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: 1.3
Q3 – Horticulture
5-Year Impact Factor: 1.4
SCImago Journal Rank (SCOPUS):
Horticultural Science
- ISSN 0862-867X (Print)
- ISSN 1805-9333 (On-line)
An international open access peer-reviewed journal published by the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1976 (by 1999 under the title Zahradnictví)
- The journal is administered by an international Editorial Board
- Editor-in-Chief: prof. Dr. Ing. Boris Krška
- Co-editors: doc. Ing. Martin Koudela, Ph.D., Ing. Jana Ouředníčková, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Robert Pokluda, Ph.D., Ing. Jiří Sedlák, Ph.D.
- Executive Editor: Ing. Eva Karská
- Technical Editor: Ing. Adéla Fajčíková
- The journal is published quarterly
Aims & Scope
The journal publishes results of basic and applied research from all areas of horticulture – fruit growing, orcharding, viticulture, vegetable growing, floriculture, ornamental gardening, mushroom growing, medicinal plants, garden, and landscape architecture. Original scientific papers, short communications, and review articles are published in the journal. Articles are published in English (British spelling).