Horticultural Plants Nutrition (HPN) is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal, publishing two issues per year by the Shahed University. It has been published in Persian with extended English abstract since 2018. It publishes original research and review articles from the effect of nutrients on horticultural plants physiology, growth, quality and yield.Articles in the HPN cover filed or greenhouse production of vegetables, fruit trees, ornamentals and medicinalplants.It serves as a medial for the researchers who are interested to present their findings to Persian language countries and an international audience, which will help to develop research programs that will further our knowledge of plant nutrition. Furthermore, it is an important findings utilized by farmer and advisor to develop operational fertility methods that are based upon the current peer reviewed publications.
Submission of a manuscript implies: that has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out. The HPN will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Manuscripts have to be submitted in Persian or English and must use correct grammar and style.
Authors are asked to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers.
Authors should send a cover letter with their manuscript, outlining how the submitted manuscript falls within the scope of HPN. Furthermore, authors should declare that the manuscript has not published anywhere else.
There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.
Author(s) whose manuscript has been accepted for publication in a future issue are asked to fill and sign a copyright form, which not only declares and finalizes the list of the author(s) of the manuscript. .Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
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Summary of main journal information:
Concessionaire: Shahed University
Publication period: bi-quarterly
Date of publication of the first issue: Spring and Summer of 2018
Areas of study: Specialized research articles in the field of nutrition of horticultural plants including fruit and ornamental trees, vegetables, flowers and ornamental shrubs, medicinal plants and spices
Language: Persian and with an extensive English abstract
How to publish a publication: Electronic
How to access articles: Fully open access to all text (Open Access)
Rank in evaluation: No evaluation in evaluation of the Publications Review Commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology
Average article evaluation time: about one month
Ratio of accepted articles to total received articles: 46%
Type of arbitration: specialized arbitration process in the form of closed and anonymous arbitration (without double blind name) and at least two arbitrators and one comparative arbitrator
Type of License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)