Annals of Agricultural Science Cairo

About Annals of Agricultural Science Cairo

Annals of Agricultural Sciences — Full Journal Profile

Annals of Agricultural Sciences is the official journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, published by Elsevier on the faculty's behalf and hosted on ScienceDirect. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for original research and reviews across the agricultural sciences, with a stated founding purpose of strengthening scientific relationships among Arab researchers and a present-day authorship and readership that is fully international. The JournalsWorld record for this post uses the title form “Annals of Agricultural Science Cairo” — a singular-“Science” variant with “Cairo” added. The journal's own title on ScienceDirect and in the Directory of Open Access Journals is Annals of Agricultural Sciences, plural. Cite the journal by its own title, and use the variant only as a search aid, because citation databases, library catalogues and index master lists file the journal under the plural form.

For agricultural researchers, the journal's appeal is a particular combination: a university faculty journal with deep regional roots in Egyptian and Arab agriculture, produced and distributed by a major international publisher, open access since 2011, discoverable on ScienceDirect alongside Elsevier's wider agriculture list, and covered in Scopus and Web of Science listings according to secondary journal directories — a status you should verify in those indexes directly, for the reasons explained in the indexing section below. Its scope is broad within agriculture: crop and soil science, plant protection, animal and fisheries production, food science, agricultural engineering and mechanisation, biotechnology and molecular approaches, and the environmental and climate dimensions of farming systems.

At a Glance: Identity and Bibliographic Record

The JournalsWorld page for this post also carried a structured-field error worth flagging: its publisher field showed an email address instead of an organisation, the same directory data problem seen on several posts in this batch. The correct publisher information is in the table above, sourced from DOAJ and from Elsevier's own hosting statement for the journal. Rely on those sources, not on the directory field, for any formal purpose such as a library record, a thesis bibliography or a publisher verification letter.

Ownership, Publisher and Editorial Responsibility

The division of labour behind this journal is stated plainly in its hosting record: production and hosting are by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, and peer review is under the responsibility of the faculty. That sentence explains both halves of the journal's character. The faculty — one of Egypt's major agricultural faculties, at a large Cairo public university — supplies the scholarly ownership, the editorial responsibility and the regional research community. Elsevier supplies the submission and production infrastructure, the ScienceDirect platform, international sales and discovery channels (even for an open-access title, platform placement shapes readership), and the archiving arrangements recorded by DOAJ.

For authors, the practical consequence is that you deal with two layers at once, and it helps to know which layer answers which question. Editorial questions — fit, review, revision, acceptance — belong to the journal's editorial office operating under the faculty's responsibility, reached through the journal's ScienceDirect and Elsevier journal pages. Process questions — submission-system accounts, APC invoicing and waiver administration, proofs and platform corrections — run through Elsevier's systems and support routes. When you write to the journal, use the contact routes on the official journal pages, keep your manuscript number in every message, and be precise about whether your question is editorial or procedural; misrouted questions are a common, avoidable source of delay at publisher-hosted faculty journals.

The journal's original mission statement, preserved in library records, says it aims at increasing scientific relationships between Arab researchers and targets the publication of authentic research in the sphere of agricultural sciences. Treat that sentence as history that still shapes emphasis rather than as a boundary on who may submit. Egyptian and regional agriculture — Nile Delta and valley cropping systems, arid and semi-arid production, water scarcity and irrigation, date and citrus and field-crop research, desert reclamation, regional livestock and fisheries — remains a natural centre of gravity for the journal, and papers that speak to those conditions find an expert readership here. But the journal today publishes international research, is written in English, and is evaluated by international standards; a well-designed study from any region whose findings transfer to agricultural practice can fit, provided the introduction explains that transfer honestly instead of claiming a local relevance the work does not have.

Scope in Depth: What the Journal Publishes

DOAJ classifies the journal under Agriculture (General), and its recorded keywords — agricultural science, organic fertilisers, soil solarisation, seed morphology and vermicompost among them — give a flavour of its applied soil-and-crop core. The original thin profile on this post listed topic clusters that match the journal's real content well: plant stress responses and tolerance, plant–microbe interactions and immunity, genetics and plant breeding, insect–plant interactions and pest control, food and agricultural sciences, and flowering-plant growth and cultivation. A fuller map of the scope, organised for authors testing fit, looks like this.

Crop science, agronomy and plant production

Field-crop, horticultural and forage research: varieties and genotype evaluation, planting and nutrient management, irrigation scheduling, cropping systems, yield and quality analysis, and production under stress. Work in this area is expected to report design properly — seasons, sites, replication, soil and weather characterisation — because agronomy results are notoriously site- and season-specific, and reviewers at a faculty journal with strong field traditions will look for exactly those details.

