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Organic Farming

Acadlore Publishing Services Limited · Hong Kong · Est. 2003

ISSN2297-6485

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2025-06-06). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.279

H-Indexi

SNIPi

Total Worksi

161

Total Citationsi

759

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.71

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Agronomy and Crop Science; Food Science; Soil Science.

General Information

Country / RegionHong Kong

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2003

Annual Volume~ 21 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications161

Publisher OrgLibrelloph

OA Since2012

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Acadlore Publishing Services Limited

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2297-6485

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

136

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Agronomy and Crop ScienceQ3

Food ScienceQ3

Soil ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Agronomy and Crop ScienceSoil ScienceFood Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Organic Food and AgricultureAgricultural Systems and PracticesAgricultural Innovations and PracticesSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental ImpactAgricultural Development and ManagementAgronomic Practices and Intercropping SystemsAgricultural Research and PracticesCrop Yield and Soil FertilityComposting and Vermicomposting Techniques

Frequently asked questions about Organic Farming

Is Organic Farming a predatory journal?

Organic Farming was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2025-06-06). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Organic Farming?

Organic Farming is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.279.

Is Organic Farming indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Organic Farming is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Organic Farming?