Siembra publishes in continuous flow the esults of scientific and technological research in the field of agronomic sciences and tourism, as well as topics related to rural development, the tourist space and the livestock sciences.
Unpublished articles are received, whether original or review articles, as well as bibliographic reviews and opinion articles. More info: Guide for Authors
Siembra is pleased to welcome the new members of the Editorial Board:
- María Eugenia Ávila Salem, Ph.D., Universidad Central del Ecuador
- Juan Carlos Caballero Salinas, Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, México
- Pablo Enrique Cornejo Rivas, Ph.D., Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Fruticultura (CEAF) / Centro de Recursos Hídricos para la Agricultura y Minería (CRHIAM), Chile
- Katherin Arlet Solis Lufí, Ph.D., Proyecto GEF Conservación de Humedales Costeros de la zona Centro sur de Chile, Chile
Experts with a broad academic and scientific background who will enhance the areas of agricultural, livestock, and biological and environmental sciences of Siembra.
We would also like to express our gratitude to Jorge Eduardo Grijalva Olmedo for his active participation as a member of the Editorial Board until December 2024.
Siembra, the means of scientific diffusion of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Central University of Ecuador, has been indexed by Colección SciELO-Ecuador and Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc, once it has passed the evaluations of form and scientific content.
Siembra'sindexing in these important regional indexing systems constitutes an important advance for the visibility of the scientific work of the Central University of Ecuador, as well as for the consolidation of Siembra as a scientific journal of reference at national and regional level in the area of life sciences, with emphasis on agricultural sciences and tourism.
With the purpose of transparency of the contributions of each author and collaborator of the manuscripts published by Siembra, the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) of CASRAI has been adopted and will be used from Volume 8, Number 2 onwards.
The 14 contributor roles according to the CRediT taxonomy, which should be declared in each manuscript, are described below:
Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition - Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing – original draft – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing – review & editing – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
All contributions should be included. Individual contributors can be assigned multiple roles, and a given role can be assigned to multiple contributors. Where multiple individuals serve in the same role, the degree of contribution can optionally be specified as ‘lead’, ‘equal’, or ‘supporting’.
Siembrahas been indexed by ICI Journals Master List-Index Copernicus International.
ICI Journals Master List-Index Copernicus International is the third largest international database. It includes around 60.000 journals, and more than 70 000 users from150 countries.
Siembrais one of 6446 journals that have successfully fulfilled the editorial management and quality evaluation (more than 100 criteria).
Siembrahas been indexed by PERIODICA.Índice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias - Dirección General de Bibliotecas, UNAM.
PERIÓDICA is a bibliographic database created in 1978 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The database is updated daily and more than 10,000 records are added each year.
It offers about 350,000 bibliographic records of original articles, technical reports, case studies, statistics and other documents published in about 1,500 Latin American and Caribbean journals specialized in science and technology.
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume of SIEMBRA(Volume 7(1), 2020, the means of scientific diffusion of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Central University of Ecuador. You are invited to review its Table of Contents at http://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/SIEMBRA/issue/view/170, and disseminate its contents to your colleagues and students.
SIEMBRA is indexed by:
Databases: DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), ROAD (Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources), REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico), CrossRef, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), Google Scholar, ResearchBib. Assessment Systems: Latindex-Catalog 2.0, AmeliCA, ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), MIAR (Matrix of Information for the Analysis of Journals), AURA, CiteFactor. Distribution portals: DIALNET, Actualidad Iberoamericana, LatinRev - Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (Latin American Network of Academic Journals in Social Sciences and Humanities).
You are also invited to submit your manuscripts through the OJS platform at the following link: http://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/SIEMBRA/about/submissions.
Siembrahas been indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), this database includes peer-reviewed and open access, high-quality academic journals, based on the definition of open access adopted in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). DOAJ's mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language.
Siembra's record can be accessed at: https://doaj.org/toc/2477-8850
All articles published by Siembraare already available in this database.
Siembrahas been indexed by Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, important cooperative network of scholarly research journals and journal associations in the social sciences and humanities field.
We are pleased to announce that SIEMBRAincludes DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for all articles published since Volume 2. Authors can check the DOI assigned to their article on its web page.
Siembrahas been evaluated and accepted for indexing in REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico). All required criteria was fullfiled.
