Focus and Scope

Ilmu Pertanian (Agricultural Science as the Journal of Tropical Sustainable Agriculture : publishes peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and short communications that advance scientific understanding and innovation in tropical agricultural systems, with a particular focus on Asia and Africa. The journal aims to promote sustainable, climate-resilient, and resource-efficient agriculture that supports food and feed security, environmental sustainability, and rural livelihoods in tropical regions.

The journal welcomes multidisciplinary research encompassing the biophysical, technological, ecological, and socio-economic aspects of tropical agriculture. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• Sustainable Crop Production and Soil Management: Integrated nutrient and soil fertility management, conservation and organic agriculture, soil amendment using compost, biochar, and green manure, and long-term soil health monitoring in tropical environments.
• Rehabilitation and Utilization of Sub-Optimal Lands: Strategies to enhance the productivity of marginal, degraded, saline, acid, or drylands through soil amelioration, organic and inorganic amendments, water management, and the use of tolerant crop genotypes to expand arable land resources and meet food and feed demands.
• Agroclimatology, Agroforestry, and Ecosystem Resilience: Adaptation strategies for tropical crops to changing climatic conditions, agroforestry system optimization, and microclimate modification to improve productivity and ecological stability.
• Water and Irrigation Management: Assessment of hydrochemical properties, irrigation suitability, water-use efficiency, and sustainable irrigation technologies in tropical agroecosystems.
• Plant Physiology and Stress Biology: Mechanisms of tolerance to drought, salinity, heat, and nutrient stress in tropical crops at morphological, physiological, and biochemical levels.
• Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology: Development of improved crop varieties adapted to tropical conditions using conventional and molecular breeding, marker-assisted selection, genomic prediction, gene editing (CRISPR/Cas), and cytoplasmic male sterility systems for hybrid seed production supporting sustainable intensification.
• Agroecology and Climate-Smart Agriculture: Ecological intensification, biodiversity-based farming systems, carbon sequestration, and low-emission production systems enhancing resilience and sustainability.
• Sustainable Livestock–Crop Integration: Circular nutrient systems, organic waste utilization, and integrated farming practices linking crop and animal production for improved ecosystem efficiency.
• Precision and Smart Agriculture: Application of remote sensing, GIS, IoT-based monitoring, UAVs, automation, and big data analytics to optimize crop management, resource allocation, and sustainability outcomes in tropical agriculture.
• Socioeconomic and Policy Dimensions: Comparative analyses of profitability, productivity, and sustainability between organic, conventional, and integrated systems; adoption dynamics of sustainable technologies; and policies enhancing smallholder adaptation and food system resilience in the tropics.

The journal encourages transdisciplinary studies that integrate field experimentation, modeling, molecular research, remote sensing, and socioeconomic assessment to address the grand challenges of tropical agriculture under global climate change. Contributions highlighting innovative technologies and local solutions from Asia and Africa are particularly valued, fostering scientific collaboration and practical insights toward sustainable food and feed production in tropical regions.

Section Policies

Review Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Research Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Screening process: Manuscript submitted to Ilmu Pertanian (Agricultural Science) will be screened by Editor-in-Chief to ensure that the manuscript fits into Journal’s scope and follow the author's guidelines. If the manuscript passes from the screening stage, it will be assigned to give Editor to handle and give reviewers. If the manuscript failed from the screening process, it will be rejected without further steps or returning to the author to revise the manuscript based on the Journal’s standard.

Peer-review: The manuscript will be double blind review by two reviewers. Some corrections/suggestions from reviewers for each manuscript will be sent to the author.

Revision Stage: Author will revise the manuscript and resubmit in the submission system. A manuscript is considered withdrawn, if the author does not respond within 3 months after the review results are given.

Final Decision: The author as the contact person will be notified of the final decision of the editors. Final decision for accepted the manuscript depend on the result of the revision and reviewer recommendations.

Proofing: An accepted manuscript will be processed to final round for proofreading by a language professional editor, editing process and lay-outing. Final format manuscript will be returned to the author for final checking and approval. Manuscript will be published if the authors give an approval of the final manuscript.

