Journal profile · Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Engenharia Agricola
ISSN 1809-4430 · Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola · BRAZIL · Tri-annual
Engenharia Agricola: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.88; fully open access; APC about USD 95; review 4–8 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 66 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Engenharia Agricola is published by Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola 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 Soil Management and Crop Yield, Growth and nutrition in plants and Irrigation Practices and Water Management, together about 35.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Brief Background The Engenharia Agrícola Journal (EAgri) was founded in 1972 as the primary means of publishing technical-scientific manuscripts from SBEA - Brazilian Association of Agricultural Engineering, classified with "B1" concept by the Qualis system of CAPESThe Engenharia Agrícola Journal publishes one volume per year, in the "Continuous Publication" format. It counts on about 500 reviewers "ad hoc" in several educational and research institutions in Brazil and abroad. Once each manuscript is received, it is forwarded to three reviewers and it is published when approved by at least two of the reviewers and by the Editorial Board of the Journal.The manuscripts are submitted eletronically by ScholarOne. To see instruction for processing and publication of manuscripts, please Click here.The abbreviated title of the Journal is Eng. agríc., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references. When this form is not required the citation of its title should be made in full: Engenharia Agrícola.Our editorial policy follows the research communication in the Open Science modus operandi. Open Access This journal follows the Open Access model, providing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal.Open Access is the condition where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution - CC-BY) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. Open Science Compliance This Journal follows the Gold Open Access model.Please, see the Open Science Compliance Form.Engenharia Agrícola is committed to Open Science communication practices.The contribution of the field area Editors is duly credited in the published manuscript. The Reviewers receive a statement of the manuscript's opinion and can also validate the activity in the Publons. Ethics in Publication Before submitting the research, the authors must ensure they have followed all ethical guidelines regarding scientific integrity. They must also disclose any funding sources, such as research agencies. If applicable, the author must declare that the ethical principles were submitted to and approved by the institution's ethics committee. The author
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Soil Management and Crop YieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences16.4%
- Growth and nutrition in plantsAgricultural and Biological Sciences10.8%
- Irrigation Practices and Water ManagementAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.9%
- Agricultural and Food SciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.5%
- Soil Mechanics and Vehicle DynamicsEngineering5.1%
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on LivestockAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.8%
- Agricultural Engineering and MechanizationEngineering4%
- Plant Surface Properties and TreatmentsAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.9%
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 | Agricultural Engineering | 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 | Agricultural Engineering | 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 | Agricultural Engineering | Zone 4 |
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
- 1.88LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 824OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.39OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 97.58%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 64LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,586 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 32 | 5 |
| 2025 | 66 | 66 | 75 |
| 2024 | 53 | 53 | 130 |
| 2023 | 90 | 90 | 377 |
| 2022 | 95 | 95 | 430 |
| 2021 | 68 | 68 | 467 |
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)
- 4–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | BRL 500 | — | — |
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 websiteAI use, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Adoption of software and use of Artificial Intelligence resources
The Engenharia Agrícola Editorial will not accepted the Chatbots as the author of a research paper, as the artificial intelligence tools cannot take responsibility for the development of a research. If AI systems are used in research papers, this must be documented and included in the methodology or in the acknowledgments, or other similar form of citation.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Policy on Conflict of Interest
They should be communicated not only by the authors, but by everyone involved in the editorial process of a manuscript.Editors should avoid making decisions about manuscripts that conflict with their own interests, such as those submitted by authors in their department or research collaborators.If editors have a conflict of interest, they should delegate decision-making to other editors.Reviewers …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
The Engenharia Agrícola is committed to defending the integrity of the literature and publishes Errata, Expressions of Concerns or Notices of Retraction dependent on the situation and in accordance with the COPE Guidelines for Retraction.The retraction mechanism follows the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) Retraction Guidelines, which can be accessed at COPE - Retraction Guidelines.Please see t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Authors who publish in this Journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY), allowing the work to be shared with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this Journal.Authors are authorized to take on additional contracts separatel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
This journal follows the Open Access model, providing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal.Open Access is the condition where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution - CC-BY) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any u…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
The purpose of the evaluation is to help authors improve the quality of their work by providing constructive and timely evaluations prepared by experienced reviewers from renowned institutions. Engenharia Agrícola considers the evaluation process to be a fundamental step for the improvement of manuscripts. For this reason, Engenharia Agrícola reviewers are encouraged to present, in addition to the…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
We inform that the use of preprints is an option and choice of the authors, considering that preprints share with Journals the originality in the publication of manuscripts and inhibit the use of the double blind procedure in evaluating manuscripts. However, we suggest that the authors who are interested in this form of publication use reliable platforms recognized by SciELO Preprints and inform t…
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
- Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola
- Country or region
- BRAZIL
- Language
- Portuguese, English, Spanish
- Frequency
- Tri-annual
- ISSN
- 1809-4430
- Print ISSN
- 0100-6916
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Engenharia Agricola
What CAS zone is Engenharia Agricola in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Engenharia Agricola is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Agricultural Engineering. 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 Engenharia Agricola?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.88; CiteScore 2.4, h-index 42.
How long does peer review take at Engenharia Agricola?
Authors report an average review time of 4–8 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 Engenharia Agricola?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Engenharia Agricola is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Engenharia Agricola open access, and what is the APC?
Engenharia Agricola is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 95.
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: .