About Journal

Name of journal

Iranaian Plan Protection Research

ISO Abbreviation

J. Plant. Protection

Print ISSN

2980-8170

Online ISSN

2783-5383

Website

https://jpp.um.ac.ir

Email

 jpp@um.ac.ir

Language

Persian- English

Frequency

Quarterly

Publisher

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. parisa Taheri

Status

Active

Type of review

Double blind peer review

Type of License

International License (CC BY 4.0)

Document Identifier Type

DOI

Journal History

This journal was published by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1985 under the title of Agricultural Sciences and Industries (all majors). It has been publishing manuscripts under the title of Plant Protection since 2007 and under the title of Iranian Plant Protection Research Journal since 2021 until now. At first, this journal was published as bi-quarterly 2008-2010 and as a quarterly since 2010.

Publishing schedule

TThe journal is publishing as a quarterly (4issues per year).  The table below shows the exact dates of publication for each volume yearly. The journal follows this release timing severely unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Issue          Date of publication

Issue 1                March

Issue 2                June

Issue 3            September

Issue 4            December

Digital Preservation Policy

Journal website archiving

Journal online content is archived in 2ways:

An online PDF copy of all manuscripts is available to the readers on the journal website. Also, a copy of the same content is kept as a backup on another server.  So, if any problem happens in the website and the information is lost, every manuscript will be published again in the journal website in less than 24-36 hours

Moreover all published issues are archived in these 2 databases:

 [Internet Archive & Iran Scientific Journals System]

Therefore, the content can be accessed at any time even in the absence of website operation.

Indexing and Abstracting

Main information and abstract of the published manuscripts are indexed in different databases. Click 'Indexing and Abstracting' to see the list of these databases

Self-Archiving

Authors can archive their manuscripts on the journal website, their personal system or their institution website immediately after publication.

Open Access

The journal of Iranian plant protection research is an open access journal. According to this policy, the content of this journal is freely available to the users. The users are allowed to read, download full text, copy, print, search or use the content for any legal purposes without the author or publisher’s permission.  This policy supports more global exchange of knowledge.

Copyright

  • Under the open access license, all copyrights are reserved for the authors in the journal of Iranian Palnt Protection Research
  • The authors give Ferdowsi University of Mashhad the right to publish their manuscripts.
  • The authors also give any third party the right to freely use the manuscripts as long as the integrity of the manuscripts is preserved and also, their authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

Licensing

The Journal of Iranaian Plan Protection Research is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) 

Policies related to publication ethics

 This journal is a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows the ethical laws on preventing and dealing with violation in the manuscript. Journal's Membership link

All members of the editorial Board, reviewers, and authors are requested to read   Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement for the Journal of Iranian plant protection Research. IIf they observed any plagiarism, citation manipulation and data fabrication, they should email to the editor-in-chief, Dr. Parisa Taheri (p-taheri@um.ac.ir) or the publisher (fumpress@um.ac.ir). They handle the issue according to  COPE flowcharts.

Peer review

In this journal, the reviewers haven’t been chosen among the editorial board unless there isn’t any other reviewer in the subject area of the manuscript

  • All the submitted manuscripts will be reviewed.
  • The method of reviewing in this journal is double-blind.
  • All reviewing process has been explained in 'Peer Review Process' section.

Ownership and management

  This journal is founded and managed by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad which is clearly stated on the main page of the journal website.

Advisory body

The editorial board members of this journal are prominent persons in the field of subject areas of the journal that is mentioned in  Journal's aims and scope.

  • The editorial board information including first name, last name, specialty, email address, and affiliation are listed on the journal website.
  • The list of editorial board members is up-to-date.
  •  This journal periodically evaluate the 'Editorial Board' in cooperation with the publisher

Article Processing Charge (APCs)

The authors of Persian manuscripts should pay 2million Rials to cover part of the costs of reviewing and editing the manuscript through the journal portal. This fee has been received at the time of the acceptance and the corresponding author is responsible to pay that. The charge received from the authors does not affect the decision of the editorial board about the manuscript.·         There is no fee for membership, manuscript submissions, or other additional costs.Information about the fee received from the authors can be easily observed in the section “about journal” and “manuscript submission procedures” (Cover Letter & Checklist).

Other revenue

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the publisher of the journal, supports it for each published issue by paying a defined budget according to its published annual rank in Portal of Scientific Journals of Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The allocated budget includes those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the Journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving.

The other financial source of this journal is fees paid by authors whose articles have been accepted for publishing. Revenue sources do not influence on editorial decision making.

Advertising

This Journal does not accept any advertising.

Direct marketing

There are no direct marketing activities in this journal.

Paper Plagiarism Checker

To prevent plagiarism, the Journal of Iranian Plan Protection Research uses the Hamyab system as similarity checker tool for the Persian manuscripts and the iThenticate system for the English ones. All manuscripts before sending to the reviewers are checked for any similarity, and if the percentage of similarity is more than 20%, the manuscripts will be withdrawn from the review process.

Privacy Statement

The Names and Email addresses entered in this journal’s website will be used exclusively for the purposes of publishing in the Journal and will not be available to any other person or organization.