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Agric Hum Values (2012) 29:135136 DOI 10.1007/s10460-012-9370-1
Agriculture and human values
Harvey S. James Jr.
Published online: 24 April 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of Agriculture and Human Values. According to Google Scholar, there have been more than 1,000 articles published in the journal between 1984 and 2011. The most cited paper is currently Laura Raynolds 2000 article Re-embedding global agriculture: The international organic and fair trade movements.
Interest in the journal, as evidenced by submissions, continues to increase. Last year there were nearly 230 new papers submitted, representing an increase of more than 20 % over the previous year. By comparison, the increase in submissions in 2010 over 2009 was 5 %. I publish approximately 40 papers a year, which means that the acceptance rate is below 20 %, and declining. Scholars who have papers accepted for publication should feel pleased with the increasing selectivity of the journal, but because of constraints in the number of papers I can accept,...