Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier that reports advances in computer hardware, software, electronic instrumentation and control systems for agriculture, founded in 1985, ranked Q1 in JCR, with a 2025 impact factor of 10.3 and a CiteScore of 17.3《农业计算机与电子》（Computers and Electronics in Agriculture）是爱思唯尔（Elsevier）出版的月刊同行评审期刊，报道计算机硬件、软件、电子仪器与控制系统在农业中的应用进展，1985 年创刊，居（JCR）第一四分位，2025 年影响因子 10.3，（CiteScore）17.3。

Scope

• The journal provides international coverage of advances in the development and application of computer hardware, software, electronic instrumentation and control systems for solving problems in agriculture, including agronomy, horticulture in both its food and amenity aspects, forestry, aquaculture and animal and livestock farming该刊国际性报道计算机硬件、软件、电子仪器与控制系统在解决农业问题方面的研发与应用进展，覆盖农学、园艺（含食用与景观两个方面）、林业、水产养殖和畜禽养殖。
• It publishes original papers, reviews and applications notes on the use of computers or electronics in plant and animal agricultural production, covering agricultural soils, water, pests, controlled environments, structures and wastes as well as the plants and animals themselves该刊发表原创论文、综述与应用简报，主题涵盖计算机或电子技术在动植物农业生产中的应用，涉及农业土壤、水分、病虫害、受控环境、设施与废弃物以及动植物本身。
• On-farm and post-harvest operations that count as part of agriculture, such as drying, storage, logistics, production assessment, trimming and separation of plant and animal material, are also within scope被视为农业组成部分的田间作业与收获后操作亦在收稿范围内，例如干燥、储藏、物流、产量评估以及动植物材料的修剪与分离。
• Relevant technologies include artificial intelligence, sensors, machine vision, robotics, networking and simulation modelling, and the publisher lists the subject areas as agronomy and crop science, forestry, computer science applications and veterinary science相关技术领域包括人工智能、传感器、机器视觉、机器人、网络与仿真建模，出版方列出的学科方向为农学与作物科学、林业、计算机科学应用和兽医学。
• Novelty is the decisive criterion, so applying an existing technology to a particular crop for the first time does not qualify, and studies that use off-the-shelf hardware or software without investigator-developed tools are directed to the companion journal Smart Agricultural Technology该刊以新颖性为决定性标准，首次将现有技术用于特定作物不算创新，未叠加研究者自研工具而直接套用现成硬件或软件的研究会被建议改投其姊妹刊（Smart Agricultural Technology）。
• Prototyping on previously published data sets is regarded as preliminary, and authors are expected to generate a more scientifically rigorous data set under controlled and reported experimental conditions before submitting such work利用已发表数据集开展的算法原型研究被视为初步工作，投稿前应在受控且报告充分的实验条件下生成更科学严谨的数据集。

History

• The journal was founded in 1985 and its first issue appeared in October 1985 under the Elsevier imprint in Amsterdam, with the NLM Catalog recording volume 1 number 1 of that month该刊于 1985 年创刊，首期于 1985 年 10 月出版，由阿姆斯特丹的爱思唯尔（Elsevier）发行，（NLM Catalog）所载第 1 卷第 1 期即出自该月。
• The inaugural issue opened with an editorial by Jerry L. Lambert and carried early microcomputer-era papers such as expert systems for agriculture, microcomputer-based image digitization in soil and crop sciences and water-energy management software for center pivot irrigation创刊号以（Jerry L. Lambert）的社论开篇，并刊载农业专家系统、土壤与作物科学中的微型计算机图像数字化以及中心支轴灌溉水土能量管理软件等微型计算机时代的早期论文。
• Early volumes appeared at about two issues per year, the schedule later moved to four issues per year and then to one volume per month, with volumes 228 to 239 dated 2025 and volume 246 appearing in May 2026, while annual output grew from about 30 registered items in the late 1980s to 1341 in 2025 according to Crossref records早期卷宗每年约两期，其后增至每年四期，再演变为每月一卷，2025 年出至第 228 至 239 卷，2026 年 5 月已出至第 246 卷，据（Crossref）记录，年注册文献量亦从 20 世纪 80 年代末的约 30 项增至 2025 年的 1341 项。
• Elsevier later added a companion journal, Smart Agricultural Technology, whose first volume appeared in December 2021, to carry applied smart technology for production agriculture爱思唯尔（Elsevier）其后增办姊妹刊（Smart Agricultural Technology），其第 1 卷于 2021 年 12 月出版，用于承接面向生产农业的智能技术应用研究。
• The impact factor climbed from 5.565 in 2021 and 6.757 in 2022 to 8.9 in 2024 and 10.3 in 2025, while the 2025 CiteScore reached 17.3该刊影响因子由 2021 年的 5.565 与 2022 年的 6.757 升至 2024 年的 8.9 和 2025 年的 10.3，2025 年（CiteScore）达 17.3。
• Publisher journal insights report a 15 percent acceptance rate, with 15 days from submission to first decision, 63 days to a decision after review, 172 days to acceptance and 10 days from acceptance to online publication出版方期刊数据显示其录用率为 15%，投稿至首次决定 15 天、复审后决定 63 天、录用 172 天、录用到在线发表 10 天。

