Focus and Scope

FSJ is an open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of novel research in all aspects of Food Science and Technology, with particular attention paid to the exploration and development of food commodities sourced from tropical biodiversity, as well as other regions that have relevancy or similarities. Original research articles written in English and featuring well-designed studies with clearly analyzed and logically interpreted results are accepted, with a strong preference given to research that has the potential to make significant contributions to both the field of Food Technology and society in general.

Topics include, but not limited to :

• Food Chemistry
• Food Microbiology
• Food Engineering
• Food Industry Management

Detailed Focus and Scope can be found in this link.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to FSJ undergo a rigorous screening and review process to ensure that they fit into the journal's scope and are of sufficient academic quality and novelty to appeal to FSJ's readership. FSJ employs a double-blind peer review, in which both author(s) and reviewers identities are concealed from each other. Editors will delete the information of authors' name and affiliation in the initial manuscript before sending it to the reviewers, while the name of reviewers also hidden from the reviewed or commented manuscript sent to the authors.

Initial screening. A newly submitted manuscript will be screened by the Editor-in-Chief for its conformity to FSJ’s scope and basic submission requirements. Screening of plagiarism will be conducted using Turnitin.

Peer-review. If the manuscript passes the initial screening stage, it will be assigned to a handling editor, who will then send it to an expert in the relevant field to undergo a double-blind peer-review. Manuscripts that fail to pass the initial screening will be rejected without further review. Minimum time for the review process is estimated 60 days.

First decision. A decision on a peer-reviewed manuscript will only be made upon the receipt of report from reviewer. At this stage, a manuscript can either be rejected, asked for revisions (minor or major), accepted as is, or (if significant changes to the language or content are required) recommended for resubmission for a second review process. If it is accepted, the manuscript will be returned to the submitting author for formatting. The final decision to accept the manuscript will be made by the Editor-in-Chief based on the recommendation of the handling editor and following approval by the board of editors.

Revision stage. A manuscript that requires revisions will be returned to the submitting author, who will have up to three weeks to format and revise the manuscript, following which it will be reviewed by the handling editor. The handling editor will determine whether the changes are adequate and appropriate, as well as whether the author(s) sufficiently responded to the reviewers' comments and suggestions. If the revisions are deemed to be inadequate, this cycle will be repeated (the manuscript will be returned to the submitting author once more for further revision). Author(s) is required to revise the article no later than 30 days.

Final decision. At this stage, the revised manuscript will either be accepted or rejected. This decision is dependent whether the handling editor finds the manuscript to have been improved to a level worthy of publication. If the author(s) are unable to make the required changes or have done so to a degree below FSJ's standards, the manuscript will be rejected.

Publication Frequency

FSJ is published twice a year in July and December through the Open Journal Systems platform.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal which means that all contents is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Archiving

Details of the archiving and preserving in FSJ can be found here.

Author Fee

This journal does not charge Article Submission and Article Publication/Article Processing Charges (APC) for the first author and/or corresponding author from countries outside Indonesia.

Article Processing Charge (APC) from first author and/or corresponding author from Indonesia: IDR 1.000.000 starting from Volume 6 No. 2 issue.

Copyright and Licensing Information

An author who publishes in FSJ agrees to the following terms:

• Author retains the copyright and grants the journal the right of first publication of the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal
• Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book) with the acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
• Author is permitted and encouraged to post his/her work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Read more about the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

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