About the Journal
Journal of Rangeland is an international open-access peer-reviewed quarterly journal in Persian (with English abstracts) devoted to the field of rangeland ecosystems. It is a quarterly scientific publication of the Iranian Society of Range Management. It is a scientific journal devoted to the publication of original articles, review articles, etc., considering the research ethics and academic rules and regulations.
All papers are subject to a double-blind reviewing process. The submitted manuscripts will be published after a thorough review and the editorial board's approval. Researchers are highly appreciated if they visit this website, register, submit and set up their papers based on the Instructions to Authors. Therefore, visiting in person or calling the journal office is not recommended, so all connections with authors and reviewers are made through the website.
Bibliographic Information |
Title |
Journal of Rangeland |
Variant Title |
Marta̒ |
Journal Abbreviated Title |
J. Range |
Journal Title Acronym |
J.R |
ISSN |
Online ISSN: 2676 -5039 |
Subject Category |
Scopus Subject Area and Category:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- Ecology
Environmental Science
- Nature and Landscape Conservation
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Web of Science Categories:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE):
Soil Science | Ecology | Nature Resources
Current Contents Index:
Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Environment/Ecology |
Coverage |
- Rangeland modeling
- Rangeland Restoration
- Socio-economic studies of rangeland ecosystems
- Ecological studies and the relationship between water, soil, plants, and humans
- Range management in arid and semi-arid regions
- Land-use change and its effects on rangeland ecosystems
- Conservation, rehabilitation, and exploitation commensurate with the capacity of rangeland ecosystems
- Analysis of different dimensions of land ecology with emphasis on rangeland ecosystems
- Explain the role and participation of water and soil resources stakeholders in the comprehensive management framework
- Analysis, development, and presentation of executive solutions in soil and water management in rangeland ecosystems
- New approaches and methods in assessment, modeling, integration, decision making, and comprehensive rangelands
- Environmental effects of pollution of water and soil resources
- Assessing the health, sustainability, and governance of the rangelands
- The effects of climate change on rangeland ecosystems
- Soil and water conservation on rangeland ecosystems. |
Language |
Persian; including English abstracts and bibliographies. |
Start Year |
2007 - Vol. 1, No. 1 - |
Frequency |
Quarterly |
Director-in-Charge |
Hossein Arzani, Ph.D. |
Editor-in-Chief |
Hossein Azarnivand, Ph.D. |
Place of Publication |
Iran, karaj |
Publisher |
Iranian Society of Range Management |
Status |
Active |
Refereed |
Yes; Double Blind Peer Review. |
Manuscript turnaround time of the serial publication |
10 Weeks |
Manuscript acceptance rate |
30% |
OCLC No. |
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LC No. |
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DDC No. |
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URL |
http://rangelandsrm.ir/index.php?&slct_pg_id=10&sid=1&slc_lang=en |
E-mail |
j.rangeland.ir gmail.com |
Type of Access |
Open Access (OA) |
OA Policies |
SHERPA/RoMEO |
Type of License |
CC-BY : Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International. |
Open Access Statement |
Journal of Rangeland is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. All content of the Journal is published with open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.
Benefits of open access for authors include:
- Authors retain copyright to their work.
- Free access for all users worldwide.
- Increased visibility and readership.
- No spatial constraints.
- Rapid publication.
