Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Applied Engineering in Agriculture is a peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, founded in 1985 and issued from St. Joseph, Michigan, where the Society keeps its own headquarters.《农业应用工程》是美国农业与生物工程师学会主办的同行评议期刊，创刊于 1985 年，出版地在密歇根州圣约瑟夫，也就是学会自己的总部所在地。

Its pages carry research papers, technical notes and reviews, and the agricultural engineering category of the 2025 citation report places it sixteenth of twenty-two titles, in the third quartile.该刊的版面以研究论文为主，另有技术报告与评论文章两类，2025 年版引证报告中它在农业工程类目内位列第 16 位，属第三区。

Authors from industry, government and universities are expected to report engineering results that other readers can put to work on a farm which is already running, rather than on a laboratory bench.来自工业、政府部门与高校的作者被期望写出工程结论，让其他读者在正在运转的农场里用得上，而不只是在实验台上成立。

Scope

• Coverage is stated around the practical applications of leading-edge research in every area of engineering for agriculture, food and other biological systems, with emphasis on work that others can adapt.该刊自述的选题范围，落在农业、食品与其他生物系统工程中前沿研究的实际应用上，看重他人能够照搬改进的工作。

• Field equipment occupies one long-standing strand, covering tillage, planting and harvesting machinery as well as the control systems that drive them.田间装备是其中一条长线，涵盖耕作、播种与收获机械，也涵盖驱动这些机械的控制装置。

• Food and agricultural product processing forms a second strand, with papers on drying, storage, handling and the quality of the material that reaches the consumer.食品与农产品加工构成第二条线，论文涉及干燥、储藏与搬运，以及到达消费者手中那批物料的品质。

• Farmstead systems come next, covering the buildings and utilities of a working farm together with the machinery that moves material through them.农场系统紧随其后，涉及在运营农场的建筑与公用设施，以及在其中搬运物料的机械。

• Irrigation and drainage occupy a substantial place, with work on water application, soil water behaviour and the control of the water itself.灌溉与排水占据相当篇幅，研究涉及施水方式、土壤水分行为以及水量本身的控制。

• Natural resources are treated as an engineering subject, covering soil and water conservation together with the quality of the runoff leaving a field.自然资源在此被当作工程课题，土壤与水土保持同流出田块的径流水质一起讨论。

• Energy work runs from farm power units to biomass conversion, with attention to the efficiency of engines and to the heat recovered from a drying operation.能源方向的论文从农场动力装置延伸到生物质转化，关心的既有发动机的效率，也有干燥作业中可以回收的热量。

• Electronics, sensors and precision agriculture have grown with the field, and papers describe how field data are gathered and turned into machine decisions.电子学、传感器与精准农业随这一领域一同成长，论文描述田间数据如何被采集并转化为机器决策。

• Controlled environment agriculture is a further area, with work on greenhouse climate control, lighting and the energy balance of the structure.受控环境农业是又一处着墨点，研究涉及温室气候控制、照明以及这座建筑本身的能量平衡。

• Animal facilities appear regularly as well, covering housing, ventilation and the handling systems that keep livestock production workable.动物设施同样是常设题材，涉及畜禽舍饲、通风以及维持养殖作业可行的那些操作装置。

• Feed and animal nutrition engineering appear alongside, treating feed processing, mixing and the machinery that handles the ration.饲料与动物营养工程与之并行，处理的是饲料加工、混合以及搬运日粮的机械。

• Agricultural waste and the recycling of it draw separate attention, with attempts to recover value from residues that used to be burned or buried.农业废弃物及其回收利用单独受到关注，研究试图从过去被焚烧或掩埋的残余物中回收价值。

• Information systems and modelling complete the technical frame, with papers on decision support for farm management and on the simulation of production systems.信息系统与建模补上了技术框架的最后一角，论文涉及面向农场经营决策支持，也涉及生产系统的模拟。

• Contributors come from every country, and the stated expectation is practical experience or trials presented so that other readers can adapt them easily.稿件来自各国，刊物期望看到的是实践经验或试验结果，并且呈现方式要便于他人轻松照搬。

• Submissions may also carry research information on education, outreach and the transfer of technology, or a review of installations and applications bringing detail not readily available elsewhere.投稿也可以提交教育、技术推广与技术转移方面的研究信息，或是对其他同行评审出版物中不易见到的设施安装与应用细节的评述。

History

• The first volume appeared in 1985, and the numbering has run without a break since, so that the run now stands in its forties.首卷出版于 1985 年，此后的卷号未曾中断，如今这一刊期已走到四十余卷。

• Publication rests with the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, whose headquarters stand at 2950 Niles Road in St. Joseph, Michigan.出版方为美国农业与生物工程师学会，学会总部设在密歇根州圣约瑟夫奈尔斯路 2950 号。

• The title sits inside a small publishing family, sharing the Society's imprint with the Journal of the ASABE, the Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health and a magazine for members.该刊处在规模不大的出版物家族中，与 Journal of the ASABE、Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health 及一份会员杂志共用同一出版方。

• The flagship title of the Society, the Journal of the ASABE, was formerly called Transactions of the ASABE, while this journal has kept its own name since the first volume.学会的旗舰刊物 Journal of the ASABE 早年称为 Transactions of the ASABE，本刊则自首卷起沿用自己的刊名。

• A second number, 1943-7838, was assigned to the electronic edition when the Society moved its technical library online, and both numbers appear in the citation records.学会把技术文献库迁上网络时，电子版获配第二个刊号 1943-7838，两个刊号此后都出现在引证记录里。

