"Journal of Saffron Research" is an open-access semiannual journal published by the Saffron Research Group of the University of Birjand in cooperation with the Iranian Society of Agricultural Sciences and Plant Breeding. This journal uses a double-blind peer-review policy to evaluate articles and publishes the results of fundamental (original) and applied research related to saffron in the fields of basic sciences, biotechnology, genetics and plant breeding, biochemistry, agriculture, medicine, food industry, etc.
Article processing charges and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors, so there are no article processing charges.
Journal of Saffron Research publishes as an open-access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences.
Journal of Saffron Research is an open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the journal website to all users immediately upon publication. Journal of Saffron Research is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). In this journal and Under an open-access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content and allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly. The authors are the copyright holder in this journal.
The authors are the copyright holder in this journal and retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
The Journal of Saffron Research follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. (See Publication Ethics Policy)
Journal of Saffron Research is published 2 issues per year (semiannual ). All the content from the beginning to the end will be available forever on the Journal of Saffron Research website (https://jsr.birjand.ac.ir/?lang=en).