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Editorial Note for Journal of Agricultural science and Botany.

Gopal Dixit

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Journal of Agricultural science and Botany (ISSN: 2591-7897) is growing continuously. It is our pleasure to announce that during year 2020, all issues of volume 4 were published online on time and the print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online.

All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of CAS Source Index (CASSI), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Secret Search Engine Labs, Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Sherpa Romeo, Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA), RefSeek, EBSCO A-Z, OCLCWorldCat, SWB online catalog, Publons etc.

During the calendar year 2019, AAASCB received a total of 19 papers, out of which 3 articles were rejected in the preliminary screening due to plagiarism or being out of the format and peer review process. During 2019 around 15 articles were subjected for publication after they are accepted in the peer review process. In the 4 issues of Volume 3 published during the year 2019, a total of 15 articles were published (at an average of 4 articles per issue) of which, articles were published from authors all around the world. A total of 50 research scientists from all over the world reviewed the 15 articles published in volume 3. Average publication lag time of an article was further reduced to 2-3 weeks.

Journal of Agricultural science and Botany its new association with allied Publishing group for Archiving, Journal maintenance, financial purpose and support. Journal will be running its website https://www.alliedacademies.org/journalagricultural-science-botany/ parallel for Editorial and review work process so as to maintain its highest standard of scientific work.

Association with allied Publishing Group has increased Readership Metrics (By Google Analytics) of Journal of Agricultural science and Botany which can be accessed at https://www.alliedacademies.org/journal-agricultural-sciencebotany-advertising-62.html

I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Editor and Associate Editors also during the final editing of articles published and the support rendered by the editors: Dr. Long-Xi Yu and Xinhua Qi in bringing out issues of AAASCB in time. I would also like to express my gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, the publisher, the advisory and the editorial board of AAASCB, the office bearers for their support in bringing out yet another volume of AAASCB and look forward to their unrelenting support to bring out the Volume 5 of AAASCB in scheduled time.