Field Crops Research

Field Crops Research is an international journal published monthly by Elsevier since 1978, reporting experimental and modelling research at field, farm and landscape scale on temperate and tropical crops and cropping systems, with a focus on crop ecology and physiology, agronomy, and plant genetics and breeding, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.9 and a first-quartile rank of 4 among 133 agronomy journals《田间作物研究》（Field Crops Research）是（Elsevier）自 1978 年起按月出版的国际期刊，刊载温带与热带作物及种植制度在田块、农场与景观尺度上的试验与模拟研究，重点为作物生态与生理、农艺学以及植物遗传育种，2025 年影响因子为 7.9，在 133 种农艺学类期刊中列第 4 位，居第一四分位。

Scope

• The journal focuses on major field crops grown for food and feed, including species used for cultivated pastures but excluding natural grasslands该刊聚焦以粮食与饲料为主的大田作物，包括栽培草地的物种，但不含天然草原。
• Crop ecology and physiology, agronomy, and crop improvement form the three stated pillars of its coverage作物生态与生理、农艺学、作物改良构成其列明的三大支柱。
• Genetics and breeding papers are accepted only when integrated with crop ecology, physiology or agronomy遗传育种论文须与作物生态、生理或农艺学结合方可接受。
• Quality traits for grain, fibre and feed, crop protection, phenotyping, and remote or contactless sensing are welcomed when tied to crop processes谷物、纤维与饲料的品质性状、作物保护、表型以及遥感或非接触传感，在与作物过程相联系时受欢迎。
• Field experiments should normally span at least two seasons or multiple locations and environments, and yield data are strongly encouraged田间试验通常应覆盖至少两个生长季或多个地点与环境，并强烈建议提供产量数据。
• Horticultural species, woody perennials, medicinal plants, controlled-environment-only studies and single-season single-site trials fall outside scope园艺作物、木本多年生植物、药用植物、仅在受控环境下开展的研究以及单季单点试验不属于收稿范围。
• Articles on crop storage, transport and usage, and social studies of cropping systems, are excluded, as are purely corroborative or local findings作物贮藏、运输与利用以及种植制度的社会研究不予收录，纯属验证性或仅具局部意义的结论亦不受理。

History

• Field Crops Research was established in 1978 by Elsevier and has published monthly for most of its history, building a broad agronomic readership该刊 1978 年由（Elsevier）创办，大部分年份按月出版，形成了广泛的农学读者群。
• Its Journal Impact Factor stood at 5.224 in 2021 and 6.145 in 2022, then rose to 6.4 in 2024 and 7.9 in 2025其影响因子 2021 年为 5.224、2022 年为 6.145，2024 年升至 6.4，2025 年为 7.9。
• In 2025 it ranked first among 133 agronomy journals by Journal Citation Indicator, reflecting citation impact beyond the impact factor2025 年该刊在 133 种农艺学类期刊中期刊引文指标排名第一，显示影响因子之外的引文影响力。
• The journal reports a median of 46 days from submission to first decision and attracts authors from China, the United States and Australia in particular该刊公布投稿至首次决定的中间值为 46 天，作者主要来自中国、美国与澳大利亚。
• Its editorial board has grown to 64 members from 16 countries, with 14 in China, 12 in Australia and five each in Argentina, France and the United States编委会已增至 64 人，来自 16 个国家，其中中国 14 人、澳大利亚 12 人，阿根廷、法国与美国各 5 人。

Editors

• The journal has three Editors-in-Chief, beginning with He-Zhong Dong of the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who works on cotton agronomy and physiology under abiotic stress该刊设三位主编，其一为山东省农业科学院的 He-Zhong Dong，研究非生物胁迫下的棉花农艺与生理。
• Jagdish K. Ladha of the University of California, Davis, covers sustainable agriculture, rice and nitrogen management加州大学戴维斯分校的 Jagdish K. Ladha 负责可持续农业、水稻与氮素管理方向。
• Richard A. Richards of CSIRO in Canberra works on wheat physiology, abiotic stress, yield potential and root biology堪培拉（CSIRO）的 Richard A. Richards 研究小麦生理、非生物胁迫、产量潜力与根系生物学。
• Associate editors include experts in cropping systems modelling, soil fertility, phenotyping and greenhouse gas emissions from arable systems副编辑包括种植制度模拟、土壤肥力、表型与农田温室气体排放方面的专家。
• Reviews and opinion papers require authors to contact the Editors-in-Chief before submission to establish the journal's interest, and the journal operates a hybrid open access model综述与观点类稿件须在投稿前联系主编确认刊物兴趣，刊物采用混合开放获取模式。