Journal of Nutraceuticals and Food Science

Editorial

I am pleased to mention that during the year 2020, all issues of volume 5 were published online within the time and the print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online.

Journal of Nutraceutical and Food Science during the past year also brought out the 4th Global Meeting on Food Scarcity, ways to manage food for a large population, which consisted of 11 abstracts.

The JCR Impact factor of IPCTN for the year 2019 was 1.91, while the current SJR index dropped to 0.256. The H-index of the journal, however, increased to 50 and IPCTN ranked among all journals in the field of Nutraceutical and Food Science published, 2^nd in Asia and 48th in the world.

During the calendar year 2020, IPCTN received a total of 62 papers, out of which 36 articles (58%) were rejected in the preliminary screening due to plagiarism or being out of the format and peer review process.

During 2020 around 14 articles were subjected for publication after they are accepted in the peer-review process. In the 2 issues of Volume 14 published during the year 2020, a total of 14 articles were published (at an average of 8 articles per issue) of which, articles were published from authors all around the world.

A total of 110 research scientists from all over the world reviewed the 14 articles published in volume 15. The average publication lag time of an article was further reduced to 2-3 weeks.

During the calendar year 2020, a total of 32 Editors, 15 Reviewers joined the board of IPCTN and contributed their invaluable services towards contribution as well as the publication of articles.

I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Dilip Ghosh during the final editing of articles published and the support rendered by the editorial assistant, Irmak Sahnur in bringing out issues of IPCTN in time. I would also like to express my gratitude to all the Authors, Reviewers, Publisher, Advisory and Editorial Board of IPCTN, the office bearers for their support in bringing out yet another volume of IPCTN and look forward to their unrelenting support to bring out the volume 5 of IPCTN in scheduled time.