Editorial Note
Krishna Harika
Abstract
I am pleased to introduce Journal of Food & Industrial Microbiology (JFIM) is an internationally reputed, open access research journal oriented towards exploring the latest happenings topics of the food industry and microbial activities that cause the spoilage of food. The journal extends wide coverage to a broad sections of the topics in this field such as types of microbial activities on the perishable and the dried food, methods of food storage, food toxicity, food poison and contamination, food safety, protocols to determine the food expiry, enzymes, food processing. It is our pleasure to announce that during year 2019, all issues of volume 05 were published online on time and the print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online. All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of CAS Source Index (CASSI), Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Sherpa Romeo, Academic Journals Database, GenamicsJournalSeek, JournalTOCs, CiteFactor, Electronic Journals Library, RefSeek, Hamdard University, EBSCO A-Z, Directory of Abstract Indexing for Journals, World Catalogue of Scientific Journals, OCLC- WorldCat, Scholarsteer, SWB online catalog, Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio), Publons, Dtufindit, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research. During the calendar year 2019, Journal of Food & Industrial Microbiology received a total of 30 papers, out of which 6 articles were rejected in the preliminary screening due to plagiarism or being out of the format and peer review process. During 2019 around 10 articles were subjected for publication after they are accepted in the peer review process. In the 2 issues of Volume 5 published during the year 2019, a total of 10 articles were published (at an average of 5 articles per issue of which, articles were published from authors all around the world. A total of 30 research scientists from all over the world reviewed the 10 articles published in volume 4. Average publication period of an article was further reduced to 14-21 days. During the calendar year 2019, a total of three Editors, ten Reviewers joined the board of JFIM and contributed their valuable services towards contribution as well as publication of articles, and their valuable reviewer comments will beneficial to publish quality of article in the Journal. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Editor-in-chief and Associate Editor during the final editing of articles published and bringing out issues of JFIM in time. I would also like to express my gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, the publisher, language editor, honorary editors, the scientific advisory and the editorial board of JFIM, the office bearers for their support in bringing out the new volume (Volume 6) of JFIM for the calendar year 2020 and look forward to their unrelenting support further to release more issues for Journal of Food & Industrial Microbiology (JFIM) in scheduled time.