About Journal

About Journal

Journal of Al-Muthanna University for Agricultural Science(JMAS).

Scientific and refereed journal has been established in Iraq. The first volume was published in 2011. JMAS is registered with the National Library and Documentation, Deposit No.1624 of 2011. Quarterly journal, that publishes two issues per year.

Publisher: Al-Muthanna University.
Institution: College of Agriculture .

Address: Iraq – Al-muthanna / Educational Zone (view in map)

Aim

The Journal of Al-Muthanna University for Agricultural Science (JMAS) publishes recent original and significant articles containing new insight into any aspect of Agricultural Sciences that are not published or not being considered for publication elsewhere.
The principal aim of the journal is:
1- Serve as a forum for agriculturalists, life scientists.
2- Contribute effectively in serving the scientific community in the field of agriculture sciences.
3- The journal seeks scholarly and original papers on current research and practical programmes, book reviews.
4- The journal tries to meet the research needs of aspiring researchers and scientists throughout the world on a wide range of topics and provides free online access to it globally.
The journal accepts original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.
The journal is committed to prompt review, and priority publication is given to manuscripts with novel or timely findings, and to manuscripts of unusual interests.
Peer Review and editorial review
(JMAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covers Agricultural and Biological Sciences.
Peer review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published.
All papers and articles submitted are subjected to peer review.
Independent researchers work on relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether a manuscript should be published in the journal or not.
Where an Editor is on the author list or has any other competing interest regarding a specific manuscript, another member of the Editorial Board will be assigned to oversee peer review.
Authors receive peer review reports with the editorial decision on their manuscript.
The possible exceptions are in the case of occasional invited papers and editorials, or where a partial or entire volume is devoted to a special theme.

Field scope the journal is specialized in the following subjects

• Filed Crops ‘

• plant Breeding.

• Agricultural Economics.

• Agricultural Extension.

• Agricultural Mechanization.

• Food processing

• Basic sciences.

•  Horticultural Sciences.

•  Animal Husbandry.

• Food Technology, plant Pathology.

• plant Entomology.

• Poultry Sciences.

• Soil Sciences.

• Alter Resources.

• Veterinary.

• Biology.

• Environment.

• Pollution.

•  Biochemistry.

Peer Review:

It is the process to ensure the quality of manuscript before publication in the Journal. Generally, the submitted manuscripts in the journal are reviewed by two experts of the concerned research field. They evaluate the manuscript for originality, relevance, validity and significance of the research work. On the recommendation of the reviewer’s manuscript is accepted for publication.