Journal of Applied Research in Plant Protection (JARPP)
Title Abbreviation: J Appl Res Plant Protect
Editor in chief: Prof. dr. Mahdi Arzanlou
Information on the editors of this journal can be find on the website of the journal (https://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir/journal/editorial.board?lang=en).
About journal
The journal “Journal Applied Research in Plant Protection” (JARPP) is a scientific-research journal published by Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, since 1991. This journal is currently published quarterly. JARPP publishes full research papers, short articles, scientific reports and review papers covering all areas of plant protection including plant pathology (e.g. virology, bacteriology, mycology, applied nematology and related topics) and agricultural entomology. Pest and disease management topics as well as weed control are also covered by journal.
JARPP is an open access journal, which implies that all its content is freely available without any charge to the user or his/her employer or institution. Users are allowed to read, search, download, distribute, copy, print, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source. Full-text access to scientific articles of the journal is presented on the official website in the journal Archives section.
No Conflict of Interest
All authors warrant that their work is original and is not similar to any previously published papers and they have No Conflict of Interest regarding publication of their article.
The journal follows COPE's instruction.
Peer-review process
JARPP practices double-blind review process for all of the submitted manuscripts. Double-blind review means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.
In order to facilitate double-blind review process, authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts in a manner that hide their identity from the third party. As it is explained in guide for authors section of this journal (accessible at https://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir/journal/authors.note?lang=en), it is necessary that the authors submit the Title Page containing the Authors details (including: the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including telephone and e-mail address) and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.
Manuscript preparation, submission, review process, proofing and printing
1. Authors are recommended to carefully read the guide for authors section (also available as pdf file) under the section “guide for authors” at the homepage of journal (https://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir/editor?lang=en).
1.1. The authors must declare the data provided in their manuscript is original and author’s own results.
1.2. The results presented in this manuscript has not been published or simultaneously submitted to other journal.
1.3. All of the co-authors had major contribution in this work and all of them have reviewed the manuscript before submission such as have no objection on the content and authorship.
2. In order to submit a manuscript in to JARPP, it is necessary for the authors to register at the homepage of the journal.
3. Submitted manuscripts in to this journal pass following screening steps:
3.1. Received manuscripts are first checked by the admin for the correct formatting of the manuscript (including text, figures, tables, references and supplementary files).
3.2. This journal checks the originality of the work and the similarity of the contexts of manuscript with other published works (plagiarism) using the Cross check database such as Ithenticate and some Persian plagiarism detection tools.
3.2. Manuscripts with formatting failure are sent back to the authors for proper formatting and resubmission.
3.3. Manuscripts are then reviewed by the editor in chief and relevant member of the Editorial board (according to subject of the manuscript) for the quality and novelty of the data presented in manuscript.
3.4. All manuscripts fulfilling the formal requirements undergo a double blind peer-review process, being reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers for scientific evaluation.
3.4.1. It is not allowed to choose reviewers from the same institute of manuscript authors.
3.4.2. It is not allowed to choose reviewers from the previous co-authors of the manuscript authors
3.5. The reviewers are requested to send their revision and recommendation (e. g. acceptable, requires minor revision, requires major revision or rejection) on the manuscript in due time.
3.6. Based on the comments of reviewers, the editor decides either reject the submission or invite the authors to revise the manuscript according to the reviewer’s comments and corrections.
3.7. The authors are required to revise the manuscript and return the revised version of the manuscript including the” answer to reviewers file”.
3.8. The editor in chief will review the revised version of the manuscript and will make a direct decision on manuscript or will further consult with either one of the reviewers or an editorial member of the journal for decision on the submission.
4. The accepted manuscripts will undergo proofing process.
5. The proofs will be send for the authors for final check and the manuscript will be further undergo publication process.
Publication fees
JARPP charges an amount of 2500’000 Iranian Rial, for accepted full research papers and 1250,000 Iranian Rial for short articles and no publication charge for short scientific reports. The detail information for payment are available under the guide for authors section of this journal (accessible at https://arpp.tabrizu.ac.ir/journal/authors.note?lang=en).
Terms of publication
The Editorial Board of JARPP takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts in accordance with the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restrain acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement.