Precision Agriculture

Precision Agriculture is an international journal published by Springer since 1999 and issued bimonthly, reporting research on the measurement, management and technology of within-field spatial variability in agricultural production, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.6 and a first-quartile rank of 9 of 95 in multidisciplinary agriculture《精准农业》（Precision Agriculture）是（Springer）自 1999 年起出版的国际期刊，双月刊，刊载农业生产中田块内空间变异的测量、管理与技术研究，2025 年影响因子为 7.6，在综合性农业类 95 种期刊中列第 9 位，居第一四分位。

Scope

• Within-field variability of soil, crop and landscape is the journal's organising problem, including soil mapping, digital elevation models and geostatistics土壤、作物与景观的田块内变异是该刊的核心问题，包括土壤制图、数字高程模型与地质统计学。
• Sensing systems are covered, from proximal and remote sensing to soil, crop and canopy sensors mounted on vehicles or platforms传感系统属于收稿范围，从近地与遥感，到安装在车辆或平台上的土壤、作物与冠层传感器。
• Positioning and control technologies are within scope, including satellite navigation, guidance, variable-rate application and precision seeding定位与控制技术属于收稿范围，包括卫星导航、自动导向、变量作业与精量播种。
• Computational and data methods are treated as central, covering yield mapping, GIS, decision support systems, machine learning and data interpretation计算与数据方法被视为核心，涵盖产量制图、地理信息系统、决策支持系统、机器学习与数据解释。
• Economics, adoption and technology transfer are explicitly included, from profitability analysis to extension, training and farm-scale trials经济学、采用行为与技术转移被明确纳入，从盈利分析到推广、培训与农场尺度试验。
• Environmental consequences of site-specific management, such as nutrient leaching, runoff, drainage and sediment loss, are given priority in the journal's coverage定点管理带来的环境后果，如养分淋溶、径流、排水与泥沙流失，在该刊的报道范围中受到优先关注。

History

• The journal was launched in 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers, at a time when satellite positioning was beginning to make site-specific management practical该刊 1999 年由（Kluwer Academic Publishers）创办，当时卫星定位技术刚开始使定点管理具备可行性。
• Kluwer was absorbed into Springer, and the title has since been published under the Springer imprint from Dordrecht（Kluwer）其后并入（Springer），该刊遂以（Springer）品牌在荷兰多德雷赫特出版。
• In 2019 the International Society of Precision Agriculture adopted the definition of the field that the journal now uses in its own guidance to authors2019 年，（International Society of Precision Agriculture）通过了该领域的定义，该刊此后在作者指南中沿用这一定义。
• The Journal Impact Factor was 5.385 in 2021 and 5.767 in 2022, then 6.6 in 2024 and 7.6 in 2025该刊影响因子 2021 年为 5.385，2022 年为 5.767，2024 年为 6.6，2025 年为 7.6。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, CAB Abstracts, INSPEC and Engineering Village, and it publishes about 90 research articles a year该刊被（SCIE）、（Scopus）、（CAB Abstracts）、（INSPEC）与（Engineering Village）收录，每年发表约 90 篇研究论文。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Davide Cammarano, professor of environmental crop science at Aarhus University in Denmark主编为（Davide Cammarano），他是丹麦（Aarhus University）的环境作物科学教授。
• His research covers crop modelling, remote sensing, climate risk and the agronomy of precision management, and he is a past president-elect of the International Society of Precision Agriculture其研究涵盖作物建模、遥感、气候风险与精准管理的农艺学，并曾任（International Society of Precision Agriculture）候任主席。
• The editorial board includes specialists from Europe, North America, China, Brazil, Israel and Australia, with strong representation from agricultural engineering and agronomy编委会成员来自欧洲、北美、中国、巴西、以色列与澳大利亚，农业工程与农艺学背景的学者占比较高。
• The journal uses single-blind peer review, and Springer reports a median of five days from submission to first decision该刊采用单盲同行评审，（Springer）公布的自投稿至首次决定中位时间为五天。
• It follows a hybrid publishing model, with subscription publication as the default and an open-access option for authors who need it该刊采用混合出版模式，默认以订阅方式发表，同时为有需要的作者提供开放获取选项。