About the Journal

Aims and Scope:
 
The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food (IJSAF) provides a forum for informed academic social science debates about food and agriculture-related issues. While the journal is owned by the Research Committee of Agriculture and Food of the International Sociological Association, the journal welcomes and encourages contributions based on any social science perspective. Furthermore, it welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the social, cultural, political and environmental aspects of food production, consumption and agricultural change. Finally, the journal actively reaches out to scholars from all over the globe.
 
Abstracting and Indexing Information:
  • Agricola (USDA)
  • CAB Abstracts
  • Google Scholar
  • SocINDEX (EBSCO)
  • SCImago
  • SCOPUS

The journal articles are included in the LOCKSS archival system.

Open Access Statement:
 
IJSAF is a fully open access journal. There are no article processing charges for publishing articles, nor are there fees for accessing them. All articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publications. Non-commercial and commercial use and distribution are permitted, on the condition that the author and the journal are properly acknowledged.
 
Authors hold copyright and publishing rights. Authors are free to upload post-acceptance and post-publication articles/reviews to their university Open Access depository or a secondary platform. In line with the CC BY 4.0 license, please do provide proper citation and a link to IJSAF.
 
Peer Review Policy:
 
All articles published in this journal have undergone internal editorial scrutiny and external, double-blind peer review.
 
 
Publication Ethics:
 
The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Their international standards for responsible research publication for editors and authors are summarized below. Links to the full standards can be found in the respective references.
 

International Standards for Editors:

  • Editors are accountable and should take responsibility for everything they publish.

  • Editors should make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process.

  • Editors should adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting.

  • Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct.

  • Editors should pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct.

  • Editors should critically assess the ethical conduct of studies in humans and animals.

  • Peer reviewers and authors should be told what is expected of them.

  • Editors should have appropriate policies in place for handling editorial conflicts of interest.

S. Kleinert and E. Wager (2011) Responsible research publication: international standards for editors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010, in: T. Mayer and N. Steneck (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 317–328.

International Standards for Authors:

  • The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.

  • Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.

  • Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.

  • Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere.

  • Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.

  • The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.

  • Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed.

E. Wager and S. Kleinert (2011) Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010, in: T. Mayer and N. Steneck (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 309–316.