Journal of Food Research
IAbout journal
The “Journal of Food Research” is a scientific-research journal published by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, since 2009. This journal is currently published quarterly.
The Journal of Food Research is an open access journal, which implies that all its content is freely available without any charge to the user or his/her employer or institution. Users are allowed to read, search, download, distribute, copy, print, or link to the full text of the article, or use it for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source. Full-text access to scientific articles of the journal is presented on the official website in the journal Archives section.
No Conflict of Interest
All authors warrant that their work is original and is not similar to any previously published papers and they have No Conflict of Interest regarding publication of their article.
The journal follows COPE's instructions.
Peer-review process
The Journal of Food Research practices a double-blind review process for all of the submitted manuscripts. Double-blind review means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.
To facilitate the double-blind review process, authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts in a manner that hides their identity from third parties. As explained in the guide for the authors section of this journal. The authors must submit a Title Page containing the Author’s details (including: the title, author's name and affiliation, and a complete address for the corresponding author, including telephone and e-mail address) and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.
Manuscript preparation, submission, review process, proofing and printing
1. Authors are recommended to carefully read the guide for authors section (also available as a pdf file) under the section “guide for authors” at the homepage of journal https://foodresearch.tabrizu.ac.ir/journal/authors.note?lang=en
1.1. The authors must declare that the data provided in their manuscript is original and author’s own results.
1.2. The results presented in this manuscript have not been published or simultaneously submitted to any other journal.
1.3. All of the co-authors made major contributions to this work and all of them reviewed the manuscript before submission such as having no objection to the content or authorship.
2. In order to submit a manuscript to the Journal of Food Research, it is necessary for the authors to register at the homepage of the journal.
3. Submitted manuscripts in to this journal pass the following screening steps:
3.1. Received manuscripts are first checked by the admin for the correct formatting of the manuscript (including text, figures, tables, references and supplementary files).
3.2. This journal checks the originality of the work and the similarity of the contexts of manuscript with other published works (plagiarism) using the Cross check database such as Ithenticate and some Persian plagiarism detection tools.
3.2. Manuscripts with formatting failures are sent back to the authors for proper formatting and resubmission.
3.3. Manuscripts are then reviewed by the editor-in-chief and relevant members of the Editorial board (according to the subject of the manuscript) for the quality and novelty of the data presented in the manuscript.
3.4. All manuscripts fulfilling the formal requirements undergo a double blind peer-review process, being reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers for scientific evaluation.
3.4.1. Reviewers from the same Institute of Manuscript Authors are not allowed to choose.
3.4.2. Reviewers are not allowed to choose from previous co-authors of the manuscript authors
3.5. Reviewers are requested to send their revisions and recommendations (e.g., acceptable, require minor revisions, require major revisions or rejections) to the manuscript in due time.
3.6. Based on the comments of reviewers, the editor decides to either reject the submission or invite the authors to revise the manuscript according to the reviewer’s comments and corrections.
3.7. The authors are required to revise the manuscript and return the revised version of the manuscript including the” answer to reviewers file”.
3.8. The editor in chief will review the revised version of the manuscript and will make a direct decision on the manuscript or will further consult with either one of the reviewers or an editorial member of the journal for a decision on the submission.
4. The accepted manuscripts will undergo a proofing process.
5. Proofs will be sent to the authors for final checks and the manuscript will further undergo publication process.
Publication fees
The Journal of Food Research charges an amount of 2500’000 Iranian Rial, for accepted full research papers and 1250,000 Iranian Rial for short articles and no publication charge for short scientific reports. Detailed payment information is available under the guide for authors section of this journal
Terms of publication
The Editorial Board of the Journal of Food Research takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts in accordance with the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restraint acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement.