Journal of Agronomy Research·JAR·Open Access Pub
Editorial Board
ISSN 2639-3166·Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302·CC BY 4.0
The board contributes subject expertise to editorial assessment at Journal of Agronomy Research: editors assess whether a manuscript sits inside the journal's agronomic scope, whether its field design and analysis can support its conclusions, and which independent reviewers are competent to judge it. Affiliations and ORCID iDs are shown from the journal’s public database fields where available.
Published by Open Access Pub, Rancho Cordova, California. Not affiliated with Agronomy Research (ISSN 1406-894X), published by the Estonian University of Life Sciences; no editor listed here holds an appointment on that journal by virtue of this one.
- Appointments
- 50 members · all at Editorial Board rank
- Countries
- 27 · from public country fields
- ORCID iD on record
- 35 of 50 · each linked below
- Decision authority
- Handling editor · board membership alone confers none
How a manuscript reaches a decision
Five stagesThe board's work sits at stages two, three and four. Manuscripts are assessed for scope, scholarly quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and research integrity.
Initial assessment
The editorial office checks completeness, scope, declarations and evident integrity or reporting concerns. A manuscript can be declined before external review.
Agronomic assessment by an editor
An editor establishes whether the manuscript addresses a defined crop, soil or production-system question; whether treatments, controls, replication, randomization, blocking and the unit of inference are identifiable and defensible; whether cultivar, site, season, soil, management and material provenance are described sufficiently; and whether the statistical model matches the design.
This is where board expertise is used: an editor who cannot judge those dimensions in the manuscript's subject area is the wrong editor for it.
Reviewer selection
Editors select reviewers for subject and methodological competence after conflict checks. Recent co-authorship, institutional, supervisory, personal and commercial relationships are checked. Author-suggested reviewers are not relied on uncritically, and country, institutional prestige, seniority or expected citation value are not used as proxies for competence.
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Recommendation
The handling editor has authority over the editorial recommendation and must base it on the manuscript and relevant expert assessment. Reviewer reports are confidential and advisory; reviewer voting does not determine the outcome.
Decision and appeal
Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit and are independent of fees, waivers, memberships, services and editorial or reviewer roles. Advertising, sponsorship and commercial relationships are kept separate from decisions.
An appeal must identify a substantive error or overlooked evidence and is assigned to a senior, uninvolved editor; disagreement alone does not require a new review.
The full procedure, including screening, revision and post-publication actions, is set out in the editorial policies and the editorial operations handbook.
Appointments and decision authority
Titles apply only where the appointment existsJAR holds 50 current editorial appointments, all at Editorial Board rank. The journal does not present a tier of titles that its appointment record does not contain, and no member on this page should be read as holding decision authority over a manuscript by virtue of appearing on it.
What an appointment carries
- Responsibility
- Provides subject expertise, reviews or handles work when formally assigned, and keeps profile and conflicts current
- Boundary
- Board status alone does not confer decision authority on a manuscript. A person may not exercise multiple roles on the same manuscript where that compromises independence
- Assigned editor
- Carries out the initial assessment, selects reviewers, evaluates revisions and makes the reasoned scholarly recommendation
- Escalation
- Integrity, legal and serious policy concerns are referred, not investigated by an editor alone
What an appointment does not carry
- Charges
- Editors do not negotiate article processing charges, and financial support requests are handled outside the editorial assessment
- Outcomes
- Editors do not promise acceptance, timing, visibility or citations, and do not request citations for personal benefit
- Own work
- An editor's own submission is reassigned; see conflicts of interest below
- Confidential files
- Manuscripts, review reports and unpublished data are not used outside the authorized workflow or uploaded to unauthorized external AI systems
Conflicts of interest and recusal
Recusal is mandatoryAuthors, reviewers and editors disclose financial and non-financial interests that could reasonably be perceived to influence the work. In agronomy that includes relationships with seed, pesticide, fertilizer, biological-input, equipment and data-platform companies, which must be declared.
