About Journal

Watershed Management Research is an open access double-blind peer reviewed publication which is published by Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center concerned with new concepts and innovative technologies in "Watershed".  Watershed Management Research Journal is a Quarterly publication, which publishes original research papers and review papers to journal scope. All submitted manuscripts are checked for similarity through  Hamyab software  software to ensure their authenticity to be assured about its originality and then rigorously peer-reviewed by the expert reviewers.

The Journal of Pazhouhesh va Sazandeghi was published in the fall of 1988 under the name of Journal of Omouredam in the Committee on Livestock and Aquatic Affairs of the Ministry of Jihad. From issue 5, it continued to be published by merging the committees of agriculture and livestock and aquaculture with the name of the journal of agriculture and livestock. From No. 12 onwards, after the Deputy Minister of Education and Research of the Ministry of Jihad took over the relevant affairs, he continued to work under the name of Pazhouhesh va Sazandeghi. From issue 50 onwards, in line with the policies of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology regarding the specialization of scientific journals in the two trends of natural resources and livestock and aquaculture, it was published, and from issue 53, after the merger of the Ministries of Jihad and Agriculture, the trend of agriculture and horticulture It was added. This journal was published with a scientific-research license from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in the three mentioned trends in 100% color and 100% research. From the fall of 2017, with the permission of the Policy-Making and Planning Office of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (citing letter No. 192916/18/3, dated 13/11/2017), this publication with scientific-research privilege, to the Research Center and Agricultural education and natural resources of Fars province were handed over and will continue to operate with the new composition.


Financial Policies

Revenue Sources and Article Processing Charges

publishing charge in Watershed Management Research is 4,000,000 Rls, according to the regulations of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology No. 16042 dated 1/2/1400.

Articles’ review and publishing charge:
  1. 2,000,000 Rls. For articles’ acceptance
  2. 2,000,000 Rls. For publishing (The total charge includes 4,000,000 Rls. for each article)

 

Subscription Fee

Watershed Management Research Journal is published as an open-access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences. 


Open Access Policies

Watershed Management Research Journal is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication and is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and make derivative works only if they cite the original published article.

   

 

Copyright Statement

Under an Open Access license, authors are the copyright holder in this journal and retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

 


Publication Policies

Watershed Management Research Journal follows of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards following ethical laws.

Publishing schedule

Watershed Management Research Journal is published is published Quarterly (4 issues per year). All the content from the beginning to the end will be available forever on journal's exclusive website.

 


Journal Features: 

    • Publication Owner: Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center
    • Journal Frequency:  Quarterly
    • Article Type: Original research papers, Review papers
    • Publication languages: Persian/English Abstract
    • Review method: Double Blind Peer Review
    • Average First Action (Days): 1
    • Publication Type: Online
    • Article Processing Charge: 4,000,000 Rls
    • Firs Publication Year: 2014
    • Publication type (Access to PDF): Open Access
    • Director in Charge: Abolfazl Moradi
    • Editor-in-Chief: Seyed Ahangh Kowsar

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