Journal profile · Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agronomy and Crop Science
Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental
ISSN 1415-4366 · eISSN 1807-1929 · Departamento de Engenharia Agricola - UFCG/Cnpq · BRAZIL
Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.23; fully open access; APC about USD 34; review 3–8 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 81 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental is published by Departamento de Engenharia Agricola - UFCG/Cnpq 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 Growth and nutrition in plants, Soil Management and Crop Yield and Irrigation Practices and Water Management, together about 49.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science and Soil Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Histórico O Departamento de Engenharia Agrícola (DEAg) (hoje Unidade Acadêmica de Engenharia Agrícola - UAEA) do Centro de Ciências e Tecnologia (CCT) (hoje Centro de Tecnologia e Recursos Naturais - CTRN) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) (hoje Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - UFCG), Estado da Paraíba, Brasil, levando em consideração a crescente importância da Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental para a agricultura irrigada no mundo, decidiu lançar, na 209ª Reunião Ordinária realizada no dia 12/09/1997, a Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental – AGRIAMBI (ISSN: 1807-1929 – online; 1415-4366 – impresso). A Associación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ingenería Agrícola – ALIA, na Assembléia Geral realizada no dia 08/11/2000, em Guanajuato – México, durante o Congresso Latino-Americano de Ingenieria Agrícola (CLIA 2000), deliberou favoravelmente que a AGRIAMBI se tornasse Revista Oficial da ALIA, decisão que foi referendada pelo Colegiado do DEAg/CCT/UFPB, na 236ª Reunião Ordinária realizada no dia 10/12/2000. Nos períodos de 1997 a 2004, 2005 a 2006, e 2007 a 2009 a Revista teve periodicidade quadrimestral, trimestral e bimestral, respectivamente, e desde 2010 a Revista é editada mensalmente, no formato eletrônico, pela UAEA. Todos os artigos publicados na Revista, desde o início de sua edição em 1997, se encontram disponíveis online no site da Revista e no site do SciELO, gratuitamente. A reprodução dos artigos publicados é permitida, desde que citada a fonte. Nas legendas bibliográficas, notas de rodapé e em referências pode ser utilizado título abreviado na seguinte forma: Rev. Bras. Eng. Agríc. Ambient., Campina Grande. Missão da Revista Contribuir para a divulgação de resultados de pesquisas realizadas nas áreas de conhecimento da Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, disponibilizando conhecimentos para subsidiar a fundamentação teórica das pesquisas a serem desenvolvidas no Brasil e no exterior, favorecendo a formação de pesquisadores e a melhoria do nível dos Programas de Pós-Graduação no Brasil e o fortalecimento do ensino de graduação em Engenharia Agrícola no Brasil. Conformidade com a Ciência Aberta A Revista adota a Ciência Aberta que é um movimento mundial que visa, principalmente, tornar o conhecimento gerado, a partir das pesquisas científicas, aberto e compartilhado para a comunidade científica mundial. Além do acesso aberto aos resultados da pesquisa publicados, a Revista Agriambi, seguindo os preceitos da Ciência Abert
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agronomy and Crop Science
Editor-in-chief Hans Raj GheyiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 4, France 1, Mexico 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Growth and nutrition in plantsAgricultural and Biological Sciences22.4%
- Soil Management and Crop YieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences18.5%
- Irrigation Practices and Water ManagementAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.6%
- Agricultural and Food SciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.7%
- Environmental and biological studiesEnvironmental Science3.6%
- Banana Cultivation and ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.4%
- Geography and Environmental StudiesEnvironmental Science3.3%
- Soil erosion and sediment transportAgricultural and Biological Sciences3%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Agricultural Engineering | Zone 3 |
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
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceCurrent ContentsSciELOPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, Latindex
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
- 1.23LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 27LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,691OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.3OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 15.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 93.46%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 125LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,710 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 95 | 95 | 8 |
| 2025 | 81 | 81 | 90 |
| 2024 | 132 | 132 | 301 |
| 2023 | 100 | 100 | 473 |
| 2022 | 141 | 141 | 1,028 |
| 2021 | 119 | 119 | 822 |
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)
- 3–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Blind peer reviewLetPub
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 180 | — | — | |
| LetPub | BRL 180 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 200 / USD 1,500 / USD 1,900 / USD 600 | — | — |
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 websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
The Journal adopts the ethical principles established by the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE), when it describes in its guidelines for editors, reviewers and authors guidelines relating to the following aspects: study planning and ethical approval; rigor in data analysis; definition of the merit of the research authorship; identification of conflicts of interest; rigorous review by experts in …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and Licence
Authors of articles published by Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental maintain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the work original is correctly cited. The authors grant the right of first publication to Revista Brasileira de Engenh…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
The Journal permits free access to published articles, contributing to the rapid dissemination of published research results, providing the necessary scientific support for the development of ongoing research in a timely manner, greatly boosting the citation of articles. It should be noted that all articles published in the Journal, since the beginning of its edition in 1997, are available online …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review process
a) In a first stage, articles submitted in each fortnight of the month are evaluated by the Editorial Team, and those that do not fit into the Journal's publication policy or, even, that do not bring a relevant scientific contribution, are rejected by the Editorial Team, on the basis of relative relevance criterion. The articles selected in this first stage are returned to the author(s) for reform…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Adoption of plagiarism checking software
A similarity percentage of up to 20% is permitted in submitted articles, and the Journal uses the Copyspider software (https://copyspider.com.br/main/) to check similarity, which will be carried out on the first version submitted and on the final revised version of the article.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Em conformidade com os propósitos da Ciência Aberta, a Revista permite que o autor correspondente no ato da submissão do artigo ou posteriormente submeta o manuscrito, preferencialmente, para o servidor SciELO Preprints. A identificação se a submissão do artigo é um preprint será dada pelos autores no momento de submissão do artigo, anexando à plataforma de submissão da Revista o formulário sobre …
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
- Departamento de Engenharia Agricola - UFCG/Cnpq
- Country or region
- BRAZIL
- Language
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- ISSN
- 1415-4366
- Electronic ISSN
- 1807-1929
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental
What CAS zone is Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental 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 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.23; CiteScore 3, h-index 58.
How long does peer review take at Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental?
Authors report an average review time of 3–8 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental based?
Of the 6 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (4), France (1) and Mexico (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, Current Contents and SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental open access, and what is the APC?
Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 34.
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: .