No publication charges are required from the author(s). |
The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism |
All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. Manuscripts submitted to the journal of Rangeland will be screened for plagiarism using similarity check and plagiarism detection tools. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to check the similarity before submitting their manuscript to the journal. Editors check the plagiarism detection of manuscripts in the journal of Rangeland using the Grammarly detection software (www.grammarly.com), and iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) for English abstracts and use Iranian plagiarism detection softwares such as IranDOC (https://tik.irandoc.ac.ir) and Samimonour (www.samimnoor.ir) for the Persian text. Whenever it is determined that the manuscript has not complied with the plagiarism rules, the article is rejected (before accepting) and if it has been published (after accepting), it will be removed from the published list and placed in the withdrawn list (returned articles because of Failure to observe plagiarism law). |
Type of Publication (Processing Charges and Publication Charges) |
Publication charges: 300 Iranian Rial (IRR) No
Full text access: Open Access |
Revenue Sources |
Organizational and institutional support, Donations |
Type of Material |
Serial (Periodical) |
Description |
Journal of Rangeland is an international open-access peer-reviewed quarterly journal in Persian (with English abstracts) devoted to the field of rangeland sciences. It is a quarterly scientific publication of the Iranian Society of Range Management. It is a journal devoted to the publication of original articles, review articles, etc., considering the research ethics and academic rules and regulations. It is a journal of natural resource conservation research, practice, policy, and perspectives. |
Copyright owner / Copyright holder |
Authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights. The author has complete control over the work (e.g. retains the right to reuse, distribute, republish etc.). |
Copyright Notice |
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). |
Authorship |
The consent of all authors, as well as related authorities/institutions has been received prior to the submission of the manuscript. The order of the authors (as to be reflected on the published article) has been established. The adding or deleting of authors once the manuscript has been accepted for publication would have to be accompanied by a signed statement of consent of all authors. All authors have contributed significantly to the research. Authors are obligated to participate in the peer review process, providing retractions / corrections / amendments when necessary. All conflicts of interest/financial support have been declared. Any changes or corrections to a published work require the consent of all authors. |
COPE |
Journal of Rangeland follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential cases of misconduct. |
Digital Archiving Policy
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Journal of Rangeland works with some organizations as the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC), The Iran National Library and Archives, and own server of the Iranian Society of Range Management for maintaining our own digital archive. This makes possible the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by converting and upgrading digital file formats to comply with new technology standards. |
Data Citation |
Data should be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list. Data citation is appropriate for data held within institutional, subject focused, or more general data repositories. It is not intended to take the place of community standards such as in-line citation of GenBank accession codes. When citing or making claims based on data, authors must refer to the data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. Journal of Rangeland follows the format proposed by the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles: Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOR)”. |
Data Sharing Policy |
Journal of Rangeland uses the Basic Data Sharing Policy. The journal is committed to a more open research landscape, facilitating faster and more effective research discovery by enabling reproducibility and verification of data, methodology and reporting standards. Journal of Rangeland encourages authors to cite and share their research data including, but not limited to: raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their article where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.
Journal of Rangeland encourages authors to share the data and other artifacts supporting the results in the article by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a Data Accessibility Statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Journal of Rangeland requires authors of Original Investigation, and Special Paper articles to (1) place the de-identified data associated with the manuscript in a repository; and (2) include a Data Availability Statement in the manuscript describing where and how the data can be accessed.
Journal of Rangeland defines data as the digital materials underlying the results described in the manuscript, including but not limited to spreadsheets, text files, interview recordings or transcripts, images, videos, output from statistical software, and computer code or scripts. Authors are expected to deposit at least the minimum amount of data needed to reproduce the results described in the manuscript.
Data can be placed in any repository that makes data publicly available and provides a unique persistent identifier, including institutional repositories, general repositories (e.g., Figshare, Open Science Framework, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, OpenICPSR), or discipline-specific repositories.
The Data Availability Statement should be placed in the manuscript at the end of the main text before the references. This statement must include (1) an indication of the location of the data; (2) a unique identifier, such as a
Digital Object Recognizer (DOR), accession number, or persistent uniform resource locator (URL); and (3) any instructions for accessing the data, if applicable.
At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOR, pre-registered DOR, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOR, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.
Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer-reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).
Please note: As you are submitting your manuscript to the Journal of Rangeland where submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors (i.e., Author Name, Address, Conflict of Interest and fund related information). As a data availability statement could reveal your identity, we recommend removing this from the anonymized version of the manuscript.
Exceptions to this policy will be made in rare cases in which de-identified data cannot be shared due to their proprietary nature or participant privacy concerns. Exceptions to policy and restrictions on data availability are granted for reasons associated with the protection of human privacy, issues such as biosafety, and/or to respect terms of use for data obtained under license from third parties. Confidential data, e.g., human subject or patient data, should always be anonymized, or permission to share should be obtained in advance. If in doubt, authors should seek counsel from their institution’s ethics committee.
Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper. Below are some examples.
Data Availability Statement:
1. Data associated with this article are available in the Open Science Framework at .
2. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number [reference number].
3. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL], reference number [reference number].
4. The data that support the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [URL/DOR], reference number [reference number]. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: [list resources and URLs] |
Informed Consent |
All participants in human subjects' articles have a right to privacy that should not be violated without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials, etc., should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the participants (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent in this situation requires that an identifiable participant be shown the manuscript and provide consent prior to publication. Authors should disclose to these patients whether any potential identifiable material might be available via the Internet as well as in print after publication. Participants' consent should be written and archived either with the journal of Rangeland, the authors, or both, as dictated by local regulations or laws. |
Privacy Statement |
The names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal website will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purposes or to any other parties. |
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