IJABE is a fast-growing peer-reviewed OA journal Updated Introduction to IJABE

International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (IJABE, www.ijabe.org) is a peer reviewed open access international journal. IJABE, started in 2008, is a joint publication co-sponsored by US-based Association of Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers (AOCABFE) and China-based Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE). The ISSN 1934-6344 and eISSN 1934-6352 numbers for both print and online IJABE have been registered in US. Now, Int. J. Agric. & Biol. Eng (IJABE) is published in both online and print version.

As an Open Access journal, our papers are freely accessible online immediately upon publication. With the Open Access policy, our journal can reach a broader spectrum of readership by removing price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) that some individual readers may experience. IJABE's International Editorial Board is made up of over 300 leading researchers from about 50 countries who are dedicated to ensuring that authors get a fair, efficient and friendly peer-review service. To benefit from the specialist advice and support of these internationally recognized experts, publish your next article with IJABE.

Openly accessible IJABE provides wider sharing of knowledge and the acceleration of research, and is thus in the best interest of authors, potential readers, and increases the availability, accessibility, visibility and impact of the papers, and the journal as a whole. IJABE aims at promoting agricultural and biological engineering, increasing academic prosperity, and fostering international academic interchange and cooperation.

This journal provides a platform for sharing the latest high-quality research concerning the agricultural, food and biological engineering and the application of these engineering techniques in all areas of agriculture. The journal features works of great significance, originality, and relevance in all the concerned areas. Our readers are from the international scientific community and may include educators, policy makers, agricultural engineers and scientists, and interested members of the public around the world.

Up to February 28, 2015, over 1800 submissions were received from over 30 countries, and seven volumes with 28 issues and over 320 papers were published. The website of IJABE attracts over 600 000 visits from over 90 countries around the world. Many papers published in IJABE were cited by other prestigious journals. The total registered users in IJABE database reached over 10000 up to date.

Although IJABE is a newly-launched journal, it has been growing quickly and steadily. So far, online and print IJABE has been covered and indexed by SCIE, JCR, Current Contents, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Preview, Ei Compendex, CA, INSPEC, Indian NAAS Journal Scoring, Abstract Journals (VINITI RAN), Agricola, AGRIS, Scopus, CSA, OCLC, ProQuest, Index Copernicus, Google scholar, CAB International, CAB ABSTRACTS Full Text Select, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries-Open Access Digital Library, EBSCOhost - Academic Search Complete, Academic Search R&D, Academic Source Complete, and Food Science Source, Socolar, China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation. All the papers published in IJABE can be searchable via the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge. IJABE is also the Abstracting & Indexing Sources for AgBiotech News and Information (Active) (Print), Genetics Abstracts (Active) (Print), Index Veterinarius (Active) (Print), Pig News & Information (Active) (Print), Pollution Abstracts (Active) (Print), Postharvest News and Information (Active) (Print), Review of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants (Active) (Print), Virology and AIDS Abstracts (Active) (Print), Wheat, Barley and Triticale Abstracts (Active) (Print). And it has been listed on the world's biggest online OA journals platform: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open J-Gate, and also Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Most importantly, according to the latest statistics from Thomson Reuters Web of Science All Databases Citation Report, till February 26, 2015, 321 papers published in IJABE were found, and the sum of times cited reached 583, with the times of the most-cited papers reaching 156, which was published in IJABE in 2009. Average citation per item is 1.82, and h-index is 9.

Please note that you can help to maintain and achieve greater success by Publishing your high-quality research papers in IJABE, Reviewing papers for IJABE if requested, and Citing papers published in IJABE as much as possible in your own publications (short for supporting IJABE via PRC), and also by encouraging your colleagues, students and friends to do so. You are invited to submit your next high quality manuscript (in particular review papers) to IJABE.

The Nine major technical categories that IJABE includes but is not limit to are as follows:

Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (ASET); Animal, Plant and Facility Systems(APFS); Agro-product & Food Processing Systems (AFPS); Biosystems, Biological and Ecological Engineering (BBEE); Information Technologies, Sensors and Control Systems (ITSC); Natural Resources and Environmental Systems (NRES); Power and Machinery Systems (PMS); Renewable Energy System (RES); Safety, Health and Ergonomics (SHE).

Types of articles:

Cover Caption, Editorial, Research Highlights, Science News, Policy & Education Forum, Perspectives, Correspondence, Commentary, Brief Communications, Previews, Mini-reviews, Review, Research Articles, Book and Media Reviews, Corrections, Advance Online Publication, Advertisement.

Languages: English

Method of submission:

The authors are required to visit IJABE website to register as IJABE authors, then they can submit their manuscripts to IJABE through the Open Journal System (OJS) online. The detailed Author Guidelines for submission are available at http://www.ijabe.org. Online submission is quick and easy to follow, so why not submit your good research to IJABE now.

Contact Person:

Dr./Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Editor-in-chief

Tel: [phone]

Add: No.41, Maizidian Street, Chaoyang District,

Beijing 100125, China

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

http://www.ijabe.org