Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

FLORA is an agricultural scientific journal that publishes original scientific articles on all agricultural topics. Flora is a primary scientific publication that contains the results of research on estate crops commodities. The journal's scope includes parts directed toward the management of agro-technology covering agro-ecosystems, plant physiology, plant breeding, horticulture, and environmental resources.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Every article submitted to the editor will be received first by the staff editor then selected the selection editor for the next stage. the next stage through the Initial Review process by the selection Editor. The selection editor will continue the article to the reviewer stage and sent to the editorial board and the executive editor will follow the next selection of the Review Process stage. After that, the article of the review process will be sent to the selection editor to be received or returned to the author for revision. This process takes a month for a maximum time. In each manuscript, the editorial board and peer reviewers will be assessed from substantial and technical aspects.

All submitted manuscripts are read by editorial staff. the manuscript evaluated by the editor becomes incompatible with journal criteria rejected immediately without any external reviews. The manuscript evaluated to be a potential interest for our readers is sent to two reviewer desks. The editor then makes a decision based on reviewers' recommendations of several possibilities: rejected, revision required, or accepted. The editor has the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published.

Review Process:

The author submits the script
Editor's Evaluation (some manuscripts denied or returned before the review process)
A blind peer review process
Editor's Decision
Confirm to an author

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Screening for Plagiarism

In the publication, the FLORA strongly opposes plagiarism on its own merits. The FLORA is committed to blocking plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.

Authors must ensure that they have written the original work completely, and if the author has used the work and/or the words of others that have been quoted or quoted appropriately. Papers found with such problems are automatically rejected and the author strongly advised. Also, an important part of the work has not been published. The author also respects the writing in the FLORA of publication, duplicate, or excessive fraud.

Before the author submits a script to the FLORA at least to first check the use of plagiarism. When submitting published articles for authenticity checks, the FLORA recommends the use of Turnitin, Scanner from http://turnitin.com/. Before using Plagiarism Turnitin for the first time, we strongly recommend that authors read the instructions for using this plagiarism detector. The detector plagiarism system for the FLORA uses and is affiliated with Turnitin.

* Please note that the FLORA affiliated with Turnitin. *

The article has not been published in other media and does not contain plagiarism. Preferably the author should use reference management software, eg for Mendeley. The bibliography and reference system for the FLORA uses Mendeley and Turnitin.

Publication Ethics

Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

We follow Core Practices of COPE including Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Editors

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Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Abstracting & Indexing

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Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Review Guidelines

General

Give a mark on the wrong part or part that need to be changed
Give a mark on the right side of the wrong line or line that need to be changed

Detail

Title: Effectiveness, Specification, and clarity
Abstract: Complete and describe the essence of an article
Keywords: Describing the essential concept of an article
Introduction: Up-to-date, originality, the relevance of the Topic, compatibility of the important reason of the research object
Research Method: Has to emphasize procedure and data analysis for an empiric study
Result: Analysis accurateness
Findings: Up-to-date finding, relevance to the interrelated researchers, and the scientific contribution effect of finding /idea to the development of science
Conclusion: Logical, valid, brief, and clear
Suggestion: For practical action, development of new theory, and next/advanced research, Picture/Table: Center located, Not cut, Good quality to viewed, Picture/table title, Referred with a capital letter
Bibliography: References at least 80% from reputable scientific journals. References must be up to date for the last 10 years. Minimum number of 15 references

Full Review Process of Manuscript

Writing: Is the manuscript easy to follow, that is, has a logical progression and evident organization?
Is the manuscript concise and understandable? Any parts that should be reduced,
Eliminated/expanded/added?
Note if there are major problems with mechanics: grammar, punctuation, spelling. (If there are just a few places that aren’t worded well or correctly, make a note to tell the author the specific places. If there are consistent problems throughout, only select an example or two if need be- don’t try and edit the whole thing).
Abbreviations: Used judiciously and are composed such that the reader won’t have trouble remembering what an abbreviation represents.
Follows style, format, and other rules of the journal.
Citations are provided when providing evidence-based information from outside sources.

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