Two CABI-led papers published in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience have contributed to the journal’s first impact factor of 3.9 – placing it in the first quartile of the Agriculture Interdisciplinary category in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).
It is also the first journal from CABI which has achieved an impact factor. Other CABI journals on the CABI Digital Library include CABI Reviews, CABI One Health and Human-Animal Interactions. Two of the top 10 cited articles within the 2022 impact factor window, which contributed to CABI Agriculture and Bioscience’s impact factor, were from CABI scientists who say inclusion in the journal has greatly benefited their research.
They included Dr Rob Reeder and Dr Philip Taylor’s 2020 paper ‘Antibiotic use on crops in low and middle-income countries based on recommendations made by agricultural advisors,’ which was accessed over 20,000 times and received 69 citations.
The press release, which accompanied publication of the article, was covered by more than 60 global media outlets with an estimated audience of nearly 10 million – including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Instituto Humanitas Unisinos and the US press agency United Press International. Dr Taylor, as a result of the paper being published, presented the findings at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC.
Furthermore, the 2021 paper by Dr René Eschen et al, ‘Towards estimating the economic cost of invasive alien species to African crop and livestock production,’ was accessed over 9,000 times and received 37 citations. Among the citations were four policy documents from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
The latest listing follows CABI Agriculture and Bioscience in March being included in Elsevier’s abstract and citation database Scopus along with more than 35,000 peer-reviewed journals – of which over 5,000 are gold open access.
Over 47% of papers published in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience in 2022 were from authors coming from the Global South – including Mali, Cameroon and the CABI Member Countries Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Earlier this year, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience successfully set up and delivered Associate Editor training and mentoring in association with TCC Africa to support researchers with an interest in peer review. The journal is also committed to publishing research, reviews and commentary articles on strategies that help to address gender gaps in agriculture.
CABI Agriculture and Bioscience recently announced two new collections: Gender and Agriculture and International Year of Millets. The former is being guest edited by CABI’s Gender Coordinators Sajila Khan and Bethel Terefe with Frances Williams, Director of Social Sciences. The latter, meanwhile, is being guest edited by C. Tara Satyavathi, of the ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, and Renu Pandley, from the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
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