Journal History

The Journal of Agricultural Economics & Development has been  published by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad since 1985 under the name Agricultural Sciences and Technology (covering all fields). Since October 2008, it has specialized under the name Journal of Agricultural Economics & Development.Additionally, since Volume 38 (Issue 4), 2024, this journal has been published in collaboration with the Iranian Agricultural Economics Society (IAES). 

Publishing schedule

The journal is published quarterly, and the table below shows the exact dates of publication for each volume per year. The journal adheres to this publishing schedule unless  exceptional circumstances happen.

Issue          Date of publication

Issue 1                April

Issue 2                July

Issue 3            October

Issue 4            January

Digital Preservation Policy

Website Archiving

All of our electronic content, including the Journal's website and manuscripts, is archived in two different ways. Firstly, the PDF format of the journal's content is accessible online to readers from our main server. Secondly, a copy of all content is kept as a backup on another server. In case of any problem in the journal website, it can be made available online again within 24-36 hours from our backup server.

Moreover, every published issue of the journal is sent to the following databases:

• Internet Archive (From 2019)
• Portico
• Iran Scientific Journals System
• ISC

Therefore, the content can be accessed at any time even when the journal website doesn’t work.

Abstracting/Indexing databases

The main information and the abstract of all the manuscripts has been published in the Iranian Journal of Pulses Research, indexed in different databases. The list of these databases has been mentioned in ‘Indexing and Abstracting”.

Self-Archiving

Authors can archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories, after their article’s publication.

Open Access

This is an open access journal from the beginning of publishing, which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the manuscripts, or use them for any other legal purpose, without requiring prior permission from the publisher or author.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Copyright

• Copyright is preserved for the authors of the Iranian Journal of Pulses Research under the Open Access License.
• Authors give permission to Ferdowsi University of Mashhad to publish their manuscripts and present itself as the main publisher.
• Authors also give permission to any third party to use freely the manuscript as long as its integrity is preserved and the original authors, citation details and publisher are specified.

Licensing

The Journal of Agricultural Economics & Development  is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) 

Publication ethics and related editorial policies 

This journal is a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. Journal's Membership link

The Editorial Board, Reviewers, and Authors are encouraged to study the Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement for the Journal of Agricultural Economics & Development. If they encounter any issues, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, or data falsification/fabrication in submitted or published manuscripts, they should contact the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Shahnoushi at shahnoushi@um.ac.ir or the publisher's principal contact at fumpress@um.ac.ir, and they will feedback on these issues according to the  COPE flowcharts.

Peer review policy

In this journal, the editorial board has not been selected as a reviewer unless there isn’t any other reviewer in the manuscript field.

• All submitted manuscripts to this journal go through the peer review
• The method of reviewing the manuscripts in this journal is double-blind.
• All process of review has been explained in 'Peer Review Process' section.

Ownership and management

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad owns and manages this journal, as indicated on the homepage of the journal's website.

Advisory body

The editorial board members of this journal are recognized experts in the subject areas stated in the Journal's aims and scope.

• The full names and affiliations of each editorial-board member are provided on the journal's website under the 'Editorial Board' section.
•   The list is regularly updated.
• To ensure that the journal maintains its integrity and to avoid association with predatory or deceptive practices, the journal periodically reviews its editorial board in collaboration with the publisher to ensure its relevancy and appropriateness.

Article Processing Charge (APCs)

There is no submission fee, publication fee or page charge for manuscripts written in English language. However, for articles written in Persian language, publication fee is 2,000,000 Rials including (article review processing charges, language editing fees) which is taken when the manuscript is accepted for publication. The corresponding author of the manuscript is responsible for paying the publication fee. Author fees does not influence editorial decision making.

• There are no fees for membership, sending a manuscript or other supplementary charges.
• Author fee information are easy to find and presented in About Journal and also in the submission process (Author statement & Checklist).

Discount Policy for Publishing Articles

There is no submission fee, publication fee or any other page charge for the articles written in English language and submitted to this journal.

Other revenue

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the publisher of the journal, supports it for each published issue by paying a defined budget according to its published annual rank in Portal of Scientific Journals of Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The allocated budget includes those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the Journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving.

The other financial source of this journal is fees paid by authors whose articles have been accepted for publishing. Revenue sources do not influence on editorial decision making.

Advertising

This Journal does not accept any advertising.

Direct marketing

There is no direct marketing activity in this journal.

Paper Plagiarism Checker

To prevent plagiarism, the Journal of Agricultural Economics & Development uses the Hamyab system as similarity checker tool for the Persian manuscripts and the iThenticate system for the English ones. All manuscripts are checked for any similarity before sending to the reviewers, and if the percentage of similarity is more than 20%, the article will be withdrawn from the review process.

Privacy Statement

The Names and Email addresses entered in this journal’s website will be used exclusively for the purposes of publishing the Journal and will not be available to any other person or organization.