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6Special Edition

as Editor-in-Chief, and outstanding academic        II. Safeguarded quality of
researchers in respective fields have been             articles in the Journal and
helping with reviews to safeguard the quality of       increased chances to be
submitted papers.                                      cited

▍	Achievements and Benefits                               Since 1998, the JFDA has been included
                                                    as part of the Journal Citation Report (JCR)
I. Expansion of international                       and the journal impact factor (IF) is adopted
  visibility of the Journal so that                 as the basis for the international ranking of
  the world can see Taiwan                          the Journal. The IF of journal articles cited
                                                    in the preceding year is released around July
      For the 30 years since the JFDA was first     each year by the JCR. Since 1998, the IF of
created, it has been published on the exclusive     the JFDA has been growing from 0.145 and
website electronically on a quarterly basis and     broke 1 for the first time in 2015. It reached
special research topics have been released in       3.048 in 2016 and has been climbing each
exclusive editions. As of the end of 2022, 1,825    year ever since. The IF released in 2022 was
papers had been released in all, including 194      6.157 (Figure 6-3). All of these have been
review articles, 1,631 original articles, and case  made possible thanks to the careful reviews of
reports. The number of countries of origin for the  submitted articles by members of the editing
articles was up to 71 and the number of citations   group; because of them, quality articles get to
was up to 5,700. From the exclusive website,        be published.
136 countries had access to downloading journal
articles, and such downloads were attempted               The JFDA is the only SCI in the food
101,473 times. Articles in the Journal have also    and drug field released by the government
been registered in 11 topnotch databases around     throughout the nation now and submission
the world, including PubMed/MEDLINE,                and publication of articles are free of charge.
BIOSIS Previews, Excerpta Medica, Chemical          Readers can also download the articles from
Abstracts, International Food Information           the official website free of charge. It has spared
Service, Science Citation Index Expanded, and       no effort to help with academic promotion and
Scopus to make a difference.                        has been recognized by the Ministry of Health
                                                    and Welfare as a publication in its rating
                                                    campaign (Table 6-1). High-quality articles
                                                    will continue to be released in the future to
                                                    hopefully create another 30 glorious years.

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