A new scope for the Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science

A sustainable future for an interdisciplinary journal

“…Special issues as space for interdisciplinarity: In its life span of almost sixty years, the journal started as the Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science, which still echoes in the acronym NJAS. The journal gradually adopted a more multidisciplinary focus and broadened its scope to the interdisciplinary domain of the life sciences in 2002 (Jongen, Struik, Wienk 2002;Struik & Wienk, 2009;Struik, Wienk, Gerritsma 2002). In the collaboration with our previous publishing house Elsevier (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020), the interdisciplinary nature of the journal became particularly visible in a series of special issues (Vellema, Struik, Slingerland 2020).…”

Letter from the Editors

“…We will remain a multidisciplinary journal covering the fields of plant sciences, animal sciences, environmental sciences, social sciences and food sciences, with a focus on system approaches. And we will be loyal to our objective to offer a much needed platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, as defined several years ago [1]. Although in the first 49 issues mainly a journal for plant and animal sciences [2], the decision to widen the scope, taken in 2002, has made the journal broader and has brought it more in line with the readership it was aiming for as a general scientific journal for the alumni network of Wageningen University.…”