Editors

• The journal is led by four co-editors-in-chief, namely Longsheng Fu of Northwest A&F University in China, Manoj Karkee of Washington State University in the United States, Francesco Marinello of the University of Padua in Italy and Tomas Norton of KU Leuven in Belgium该刊由四位共同主编领导，分别是中国的西北农林科技大学（Northwest A&F University）的（Longsheng Fu）、美国华盛顿州立大学（Washington State University）的（Manoj Karkee）、意大利帕多瓦大学（University of Padua）的（Francesco Marinello）与比利时鲁汶天主教大学（KU Leuven）的（Tomas Norton）。
• Two special content editors handle emerging areas, with Yiannis Ampatzidis of the University of Florida covering smart and digital agriculture, artificial intelligence, UAVs and machine vision, and Davut Karayel of Akdeniz University in Turkiye covering agricultural mechanization and sensor technologies两位特设内容编辑负责新兴方向，佛罗里达大学（University of Florida）的（Yiannis Ampatzidis）负责智能与数字农业、人工智能、无人机与机器视觉，土耳其阿克德尼兹大学（Akdeniz University）的（Davut Karayel）负责农业机械化与传感器技术。
• Xin Zhang of Mississippi State University serves as managing editor, and John K. Schueller of the University of Florida is listed as honorable editor密西西比州立大学（Mississippi State University）的（Xin Zhang）任管理编辑，佛罗里达大学（University of Florida）的（John K. Schueller）位列荣誉编辑。
• The editorial board comprises 63 editors and editorial board members from 19 countries and regions, with the largest groups in the United States with 21, China with 8 and the Netherlands with 5编委会由 19 个国家和地区的 63 位编辑与编委组成，其中美国 21 人、中国 8 人、荷兰 5 人，为人数最多的三个国家。
• Associate editors cover such specialties as agricultural robotics and harvesting, machine vision, precision livestock farming, remote sensing and hyperspectral imaging, including Tofael Ahamed of the University of Tsukuba, Spyros Fountas of the Agricultural University of Athens and Alireza Pourreza of the University of California Davis助理编辑覆盖农业机器人与收获、机器视觉、精准畜牧、遥感与高光谱成像等方向，包括筑波大学（University of Tsukuba）的（Tofael Ahamed）、雅典农业大学（Agricultural University of Athens）的（Spyros Fountas）与加州大学戴维斯分校（University of California Davis）的（Alireza Pourreza）。
• An editorial advisory board of senior figures supports the journal, among them Viacheslav Adamchuk of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Gerrit van Straten of Wageningen University and Qin Zhang of Washington State University资深编辑顾问委员会为该刊提供支持，成员包括内布拉斯加大学林肯分校（University of Nebraska-Lincoln）的（Viacheslav Adamchuk）、瓦赫宁根大学（Wageningen University）的（Gerrit van Straten）与华盛顿州立大学（Washington State University）的（Qin Zhang）。