About the Journal

Article Processing Charge (APC)

Articles published in the Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development are open access and freely available online to all readers, without any subscription, immediately after publication. Given the high production costs of the journal (domain fee, web page and web maintaining fee, web page backup fee -every 24 hours-, SSL certified fee and other, project 2022 for DOI fee), from 2022, JPACD asks authors to provide a contribution of US$300.00 per published paper as an Article Processing Charge (APC). This is not a requirement for acceptance and publication, which will be based on merit.

The charge: There are no profit motives for APC. The amount is displayed during the manuscript submission process and can be revised after comprehensive discussion in the editorial board.

Refund policy: Once an article has been accepted for publication, an APC is due. JPACD will not issue refunds of any kind. Non-payment after acceptance will be considered an unethical act.

Waivers: JPACD operates a transparent waiver policy. Authors requesting a waiver should submit their request along with their manuscript, stating the reasons on institutional letterhead. Decisions on waivers will be made by the editorial board.

Journal Facts

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bernardo Murillo-Amador, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C.

ISO: J. Prof. Assoc. Cactus Dev.

JCR Abbrev: J PROF ASSOC CACTUS

Electronic ISSN: 1938-6648

Indexed in: PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus, Web of Science Citation Index, Google Scholar, AGRICOLA.

Language: English

Category: HORTICULTURE--SCIE

Publication Frequency: 1 issue/year

Focus and Scope

The Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development is an annual journal that publishes original scientific articles conducted by specialists in the Cactaceae and near family species community worldwide. All sections undergo a double-blind peer-review process. The journal is available digitally for consultation in an Open Access System.

JPACD began as the dissemination medium of the Professional Association for Cactus Development in September 1996. It aims to create synergy between scientists, growers, legislators, and businesspeople vital to the development of Cactaceae and near family species to serve people in arid and semiarid lands.

This multidisciplinary Open-Access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, policymakers, and the public worldwide.

Authors Role

The Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development includes an Author Contributions section in all primary research papers. We endorse the Project CRediT taxonomy of contributor roles which is available at https://casrai.org/credit/.

The JPACD Editorial Board requires that the corresponding author disclose the statement at the time of manuscript submission describing the roles exerted by each contributor as follows:

#	Role	Definition
1	Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aim.
2	Data curation	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
3	Formal analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyses or synthesize study data.
4	Funding acquisition	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
5	Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
6	Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
7	Project administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
8	Resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
9	Software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
10	Supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
11	Validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
12	Visualization	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
13	Writing – original draft	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
14	Writing – review & editing	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Ethical Guidelines

The Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development (JPACD) is committed to respecting and complying with the principles of transparency and good practices in academic publications in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE https://publicationethics.org/) and is governed by its principles.

JPACD takes issues related to publishing ethics very seriously. Authors are expected to adhere to ethical standards with respect to attribution of authorship, conflicts of interest, respect for ethical considerations in the use of human and experimental animal participants, disclosures of financial support, and participation in the peer review process.

Cases of invalid or fraudulent data, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, similarity, and dual submissions will constitute grounds for rejection.

Open Access Policy

JPACD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All published articles are freely accessible online without any subscription.

Peer Review Process

The contributions received are subjected to a first review, in terms of quality and format according to the requirements of JPACD; first by the technical editor, the editor-in-chief and the associate editors. In this first instance, the contribution may be rejected for lack of quality and adequate format, for similarity, plagiarism, or self-plagiarism, for not complying with the theme of the journal.

If the article meets the aforementioned requirements, it is submitted to three reviewers, in the so-called double-blind process, where neither the author knows the reviewers, nor do they have knowledge of who the authors or the institutions are to which they belong.

Subsequently, based on the decision of the reviewers (two out of three), it is accepted with minimal, major, or rejected changes. In case of being accepted with changes, the author must make them, and the reviewers will check the writing again to determine if the pertinent changes were made.

At JPACD, the objective of the peer review process is to maximize the quality of the manuscript while guaranteeing the authors' rights to submit their work for a rigorous, constructive, and transparent review process.

Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, Overlap and Similarity Index

The use of someone else's ideas or words in their original form or slightly changed without a proper citation is considered plagiarism and will not be tolerated in JPACD. Even if a citation is given, if quotation marks are not placed around words taken directly from another author's work, the author is still guilty of plagiarism.

All manuscripts received in the platform of JPACD are sent to iThenticate®, a software or plagiarism control system, which compares the content of the manuscript and confirms the originality of the content presented.

As a general rule, the total similarity index without the bibliography and references, should be equal to or less than 15%; however larger total numbers will be considered on a case by case basis.

Contact

Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development

The Editor-in-Chief is a researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. located at Avenida Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 195. Colonia Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur. LA PAZ, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR. MEXICO. Zip Code 23096

Principal Contact

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bernardo Murillo Amador

Researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C.

Phone: +526121391066

Email: bmurillo04@cibnor.mx

Support Contact

Dr. Tomas Rivas-García

Email: trivas@pg.cibnor.mx

Additional Information

The editors of the Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development are very excited to be a part of the excellent Editorial Board and to work together to create the synergism between scientists, growers, legislators, and business people so vital to the development of this industry to serve the people of arid lands.

Published volumes are numbered consecutively.

The journal was not published in 1999, 2000 and 2002.

Copying all or parts of this document for resale requires written permission of the Professional Association for Cactus Development.

ISSN 1938-6648 - Electronic

ISSN 1938-663X - Printing

Website: https://www.jpacd.org