Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences



Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences is the official journal of Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan. It is established in 2009. Prof. Dr. Qasim Khan is its first Editor and founder.

It is a peer-reviewed agriculture research journal, publishes research articles on quarterly basis in every discipline of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences including Plant Production Sciences, Protection Sciences, Food and Nutrition Sciences, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences and Rural Social Sciences.

The research articles are received from national and international agricultural and environmental scientists, which are referred to highly qualified, capable and experienced subject specialists for evaluation. The journal is managed by highly qualified Editorial Board under the supervision of Chief Editor and Patron (Vice Chancellor).

More than forty organizations including foreign missions in Pakistan and some foreign countries including India , Kenya , Japan , UK and USA receive the journal regularly on exchange basis. It is also subscribed by various national and international organizations including Netherlands , UK , Germany and some Agricultural Research Stations/Institutes in the province. CAB International of UK is the permanent subscriber of JAES, which disseminates its abstracts.

Editorial Board

|Designation |Name |E-mail |

|Patron |Prof. Dr. Muhammad Farid Khan | |

| |(Vice Chancellor) | |

|Chief Editor |Prof. Dr. Qasim Khan | |

|Associate Editors |Dr. Kazim R. Chohan, |--- |

| |State University of New York: Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, | |

| |Syracuse, New York 13210, USA. | |

|  |Prof. Dr. Winfried Manig, |--- |

| |Institute of Rural Development, University of Goettingon, West Germany. | |

|  |Prof. Dr. Takashi Kurosaki, |--- |

| |Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, 2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo | |

| |186-8603, Japan. | |

|  |Prof. HE Yurong, |--- |

| |Deptt. of Agro-Entomology, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China| |

| |Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P.R. China | |

|  |Dr. Muhammad Jamil Khan Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal | |

| |University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Muhammd Niamatullah Khan Babar, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal | |

| |University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Prof. Dr. | |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

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| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Prof. Dr. | |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

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| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Prof. Dr. | |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Prof. Dr. | |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

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| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  | Prof. Dr. |  |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Prof. Dr. |  |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Prof. Dr. |  |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|  |Prof. Dr. |  |

| |Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan | |

|Sub Editor | | |

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|EditorialAssistant | | |

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|Abstracting and Indexing |

|AGRICOLA, AGRIS, ISI Database, Ulrich’s Database of Periodicals, CAB Abstracts, Agro-forestry Abstracts, CAB Direct, Field Crop |

|Abstracts, Crop Physiology Abstracts, Maize Abstracts, Plant Breeding Abstracts, Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts, Potato |

|Abstracts, Post Harvest News and Information, Horticulture Science Abstracts, Ornamental Horticulture Abstracts, Agricultural |

|Engineering Abstracts, Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts, Nemotological Abstracts, Dairy Science Abstracts, Poultry Abstracts, |

|Animal Breeding Abstracts, Helminthological Abstracts, Grasslands and Forage Abstracts, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A|

|& B, Biological News and Information, Forest Products Abstracts, Forestry Abstracts and PASTIC. |

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|Correspondence: |

|All correspondence should be addressed to the Chief Editor, Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Gomal University,|

|Dera Ismail Khan. |

|Fax: |

|E-mail: Website: |

|Website: gu.edu.pk |

Instructions for Authors

Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (JAES) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing quality research in field of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Articles submitted to the JAES must be based on original research and should not have been previously published in any journal. The original copy and one legible photocopy of the manuscript complete with figures and tables are required. Manuscripts will normally be published in the order in which they are received, reviewed and accepted. Manuscripts should be sent to the Chief Editor, Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan - Pakistan.

Manuscript

The manuscript, in English, should be typewritten, double-spaced throughout, on one side of 8½"x 11" paper (A4), leaving at least 2.5cm margins on all sides. The first page of the manuscript should start with the title, names of authors. Authors' addresses should be given as footnote. Pages should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, figures, etc. should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals in the upper right hand corner. Tables should be typed on separate sheets having a brief self-explanatory title. Figures (including graphs, photographs and line drawings) should be composed on separate page and numbered according to their sequence. Reference should be made in the text to each illustration. Illustrations should be designed with the format of the page of the journal in mind. Illustrations should be of such a size to allow reduction of 50%. Colour illustration can only be included, if the author or some other subsidizing body pays the cost of their reproduction. " ABSTRACT ", " INTRODUCTION ", " MATERIALS AND METHODS ", " RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ", " CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS " and " REFERENCES " must be the compulsory sections of each paper.

Manuscript on disk

Original submission should always be on paper. After acceptance, submission of the final version on disk (3½ inches, double or high density) is encouraged. DOS diskettes are preferred in any of the four disk formats. The software used, file name and author(s) names should be mentioned on the diskette.

References

All papers, books and other work cited in the text must be included in the "References ". The references used in the text should consist of completely capitalized author's or authors' last name(s) where one or two authors are concerned. But where there are more than two authors, only the first is named and et al. is added. The publication year in parenthesis should follow the name. In the "References " section, the paper cited should appear in alphabetical order according to the last name of the first author, followed by year of publication. If more than one paper by an author or authors published in the same year is cited, the papers should be listed according to the year of publication followed by a, b, c, etc. Papers published in periodicals should be cited with names of all authors, together with full title of the paper and preferably in its original language, title of periodical, number of volume, initial and final page.

Both in the text and references section, citation of governmental agencies, educational and other institutions, foundations, associations and industrial companies should consist of the full name as used by the organizations.

Example:

Raziq, F., M. Ahmad and H. Kiran. 2005. Isolation of Trichoderma on selective media and its in vitro efficacy against Fusarium oxysporus. Sarhad J. Agric. 21(1): 117-120.

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Subscription Fee

|Individual: |Single copy |Rs.300 |

|Institution: |Single copy of each issue |Rs.1600 |

| |for one year @ Rs.400 per copy | |

|  |03 copies of each issue |Rs.4200 |

| |for one year @ Rs.350 per copy | |

|Foreign: |Single copy of each issue for one year |US $ 300 |

|Advertisement Fee |Single page for one year (4 issues) |Rs.8,000 |

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Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past. Most journals are highly specialized, although some of the oldest journals such as Nature publish articles and scientific papers across a wide range of scientific fields. Scientific journals contain articles that have been peer reviewed, in an attempt to ensure that articles meet the journal's standards of quality, and scientific validity. Although scientific journals are superficially similar to professional magazines, they are actually quite different. Issues of a scientific journal are rarely read casually, as one would read a magazine. The publication of the results of research is an essential part of the scientific method. If they are describing experiments or calculations, they must supply enough details that an independent researcher could repeat the experiment or calculation to verify the results. Each such journal article becomes part of the permanent scientific record.

The history of scientific journals dates from 1665, when the French Journal des sçavans and the English Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society first began systematically publishing research results. Over a thousand, mostly ephemeral, were founded in the 18th century, and the number has increased rapidly after that.

Articles in scientific journals can be used in research and graduate education. Some classes are partially devoted to the explication of classic articles, and seminar classes can consist of the presentation by each student of a classic or current paper. In a scientific research group or academic department it is usual for the content of current scientific journals to be discussed in journal clubs.

The standards that a journal uses to determine publication can vary widely. Some journals, such as Nature, Science, PNAS and Physical Review Letters, have a reputation of publishing articles which mark a fundamental breakthrough in their respective fields. In many fields, an informal hierarchy of scientific journals exists; the most prestigious journal in a field tends to be the most selective in terms of the articles it will select for publication. It is also common for journals to have a regional focus, specializing in publishing papers from a particular country or other geographic region, like African Invertebrates.