Soil science, fertility and water

Soil fertility and fertilisation, including organic fertilisers and vermicompost; soil solarisation and related soil-health practices; salinity and reclamation; soil microbiology in its agricultural role; and the soil–water side of irrigation science. The keyword record and the journal's regional setting make this one of its natural strengths: agriculture on arid land lives or dies on soil and water management, and rigorous work here addresses a problem of global reach.

Plant protection

Entomology and plant pathology in their agricultural application: insect pest biology and control strategies, insect–plant interactions, disease diagnosis and management, biological control, and pesticide science conducted to recognised efficacy and safety standards. Studies proposing a control method should report it at a level of detail that allows repetition — organism identity, conditions, doses or release rates, and assessment method.

Genetics, breeding and biotechnology

Plant genetics and breeding, seed science including seed morphology, molecular studies in agriculture, and biotechnology applied to crop and animal improvement. Molecular work must connect back to an agricultural trait or production question; a purely molecular characterisation with no agricultural interpretation belongs in a genetics or molecular-biology journal.

Animal, poultry and fisheries production

Livestock, poultry and aquaculture research: nutrition and feeding, breeding and reproduction, health management in its production context, and production-system studies. Animal work must state its ethics approval and welfare arrangements clearly, as at any responsible journal.

Food science and post-harvest work

Food science and technology connected to agricultural production: composition, processing, preservation, quality and safety of agricultural products, and post-harvest handling of crops. The connection to agriculture is the fit test — food research grounded in raw materials, production and regional food systems fits better than industrial food engineering with no agricultural anchor.

Agricultural engineering, mechanisation and environment

Agricultural mechanisation and engineering, decision-support and precision approaches where they are genuinely applied, climate-change impacts and adaptation in farming systems, rural biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, and land-use and environmental-impact studies of agricultural practice. The strongest papers in this band quantify something — an energy balance, an adoption rate with proper sampling, an impact measured rather than asserted.

Across all bands, the journal publishes original research articles and reviews. Reviews should be systematic in method or demonstrably authoritative in synthesis; a narrative summary of a small literature without a search method or a critical argument is unlikely to survive review at a journal of this standing. Short formats, where offered, follow the current author guidelines on the journal's official pages, which are also the authoritative source for article structure, reference style, length and file requirements.

Peer Review, Timelines and Editorial Standards

DOAJ records the journal's peer review as anonymous — the double-anonymous pattern in which reviewers do not know the authors' identity from the manuscript as sent for review — and records that the journal checks for plagiarism. Prepare your submission for anonymised review: a separate title page with authors and affiliations, a main text free of identifying acknowledgements and self-referential giveaways, and originality that can withstand similarity screening, including honest reuse of your own methods wording from earlier papers, which should be rewritten or openly cited rather than silently repeated.

On timing, DOAJ's record gives an expectation of, on average, 40 weeks from submission to publication. Secondary journal-listing sites quote shorter averages for this title, and the disagreement itself is the lesson: no official statistics page from the journal was found in the sources consulted, so plan using the cautious figure, treat any shorter figure as unverified, and do not promise a thesis committee, an employer or a funder a publication date based on either number. What you can control is your own contribution to the timeline: a complete, guideline-conforming, anonymised submission with ethics and data statements in place moves through technical checks without return trips, and a prompt, thorough revision is the single largest timeline saving most authors ever get.

Copyright and licensing deserve a careful read before you submit, not after acceptance. DOAJ records CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licensing for the journal and records that authors do not retain unrestricted copyright and publishing rights, while ScienceDirect carries the faculty's copyright line. In practice, Elsevier open-access journals present the author with licence choices and a publishing agreement at acceptance; which options apply to this journal, and whether a funder-mandated CC BY route is satisfied, must be confirmed from the journal's current pages and the agreement you are actually offered. If your funder mandates a specific licence or rights-retention language, raise it with the editorial office before submission — after acceptance is the wrong moment to discover a conflict.

Fees, Waivers and the Real Cost of Publishing Here

DOAJ records that the journal charges up to 1,000 USD as an article processing charge and that there is a waiver policy for those charges. Two other figures circulate on secondary sites — one listing site quotes a far lower APC figure for this journal — and they cannot all be right, which is precisely why this profile reports the DOAJ figure as the recorded ceiling and instructs you to confirm the current amount. APCs change, are sometimes priced by article type or by author country, and are administered by Elsevier's systems for this title; the figure that binds you is the one on the journal's official pages and in the agreement presented for your manuscript, on the date you submit. Ask, in writing, three questions before submitting if cost matters to you: what is the current APC for my article type; what waiver or discount am I eligible for, and how is it applied; and at what stage does the charge become payable. A waiver policy existing, as DOAJ records, is not the same as a waiver being granted — apply through the stated route and keep the decision with your submission records.

