About This Journal

• Aims & Scope

  Digital Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed, Open Access journal focusing on the design, development and application of digital technologies in agriculture, including precision farming, smart irrigation, precision animal management, agricultural robotics, and big data analytics. The scope of the journal encompasses research on a broad range of digital technologies for agriculture, including but not limited to agricultural sensors and sensing, agricultural Internet of Things (Ag-IoT), agricultural and rural connectivity, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous farming systems, agricultural energy harvesting, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), agricultural cloud computing, and human-computer interaction. Studies on integrating these technologies to support decision-making in various aspects of agriculture, such as animal management, crop management, soil health, water resources, and pest control, are particularly encouraged. Additionally, research on the development of digital technologies for sustainable agriculture, including the reduction of environmental impacts, harvesting resources, and optimizing resource utilization, is also within the journal’s scope.

  The aim of Digital Agriculture is to provide a platform for disseminating high-quality research and data on digital technologies for agriculture and to facilitate the exchange of ideas and knowledge between researchers in the field. The journal strives to publish research and data that addresses fundamental scientific questions, as well as studies with practical applications, with the ultimate goal of promoting the development of sustainable and efficient agriculture practices that can improve food security and contribute to global sustainability. Digital Agriculture will specifically emphasize open and reproducible research by facilitating the publication of digital artifacts, including datasets, open-source software, and reproducible evaluation methods, in addition to research articles.

  The journal accepts various article types, including Original Research, Review, Perspectives, Communication, Technical Report, and Digital Artifacts. Although authors are encouraged to be succinct, there is no restriction on the length of the papers or the number of figures and tables.

• Publication Ethics

  We insist on strict ethical policies and standards to ensure the high quality of scholarly publication on our platform and take a zero-tolerance attitude to all instances of misconduct, including data fabrication, plagiarism, authorship improprieties, and violation of recognized research practices, etc. We deal with all possible misconduct seriously based upon the COPE Guidelines. At any stage, if misconduct is proven, the paper will be rejected or retracted.  

• Open Access

  Publishing with the Gold Open Access policy, the full text of the papers published in Digital Agriculture will be made freely available online, without any barrier of access or subscription requirement, to a worldwide audience. Further information of the Open Access policy is available at Why Open Access.

• Copyright and License

  We adopt the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which means all papers published in Digital Agriculture are freely available online. Copyright of the published papers is retained by authors. Authors grant any third party the right to use the published paper freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are correctly cited. Authors also grant Pivot Science Publication Corporation an exclusive right to publish their paper and identify it as the original publisher.

  A note as below will be inserted in each paper published in Digital Agriculture:

  © YEAR by the author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is correctly credited.

• Editorial Process and Peer Review
  Articles submitted to Digital Agriculture are subject to rigorous single-blinded peer review conducted by at least two reviewers from the same field as the author, followed by an unbiased editorial decision made by an academic editor from the journal. Reviewers adhere to the Guidelines for Reviewers when reviewing manuscripts, while editors abide by the Guidelines for Editors when making decisions. Academic editors and reviewers have the freedom to act completely independently from the editorial office when making decisions or advising on any manuscript. More details of our editorial process and policy are available at Editorial Process.
• Plagiarism
  To ensure the originality of published research, Digital Agriculture screens every submitted manuscript using iThenticate software in order to identify manuscripts containing plagiarized text, including self-plagiarism. Manuscripts suspected of exhibiting plagiarism will be investigated, and rejected if the plagiarism is subsequently confirmed.
• Repository Policy
  Digital Agriculture adopts a repository policy that allows authors to deposit all versions of their manuscript in any institutional or subject repository, without any embargo period. Authors may update their preprints with the published version that includes a link to the article on Digital Agriculture 's website, attributing Digital Agriculture as the source of the original publication.
• Permanent Archiving
  All articles published in Digital Agriculture are archived in Portico so as to provide permanent digital preservation and open access. Portico secures the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly content in its original format without the risk of loss or destruction due to technological, economic, environmental or political reasons.
• Publication Charge

  There will be no publication fee levied for papers published in Digital Agriculture in 2024. More details of charges are available at Fees.

• Announcement

  Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free. For more information, please contact the Editorial Office.

• Contact the Journal

  For any information of the journal, please contact the Editorial Office