It Was a Very Good Year

摘要

One of the tasks associated with being the Editor in Chief of IFT Scientific Journals is writing an "end of year" report. Amanda Ferguson does most of the hard work in assembling all the facts and figures from the previous year and my input is more along the lines of commenting on the data (a position I am acquainted with as a professor who oversees graduate students). I can say with confidence that 2012 was a very good year. Here are some highlights. The impact factor for Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety increased to 5.053, making it #1 of 124 journals in its category. Truly an amazing accomplishment that is greatly due to the steady guiding hand of Manfred Kroger as Scientific Editor. The impact factor for the Journal of Food Science also increased. We are now at 1.775 and 46th of 124 journals. The improvement is good, but there remains the goal to publish articles that push us to and beyond the 2.0 mark. This will be accomplished by various efforts designed to attract manuscripts that are at the cutting edge of Food Science.