Journal profile · Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
ISSN 1044-0046 · eISSN 1540-7578 · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture: impact factor 2.4 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; review about 206 days (first decision after review, publisher); community-reported acceptance: about 50%; 0 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture's largest topics are Agricultural Science and Fertilization, Soil Management and Crop Yield and Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis, together about 28.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Soil Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aims and scopeJournal metrics Editorial board Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (ASFS) is a subscription-based, peer reviewed journal devoted to the field of agroecology as the foundation for transformative food systems change. Agroecology is more than new or improved farming practices and on-farm sustainable management of natural resources. It is the ecology of the entire food system, from the field to the table, from the people who grow and process our food to the people who consume it, from urban to rural, from farm policy to food policy, and from local to global. Agroecology has evolved into a broad, transdisciplinary field that integrates science, practice, and the movements leading change in all parts of the food system. We seek understanding and examples of how such change is happening – the core aim of this journal. To this end, ASFS prioritizes scholarship that links scientific inquiry and agricultural practice with transformative social action. Our scope is food-system wide, bridging scales from farm to global and from production to consumption, inclusive of the multiple communities, institutions, and knowledge systems it comprises. We publish articles in the biophysical, social, and inter/transdisciplinary areas. We prioritize co-created and community-led research that embodies the integrative tenets of agroecology, while highlighting new areas and methods of research that defy disciplinary boundaries, and represent systems level thinking. We particularly welcome research and writing from Indigenous scholars and organizers, laborers across the food system, civil society groups, and activist communities of scholarship. We also welcome approaches that are not explicitly “agroecology,” but are complementary with it – especially those grounded in on-farm, participatory, change-oriented, and critical methodologies of sustainability analysis and evaluation. Manuscripts should make clear how the work presented engages with agroecological thought, and how farmers and other food system actors participated in the research, or why such participation was not reasonable. We seldom publish research based primarily on surveys, modeling, laboratory or experiment station studies, or research on sustainability indicators or species distributions that is not participatory or do not provide new insight into agroecology beyond the system studied. The Journal publishes reviews and meta-analysis papers only when they offer novel synthesis that supports agroecol
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 2, Italy 1, Canada 1, Czechia 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Agricultural Science and FertilizationAgricultural and Biological Sciences10.5%
- Soil Management and Crop YieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.9%
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems AnalysisEnvironmental Science8.9%
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping SystemsAgricultural and Biological Sciences8%
- Agricultural Innovations and PracticesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6%
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.7%
- Agricultural economics and policiesSocial Sciences5.3%
- Plant and soil sciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.5%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
Indexed in: no record yet.
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ScopusPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, OCLC
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 (publisher) 2025
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.2Publisher website ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.68Publisher website ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.03Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 65OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 544OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 258,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,327 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 697 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 1,012 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 1,318 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 1,421 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 1,507 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 1,751 |
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
206 daysfirst decision after review · community reports about 9 months
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 9 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 50%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 11%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 183 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 206 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 12 daysPublisher 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted5
- book reviewsThe journal welcomes for consideration the following article types: research articles, review articles, commentaries, book reviews, and editorials.Length not stated
- commentariesThe journal welcomes for consideration the following article types: research articles, review articles, commentaries, book reviews, and editorials.Length not stated
- editorialsThe journal welcomes for consideration the following article types: research articles, review articles, commentaries, book reviews, and editorials.Length not stated
- research articlesThe journal welcomes for consideration the following article types: research articles, review articles, commentaries, book reviews, and editorials.Length not stated
- review articlesThe journal welcomes for consideration the following article types: research articles, review articles, commentaries, book reviews, and editorials.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Gold open access option available. Model summary
Overview Open journals Open Select Dove Medical Press F1000Research
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review statement: initial editor appraisal, then peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Model summary
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
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
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- ISSN
- 1044-0046
- Electronic ISSN
- 1540-7578
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 50, Issue 9 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
What is the impact factor of Journal of Sustainable Agriculture?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.4 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 65.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Sustainable Agriculture?
The publisher reports about 206 days (first decision after review); authors report an average review time of about 9 months; the community-reported acceptance is “about 50%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 11%. 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 JCR quartile is Journal of Sustainable Agriculture in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Sustainable Agriculture based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (2), Italy (1) and Canada (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Sustainable Agriculture?
The journal's website lists Scopus; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Sustainable Agriculture open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .