Review policy
Journal of Innovative Agriculture aims to cover all major agricultural and allied sciences domains and improve international academic exchange and cooperation. It highlights to bring out research article that seeks to uncover the science underlying agricultural innovations. This journal aims to publish the latest high-quality research from a diverse range of topics in the agricultural and allied sciences , contributed by the scientific community.
Editorial Process for Manuscripts
Initial Screening
The managing editor of the journal carries out the initial screening. The initial screening will be conducted to verify and confirm the following.
(i). Format of the article as per the journal’s requirement
(ii). Qualities of the article (plagiarism freeness, ethics of the publications and suitability for publication) to approve for the review process.
If needed, the managing editor will return the manuscript to the corresponding author for modifications to consider the manuscript for review.
If the manuscript does not fulfill the above qualities, the managing editor rejects the manuscript (after getting concern from the chief editor).
The managing editor will assign a suitable Academic Editor with subject specialization for the qualified manuscript.
Peer review process
The academic editor will review the manuscript for research, methodologies, data quality, originality, content, and write-up consistency, including numerical values and their units, across the manuscript's sections.
Since the citations should be reliable, the following reviews will also be conducted at this stage.
(a). Check for the presence of the article for the citations given in the manuscript
(b). Check for the relevance to the content and citations
(c). Check for the DOI's redirection to the article URL
(d). Cross-checking the citations and the list of references to check the year and the author's name consistency
If any revision is required, the corresponding author will be informed of the revision to get the revised manuscript. If the manuscript contains any false information, it will be rejected by the academic editor.
The selected manuscripts will be assigned to reviewers for the review process.
Double-blind review will be conducted. The identity of the authors and reviewers will not be known to each other.
Reviews are being conducted confidentially. The independent reviewers will be assigned from the reviewer team of our journal, reviewers collected from academic manuscripts, and the list of reviewers suggested by the author. The reviewers should not have a connection with the authors by any means (the same institute, collaborated publications, etc.,).
The reviewers will review the manuscripts at our online article submission portal (PKP OJS-based). Login credentials will be provided for the reviewers who accepted the review invitation.
The academic editor collects at least two review reports from the review process. After analysis of the reviewer's comments, the academic editor will send the following to the corresponding author.
Acceptance
Requires Minor Corrections
Requires Major Revision
Rejection of the Manuscript (with reasons)
In the event of manuscript revision requirements, the manuscript will be sent to the corresponding author by the academic editor, along with the reviewers' comments and the required revisions requested by the reviewers. The academic editor will decide whether further review is needed for the manuscripts, based on the recommendations given by the reviewers.
Then, the academic editor will decide the manuscript's status based on the author’s replies and reviewers’ recommendations during the revisions.
Accepted manuscripts will again be subjected to the following evaluation if new citations are included during the revisions
(a). Check for the presence of the article for the citations given in the manuscript
(b). Check for the relevance to the content and citations
(c). Check for the DOI's redirection to the article URL
(d). Cross-checking the citations and the list of references to check the year and the author's name consistency
Finally, the bookmarking of citations and references will be carried out before sending the galley proof to the corresponding author.
