About Journal

Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture (MJA) is an international refereed journal that carries full-length original research papers, scientific review papers, and case reports on various aspects of Agriculture and veterinary fields. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly publication aimed at promoting agricultural science. It is presented to researchers and academic students of agricultural sciences. MJA (ISSN:2224-9796: Online, ISSN: 1815-316X: Print) was founded in 1966 under the guidance of the Scientific Council of the University of Mosul (publisher), and it is published on behalf of the College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Mosul (institutional society and scientific). It was adopted as an international journal in 2000 and published one issue per year until 2005; it then published four issues per year (quarterly). MJA has adopted a unique DOI number [10.33899/magrj] for each article published since 2005.

The MJA uses a double-blind peer-reviewing system to ensure the quality of the publication. All manuscripts should be submitted through our online manuscript management system. The author should first register in our system and then submit their manuscript. We will use iThenticate to check for plagiarism before sending it to reviewers, and the plagiarism rate should be under 20%. We will notify corresponding authors about their manuscripts through our online system within one to two months.

MJA publishes open-access articles, which means all articles are available online to all users immediately upon publication. All articles published in the MJA are fully open access; immediately freely available to read, download, and share. Articles published in the MJA are under the terms of a Creative Commons license 4.0 (CC-By), which permits users to read, print and download, or redistribute, translate the article, download for text and data mining purposes, reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works. The MJA is committed to supporting the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and obligates the authors to avoid plagiarism and illegal citation.

As an Open Access journal, publishing an article in this journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) that will be billed to the submitting author following acceptance. There are no other fees (for example, submission, page, or color charges). The Article Processing Charge for the journal is 100 US$ for international authors and 150.000 ID for Iraqi authors inside Iraq.

The MJA stopped reviewing and publishing articles from 2014 (stopped after publishing volume 42, issue 1, 2014) to 2017 during ISIS's occupation of Mosul city for three years, after the military liberation operation conducted by Iraqi forces to liberate Mosul city. The MJA started receiving and publishing articles in 2018 (reactivated from volume 45, issue 2, 2018).

Previously, the journal published articles in two languages (Arabic and English), but in 2019, it switched to English-only, with Arabic abstracts.