Why Publish with Journal of Integrated Pest Management?

Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) is an open-access (free), extension-focused journal that disseminates important information on integrated pest management to a non-technical audience, including farmers and ranchers, extension professionals, consultants, retailers, pest management product manufacturers and suppliers, educators, foresters, animal and human health professionals, and pest control operators. It frequently publishes ESA’s most widely read articles across a broad spectrum of topics, including entomology, nematology, plant pathology, and weed science.

Read on to learn more about what makes Journal of Integrated Pest Management the perfect home for your research.

A Journal of the ESA

Journal of Integrated Pest Management is a journal from the Entomological Society of America and is published in partnership with Oxford University Press. It’s owned and operated by entomologists, and ESA’s revenue from the journal goes directly to supporting ESA initiatives, entomologists, and the entomological community.

Key Metrics

*Source: Journal Impact Factor™, from Clarivate, 2024

Fully Open Access

Publishing in this open access journal will make your article freely accessible to a broad, global, interdisciplinary audience in a user-friendly digital medium immediately upon publication. This means your work will see more use and more citations. Open access copyright policy also means that your article can be reused for educational materials.

Unique Article Types

JIPM does not publish original research, but encourages the following types of multidisciplinary submissions:

• Pest profiles and natural enemy profiles;
• Emerging issues in pest management;
• Consensus-based pest management recommendations;
• Case studies;
• Surveys and needs assessments; and
• Reports on new invasive species or pests that have expanded their geographic range or have invaded new crops or environments.

What your peers are saying about JIPM

“ESA journals are my primary way to publish research and also with extension through JIPM. It's where I go first because I think that's where I get the most impact and the people [with] like research I think are reading those journals, too.” –Erin Hodgson, Field Crops Extension Entomologist, Iowa State University

“When JIPM's Co-Editor-in-Chief Marlin Rice invited me to write this article, I invited Peter Meng, a Pennsylvania State University graduate student to take the lead, because JIPM articles allow graduate students to take a lot of their literature searches results and thesis introductory material and put it into a format that's actually used by somebody.” –Dr. Melody Keena, US Forest Service, co-author of “Asian Longhorned Beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), an Introduced Pest of Maple and Other Hardwood Trees in North America and Europe”

Special Collections

Journal of Integrated Pest Management has published a variety of special collections bringing together newly published and retrospective articles on topics important to the field of integrated pest management. View the special collections published by the journal.

High Content Engagement

Due to the journals broad and non-technical audience profile, JIPM articles receive excellent content engagement, making it the perfect journal to facilitate dissemination of your high-quality research. JIPM articles often receive broad coverage in major media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Discover, and many other major news outlets.

A Member of COPE

The journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), meaning we abide by the highest ethical standards.

Distinguished Editorial Board

The editorial board and subject editors of Journal of Integrated Pest Management are recruited and appointed based on their expertise in their respective fields. They ensure the journal publishes high quality content, operates ethically, and is a welcoming publishing outlet for authors.

Author Resources

The journal is published by Oxford University Press which has a resource center to answer all of your questions before, during, and after publication—including advice on how best to promote your work once published.

Plan S Compliant

As the Journal of Integrated Pest Management is fully open access, you will be Plan S Compliant by default when publishing with us, regardless of what institution you are with.

Ready to Submit? 

Please refer to our instructions to authors and submission site for more information.