Articles tend to be highly technical, representing the latest theoretical research and experimental results in the field of science covered by the journal. They are often incomprehensible to anyone except for researchers in the field and advanced students. In some subjects this is inevitable given the nature of the content.

|Contents |

|1 Types of articles |

|2 Electronic publishing |

|3 Cost |

|4 Copyright |

|5 See also |

|6 References |

|7 External links |

Types of articles

There are several types of journal articles; the exact terminology and definitions vary by field and specific journal, but often include:

• Letters (also called communications, and not to be confused with letters to the editor) are short descriptions of important current research findings which are usually fast-tracked for immediate publication because they are considered urgent.

• Research notes are short descriptions of current research findings which are considered less urgent or important than Letters.

• Articles are usually between five and twenty pages and are complete descriptions of current original research findings, but there are considerable variations between scientific fields and journals – 80-page articles are not rare in mathematics or theoretical computer science.

• Supplemental articles contain a large volume of tabular data that is the result of current research and may be dozens or hundreds of pages with mostly numerical data. Some journals now only publish this data electronically on the internet.

• Review articles do not cover original research but rather accumulate the results of many different articles on a particular topic into a coherent narrative about the state of the art in that field. Examples of reviews include the 'Nature Reviews' series of journals and the 'Trends in' series, which invite experts to write on their specialization and then have the article peer reviewed before accepting the article for publication. Other journals, such as the Current Opinion series, are less rigorous in peer reviewing each article and instead rely on the author to present an accurate and unbiased view. Review articles provide information about the topic, and also provide journal references to the original research.

The formats of journal articles vary, but many follow the general IMRAD scheme recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Such articles begin with an abstract, which is a one-to-four-paragraph summary of the paper. The introduction describes the background for the research including a discussion of similar research. The materials and methods or experimental section provides specific details of how the research was conducted. The results and discussion section describes the outcome and implications of the research, and the conclusion section places the research in context and describes avenues for further exploration.

In addition to the above, some scientific journals such as Science will include a news section where scientific developments (often involving political issues) are described. These articles are often written by science journalists and not by scientists. In addition some journals will include an editorial section and a section for letters to the editor. While these are articles published within a journal, they are not generally regarded as scientific journal articles because they have not been peer reviewed.

Electronic publishing

It has been argued that peer-reviewed paper journals are in the process of being replaced by electronic publishing in its various forms.

One form is the online equivalent of the conventional paper journal. By 2006, almost all scientific journals have, while retaining their peer-review process, established electronic versions; a number have moved entirely to electronic publication. Most academic libraries, similarly, buy the electronic version, and purchase a paper copy only for the most important or most used titles.

There is usually a delay of several months after an article is written before it is published in a journal and this makes paper journals not an ideal format for announcing the latest research. Many journals now publish the final papers in their electronic version as soon as they are ready, without waiting for the assembly of a complete issue, as is necessary with paper. In many fields where even greater speed is wanted, such as physics, the role of the journal at disseminating the latest research has largely been replaced by preprint databases such as . Almost all such articles are eventually published in traditional journals, which still provide an important role in quality control, archiving papers, and establishing scientific credit.

Cost

Many scientists and librarians have long protested the cost of journals, especially as they see these payments going to large for-profit publishing houses. To allow their researchers online access to journals, universities generally purchase site licenses, permitting access from anywhere in the university – and, with appropriate authorization, by university-affiliated users at home or elsewhere. These may be quite expensive, sometimes much more than the cost for a print subscription – although this reflects the number of people who will be using the license; a print subscription is the cost for one person to receive the journal, while a site-license can let thousands of people access it.

Publications by scholarly societies, also known as not-for-profit-publishers (NFP), usually cost less than commercial publishers, but the prices of their scientific journals are still usually several thousand dollars a year. However, this money is generally used to fund the activities of the scientific societies that run such journals, or is invested in providing further scholarly resources for scientists, and thus the money remains in and benefits the scientific sphere.

Despite the transition to electronic publishing, the serials crisis persists.

Concerns about cost and open access have led to the creation of free-access journals such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS) family and partly-open or reduced-cost journals such as the Journal of High Energy Physics. However, professional editors still have to be paid and PLoS still relies heavily on donations from foundations to cover the majority of its operating costs; smaller journals do not often have access to such resources.

