Aims & Scope

The Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India) [JAEI] is an English language, peer-reviewed journal.  The journal publishes interdisciplinary basic and applied research manuscripts in engineering and technology to address the problems of agricultural, food, and biological systems. JAEI publishes papers of both theoretical and applied nature, with a special focus on experimental research, new design approach, mathematical modelling, and innovative approaches related to all fields of agricultural engineering and technology. Manuscripts describing engineering innovations in the fields of natural resource management, farm mechanization, post-harvest management, conventional and non-conventional energy-use in agriculture, and application of engineering principles in the management of crops in field and under controlled environment, horticulture, livestock, dairy, fishery, and those reporting research seeking to understand and model the physical processes underlying agricultural systems are considered. JAEI covers a wide range of topics related to the following categories:

  • Farm Machinery and Power Engineering with focus on design / development of geographical and land size-based farm tools and machines; application of new and emerging cutting-edge technologies such as sensor controls, variable rate applicator, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and drone-enabled technology for production agriculture; solutions for precision agriculture, conservation/ sustainable agriculture, climate resilient technology, crop residue management; efficient power sources for agricultural production system; agricultural mechanisation, energy, carbon footprint assessments of agricultural production system; agriculture machine system modelling, predictive models, system engineering approach for strategic planning; application of ergonomics and work-environment control systems, technology for safety of machine operators
  • Soil and Water Engineering with focus on agricultural water management, soil-crop- water relations and water productivity, irrigation scheduling, agricultural land drainage, management of degraded lands including ravine land, monitoring and modelling soil-water-vegetation-environment, soil erosion measurement and modelling, sustainable land use, land use /land cover  change assessment,  rainwater harvesting and recycling, watershed management, application of modern tools of remote sensing, geographic information system, artificial intelligence and machine learning in hydrological modelling, reservoir planning and operation, precision irrigation methods, IoT-based smart water management, automated irrigation systems, groundwater management and conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water in agriculture, crop water footprints, water-energy-food nexus, use of poor/marginal quality water in agriculture, land and water pollution and their control, climatic change impact on natural  resources, environmental management,  institutional and socio-economic aspects of agricultural water management.
  • Processing, Dairy, and Food Engineering with focus on post-harvest engineering and technology; food quality and safety with large throughput non-destructive and bio-sensing methods; food processing and engineering, packaging, storage and distribution; structures and facilities for livestock, handling and processing of produce of animal origin including milk, meat, and others; indoor environmental control; modelling, simulation and automation of processes; emerging technologies including food bio-processing, bio-manufacturing, secondary agriculture, nanotechnology, membrane processing, engineering aspects of non-thermal processing technologies.
  • Energy in Agriculture cover research topics related to the application of science and technology for conventional/ non-conventional / alternate fuel production, conversion, application, fuel/energy storage; impacts on the environment and sustainability of agriculture; bio-processing. It includes articles covering solar energy conversion and photovoltaics, solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis, fuel cells, fuels from biomass, bio-hydrogen production, biofuels; energy conservation, energy-use analysis, modelling, demand prediction, integrated energy systems, planning and management of energy resources in agriculture.

The journal also encourages articles covering emerging technologies related to micro/macro-controlled agriculture, smart farming, micro- and nano-agriculture, artificial intelligence, analysis and applications of big data in the field of agricultural engineering, decision support systems and case studies. JAEI aims to publish highly notable original articles to advance and disseminate scientific and technical knowledge in the field of agricultural engineering. This journal uses a double-blind review process.

The Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India) accepts only original manuscripts that have not been previously published and/or are not under consideration with other journals.  Submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that no similar manuscript has been or is being submitted elsewhere by the author(s).

JAEI will consider manuscripts based on conference papers subject to fulfilling the following requirements: (i) it must contain a contain certain amount of new data or original material (e.g., 40-50% new content) or other changes so that the submitted article is sufficiently different from the conference proceeding paper to merit publication in its own right; (ii) author must disclose the name and date of the conference as footnote (on the first page of the article), and conference paper is cited in the submitted journal article; (iii) conference paper is not under copyright at any other institution/ organization; (iv) if the paper is under copyright elsewhere, it is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder prior to submission to JAEI; and (v) authors must provide a description of how the submitted manuscript is different from the conference paper. Journal, if required, may request a copy of the conference paper for comparison purposes.

JAEI does not consider the online posting of thesis and/or dissertation to be prior publication if the degree-awarding institution requires that the final version be posted as a requirement for an undergraduate, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree. If a thesis or dissertation has been posted online prior to submitting a manuscript to the journal for consideration, authors must disclose this as footnote (on the first page of the article or in the Acknowledgment section), and provide the URL or DOI while submitting the manuscript. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that the submitted paper has all copyright permission and authorship approvals. 

Posting papers on preprint servers prior to (or simultaneous with) submission to a journal for formal peer review and journal publication are becoming more common. JAEI does not consider papers on preprint severs as previously published, as long as copyright can be transferred to ISAE. Once the paper is accepted, authors must post the full citation and DOI of the published paper on the preprint server paper, and also post the JAEI copyright notice on the preprint server paper.

The following three types of manuscripts are invited for publication:

  • Original research manuscript: Report materials and methods used, results and significant findings of original research. Such materials should not have been previously published elsewhere. ‘Original Research Manuscripts’ are the majority of the manuscripts published. They should not normally exceed 15 journal pages.
  • Review manuscript: Intended to be an in-depth study of the state-of-the-art subject that provides new insights or interpretations of the subject through exhaustive and systematic evaluation of available evidences. They should not normally exceed 20 journal pages.
  • Research Note: Reports a concise, but complete, description of a limited or preliminary investigation, enabling important scientifically proven findings to be speedily communicated, and facilitating the reporting of work not meriting a full-length research manuscript. They should not exceed 8 journal pages.

The Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India) is a subscription-based journal, and is published quarterly. The publisher (ISAE) does not charge any article submission and processing fee (ASPF), or any other surcharges based on the length of an article, colour illustrations, or supplementary data. To attract and publish high-quality manuscripts, and ensure peer reviewer recognition, the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers annually confers Best Paper Awards and Best Reviewer Awards. These awards are announced at the Annual Convention of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers.

Discoverability

Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India) content is highly discoverable, and is indexed in major databases, including Google Scholar,  Clarivate Analytics / Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, ProQuest, EBSCOhost, AGRICOLA, AGRIS, BASE, CAB Abstracts, Crossref, Dimensions, PubAg, Scilit, WorldCat etc. to maximize the visibility of author works.