About the Journal

ABANICO AGROFORESTAL (Abanico Agrof.) was launched in 2019. It is an international, digital, peer-reviewed, and indexed journal that publishes scientific and technological information in the agricultural sciences. Its objective is to publish research articles, research notes, technological developments, cultivar descriptions, case studies, educational policies, and literature reviews conducted in Mexico and around the world, all related to agricultural, forestry, and animal production sciences. It is aimed at professors, students, professionals, researchers, and businesspeople interested in agricultural, forestry, and animal production activities.

It is a continuous publication under the open science access and peer-review system; authors are encouraged to make all their data available. It is indexed in repositories and databases for greater visibility and increased citations; its ISSN for web format is 2594-1992, DOI 10.37114/abaagrof; and it has a website.

https://abanicoacademico.mx/revistasabanico-version-nueva/index.php/abanico-agroforestal/index

All articles, once published in their original language, will be published in Spanish, English, and Portuguese in XML-JATS format. Authors are encouraged to share their work with colleagues and academic peers through research networks and social media, and to publish it in their Institutional Repository and on their institution's portals, as well as on portals for researchers.

As this is an open access journal, authors will pay $4,640.00 Mexican pesos to cover accounting, editing, publication, dissemination, translation into English, Portuguese, or Spanish, DOI, markup, XML-JATS, plagiarism review, and tax payments. Payment should be made to Scotiabank Account No. 01401150472, CLABE Interbank Code 044560014011504728. International payments can be made via PayPal.

The journal is edited and published by Abanico Académico, a publishing house registered with the Mexican National Copyright Institute (Indautor). It is listed as a Federal Public Institution in the RIZOMA database. The publishing house belongs to an individual: Sergio Martínez González, with Tax ID MAGS690517979. Valle Bravo 16, Colonia Valle Dorado. Postal Code 63180. Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. CVU: 120948. Registration Number for Individuals with Business Activity in the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation of Mexico: 1802044.

Competent and impartial editing and peer review are guaranteed. The submission and acceptance time is between six and twelve months. Authors found to have fraudulent intent, including the use of fictitious data, manipulation of results, outright plagiarism, attempts to publish material already published in another journal, or the use of artificial intelligence, will be barred from publishing their articles for three years by the Editor-in-Chief. Even in literature reviews, data, tables, and figures from other publications must not be included verbatim; these must be original. The use of artificial intelligence in the writing of manuscripts, images, and tables is not permitted. However, the journal acknowledges the usefulness of artificial intelligence tools in the process of searching scientific literature.

The journal's Code of Ethics is aligned with international standards such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Editorial Procedure

Once we receive a document, the internal procedure is as follows:

First. The Editorial Committee and the Journal Editor conduct a preliminary review to determine if it meets the guidelines for authors. If the work does not meet these guidelines, it will not be sent to the peer review process, and the author(s) will be notified by email.

Second. If the work meets the guidelines for authors, it will proceed to the peer review process, where national and international specialists will evaluate the article according to criteria established by the journal regarding relevance, originality, and scientific and academic significance. They will then issue a decision on whether the proposed article merits publication and, if so, under what conditions. It should be noted that we work with a two-reviewer system. In the event of a combination of "Not Accepted," "Accepted with Recommendations," or "Accepted," the submission will be sent to a third reviewer. The process is as follows: first, it is sent to reviewer 1; second, to the authors; third, to reviewer 2; fourth, to the authors; and, if necessary, to a third reviewer. If two reviews result in a “Not Accepted” rating, the article will be rejected. In any case, the author(s) will be notified of the reviewers' decision, as well as their recommendations and observations, so they can adjust the article to the criteria already established in the Guidelines for Authors.

Third. For accepted articles and those accepted with recommendations, the authors will be notified and must send the revised version via email, indicating what they considered and confirming that they have implemented all the recommendations made by the reviewers and/or the editorial committee. In addition, the authors will send three original photographs and a short video of the research (the criteria will be sent once the article is accepted).

Fourth. When the Editor receives the revised version from the author, the manuscript will be reviewed and adjusted as deemed necessary to comply with the journal's editorial standards and policies. However, the Editor will send the authors the final galley proof for review before sending it to print.