An article titled "Online or Invisible?" has used statistical arguments to show that electronic publishing online, and to some extent open access, both provide wider dissemination and increase the average number of citations an article receives. Lawrence postulates that papers that are easier to access are used more often and therefore cited more often.

Copyright

Traditionally, the author of an article was required to transfer the copyright to the journal publisher. Publishers claimed this was necessary in order to protect author's rights, and to coordinate permissions for reprints or other use. However, many authors, especially those active in the open access movement, found this unsatisfactory, and have used their influence to effect a gradual move towards a license to publish instead. Under such a system, the publisher has permission to edit, print and distribute the article commercially, but the author(s) retain the other rights themselves.

Even if they retain the copyright to an article, most journals allow certain rights to their authors. These rights usually include the ability to reuse parts of the paper in the author's future work, and allow him to distribute a limited number of copies. In the print format, such copies are called reprints; in the electronic format they are called postprints. Some publishers, for example the American Physical Society, also grant the author the right to post and update the article on the author's or employer's website and on free e-print servers, to grant permission to others to use or reuse figures, and even to reprint the article as long as no fee is charged.[3] The rise of open access journals, in which the author retains the copyright but must pay a publication charge, such as the Public Library of Science family of journals is another recent response to copyright concerns.

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|Agriculture Journals |

 

This page contains the list of International Agricultural Journals published worldwide. The presented information were collected from the different sources. All the available homepage addresses has been set underneath the journal name.

 

A. AGRICUTURE

1. Agroforestry Systems 

2. Agronomy Journal 

3. Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation 

4. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 

5. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 

6. Austrian Journal of Agricultural Research 

7. Biological Control 

8. Current Advances in Genetics and Molecular Biology 

9. European Journal of Plant Pathology 

10. Experimental Agriculture 

11. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 

12. Heredity 

13. HortScience 

14. Journal of Agricultural Genomics 

15. Journal of Biotechnology 

16. Journal of Chemical Ecology 

17. Journal of The American Society for Horticultural Science 

18. Journal of Economic Entomology 

19. Journal of Molecular Biology 

20. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 

21. Journal of Stored Products Research 

22. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 

23. Journal of Tree Fruit Production 

24. Medical & Veterinary Entomology 

25. Molecular Plant Pathology 

26. Mycological Research 

27. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 

28. Pesticide Science 

29. Planta 

30. Post Harvest Biology and Technology 

31. Seed Science Research 

32. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 

33. Swedish Journal of Agricultural Research 

34. The Journal of Agricultural Science 

35. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 

36. The Plant Cell 

37. Trends in Biotechnology 

38. Weed Research

B. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

1. Agricultural Economics 

2. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 

3. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 

4. Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 

5. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 

6. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 

7. European Review of Agricultural Economics 

8. Journal of Agricultural Applied Economics 

9. Review of Agricultural Economics

C. AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

1. Agricultural Water Management 

2. Food Microbiology 

3. Food Science and Technology International 

4. International Journal of Food Microbiology 

5. Irrigation Journal 

6. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 

7. Water Resources Management

D. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

1. Animal Feed Science and Technology 

2. Animal Genetics 

3. Animal Reproduction Science 

4. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 

5. British Poultry Science 

6. International Dairy Journal 

7. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics 

8. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition 

9. Journal of Dairy Science 

10. Livestock Production Science 

11. Tropical Animal Health and Production

E. FISHERIES

1. Aquaculture 

2. Aquaculture Nutrition 

3. Aquaculture Research 

4. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 

5. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 

6. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences 

7. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 

8. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 

9. The Journal of Marine Biotechnology

F. VETERINARY MEDICINE

1. Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery 

2. Clinical Techniques in Small Animal Practice 

3. European Journal of Veterinary Pathology 

4. International Journal for Parasitology 

5. Journal of Veterinary Medical Science 

6. Journal of Veterinary Medicine 

7. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 

8. Theriogenology 

9. Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice 

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