| name | field-crops-research |
| description | Use when targeting Field Crops Research or deciding whether an agronomy / crop-physiology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the field-scale multi-environment and replication bar, data-reporting expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. |
Field Crops Research (field-crops-research)
Journal positioning
Field Crops Research, published by Elsevier, is an agronomy and crop-physiology journal
centred on field-scale crop performance: yield and its determinants, resource-use
efficiency (water, nitrogen, radiation), cropping systems, crop modeling, and management
across environments. Its defining expectation is rigorous, adequately replicated field
experimentation that generalizes across environments — multi-site and/or multi-season
evidence, or modeling validated against field data. A single site-year, unreplicated trial,
or a pot/glasshouse study generalized to the field without field validation is a poor fit.
This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the
journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Field Crops
Research author guidance.
When to trigger
- The author names Field Crops Research and wants a fit/framing check for a field-agronomy or
crop-physiology paper.
- A management, genotype, or resource-efficiency result must be framed for generalizability
across environments rather than as a one-off trial.
- The author is choosing between Field Crops Research,
agronomy-for-sustainable-development,
and agriculture-ecosystems-and-environment.
- The author needs the venue's desk-reject heuristics around replication and field validity.
Scope & topic fit
- Crop yield and yield-component determinants under field conditions across genotypes and
environments.
- Resource-use efficiency: water-, nitrogen-, and radiation-use efficiency and the trade-offs
among them.