An editor recuses when
- The editor is an author or close collaborator.
- The manuscript comes from the editor's institution or presents a direct professional conflict.
- A financial or advisory relationship involves a product, company or intervention studied.
- Personal competition, dispute or advocacy could affect impartiality.
- The editor has accessed or used the work outside the editorial role.
The conflict is recorded and reassignment requested without influencing the choice of replacement editor. Editors disclose conflicts and recuse before accessing further confidential material.
Manuscripts written by an editor
- A submission from an editor, board member, reviewer, publisher employee or close collaborator is reassigned to an uninvolved editor.
- Reviewer selection for that manuscript is made by the uninvolved editor, and the author-editor takes no part in it.
- Reviewer identities and confidential deliberations are not accessible to the author-editor.
- The decision is made by an editor without a relevant conflict.
- Editorial position, article processing charge payment, institutional relationship or personal connection does not affect the outcome.
The same rule governs guest editors of any collection: a guest editor does not decide their own submissions, does not select conflicted reviewers and cannot override the designated JAR editor. Guest editor status confers no advantage for that person's own work.
The board
50 members · 27 countriesListed alphabetically by family name. Each record gives the department, institution, country, agronomic terms and ORCID iD available in the journal’s public database. These fields describe the stored record and are not presented as independent employment or expertise verification.
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AbdelRouf Masoud Ali
Editorial Board
Agricultural Application department, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, Associate professor
Egypt
Agricultural Entomology, Soil Fertility, Conservation Agriculture, Plant Physiology, Crop Science, Remote Sensing, Regression Analysis, Crop Production, Prediction, Vegetation Remote Sensing &GIS applications in Agriculture Crop yield prediction Models using remote sensing Crop Mapping using remote sensing techniques Analysis of Spectroscopic data on soil and plants Application of RADAR and multispectral Soil moisture monitoring using Crop water requirement using remote sensing techniques Retrieve biophysical parameter of Crops (LAI&PAR) from remote sensing data Application of UAVs on Agriculture Google earth engine in image processing Environmental hazards monitoring and control
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Addoun Tayeb
Editorial Board
Faculty of Earth and Universe Sciences ; Geography Department
Algeria
Spatial Analysis, Geography, SIG, Agro-socio-economist, science social, Spatial Planning
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Agbesi Keteku
Editorial Board
R & D Management, Bhalsar International Company Ltd, Lumlukka, Pathum Thani
Thailand
Agronomy, Cropping system, Soil fertility
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Alpha Yaya Kamara
Editorial Board
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
United Kingdom
Natural resource management, weed and crop management and crop physiology, Agronomy, soil fertility management, crop science, stress physiology and farmer participatory evaluation of technologies.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Anabelie Villa-Valdez
Editorial Board
Ph.D. Science Education Biology, Institute in Science Education, Mindanao State University, Marawi City, DOST Scholar, Class Valedictorian, Best Dissertation
Philippines
Pedagogy and Education, Teaching, Learning, Assessment, Quantitative & Qualitative Research, Ethnographic Research, Phenomenology
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Anchal Dass
Editorial Board
BSc. Agri & MSc. Ag (Agronomy)-HPKV Palampur; Ph.D (Agronomy)-GBPUAT-Pantnagar
India
Agronomy: Watershed management, Precision farming, Water management, Dryland Agriculture, SRI, Soybean/Maize-wheat Cropping System
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Evans Asenso
Editorial Board
Lecturer, University of Ghana, Legon, Greater Accra
Ghana
Soil and Water Conservation, Soil, Drought Stress, Nutrient Management, Irrigation Engineering, Hydrology/Hydrological Processes, Deep Learning Approach,Soil management and conservation practices Soil health and quality management, Crop productivity and sustainability measures, Soil amendments for remediation, revitalization, and reuse, Carbon sequestration, Managing crop water use efficiency (crop water stress), Irrigation (fertigation), Agricultural image classification (deep learning approach)
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Farhat Abbas
Editorial Board
Researcher, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong
China
Terpenes, Molecular biology, Botany, Horticulture, Floral volatile compounds, Secondary Metabolites
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Gausiya Bashri
Editorial Board
