Aims & Scope
Research on Crops (ROC) is a partial openly accessible journal published quarterly. The aim of this journal is to provide a platform for academicians, researchers and students all over the globe to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of agronomy, crop sciences, soil science and plant protection.
Submitted Manuscripts to ROC must be previously unpublished and may not be considered for publication elsewhere simultaneously during ROC's review process period. Normally, the abstracts of accepted articles are appeared online for free access about 15 days before uploading the complete PDF copy of final published papers, followed by printed hard copy.
Bibliographic Information:
ISSN: 0972-3226 (Print), ISSN: 2348-7542 (Online) and DOI Prefix: 10.31830.
Publication of Regular Issues:
The ROC is subscription based and regularly published in both online and print versions. The articles are published in partial open-access format, which means that the abstracts of all published articles are feely available for unlimited access. The PDFs of all articles are archived for online purchase. It is published quarterly, and its’ regular issues are published in the months of March, June, September and December.
Publication of Special Issues:
The ROC welcomed the proposals for special issues on the topics that fall under the scope of the journal. Special Issues should be organized by experts in the field of interest and attract high quality articles. The interested researchers should submit a proposal to the journal's editorial office. The proposal should include Title, aims and scope, list of guest editors, including their names, affiliations and brief biography of each guest editor, submission deadline, first round of review and publication date.
All proposals should be forwarded to the journal's editorial office (info@gauravpublications.com) for approval by the Editorial Board members. Once proposal is accepted, a call-for-papers will be posted on the journal's website. To ensure the success of a Special Issue, a minimum of 25 manuscripts are required for publication.
Guest Editors are required to manage the peer-review process of the submitted manuscripts. Guest Editors will need to read and review manuscripts thoroughly for the selection and recommendation of suitable articles for publication in the Special Issue.
Archiving: In case the journal is no longer published, the electronic backup of articles will be accessed via Pub Med Central.
Contact: Author Services Enquiries to the Managing Editor: info@gauravpublications.com Editorial Contact Information to the Editorial Assistant: info@gauravpublications.com Production Related Enquiries to the Production Editor (aricindia@hotmail.com)