Editorial policy of the ISHS regarding Acta Horticulturae® (ISSN 0567-7572 print and ISSN 2406-6168 electronic)
- Acta Horticulturae exclusively contains research which has been presented at an ISHS symposium or at the ISHS Congress
- Refer to www.actahort.org for online access to the complete catalog of all current and back volumes of Acta Horticulturae
- All papers, either based on oral or poster contributions, are subject to preliminary evaluation by the Scientific Committee of the meeting concerned. Therefore abstracts are necessary and contributors must submit abstracts before they register.
- Accepted contributions are subsequently presented at the respective ISHS Symposium or Congress before an audience of peers.
- All fulltext scientific papers are submitted by the Editor(s) to the Editorial Board for scientific review.
- Only fulltext papers accepted by the Editor(s) after sound scientific review by the Editorial Board are considered for publication in Acta Horticulturae.
For each ISHS symposium an Editorial Board is being established. The Editorial Board comprises the most eminent researchers in that particular field of research and this to guarantee a consistent quality of the scientific review process. Acta Horticulturae has an history of over 60 years in independent, non-commercial, high quality scientific publishing.
ISHS strongly believes in the value and impact of presenting before an audience of peers followed by a screening process by an Editorial Board which is composed of a selection of the most eminent scientists active in the particular field/subject of horticultural science.
Select numbers of Acta Horticulturae, are indexed in the Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters or ISI) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI).
Important notice: Selection of Acta Horticulturae volumes for indexing in the CPCI is at the sole discretion of Clarivate editors, using a single set of 26 criteria to evaluate conference proceedings volumes. Those criteria are designed to select for editorial rigor and best practice at the proceedings volume level. Coverage of proceedings from previous years of a conference event does not guarantee acceptance of subsequent volumes. Each volume receives an independent evaluation by Clarivate editors.
Because Acta Horticulturae is a series of proceedings, coverage in the Science Citation Index (SCI) is not possible; consequently the series cannot have a Journal Impact Factor. Nonetheless Acta Horticulturae is a sound and generally respected scientifically reviewed proceedings series