The provision of healthy food in dynamic market environments, the viability of agricultural production systems affected by risk and shocks, or natural resource management under uncertain conditions, represent some of the multi-dimensional challenges central to NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences . This journal offers a platform for multi-disciplinary and impact-driven research that addresses these agricultural and societal challenges.
As a journal fostering integrative research, NJAS recognises that this requires opportunities to jointly travel uncharted terrains, to synthesise empirical research and to accept the uncertainties of working across boundaries within the natural and social sciences and between science and society.
We encourage papers that demonstrate the value of versatile research in topical domains, evaluate the methodological choices enabling integrative research, show the workings of creatively combined methods, or discuss innovative conceptualisations conducive to integrating multiple dimensions of major societal challenges.
The journal aims to do so through the publication of:
i) research papers with a clear empirical, methodological, or conceptual contribution to the field of integrative studies in agricultural and life sciences;
ii) special issues focusing on a complex problem in life science through a combination of disciplinary and/or multi-disciplinary papers with a strong editorial to place the papers in a broader societal and scientific context;
iii) review papers that provide a multi-perspective view on a current issue in agricultural and life sciences, and;
iv) synthesis papers building on a set of research papers (e.g. from a PhD thesis) where the synthesis has an added value by providing a multi-dimensional view on a complex problem in agricultural and life sciences.
The journal also aims to build communities of scholars around special issues. We welcome proposals for special issues that collect papers, which, individually or collectively, display how to do collaborative research and address major agricultural and societal challenges. The journal also pro-actively encourages young scholars (including PhD candidates) to propose and organise special issues and offers organisational and editorial support for realising these.
Please note that NJAS converted to full Open Access from Volume 93 (2021). Archive content from Volume 48 onward have been made free to access.
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