The Journal of Horticultural Sciences (ISSN 0973-354X · eISSN 2582-4899) is a Global Diamond Open Access Journal — free-to-read and free-to-publish Open Access journal. Published biannually by the Society for Promotion of Horticulture.
The Journal of Horticultural Sciences (ISSN 0973-354X eISSN 2582-4899) is a Global Diamond Open Access Journal - free-to-read and free-to-publish Open Access journal. Published biannually by the Society for Promotion of Horticulture hosted at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (ICAR-IIHR), Bengaluru 560089, India. The current year (2026) NAAS rating is 6.4. Expect on average 6 weeks from submission to publication. There are NO PUBLICATION FEES (Article Processing Charges or APCs) to publish with this journal.
Authors are encouraged to archive and share research data underlying their manuscripts through reputable data repositories, including the JHS Dataverse Repository.
Read More Read more about JHS Encourages Data Deposit and ArchivingJournal of Horticultural Sciences (Vol. 21, Issue 1; June 2026) published by the Society for Promotion of Horticulture, Bengaluru
The Journal of Horticultural Sciences (ISSN 0973-354X eISSN 2582-4899) is an Open Access journal published biannually by the Society for Promotion of Horticulture hosted at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (ICAR-IIHR), Bengaluru 560089, India
Articles published in the Journal of Horticultural Sciences are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Authors retain copyright and may freely share their research data, preprints, post-prints, and final published versions under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
JHS is indexed or discoverable through AGRICOLA, AGRIS, AURA, BASE, CABI, CORE, DOAJ, EBSCO, FSTA, Indian Citation Index, J-Gate/CERA, Redalyc, Scopus, and Clarivate Web of Science. All issues are also available through Internet Archive Scholar.
JHS participates in AmeliCA and uses AmeliCA XML. It is listed in ROAD and Sherpa Romeo. The journal supplies metadata to AGRICOLA, AGRIS FAO, Crossref, and DOAJ.
This OJS platform is hosted, administered and maintained by the Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit (AKMU), ICAR–Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (ICAR–IIHR), Bengaluru.
Platform configuration and interface customization are managed by Thippeswamy S., Chief Technical Officer.
