Focus and area of action
The journal Acta herbologica deals with topics from the fields of biology (reproduction, morphology, anatomy, physiology and genetics of weeds, weed soil seed bank, economically harmful, parasitic and alian invasive weeds), ecology (biodversity, population variability, competition, allelopathy, parasitism), weed interaction with abiotic and biotic factors, resistance/tolerance of weeds/crops to herbicides and weed management (preventive, agrotechnical, physical, biological and chemical measures) in the system of conventional and organic cropping system, as well as weed management in non-agricultural areas (ruderal habitats, natural and artificial lawns, water and forest ecosystems). In addition, the journal publishes papers in the field of phytochemical characteristics of herbicides, phytotoxicity, risk assessments, fate and behavior in soil, water and food; as well as the interactions of different synthetic and natural herbicides with other pesticides. Also, papers are published in the field of the possibility of using weeds for useful purposes.
Peer review procedure
The selection of the reviewers is made by the Editor-in-Chief in agreement with the Editors of the area and Editorial Committee according to their expertise. Two competent reviewers are hired for each manuscript in a mutually anonymous relationship with the authors of the manuscript. The abstract of the paper is first sent to the appointed reviewers. The reviewer is obliged to confirm within 1 week whether he accepts the review. After accepting the obligation, the reviewer is sent the entire paper for review. The reviewer is obliged to make a review within 1 month.
If the reviews of two reviewers do not agree, then the paper is sent to a third reviewer. The Editor-in-chief makes the final decision on the acceptance of the paper.
The author should make corrections and submit the paper back within 1 month. If the author does not agree with all the suggestions, he should explain his disagreement.
The Editorial Committee is obliged to be objective when selecting reviewers and making the final decision to accept or reject the paper.
The reviewers are obliged to be objective and impartial during the review and to respect the deadline for making the reviews.
If the editors notice unethical behavior of reviewers, then that reviewer is excluded from the review process.
If unethical behavior of the author is observed, the paper is automatically excluded from the review process.
The author bears moral responsibility if plagiarism is found to exist and the work is rejected.
If the author and the reviewer do not agree on the corrections to the paper, the author can withdraw the work.
If the review process is not completed within the due date, the author has the right to withdraw the paper.
Frequency of publishing
The articles will be published collectively, as part of the journal's contents.
Open access
This journal provides immediate open access to its entire content in accordance with the agreement of the journal editors.
Sponsors
Weed Science Society of Serbia
History of the journal
"Acta herbologica" is the legacy of the journal "Fragmenta herbologica" of the former Weed Science Society of Yugoslavia. In 1992, the Weed Science Society of Serbia was founded, which assumed all the rights and obligations of the Weed Science Society of Yugoslavia, as well as the journal, which changed its name to "Acta herbologica". The journal is published twice per year and so far 31 volumes and 61 issues, i.e. over 360 scientific papers, have been published. The first Editor of the journal Acta herbologica was prof. Momčilo Kojić (1992-2007), the second was academician Vaskrsija Janić (2008-2016), and since 2017, prof. Sava Vrbničanin, as well as the Editors of the area for biology and ecology of weeds, prof. Ljiljana Nikolić and Vaskrsije Janjić for the field of weed management, who was replaced by Dr. Ljiljana Radivojević from 2021. From 2023, the positions of editors of the area for biology and ecology of weeds, and the area for weed control have been decleaned. In addition to the Serbian language, papers may be published in the English at the author's choice. Following the example of some eminent scientific journals, since 2017, a review paper dedicated to an economically important weed species or other current topic has been published in each issue of the journal at the suggestion of the Editorial Committee.
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Ensuring a Blind Peer Review
To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:
- The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with Author and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.;
- With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
- With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.