The Applied Food Biotechnology (AFB) is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary biotechnological publication, scheduled to appear quarterly. The journal's aim is to advance and disseminate knowledge in all the related areas of biomass, metabolites, biological waste treatment, biotransformations and bioresource systems analysis, and technologies associated with conversion or production in the field of Food.
Abstracting and Indexing:
Chemical Abstracts / Index Copernicus / IMEMR / DOAJ / Biosis Previews / ISI Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded) / Journal Citation Reports / IPA / EMBASE / Scopus / EMR medex / EMRO / Iran medex / Open J-Gate / Scientific Information Database (SID) / EBSCO / ISC / Iran Journal / Google Scholar
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Original Article
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Short Communication
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Special Issue
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Package for authors
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چکیده فارسی
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Peer Review Process
This is a journal with double blind peer-review process.
1- For paper submission, author should register in journal website (http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/afb) and register. After receiving their username and password via e-mail, the authors could use the "Submit paper" link, log in, and submit their manuscript.
2- Manuscripts which are written according to the journal format (considering the format in sectioning, the number of words in abstract, references, etc.…) are referred to the related section editor. If the paper fits to the specified fields of the journal and has innovation, then it will be sent to three or more national and international referees expert in that specific field, at least two of which are out of the editorial board members (preferably one from the scientifically advanced countries). The corresponding author could also suggest potential reviewers to the journal at the time of submission. However, the editorial board reserves the right to select or refuse to use the suggested potential reviewers.
3- The reviewer comments will be sent to the corresponding author till 3 weeks.
4- After receiving the modified version of the manuscript and/or author’s answers to the reviewer questions, it will be sent to a final reviewer. If the modifications and/or answers are not adequate, it will be sent back to the corresponding author with a specified deadline to send the final corrected version.
5- The final corrected version of the manuscript is sent back to the same final reviewer. Then, the comments and the overall opinion of the final reviewer are discussed in the journal"s editorial board, and the final decision (the acceptance letter or a letter informing the author of not accepting the manuscript) will be sent to the corresponding author.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Publication ethics and malpractice statement
Ethical Consideration for human and animal subjects:
1) If human subjects are used then they have to be registered with the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials website (www.irct.ir) or the related country and ethical committee of the research center or University where the study was carried out.
2) Research with human subjects should be conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the WMA Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (2008) http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html
3) The submitted manuscripts must transparently state this in their methods and materials including a statement outlining whether the study has been independently reviewed and approved by an ethical board.
4) Moreover, where human subjects are used, the informed consent explaining the nature of the procedure and possible discomforts and risks should be obtained from all patients who participated in the experimental investigation and subjects should be able to freely reject participation.
5) If animals are used, a statement protocol approval by the institutional animal care and use committee must be included. Methods section must clearly show that adequate measures were taken to minimize pain and/or distress, for example the administration of local anesthetics or general anesthesia. Experiments should be carried out in accordance with the European Communities Council Directive of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC) and in accordance with local laws and regulations governed within that country or with the guidelines laid down by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the USA regarding the care and use of animals for experimental procedures.
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B: Peer reviewer/ responsibility of reviewers
C: Editorial Responsibilities
D: Publishing ethics issues
- Notices of retraction will clearly state the reason and the retracted article will be clearly marked in all electronic versions of the journal, and a retraction notice will be published in the print copy of the journal.
Notes:
1) Plagiarism
Definition: When an author tries to present the work of someone else as his or her own, it is called plagiarism. In addition, when an author uses a considerable portion of his or her own previously published work in a new one without properly citing the reference, it is called a duplicate publication; sometimes also referred to as self-plagiarism. This may range from publishing the same article in another journal to 'salami-slicing', which is data segmentation, to adding little new data to the previous article.
Policy: The editorial team/reviewers of “International Clinical Neuroscience Journal” will check the submitted manuscripts for plagiarism twice (once after submission and once before publication) using available plagiarism detection software such as iThenticate. If suspected plagiarism is found in an article either before (by reviewers or editorial team) or after (by readers) publication, the journal will act according to COPE’s code of conduct and flowcharts.
2) Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure
Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed. The disclosure of a potential conflict of interest does not necessarily exclude an article from consideration for publication; the goal of disclosure is transparency.
Any existing financial arrangements between an author and a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or between the author and any company or organization sponsoring the research reported in the submitted manuscript should be brought to the attention of the Editor at manuscript submission.
All authors must declare all sources of funding for research reported in their manuscript and report all potential conflicts of interest in separate footnotes on the manuscript title page. If an author has no conflicts of interest, the footnote should list the author's name, followed by "no conflicts of interest".
Potential conflicts of interest include:
Applied Food Biotechnology retains the right to reject any manuscript on the basis of unethical conduct of either human or animal studies.
Indexing & Abstracting
"Applied Food Biotechnology" is indexed at:
Web of Science™ Core Collection, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Commission for Accreditation & Improvement of Iran Ministry of Sciences, Researches and Technologies
International Institute of Organized Research (I2OR)
Chemical Abstract Society (CAS)
Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Science World Index, Scientific Information Database (SID)
Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI)
This journal is also:
available in Google Scholar
ranked in Scimago Journal & Country Rank
registered in NLM-catalog
Charges and Fees
Applied Food Biotechnology is free of charge at all steps including submission, revision, processing and publication until the end of 2020.
For the papers submitted after Jan 2021, the processing fee would be USD 200 (5000.000 Rial for Iranian authors). In the case of fast track (decision making in 20 days), these fees would be triple.
Editorial roles and responsibilities
Each Editorial Board member plays an important role to propel the journal quality. Below is a brief description of Editor Roles and responsibilities.
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