Publication Frequency

Ilmu Pertanian (Agricultural Science) published three times a year in April, August, and December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics

The publication of articles is essential in the development of a comprehensive network of knowledge for a peer-reviewed journal. Therefore, it is important that each publishers, editors, authors, and reviewers should take the journal publishing process by themselves based on the highest level of professional ethics and standards based on Committee Publication Ethics (COPE's Best)

The publisher’s dedication is to support the editor’s considerable efforts, author’s academic contribution and reviewer’s appreciated voluntary works. It is also the responsibility of a publisher to make sure that the publication system runs smoothly, and to support the editor, authors and reviewers in performing their ethical duties with the application of ethical guidelines. 

The followings are lists of the editor’s responsibilities:

1. The editor should  admit acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts within two working days of receipt and makes sure the review process is efficient, fair, and on time.
2. The editor should ensure that confidential manner is treated to the submitted manuscripts with no disclosure of the content whatsoever other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher, as necessary.
3. The editor should withdraw himself or herself from processing manuscripts when any conflict of interest exists between him or her and the authors or institutions in relation to the manuscripts
4. The editor should make sure no disclosure of the names and details of the reviewers to a third party without the permission of the reviewers.
5. The editor’s right includes the final decision on whether to accept or reject a manuscript in refer to the significance, originality, and clarity of the manuscript and its relevance to the journal.
6. The editor should not oblige the authors to cite his or her journal as a condition for the manuscript to be accepted for publication.
7. The editor is not allowed to use any part or any data or work reported in the submitted manuscript for his or her own research.
8. The editor should give prompt response and take reasonable measures upon ethical complaint concerning a submitted manuscript or a published paper, and he or she should contact and consult with the author immediately, in which a written formal retraction or correction may also be required.

The followings are lists of the author’s responsibilities:

1. The author should not submit coexisting manuscripts (or manuscripts with similar subject matter) to multiple journals. Also, he or she should not submit any paper that has already been published anywhere. However, when certain conditions are met, publication of articles on specific subject matter, such as clinical guidelines and translations, in more than one journal is acceptable.
2. The author should present an accurate and brief report of his or her research with inseparable description of its significance.
3. The author should gather and interpret his or her research data in an honest manner. Publishers, editors, reviewers, and readers are allowed to ask the author to provide the raw data for his or her research for the editorial review and public access conveniences. If necessary, the author should prepare such data for any possible use prior to publication.
4. The author should guarantee the originality of her or his submitted work. The use or work and/or words by others should be provided with appropriate citations. Any forms of plagiarism is an unethical publishing behavior and highly intolerable.
5. The author should provide explicit indication of any sources supporting the research as well as declaration of any conflict(s) of interest.
6. The author should give acknowledgement to all of those who have made contributions to the research. Those with significant contributions to the research should be listed as coauthors who have affirmed the final version of the paper and agreed on its final publication.
7. The author should give prompt information to the editor when there is any evident error(s) in his or her published paper, as well as earnest cooperation with the editor in the retraction or correction of the paper. When any party other than the author notifies the editor that the published paper contains an obvious error, a retraction or correction should be made by the author based on the medium of publication.

The followings are the lists of reviewer’s responsibilities:

1. The reviewer should immediately notify the editor and excuse himself or herself from the reviewing process of the manuscript or when he or she feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript, or affirms that he or she cannot meet the deadline for completion of the review.
2. The reviewer should inform the editor and withdraw himself or herself from reviewing the manuscript if there is a conflict of interest. Specifically, he or she should withdraw himself or herself from reviewing any manuscript authored or coauthored by a person with an obvious personal or academic relationship with him or her, if the relationship may cause bias or the reasonable perception of bias.
3. The reviewer should ensure that confidential manner is treated to the manuscript. It should not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
4. The reviewer should take objective approach upon the peer-review job. There should be no personal criticism to the author.
5. The reviewer is not allowed to use any part or any data or work reported in the submitted manuscript for his or her own research.
6. The reviewer should immediately inform the editor when recognizing any similarity between reviewed manuscript and another paper published or under consideration by another journal. The reviewer should give immediate call to the editor’s attention when the manuscript contains plagiarism or fabricated data.

Screening Plagiarism

Ilmu Pertanian (Agricultural Science) check plagiarism for the article using iThenticate. The manuscript is expected to have a similarity level of less than 20%.