Indexing, Metrics and How to Evaluate Them

The journal is listed in DOAJ, which verifies its open-access practice, and it is hosted on ScienceDirect, which places it inside the discovery environment most agricultural researchers use daily. Secondary directories describe the journal as indexed in Scopus and in Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded, and SCImago carries a record for the title; one secondary summary quoted an SJR figure of 0.763 and another an impact-factor-like figure of 4.3, without a consistent year or a primary source. This profile deliberately does not adopt either number. Journal metrics are year-specific, are frequently confused between different metric families on listing sites — CiteScore, SJR and the Journal Impact Factor are three different calculations — and are used in promotion and funding decisions where a wrong figure is a serious error. If a metric matters for your decision, retrieve it yourself from the primary source for the current year: the Journal Impact Factor from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports, CiteScore from Scopus, and SJR and quartile from SCImago's own title page for Annals of Agricultural Sciences, ISSN 0570-1783. The JournalsWorld record for this post showed an h-index of 67 labelled as source-unverified; treat it only as a rough indication of a substantially cited back catalogue, which is consistent with a long-running Elsevier-hosted title, and not as a verified metric.

A more durable way to evaluate the journal is the one evaluators themselves use when they look past headline numbers. Is the journal the official organ of a real faculty, with peer review stated to be under that faculty's responsibility? Yes, on the hosting record. Is its open-access status independently listed, with archiving in CLOCKSS and Portico and DOI registration? Yes, per DOAJ. Does it publish research you recognise, cite and would be glad to appear beside? That question only you can answer, by reading a recent volume on ScienceDirect — and it is worth the half hour, because the company your article keeps is what readers actually judge.

Advantages and Limitations to Weigh

Advantages. Official journal of a major agricultural faculty with stated faculty responsibility for peer review; Elsevier production, hosting and discovery on ScienceDirect; open access since 2011 with DOAJ-verified listing, CLOCKSS and Portico archiving and DOI registration; a recorded waiver policy alongside the APC; a broad agricultural scope with particular depth in crop, soil, water and plant-protection research relevant to arid and semi-arid agriculture; and English-language international publication from a Cairo base, giving regional research a global platform.

Limitations. An APC applies, recorded by DOAJ at up to 1,000 USD, with waiver decisions not guaranteed. The recorded average time to publication on DOAJ is long — 40 weeks — so the journal suits planned publication better than urgent publication. Licensing and copyright terms are more restrictive than at fully author-retained-rights journals, and must be checked against funder mandates. Public metric claims for the title are inconsistent across secondary sites, so any metric-dependent decision needs primary-source verification. Finally, the title itself is frequently mis-stated — including on this post's original record — so authors must cite the official plural title carefully to keep their own bibliographies clean.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the correct title of the journal? Annals of Agricultural Sciences. The form “Annals of Agricultural Science Cairo” used in this post's JournalsWorld title is a variant; the journal, DOAJ and ScienceDirect all use the plural “Sciences” without “Cairo”.

What are its ISSNs? Print ISSN 0570-1783 and online ISSN 2090-8377.

Who publishes it and who owns it? Elsevier B.V. publishes and hosts it on behalf of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, which owns the journal as its official journal and holds responsibility for peer review.

Is it open access? Yes. DOAJ records that it began publishing in open access in 2011, uses CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licensing, and is archived in CLOCKSS and Portico.

What does it cost to publish? DOAJ records charges up to 1,000 USD with a waiver policy. Confirm the current APC and your waiver eligibility on the journal's official pages before submitting; secondary sites quote conflicting figures.

How long does publication take? DOAJ records an average expectation of 40 weeks from submission to publication. No official journal statistics page was found; plan cautiously and do not rely on shorter figures quoted by listing sites.

How is peer review conducted? Anonymously, per DOAJ, under the Faculty of Agriculture's responsibility, with plagiarism checking.

Verification Note and Sources

This profile is based on the DOAJ record for ISSN 0570-1783, which supplied the publisher and owning faculty, open-access start date, licences, APC ceiling and waiver policy, review model, plagiarism checking, archiving and language; on Elsevier and ScienceDirect statements that production and hosting are by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, with peer review under the faculty's responsibility and copyright held by the faculty; on library catalogue records preserving the journal's aim of strengthening scientific relationships between Arab researchers through authentic agricultural research; and on the JournalsWorld record for this post, whose title variant and email-as-publisher field are flagged above. Conflicting secondary figures for APC and metrics are reported as conflicts, not adopted. Always confirm scope, APC, licence options and guidelines on the journal's official ScienceDirect pages in the month you submit.