Crops

Crops is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of crops published bimonthly online by MDPI.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Agronomy) / CiteScore - Q2 (Agronomy and Crop Science)
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 20.7 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 3.9 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Crops is a companion journal of Agriculture and Agronomy.
• Journal Cluster of Agricultural Science: Agriculture, Agronomy, Horticulturae, Soil Systems, AgriEngineering, Crops, Seeds, Grasses, Agrochemicals and AI and Precision Agriculture.