《Agricultural and Rural Studies》是一个完全开放存取(OA)的学术期刊。期刊致力于为世界各地农业和农村研究领域的学者提供一个创新、高效和专业的平台，以提供不断扩展和深化的科学领域的前沿发现。《Agricultural and Rural Studies》还是一个国际化的多学科和跨学科平台，旨在发表农学和农村经济学、农村社会学、农村地理学等相关领域的基础和应用研究进展。
《Agricultural and Rural Studies》的发展目标是立志成为世界一流的公益性学术期刊：三年进入SCI和SSCI双收录，五年IF>6进入二区顶刊；以“三农问题”研究为载体，以共同富裕为目标，以乡村振兴为主线，构建具有中国特色、中国风格、中国气派的学科体系、学术体系和话语体系，为乡村实现中国式现代化贡献一份力量。
The journal Agricultural & Rural Studies is an international multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platform for communicating advances in fundamental and applied studies on agronomy and associated subjects to revitalize the rural development.
It is a fully Open Access (OA) journal and the Article Publishing Charges (APC) are waived in the first 3 years. The journal seeks to publish original research articles, reviews, commentary and perspective papers. It is dedicated to serving as an innovative, efficient and professional platform for scholars in the field of agricultural & rural studies around the world to deliver cutting-edge findings from theses continuously expanding and deepening fields of science.
(1) Covers multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects in agronomy, and contemporary agricultural, rural and farmers’ issues and policy, as broadly defined by the disciplines of rural economics, sociology, geography and cognate subjects.
(2) Served by a renowned, dedicated, and international editorial board in agricultural & rural studies.
(3) An Open Access journal with no Article Publishing Charge (APC) for the first 3 years.
1. Article Types
Getting familiar with the different types of articles published by A&R journal is helpful. Despite the variety of names under which articles are published, most articles are of one of the following types: Original Research, Review, Perspective, Commentary.
1.1 Original Research Article
Full-length original scientific publication, articles of this type should not exceed 8,000 words (including tables, references, captions for figures and endnotes) and 12 images. Exceptional research articles longer than 8000 words will only be accepted if the Editors consider that the topic warrants an increase in length.
1.2 Review Article
Overview of a specific field of scientific literature, a review article should not exceed 10,000 words (excluding references). The purposes of review articles are to synthesize and evaluate the recent primary literature on a topic, to summarize the current state of knowledge on a topic, to address controversies or to provide a comprehensive list of citation. A review article would analyze recent research published by scholars in the field, providing a valuable reference from the perspective of theory. Well-written and well-organized review might have 50 to 100 references.
