Crop Science

Crop Science is a bimonthly journal of the Crop Science Society of America, published by Wiley, issued six times a year since volume 1 in 1961, and devoted to agronomy, crop physiology and crop genetics, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 and a second-quartile place at 46 of 133 titles in agronomy.《作物科学》是美国作物学会（Crop Science Society of America）的双月刊，由 Wiley 出版，1961 年第 1 卷起每年出 6 期，内容覆盖农艺学、作物生理学与作物遗传学，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，在农艺学类目 133 种刊物中列第 46 位，属 Q2 区。

Scope

• The stated remit is significant advances in crop science, and a paper has to show relevance to a crop system before anything else is weighed.刊物的公开定位落在作物科学的实质性进展上，稿件先要证明与某个作物生产体系相关，其余才进入考量。

• Usefulness is judged from two directions, for scientists who work on other crops and for scientists who work on the same crop under different production conditions.有用性从两个方向衡量，一是研究其他作物的学者，二是在不同生产条件下研究同一作物的学者。

• Work that only confirms an earlier advance, or that carries information of mainly local interest, is declined.只重复前人进展、或信息主要只对本地有意义的稿件会被退掉。

• Agronomy, physiology and genetics are named as core territory, and the guidelines keep the list open by adding the phrase including but not limited to.农艺学、生理学与遗传学被点名为核心地带，指南又以「包括但不限于」收尾，为清单留出开口。

• Field-crop experiments and reviews are accepted as papers, while studies run under controlled conditions follow a separate set of guidelines.大田作物的试验与综述按论文受理，在受控环境下完成的研究另有一套指南。

• Manuscripts are sorted by the society division they fit most closely, so the research community decides the route and the crop species does not.稿件按最贴近的学会分部分流，决定去向的是研究群体，作物种类不作依据。

• Forage breeding is one worked example, since the guidelines send such manuscripts to Division C-1 and keep them out of Division C-6.饲草育种是明写的例子，指南要求这类稿件投 C-1 部，C-6 部不收。

• Thematic collections gather papers from across the scope around one subject and run beside the regular issues.专题合集围绕一个题目把跨方向的论文聚拢，与常规各期并行。

• Review and Perspectives articles are named as standing parts of the content rather than occasional additions.综述与视角文章被写进常规内容，不作为偶发的补充。

• Nine formats are listed, among them Original Article, Review, Lecture, Issues, Scientific Perspective, Plant Breeding Review and Horticultural Review, with Invited Review and Letter to the Editor at the end.指南列出九类稿件，原创论文、综述、讲座、议题、科学视角、植物育种综述与园艺综述在列，约稿综述与读者来信收尾。

• A Review runs from 10,000 to 20,000 words including references, holds no more than 50 references and has to offer a new reading of the literature.综述连参考文献在内为 10000 至 20000 词，参考文献不超过 50 条，须对文献给出新的解读。

• Reviews must also carry an author recognised in the field, which keeps synthesis with people who know the literature at first hand.综述还须有一位在该领域得到承认的作者署名，综合工作因此落在熟悉文献的人手里。

• Letters to the Editor are held to 300 words, appear after the editor's approval, and draw a reply from the authors of the paper under discussion.读者来信限 300 词以内，经编辑批准后刊出，涉及已发表论文时原作者会受邀作答，来信与答复同期发表。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 appeared in January 1961 and opened with an editorial titled The New Crop Science Journal, signed by I. J. Johnson and H. L. Hamilton.第 1 卷第 1 期于 1961 年 1 月面世，开篇社论题为「The New Crop Science Journal」，署名（I. J. Johnson）与（H. L. Hamilton）。^[1]

• That first volume ran to six numbers and left 167 records in Crossref.第 1 卷当年出满 6 期，在 Crossref 留下 167 条记录。

• Publishing began at the society's headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, the imprint the National Library of Medicine keeps for the early volumes.出版工作起于学会在威斯康星州麦迪逊的总部，美国国家医学图书馆把这一出版地登记在早期各卷名下。

• One volume has appeared every year since, without a gap, so the 2026 volume is numbered 66.此后每年一卷，没有断档，2026 年的一卷编号为第 66 卷。

• Output grew from 167 records in 1961 to 234 in the 2025 volume.发文记录从 1961 年的 167 条增至 2025 年一卷的 234 条。

• The society's own 10.2135 prefix carries the archive up to 2019, the last year in which new articles were registered under it.学会自有的 10.2135 前缀承载了到 2019 年为止的过刊，那也是新论文使用该前缀的最后一年。

