Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems is published by Springer Netherlands and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics and Phosphorus and nutrient management, together about 47.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems considers manuscripts dealing with all aspects of carbon and nutrient cycling as well as management and examining their effect in ecological, agronomic, environmental and economic terms. Target agroecosystems include field crop, organic agriculture, urban or peri-urban agriculture, horticulture, bioenergy, agroforestry, livestock, pasture, and fallow systems as well as their system components such as plants and the fertility, chemistry, physics or faunal and micro-biology of soils. The scale of observation is the cycles in the soil-plant-animal system on or relevant to a field or watershed level as well as inputs from or losses to the anthroposphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere. Studies should thus consider the wider system in the examination of cycling and fluxes in agroecosystems or their components. These typically include multi-year field observations, farm gate budgets, watershed studies, life cycle assessments, enterprise and economic analyses, or regional and global modeling. Short-term pot, lab or glasshouse studies under controlled conditions may only be considered when including sophisticated measurements that would be unfeasible outdoors over longer time scales and are usually placed in Collections. They need to improve our mechanistic understanding of nutrient cycling and flows on a field-scale. Management objectives may not only include the maximization of food, fiber and fuel production, but also its environmental and economic impact. The results must allow mechanistic conclusions of broad applicability and distinguish itself from empirical results or case studies of merely local or regional importance. If unsure whether a study fits into this scope, please contact the editors with a brief inquiry before manuscript submission. Please refer to the editorial by Lehmann et al. 2021 in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (Volume 119, issue 1, January 2021) for further explanations on criteria for successful submissions to our journal. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems provides timely publication of papers and rapid communications based on original research as well as reviews, perspectives and commentaries of interest to an international readership. Reviews cover important research topics by not only summarizing published research but by providing new insights and concepts through innovative data analysis and synthesis. Reviews are solicited by the editors, but proposals are highly encouraged. Perspectives succinc

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Soil Science

Editor-in-chief Else K. BuPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named United States 5, Germany 4, Canada 4, Switzerland 3, Brazil 3 (36 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

3.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.74LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

87LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

148OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,564OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.16OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

3.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

43.08%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

66LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

2,025Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

401,400Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Average review time (community reports)

12–24 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Country or region

NETHERLANDS

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1980

ISSN

1385-1314

Electronic ISSN

1573-0867

Official links

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