The title of the former journal Icelandic Agricultural Sciences is now from issue 38, year 2025, expanded to Icelandic Agricultural and Environmenal Sciences.
The journal is in English, free of charge, open access and is refereed and distributed internationally. It publishes original articles and reviews written by researchers in Iceland and throughout the world on any aspect of applied life sciences that are relevant under boreal, alpine, arctic or subarctic conditions.
Relevant subjects include e.g. any kind of environmental research, farming, breeding and diseases of plants and animals, hunting and fisheries, food science, forestry, soil conservation, ecology of managed and natural ecosystems, geothermal ecology, etc.
Since 2009 it is listed as an ISI journal in the Thomson database now Clarivate. That means that all articles published in Vol 22 (2009) and later are indexed in the ISI Web of Science. It is also indexed in the CAB Abstracts, the BIOSIS database, the SCOPUS database the CrossRef database and Google-Scholar search engine, and as such it is internationally established.
Icelandic Agric. Environ. Sci. is published and supported by a consortium of universities and research institutions in Iceland:
Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI)
Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
Institute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland (UI)
Land and forest Iceland
Matis – Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D
The Icelandic Agricultural Advisory Centre
The editor-in-chief is Björn Þorsteinsson (AUI) and the co-editors are Bjarni D. Sigurðsson (AUI) and Sigurður Ingvarsson (UI)
