Food Frontiers: An academically sponsored new journal
Food Frontiers: An academically sponsored new journal
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Food Frontiers:学术赞助的新期刊
作者:
L Wang;J Simal‐Gandara;M Du;B Lu;JL Quiles;ZY Chen;B Hennig;M Wang;H Xiao;J Arcot;T Yue;B Zheng;X Zou;Y MAMRUNAKA;et al.
Search on the Web of Science Core Collection online database clearly shows that food science and technology is a fast-growing research field. In fact, total articles in the area of food science and technology have grown from a market share of 0.84% in 2013 to 0.91% in 2017. China, United States, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, and Iran are the top 10 countries that publish most papers in the area of food science and technology. China has the fastest growing rate with a market share of 17.08% in the area of food science and technology and a 5-year growth rate of 20.81%. The publisher Elsevier dominates the market with a share of 35.56%, followed by Wiley, Springer Nature, and Taylor & Francis. These top four publishers publish about 65% of these food-related articles. Elsevier also has the highest average citation rate among the top 10 countries. Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Tekno Scienze Publisher (an Italian Publisher) have a growth rate above the market average. Among all food-related research themes, the topic on food and health was ranked number one in the list. In terms of open access, the share of open access papers related to food and health remains stable; however, open access to food-related papers published by Wiley had an increase from 1.99% in 2013 to 4.24% total shares in 2017. Considering research institutes and universities, Spanish National Research Council was ranked the number one in publishing food-related papers followed by Jiangnan University, US Department of Agriculture, European Food Safety Authority, China Agricultural University, South China University of Technology, Wageningen University, Zhejiang University, and University of Putra Malaysia. Although there have been a plenty of food-related journals, the launch of this new journal, Food Frontiers, is timely and essential (Figure 1). The aim of Food Frontiers as an international open access journal is to bring high impact on the field of food science and health by providing all readers free access to the articles. Food Frontiers is cosponsored by Zhejiang University, Jiangsu University, Nanchang University, Northwest University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, and Wiley. The editorial board comprises 12 worlds’ highly cited researchers and consists of global top experts in diverse areas of nutritional sciences and food science and technology from 16 countries and regions, including China, Australia, Bulgaria, France, Iran, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United States, Hong Kong, and Macau. Moreover, three distinguished scientists in food and nutrition, Prof. Zhen-Yu Chen from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the associate editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Prof. Bernhard Hennig from the University of Kentucky, the