Arid Biome is a scientific-research journal licensed by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran and published by Yazd University (School of Natural resources and Desert studies) since 2010. Scopes of JAB are flora and fauna, Socio-economic issues, Soil Problems, Drought, Dust storm, Groundwater, Remote sensing, Wind erosion, Climate change, Land use.
Publisher: Yazd University
Director-in-Charge: Dr. Farhad Nejadkoorki
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Mohammad Reza Ekhtesasi
Print ISSN: 2008-790X
Online ISSN: 2588-6487
Date of Foundation: 2010
Publication Period: 2 Issues/year (Semiannual)
Journal Language: Persian with English Abstract
Type of Review: Double Blind Peer Review
Publication Ethics: The Journal of Arid Biome is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.
Publishing Cost: 3,000,000 Iranian Rial (IRR)
E-Payment system at https://yazd.ac.ir/epay/press
Subscription or pay per view fees: Free
Revenue sources: Journal of Arid Biome is published by Yazd University press and supported by it. Article Processing Charges are the only sources of income. Above mentioned resource support operating expense, including the cost of web presence, pre-press preparations, and staff salaries.
Advertising policy: All advertisements are independent from editorial decisions.
Text Format of Articles: PDF, XML
Electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content: Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) at https://ecc.isc.ac/showJournal/22414 and National Library and Archives of I.R.Iran (NLAI) at https://iranjournals.nlai.ir/handle/123456789/418184.
Permanent article identifier: DOI, DOR
Website: http://aridbiom.yazd.ac.ir/?lang=en
Policy of Screening for Plagiarism: Papers submitted to Journal of Arid biome will be screened for plagiarism using Samimnoor or any other plagiarism detection tools. The journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. If author want to detect plagiarism, it could be detected using Google search engine or other online programs like Samimnoor. Authors should ensure that they submit only entirely original works. Samimnoor system is for identifying Persian papers. All accepted papers will be checked by Samimnoor against plagiarism.
System Similarity Finder: https://www.samimnoor.ir
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
It is possible to use articles only by Citation.
Social Network: Linked in
Indexing in: Google Scholar, ISC
Open Access Policy: All articles of the Journal are Open Access. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). That means you are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Copyright and permissions: Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, and reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.
The journal allow the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.
Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
Mailing Address: Journals Office, Yazd University, University Blvd., Safayieh, Yazd, PO Box 89195-741, Iran
E-mail: aridlandj@gmail.com
Alternative E-mail: aridlandj@journals.yazd.ac.ir