The Journal of Sichuan Agricultural University was founded in 1983. The sponsor, Sichuan Agricultural University, is a national "211 Project" key university and a national "Double First-Class" university with biotechnology as its feature, agricultural technology as its advantage, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. It is also an excellent university in the undergraduate teaching level assessment of the Ministry of Education. The Journal of Sichuan Agricultural University is included in the Chinese Science Citation Database CSCD and is included in the 2017 edition of Peking University's "Chinese Core Journals Overview" as a comprehensive agricultural science core journal.