronics in plant or animal agricultural production, including agricultural soils, water, pests, controlled environments, structures, and wastes, as well as the plants and animals themselves. On-farm, post-harvest operations considered part of agriculture (such as drying, storage, logistics, production assessment, trimming and separation of plant and animal material) are also covered. Relevant areas of technology include artificial intelligence, sensors, machine vision, robotics, networking, and simulation modelling.When determining the suitability of submitted manuscripts for publication, particular emphasis is placed on novelty and innovation, and the degree to which a manuscript advances the state of the art for computers/electronics in agriculture. Applying existing technology to a particular crop for the first time does not qualify as an innovation in computers/electronics for this journal. Research applying off-the-shelf hardware or software, without augmenting such technology with investigator-developed tools, innovations, or unique approaches, should be submitted to its companion journal, Smart Agricultural Technology, whose scope includes applied technology. Manuscripts that apply computers/electronics in an ancillary fashion or focus objectives and conclusions primarily on the application sciences (e.g., entomology, agronomy, engineering, economics, horticulture) should be submitted to one of those respective science journals.The journal recognizes that the use of previously published data sets (either alpha-numeric, quantitative, or imagery) can be extremely beneficial as researchers develop and prototype new machine learning or machine vision algorithms with potential application to agriculture. However, the journal views this prototyping work as preliminary in nature, and prospective authors should, prior to submitting such work to this journal, generate a more scientifically rigorous data set, collected by the authors under controlled and reported experimental conditions.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Editor-in-chief Longsheng FuPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 10 in mainland China (about 14%); most named United States 24, Mainland China 10, Netherlands 7, Australia 4, Belgium 3 (70 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

10.18LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

10.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

17.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

17.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

2.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.47LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

96LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

225OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

7,451OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

10.8OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

14.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

22.99%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

1,325LetPub · 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 12 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

15 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

63 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

172 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

10 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

Elsevier

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1985

ISSN

0168-1699

Electronic ISSN

1872-7107

Official links

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