Agronomía Colombiana

Focus and Scope

Agronomia Colombiana is a journal which publishes research results in different areas of tropical agronomy. Original unpublished papers are accepted in the following areas: crop physiology, crop nutrition and fertilization, genetics and plant breeding, agricultural entomology, phytopathology, integrated crop protection, agroecology, weed science, environmental management, geomatics, biometry, soil science, water and irrigation studies, agroclimatology and climate changes, post-harvest and agroindustry, food technology, rural and agricultural development, agricultural economy, and agricultural marketing. The journal is a triannual publication.

Peer Review Process

The manuscripts must be submitted according to the Author guidelines. If the manuscript fulfills those minimum criteria, this will be sent to three expert reviewers in the specific area of knowledge following a double-blind procedure. Two of the experts are external to the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the third one belongs to the research and teaching staff of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. If the article is accepted for publication, the author(s) must introduce the suggested corrections within the terms indicated by the editor. If two of the peer reviewers consider that the scientific level of the manuscript is not acceptable for publication, the manuscript will be rejected. Finally, the Editorial Committee reserves the right to accept or reject the submitted manuscripts.

Open Access Policy

The journal provides an immediate open access to its content. It makes research freely available to the public and supports a global exchange of knowledge. There is no submission or publication fee.

Agronomia Colombiana, published by the Centro Editorial (Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia) is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional License.

Responsible research publication

The authors of the manuscripts submitted to Agronomia Colombiana must be aware of and avoid scientific misconduct (a code of conduct by the Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE) related to: scientific fraud in all or part of the data of the study and data falsification and manipulation; dishonesty due to fictitious authorship or gifting or exchange of co-authorship, duplicate publications, partial or complete, in different journals and self-plagiarism by reusing portions of previous writings; citation omission, citation copying without consultation and excessive self-citation, among others. The authors have the following rights: fair and impartial evaluation of manuscripts done in a reasonable amount of time, correspondence taken seriously and requests for changes and corrections respected, manuscripts subjected to review by the peer reviewers, and manuscripts remained unaltered.

Authors citation parameters

Authors who publish in Agronomia Colombiana must have an ORCID number. The journal uses the initials of names and the main surname as a citation format.

Journal funding

Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Bogotá). Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias.

Journal History

In 1983, with the 20-year-history of the Facultad de Agronomía of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (sede Bogota), the Graduate School was created and the journal Agronomia Colombiana was launched. Since 2005, the journal is indexed in Scielo Colombia. In 2008, the journal changed its periodicity from semiannual to triannual. In 2010, it changed the language of publication from Spanish to English. In 2012, the journal was accepted into Scopus.