Publication ethics

Agriculture and Food Science Research follows the COPE Core Practices and the ICMJE recommendations. Editors, reviewers and authors are expected to meet these standards.

Authors

• Report original work honestly; do not fabricate, falsify or manipulate data or images.
• Do not plagiarise, including self-plagiarism and duplicate or redundant publication. All submissions are screened for similarity.
• List as authors only people who meet the authorship criteria; changes to authorship after submission need the agreement of all authors and the editor.
• Disclose all funding and competing interests, and the use of generative AI tools. AI tools cannot be authors.

Reviewers

• Keep manuscripts confidential and do not upload them to AI tools.
• Declare competing interests and decline when conflicted.
• Give objective, constructive reports on time.

Editors

• Judge manuscripts only on their merit and fit with the scope, regardless of the authors' origin, gender, beliefs or affiliation.
• Editors never handle their own papers or papers from close collaborators; these are handled by another editor, blind to the editor-author.
• Editorial decisions are independent of the APC and of any commercial interest.

Misconduct, corrections and retractions

Concerns are investigated following the COPE flowcharts. Depending on the outcome, we publish a correction, an expression of concern or a retraction; published articles are never removed silently. Raise concerns confidentially with afsr@gmail.com.

Appeals and complaints

Authors may appeal a decision once, with reasons, to the Editor-in-Chief. An editor not involved in the original decision reviews the appeal. Complaints about the process go to the publisher at origlots@gmail.com.