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Aligarh Muslim University, ALIGARH, UTTAR PRADESH
India
Stress Plant Physiology, Environmental Plant Physiology, Estimation of oxidative biomarkers, antioxidants, photosynthetic rate, chlorophyll a fluorescence and nitrogen metabolism in response to heavy metal, and other abiotic stresses
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Huck Ywih Chng
Editorial Board
University of Malaysia, Kelantan | UMK · Faculty of Agro Based Industry, Ph.D in Land Resources Management
Malaysia
Carbon Sequestration Soil Organic Matter Soil Analysis Environment Nutrient Cycling Soil Fertility Soil Chemistry Plant Nutrition Soil Conservation Soil Erosion Ammonia Volatilization and Phosphorus Fixation Control Humic Substances Studies Nutrient Cycling and Budget Soil Processes and Plant Nutrition Fertilizer Technology Wastes Management Soil Carbon Sequestration
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Jinzhu Lu
Editorial Board
School of Mechanical Engineering Xihua University Chengdu China
China
My research consolidates efforts in Agriculture Engineering including: machine vision technology and image processing. My special interests are agriculture robotics in orchards and tea garden, plant disease detection and precision equipment of potato.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Juana P. Moiwo
Editorial Board
Senior Lecturer, Njala University, Njala, Southern Province
Sierra Leone
Sustainability, Water Resources Management, Water Quality, Environmental Analysis, Water Quality Analysis, Solid Waste Management, Water Analysis, Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Kusvuran Alpaslan
Editorial Board
Head of Department, Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi, Cankiri
Turkey
Forage, Turfgrass, Energy crops, Intercrpping
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Mahmoud Mohamed Hesham Okasha
Editorial Board
Postdoctoral, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Italy
Precision Agriculture, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Farming, Agricultural Development, Farm Management, Conservation Agriculture, Agricultural Information Technology, Soil and Water Conservation, Crop Production
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Mehdi Rahimi
Editorial Board
Associate professor of Plant Breeding, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Kerman
Iran
Biometry, Plant breeding, QTL Mapping, Gene Expression, Molecular Marker
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Mervat Sadak
Editorial Board
National Research Centre, Agricultural Research Institute, Botany Dept.
Egypt
Physiological Processes, Plants, Antioxidant Activity, Comparative Physiology, Physiological Adaptation, Environmental Stresses, Plant Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Physiology
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Nirmal Kumar
Editorial Board
Scientist, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur, Maharashtra
India
Land Use Planning, Machine Learning, Environment, Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, Geographic Information System, Mapping,Spatial Statistics,Soil, Satellite, Image Analysis
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Sheikh Muhammad Masum
Editorial Board
Professor , Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Dhaka District
Bangladesh
Weed Management, Crop Production, Agronomy, Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Agriculture, Crop Physiology, Crop Management, Crop Science, Field Experimentation, Plant Nutrition Plant-nutrient interaction Molecular analysis of plant Weed biology and ecology Herbicide resistance and weed population mapping Plant plasticity and adaptability in changing climate Plant interference mechanism and role of exuded root metabolites Plant-soil interaction Evaluation of the IWM. approach for sustainable agriculture Statistical exploration for plant dynamics, plasticity, and fitness Application of Multivariate, LDA, and PCA. tactics in plant science research Modeling includes tolerant of invasive species and their richness
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Sohail Abbas
Editorial Board
Postdoc Researcher Assoiciate, Henan University, Kaifeng
China
Climate Change, Landscape and Ecology, Climate and Agriculture
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Soner Soylu
Editorial Board
Professor Dr, Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Hatay
Turkey
plant pathology, plant fungal diseases, plant bacterial diseases, biological control, plant defence mechanisms, plant-pathogen interactions
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Vandna Chhabra
Editorial Board
Assistant Professor, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab
India
Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Climate Science, Climate Variability, Climate
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Vera Popovic
Editorial Board
University Clinical Center of Serbia
Serbia
Biotechnical Sciences, Plants production, Nutrition, Organic production, Quality analysis
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Zakaria Fouad Fawzy Hassan
Editorial Board
Agricultural and Biological Research Institute, National Research Centre, Egypt
Egypt
Organic Agriculture, Food Safety, Climate Change, Climate Smart Agriculture, Horticulture Crops, , Crop Management, Soil Management, Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Education, Land Use, Crop Production, Agricultural Research, General Agriculture.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Anita Maienza
Editorial Board
Researcher, National Research Council, FLORENCE, Toscana
Italy
soil biological quality, soil indicators, climate change mitigation, sustainable agricultural practices, circular economy and biomass reuse, LS8_2 - Biodiversity
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Ines Gasmi
Editorial Board
National Institute of Agronomy, Tunis,Tunisia and Institute of Arid Regions, Medenine, Tunisia
Tunisia
soil science, sustainable management of natural resources, hydrology, environment, combating desertification, hydrological modeling
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Rusu Teodor
Editorial Board
Professor, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj
Romania
Agrotechnics, herbology and soil management, Soil sciences, Technique experimentally, Rural development, Climate changes
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Yaseen Mohd
Editorial Board
CSIR- Central Institute Of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
India
Vetiver (Vetiveria zizanioides); Intercropping; Land equivalent ratio; Land use efficiency; Relative net return; Economics
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Karam Farrag
Editorial Board
Head of Soil Department , National Water Research Center, Cairo
Egypt
Environment, Water Quality, Sustainability, Environmental Impact Assessment, Agriculture, Environmental Analysis, Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental Pollution, Soil Fertility, Soil.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Venkatachalapathi A
Editorial Board
Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
India
Ethnobotany, Ecology, Pharmacology, Microbiology.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Waldemar Wardencki
Editorial Board
Gdansk University of Technology
Poland
Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Sample Preparation, Analytical Chemistry, Teacher Education, Gas Chromatography.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Khalid Hussain
Editorial Board
Associate Professor, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad
Pakistan
Crop Modeling, climate change, Agronomy, cropping systems, conservation agriculture, carbon isotope
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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AMIR RAZA
Editorial Board
Principal Scientist Group Leader, Soil and Environmental Sciences Division Nuclear Institute for Food & Agriculture
Pakistan
1- Use of experimental and modeling approaches for wheat yield improvement under climate change 2- Popularization of biogeyser technology to combat energy crisis 3- Enrichment of agro-waste compost for nitrogen content
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Rim Tinhinen MAOUGAL
Editorial Board
University of Constantine 1 , Constantine · INATAA, Research and Development Training Center.
Algeria
rhizosphere, bacteria, phosphorus, legumes, biotechnology, alimentation
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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De Li Liu
Editorial Board
NSW Department of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Australia
Climate Change impact and adaptation in agro-ecosystems Modelling farming systems, ecological systems Statistical downscaling of Global Climate Models Climate change risk assessment in primary industries Statistical modelling and spatial modelling Developing decision support systems Modelling soil carbon sequestration
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Abubaker Haroun Mohamed Adam
Editorial Board
Department of Crop Science (Agronomy), College of Agriculture, Bahri University- Alkadaru- Khartoum -Sudan
Sudan
• The Possibility of Chemical Control of Striga (S. hermonthica) on Sorghum (Bicolor) plantation • Response of Some Sunflower (Helanthus annus-L) cultivars to Argel, Guana and Nitrogen Fertilizer under Irrigation System. • Wheat Growth Modeling and simulation
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Ehsan Houshyar
Editorial Board
Urmia University of Medical Sciences
Iran
Environmental Engineering, Ecological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Energy Economics, Green Economics.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Parwada Cosmas
Editorial Board
Executive Dean, Midlands State University, Gweru
Zimbabwe
Agronomist, soil scientist
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Naser Honarjoo
Editorial Board
Islamic Azad University
Iran
Land Evaluation, Soil Genesis, Soil Salinity, Soil Pollution.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Agele Samuel Ohikhena
Editorial Board
Department of Crop, Soil & Pest Management, Federal University of Technology.
