About the Journal

RJH is defined as an international open access journal that does not charge to readers or their institutions for access. By the term open access journal, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

The RJH journal contains the scientific papers in the field of horticulture, including the following topics: Genetic resources and horticultural biodiversity, Breeding of horticultural species; Sustainable products and technologies in horticulture; Post harvest technologies; molecular biology and biotechnologies; Propagation, micro propagation and virology of horticultural species. The papers are focused on specific domains and structured as follows:

  • Biotechnology
  • Vegetable, Aromatic and Medicinal plants
  • Potato growing
  • Fruit growing
  • Viticulture and Oenology
  • Floriculture, Ornamental Plants, Landscape architecture
  • Postharvest

Reviews that provide concise and precise updates on the latest progress made in a given area of horticulture research are also accepted by the Romanian Journal of Horticulture. Systematic reviews should follow the Publication Ethics guidelines and Guide for authors RHJ.
The journal considers all review manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information.
For this category of manuscripts, the length must be a maximum of 16 pages, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive and the work corresponds to an even number of pages (12, 14, or 16).
The quality and impact of the study will be considered during the peer review.

The main purpose of the journal is to select scientific research papers with high standard in order to promote and disseminating significant results obtained in the world wide horticulture sector. An international Editorial Board advises the journal.