• The journal runs on a hybrid model, and the Society's own pricing statement covers its three hybrid titles, with the first pages free of charge for member authors.该刊采用混合模式，学会自己的定价说明覆盖旗下三份混合刊物，会员作者的前几页不收费。

• Beyond those pages a member paper is charged one hundred dollars for each of pages four to seven and two hundred dollars for each page from the eighth onwards.超出之后，会员稿的第 4 至 7 页每页 100 美元，第 8 页起每页 200 美元。

• A paper with no member among its authors pays from the second page, and the charge applies to the large 8.5 by 11 inch page the Society uses for this title.作者中无会员的稿件从第 2 页起计费，费用按学会为该刊采用的大开本页面计算。

• The 2025 citation report puts the impact factor at 1.3 with a five year figure of 1.5, and the journal sits sixteenth of twenty-two titles in its category.2025 年版引证报告给出的影响因子为 1.3，五年指标为 1.5，该刊在所属类目 22 种刊物中列第 16 位。

• Open access papers account for 3.65 per cent of the output, the journal citation indicator stands at 0.18, and the subject percentile reads 29.5.开放获取论文占全部产出的 3.65%，期刊引文指标为 0.18，学科百分位为 29.5。

• A cumulative count of 2802 citations and a half-life of 12.8 years describe a work that has been gathering references steadily, with about 66 papers appearing each year.累计 2802 次被引与 12.8 年的半衰期，说明引用在持续累积，每年约有 66 篇论文刊出。

• The factor itself has travelled, reading 0.985 in 2021, 0.896 in 2022, 0.8 in 2023 and 1.3 in 2025, a climb that lifts the title in its class.该指标本身也有起伏，2021 年为 0.985，2022 年为 0.896，2023 年为 0.8，2025 年升至 1.3，位次随之在同类刊物中上移。

• The Society's own catalogue lists the title with six bimonthly issues a year, a page size of 8.5 by 11 inches and the print number 0883-8542.学会自己的刊物目录把它列为每年六期的双月刊，页幅 8.5 乘 11 英寸，印本刊号 0883-8542。

• Indexing sits in the Science Citation Index Expanded, where the journal is ranked in the agricultural engineering class of twenty-two titles.该刊收录于科学引文索引扩展版，在农业工程这一类目的 22 种刊物中列有名次。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Christopher R. Henry, an agricultural engineer whose work has long centred on the drying and handling of grain and other farm materials.主编是（Christopher R. Henry），一位农业工程师，长期研究谷物等农产品的干燥与搬运。

• Manuscripts are handled through the Society's own structure, a manuscript coordinator routing each paper to a division editor and from there to an associate editor.稿件经学会自身的流程处理，由稿件管理员转交分部编辑，再从分部编辑转给副编辑。

• The associate editor sends the paper to two or more qualified reviewers, whose comments and recommendations travel back before any decision is taken.副编辑把稿件送给两位以上合格审稿人，审稿意见与建议回到编辑部之后才会作出决定。

• That stage takes time, and the Society's guidance notes that three months or longer may pass before the reviewers' comments arrive.这一阶段耗时不少，学会的指引写明收到审稿意见可能需要三个月以上。

• Anonymity is arranged differently across the Society's titles, since author names are removed only for the safety and health journal, leaving this one single blind.各刊的匿名安排并不一致，只有安全与健康类刊物会先去掉作者姓名，因此本刊维持单盲。

• Four outcomes are open to the editor, acceptance as it stands, acceptance with minor changes that need no further review, acceptance after substantial revision and further review, or rejection.编辑面前有四种结果可选，原样录用、小改后录用且不再复审、大改后再送审然后录用，或者退稿。

• A revised manuscript is expected back within six months of the reviewers' comments, and the guidance warns that late papers may be turned away.修订稿须在收到审稿意见后六个月内交回，指引同时提醒逾期稿件可能被拒。

• An edited version goes back to the author for proof, and at that point only minor editorial and layout matters can be settled, larger changes returning to the editor.排好版的版本会交回作者校样，此阶段只能处理细小的编辑与版式问题，改动较大者仍要退回编辑。

• The Society's rules ask that published material carry no evident commercialism, advance no private interest, and avoid personalities whether complimentary or derogatory.学会的规则要求已刊内容不含明显的商业色彩，不为任何私人利益张目，也不掺入恭维或贬抑的评断。

• Every submission is expected to be consistent with the purposes set out in the Society's constitution, and matter that is purely speculative is not admitted.每份投稿都须与学会章程所定的宗旨相符，纯粹臆测的内容不予采用。

• Beyond technical accuracy the journal asks for an original and useful contribution, and it accepts accounts of successful methods in education, outreach or the transfer of technology.除技术准确之外，刊物还要求稿件有原创且有用的贡献，也接受教育、推广与技术转移成功做法的记述。

• Behind the editor-in-chief sit technical and associate editors drawn from the Society's divisions, so that work on irrigation or greenhouse control reaches a practitioner in that field.主编背后是由各分部抽出的技术编辑与副编辑，因此关于灌溉或温室控制的研究会交到该领域的从业者手中。

• Submission runs through the ScholarOne platform the Society operates for all three journals, and no pre-submission enquiry step appears in the guidance to authors.投稿走学会为三份刊物统一运营的 ScholarOne 平台，作者须知中没有列出投稿前的问询环节。