Nigeria
Plant environmental physiology/Agronomy, soil-plant-climate relations, plant-environment interactions, soil water management, conservation agriculture, ecological restoration (bioreclamation), rehabilitation of degraded land and ecosystems, domestication/propagation of real (medicinal) plant species
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Xiao-bing Liu
Editorial Board
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
China
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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TRAN DANG KHANH
Editorial Board
Scientist, University of California, Riverside, Riverside
United States
Plant molecular breeding Plant protection Weed science Whole-genome analysis Plant mutation
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Nikolai Dinev
Editorial Board
N. Poushkarov Institute of Soil Science
Bulgaria
Biochemical changes in species of tribe Triticeae depending of soil acidity.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Abbas Biabani
Editorial Board
Gonbad Kavous University
Iran
Crop Physiology General Agronomy Industrial Crops Culture Cereals Agronomy of Medicinal and Industrial Plants
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Kesheng Shu
Editorial Board
Visiting scholar, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Postdoctoral researcher, University of Hamburg, Germany
Germany
Bioeconomy Climate change System analysis
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Berken Cimen
Editorial Board
Researcher, Çukurova Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi, Adana, Adana
Turkey
Citrus, Genetics & Breeding, Mutation, Rootstocks, Variety development, Plant cell and tissue culture
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Salem Alhajj Ali
Editorial Board
Researcher , Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Puglia
Italy
Low input farming, input use efficiency, remote sensing, cereals, no-tillage farming, LCA, GHGs
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Mohamed AbdelRahman
Editorial Board
Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing
China
Soil survey, Geomorphology & mapping, land degradation, soil improvement, land Resources evaluation; Land Capability, Land Suitability, land use planning, environmental hazard assessment, change detection, soil fertility, crop monitoring, yield prediction, and crop & soil management, climate impacts on agriculture & soil properties.
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Chiara Cirillo
Editorial Board
Docenti di ruolo di IIa fascia, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Campania
Italy
Scienze delle Piante, Agricoltura/Agronomia, Life on land, Climate action, Responsible consumption & production, Sustainable cities & communities
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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MSAFIRI YUSUPH MKONDA
Editorial Board
Physical Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, SUA MOROGORO.
Tanzania, United Republic of
Agriculture
Adjacent and supporting sciences
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Apostolos Papadopoulos
Editorial Board
Director of R&D, Crop Intellect Ltd, University of Lincoln, Riseholme College Lincoln LN2 2LG, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Soil Physical Quality Crop Physiology for Increased Tolerance to Abiotic Stress Crop Nutrition with Biostimulants Biopesticides
Adjacent and supporting sciences
Board membership is by invitation on the basis of subject expertise and publication record. Editors keep their profile and declared interests current; the journal reviews the record when an appointment is made and when a member's affiliation changes.
Expertise across the board
Against the published recordEach member is assigned to the domain their published research sits in. The right column is the number of JAR's 76 published articles in the matching subject cluster, so the board's composition can be read against what the journal actually publishes.
| Agronomic domain | Board members | Articles |
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| Adjacent and supporting sciences | 50 | — |
Where a manuscript needs expertise the board does not hold, the handling editor invites external reviewers with that competence; reviewer selection is not limited to the board.
Submitting to the Journal of Agronomy Research? Read the aims and scope first to confirm fit, then follow the author instructions. Manuscripts are assessed for scope, scholarly quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and research integrity.