The members of the Editorial Board are experts in agricultural and food sciences and are invited for three years.
Professor Terho Hyvönen, Editor in Chief (agroecology, plant health), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
D.Sc. Asko Simojoki (soil science, environment, soil health, GHG dynamics), University of Helsinki
D.Sc. Tuomo Kokkonen (animal science, animal nutrition, dairy science), University of Helsinki
D.Ph. Sari Himanen (agroecology, chemical ecology, climate change adaptation, crop-herbivore-natural enemy interactions, ecosystem services, intercropping, organic production), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
D.Sc. Hamid Khazaei (crop science), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Professor Saila Karhu (horticulture), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
D.Sc. Kari Elo (animal genetics), University of Helsinki
D.Sc. Maarit Mäki (food science), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
D.Sc. Minna Haapalainen (plant pathology, microbe-plant-interactions), University of Helsinki
D.Sc. Heini Ahtiainen (environmental economics), European Chemical Agency (ECHA)
D.Ph. Tuula Puhakainen, Managing Editor (crop science, genetics)
Agricultural and Food Science (AFSci) publishes original research reports on agriculture and food research in relation to primary production. Acceptable papers must be of international interest and have a northern dimension. We especially welcome papers related to agriculture in Boreal and Baltic Sea Region.
Editor-in-Chief:
Terho Hyvönen
Impact factor (2021): 1.242
(5-years 1.324)
Rank by Journal Impact factor 2021: 36/59
(Agriculture-Multidisciplinary)
ISSN 1795-1895
The articles of the journal and its predecessors Journal of the Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland, Journal of Agricultural Science in Finland, Agricultural Science in Finland, Agricultural and Food Science in Finland, The Journal of the Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland i.e. Maataloustieteellinen aikakauskirja have been scanned to pdf-format from 1945 to 1997 and are now available for readers of the journal free of charge. The digitalization of the predecessors of Agricultural and Food Science was funded by Kopiosto and The Finnish Science Publishers Association. If any of the authors of these scanned articles do not want their article to be included in the archive, please contact the editor of the journal (editor@afsci.fi).
The National Library has digitized the volumes of 1929–1939 of Maataloustieteen Aikakauskirja and agreed with Kopiosto to open them for 2021–2022. Until 1939, the material is open to everybody and onwards to the scholars of universities that have concluded the Tutkain agreement. https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/serial-publications?generalTypes=NEWSPAPER&generalTypes=JOURNAL&name=maataloustieteellinen%20
In addition, the material is permanently in local use in copyright libraries.
