In China,Agricultural Science Technology is the first comprehensive agricultural English journal.The editor-in-chief is YUAN Long-ping,and the editorial board members are CHEN Wen-xin,FANG Zhi-yuan,GUAN Chun-yun,WU Chang-xin,WU Ming-zhu and YUAN Long-ping,who are academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering.The journal(CN43-1422/S;ISSN 1009-4229),sponsored by Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences,aims to enhance international influence of China's agricultural scientific research. It has a good reputation in the world, and for exchange of information, the journal has long-term, stable and friendly relationships with agricultural research,education and popularization institutions and well-known international agricultural organizations from more than 100 countries and regions. Its full-texts have been included by international authority of the search tools(CABI,AGRIS,CA)and the three major domestic databases(Chinese Journal Net,Wanfang Data and Vip).In addition,it has been one of Chinese Sci-tech Core Periodicals,proposed by Institute of Scientific Technological Information of China.

According to statistics, the impact factor of the journal has reached 0.617 in 2013. More than 80% of papers are fund papers, and most of them are supported by projects above the provincial level.To further improve the quality and impact of the publication,the journal editorial staff visited the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)in October 2008,and they met with a senior editor Ms.Maureen Handel and her supervisor Ms.Mariana Boletta,who are responsible for the review of agricultural scientific journals included in Science Citation Index (SCI).The two sides communicated for the selection criteria of SCI included scientific and technical journals as well as the editing and publishing related matters of Agricultural Science Technology.