Journal profile · AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Farming System
ISSN 2949-9119 · China Agricultural University
Farming System: CAS Zone 1 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 9.3 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,800; review about 109 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); 40 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Farming System is published by China Agricultural University and is classed under Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, together about 33.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The journal Farming System provides a platform to discuss farming system design, integrated crop and livestock production, farming management, and economic and sustainable development. The journal publishes original scientific papers, reviews, short communications, perspectives, and comments.The scope of Farming System includes:Farming System Design and Innovation: development and application of tools and methods for farming system design and management; decision-making and resource allocation in farming system; sustainability assessment and design of farming system and decision support tools; crop distribution and resources sustainability; crop modeling at either farm-, landscape-, regional-, national- and global-scale; the application of remote sensing in monitoring production at farm to global scale; farming system optimization;Farming System Development and Assessment: regional agricultural green development assessment; food security assessment from the perspective of farming system; the synergism assessment of crop production, economic benefits, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability of farming system; farming systems life cycle assessment (LCA); water footprint, carbon footprint, nitrogen footprint and other environmental footprints of farming system; crop resilience and adaption to climatic change;Sustainable Farming Management: sustainable intensification of resources, lower environmental consequence, carbon sequestration and emission reduction. For instance, diversified cropping, the combination of farming and animal husbandry, organic farming, low-carbon farming, eco-farming, green farming, circular agriculture, conservation agriculture, regenerative agriculture, environment-friendly agriculture, and climate-smart agriculture;Crop, Soil, and Environment Interactions: the mechanism of crop, soil, and environment interactions; crop growth process under different environments; the soil processes and microbial mechanisms supporting high crop yield, high efficiency, and low environmental impact;Research Frontier and Interdisciplinary in Farming System: new ideas, hypotheses, theories, and technologies that are adopted or fulfilled to solve the problems in farming system research and practice, such as new materials (nano-, chemical-, etc.), smart agriculture. Farming Systems does not consider the following categories of submissions: Survey-based research: Manuscripts with an insufficient sample size to ensure statistical validity and generalizability of findings;Field or livestock experimental research: Manuscripts presenting data derived solely from a single growing season or one-year observation period, lacking temporal replication to account for environmental variability;Studies on crop-soil-environment interactions: Manuscripts only reporting superficial phenotypic effects without elucidating the underlying physiological, biochemical, or molecular mechanisms driving observed interactions;Methodological or tool-development research: Manuscripts describing the creation of new methods or tools without explicitly demonstrating their application to solve specific challenges in farming systems or quantifying their functional value relative to existing approaches.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Hai-Lin ZhangPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 48 in mainland China (about 48%); most named Mainland China 48, United States 13, Australia 7, India 6, United Kingdom 4 (99 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsAgricultural and Biological Sciences16.4%
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping SystemsAgricultural and Biological Sciences9.5%
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental ImpactEnvironmental Science7.9%
- Agricultural Innovations and PracticesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.6%
- Climate change impacts on agricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.2%
- Agricultural Systems and PracticesAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.9%
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems AnalysisEnvironmental Science4.6%
- Rice Cultivation and Yield ImprovementAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 9.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 12.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 12.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.87LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 3.59LetPub ·
- h-index
- 20OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 46OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.34OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 174 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 61 | 61 | 64 |
| 2025 | 40 | 40 | 287 |
| 2024 | 36 | 36 | 518 |
| 2023 | 37 | 37 | 1,192 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
109 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Submission to first decision
- 1 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 43 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 109 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 17 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 1,800 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,800 / EUR 1,680 / GBP 1,440 / JPY 223,250 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 1,800 | — | — |
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 prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 1
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Not considered
- Survey-based research
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- commentaryCommentary is opinionated articles on a topical scientific issue, a relevant policy or a newly published article in the journal. Comments are suggested to devel…main text ≤ 2,000 words · figures and tables ≤ 2 · references ≤ 10
- editorialers, or invited scientists and experts. Editorials are not typically peer-reviewed articles with around 2,000-3,000 words, up to 4,000 words in main text, an ab…main text ≤ 3,000 words · abstract ≤ 250 words · references ≤ 30
- full length articleFull Length Article A full-length article should be a substantial and in-depth research study regarding a particular state of issue through several techniques o…Length not stated
- perspectiveculative with a narrower field of view. Perspectives are usually short peer-reviewed articles with around 3,000-4,000 words in main text, an abstract of around …main text ≤ 4,000 words · abstract ≤ 250 words · figures and tables ≤ 6 · references ≤ 50
- review articleA review article should provide recent developments in scientific disciplines, including historical overviews, recent scientific advances, and perspectives for …main text ≤ 6,000 words · references ≤ 120
- short communicationrest. It should be published quickly. A short communication is expected to have no more than 3000 words including up to 4 displayed items, a 250-word abstract, …main text ≤ 3,000 words · abstract ≤ 250 words · references ≤ 20
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Declaration of generative AI use
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Group authorship
Group authorship refers to the attribution of an article to a defined and named group of authors whose members have contributed to the work. Examples include research consortia, clinical trial groups, collaborative networks, task forces or working groups, expert panels or consensus groups, and participatory research groups. Group authorship must be declared on the title page at submission. When av…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Declaration of competing interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential competing interests include:EmploymentConsultanciesStock ownershipHonorariaPaid expert testimonyPatent applications or registrationsGrants or any other fundingAffiliation with the journal as an Editor or Advisory Board …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright License options
Authors will be offered open access user license options which will determine how you, and third parties, can reuse your open access article. We advise that you review these options and any funding body license requirements before selecting a license option.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
We refer you to our open access information page to learn about open access options for this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
Single anonymized review process Model summary
This journal follows a single anonymized review process. Your submission will initially be assessed by our editors. If your submission is deemed suitable, it will typically be sent to be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether your article is accepted or rejected for publication will be made by our editors.Re…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint sharingAuthors may share preprints in line with Elsevier's article sharing policy. Sharing preprints, such as on a preprint server, will not count as prior publication.We advise you to read our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication.
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
- China Agricultural University
- ISSN
- 2949-9119
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Farming System
What CAS zone is Farming System in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Farming System?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 9.3; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 12.9, h-index 20.
How long does peer review take at Farming System?
The publisher reports about 109 days (submission to acceptance). 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 Farming System?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≥ 1; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Farming System based?
Of the 99 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 48 (about 48%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (48), United States (13) and Australia (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Farming System?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Farming System is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Farming System open access, and what is the APC?
Farming System is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,800.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .