About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Revista Ciência Agronômica - RCA journal (ISSN 0045-6888 printed and 1806-6690 online), of continuous publication, has the mission of publishing high-quality and original scientific articles that have not been submitted to another journal, involving unpublished research and new technologies of interest in areas related to Agricultural Sciences, Food Engineering, Fisheries Resources, Animal Science and Natural Resources.
Papers that are technical or pertinent to routine analyses, preliminary studies, technical notes, and those that merely report laboratory analyses employing traditional methodologies will not be accepted for publication.
RCA is open to higher education professionals, professors, researchers and students linked to the areas of Agricultural Sciences, Food Engineering, Fisheries Resources and Animal Science and Natural Resources.
Brief History
The Revista Ciência Agronômica - RCA journal (ISSN 0045-6888-printed and 1806-6690-online) adopts a rolling pass system and has been published by the
Center for Agrarian Sciences of the Federal University of Ceará since 1971.
The conception of the journal was the natural result of the need to disseminate scientific knowledge in the area of Agricultural Sciences produced by researchers from the then School of Agronomy.
Currently, RCA audience consists of professors, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students of Agronomy, Food Engineering, Fisheries Resources, Animal Science, Natural Resources and related areas, from Brazilian and foreign public and private universities.
The articles published in RCA have been available in full since the first issue was published in 1971.
Open Access
This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing virtual access, without restriction (including financial restrictions), to all scientific texts published.
Open access is the condition under which the copyright holder of an academic work grants rights of use to third parties using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
Open Science Compliance
This journal follows the Gold Open Access model.
Ethics in Publication
RCA adopts and promotes good ethical practices at all stages of the editorial process. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the studies submitted to the journal meet the ethical and legal principles in force, and must present proof of approval issued by the Ethics Committees of the institutions where the research was carried out, whenever applicable.
The Editorial Committee regularly follows the guidelines and topics of discussion of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), adopting its recommendations and guidelines in cases of misconduct or ethical doubts. The journal uses a tool to detect similarity (Turnitin) and identify the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in submitted texts.
The use of AI is allowed only if declared by the authors and employed in an ethical and transparent manner, in accordance with international guidelines for good practices in scientific publishing.
Digital Preservation
As an Archiving Policy, this journal uses the LOCKSS system, developed by Stanford University, to create a distributed archive among participating libraries. The system allows these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. More information at http://lockss.org.
The journal is also included in Editorial Policy Directories such as Diadorim and Sherpa/RoMEO.
Indexing Sources
- WoS (Web of Science) being listed by SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded) and Essential Science Indicators (ESI)
The Revista Ciência Agronômica Journal - RCA was classified in Qualis Capes as A3 (quadrennium 2021-2024).
- Impact Factor - IF (JCR base 2024): 0.7.
- H-Index: 36.
- Scimago Journal & Country Rank - Q3: 0.249.
Bibliographic Record
- Title of the journal: Revista ciência agronômica
- Abbreviated title: Rev. ciênc. agron. (Online)
- Publication of: Fortaleza CE: Universidade Federal do Ceará Centro de Ciências Agrárias
- Periodicity: Continuous/Rolling Pass
- Publication method: Continuous Publication (CP)/Rolling Pass
- Year of journal creation: 1971
