Change in Licence Policy for CAAS Journals
We would like to inform you that the journals published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) will change their licence policy. All articles submitted to CAAS journals from 2026 will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0) allows broad reuse, distribution, and adaptation of published articles, provided that appropriate credit to the original authors is given.
Articles submitted by 2025 are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license.
Impact factor (WoS):
2024: 1.8
Q2 – Agronomy
Q2 – Plant Sciences
5-Year Impact Factor: 1.3
SCImago Journal Rank (SCOPUS):
Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding
- ISSN 1212-1975 (Print)
- ISSN 1805-9325 (On-line)
An international open access peer-reviewed journal published by of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1965 (by 1997 under the title Genetika a šlechtění)
- The journal is administered by an international Editorial Board
- Editor-in-Chief: Assoc. Prof. Ing. Tomáš Vyhnánek, Ph.D.
- Co-Editors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ing. Jaroslav Salava, Assoc. Prof. Ing. Tomáš Středa, Ph.D., Ing. Josef Patzak, Ph.D.
- Executive Editor: Ing. Markéta Knížková
- The journal is published quarterly
Aims & Scope
The journal publishes following types of articles: original scientific papers, critical reviews articles and short communications from the field of theoretical and applied plant genetics, plant biotechnology and plant breeding. Papers are published in English.