• Every 2020 record carries the 10.1002 prefix and the csc2 stem, the marks of Wiley, which took over with volume 60.2020 年的每一条记录都带 10.1002 前缀与「csc2」词干，这是 Wiley 的标识，出版工作自第 60 卷起转到该社。

• The Crop Science Society of America sets editorial policy with the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America, and the three share one headquarters editorial office.美国作物学会与美国农学会（American Society of Agronomy）、美国土壤学会（Soil Science Society of America）共同制定编辑政策，三家共用一处总部编辑部。

• MEDLINE and PubMed list the title as selected citations only, the coverage note that the National Library of Medicine applies to it.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 把本刊标为只收录选定条目，这是美国国家医学图书馆给出的收录口径。

• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports give an impact factor of 2.4 for the year and 2.4 across five years, with 20,198 citations and a cited half-life of 18 years.2025 年的期刊引证报告给出当年影响因子 2.4 与五年影响因子 2.4，总被引 20198 次，被引半衰期 18 年。

• Gold open access covers 46.55 percent of the articles counted in that report, which leaves the journal on a hybrid footing.该报告统计的论文里有 46.55% 以金色开放获取发表，刊物因此仍在混合模式上运行。

• Impact factors since 2022 read 2.763, 2.0, 1.9 and 2.4, a band that dips and recovers within a single point.2022 年以来的影响因子依次为 2.763，2.0，1.9 与 2.4，四年间的起伏收在一个点以内。

Editors

• The January 2024 issue carried a short piece that introduced the editor, Glen Ritchie, to readers.2024 年 1 月号刊出一篇短文，向读者介绍本刊编辑（Glen Ritchie）。^[2]

• Policy sits with the three boards of directors, which hand manuscript review and production to editors-in-chief, editors, editorial boards and committees, and to a full-time headquarters staff.政策的决定权在三家理事会，稿件评审与出版制作交给主编、编辑、编委会与各委员会，以及总部的全职职员。

• Every manuscript submitted goes through single blind peer review.所有投稿都走单盲同行评审。

• A technical editor assigns an associate editor, who solicits at least two reviews and then recommends a decision back to the technical editor.技术编辑指派一位副编辑，副编辑至少请到两位审稿人，评完后向技术编辑建议结论。

• Authors may name possible reviewers, though conflicts of interest are barred and the board keeps the right to ignore the list.作者可以提名审稿人，有利益冲突者不得入选，编委会保留不采用这份名单的权利。

• A decision on whether to send a paper out comes within days, the average run from submission to final decision is about 80 days including revisions, and a paper usually passes through two rounds of four weeks each.稿件是否送审在数日内决定，从投稿到终审平均约 80 天，修改计入其中，一篇稿件通常经过两轮修改，每轮给 4 周。

• Submitted manuscripts are screened for duplication on arrival, and heavy overlap with other sources goes to the editor for a ruling.稿件到手即做查重，与他处文字重合较多的会交编辑裁定。

• The corresponding author needs an ORCID, and contributor roles are recorded in the fourteen CRediT categories and published with the paper.通讯作者须有 ORCID，作者贡献按 CRediT 的十四类角色登记，录用后随论文发表。

• Abstracts stop at 1,500 characters, notes at 750, and a Plain Language Summary at 1,000.摘要上限为 1500 字符，简报为 750 字符，通俗语言摘要为 1000 字符。

• Generative AI has to be declared at submission in a section of its own placed before the references, and an undeclared use in review writing can close the journal to the authors later on.生成式 AI 的使用须在投稿时声明，声明单独成节放在参考文献之前，写综述时用了却不申报，可能让作者此后的投稿被拒。

• Page charges fall due once a paper is accepted, and the guidelines set out the practice without naming a rate.论文录用后按页收取版面费，指南写明了这一做法，没有列出具体金额。

• A special section holds 6 to 25 papers, needs a proposal approved by the editor of the journal, and is expected to fill within about a year.专题栏目容纳 6 至 25 篇论文，选题须经本刊编辑批准，大约一年内收齐。

• Lecture papers come only by invitation and are tied to a society lectureship, and the longer Invited Review is commissioned in the same way.讲座类论文只接受约稿，对应学会的讲座席位，篇幅更长的约稿综述也走同一条路。

• Since 2022 the editors have published an annual report in each volume, and the 2025 report sits in volume 66, number 4.2022 年起编辑部每卷刊出一份年度报告，2025 年那一篇位于第 66 卷第 4 期。^[3]