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under TFDA in 2010) for the purpose of explored, and international editing members
releasing research accomplishments of its staff were hired. It was qualified to be included in
in foods and drugs such as testing and analysis the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
of foods, medicinal products, medical devices, in 2003. Since 2013, it has been outsourced to
cosmetics, and herbal medicines through the largest publishing company in the world
research papers, research notes, or review for publication, and a full-text registry in the
articles to allow exchanges with respective US medical literature database MEDLINE was
academic researches and to advance the successfully applied for in 2014 to make the
research and development in applicable fields Journal known to the world. In 2016, taking
within our country. It was published in English care of both environmental protection and
(Chinese) in the beginning accompanied by promotion, it was published electronically
Chinese (English) abstracts and gradually instead; no paper copies have been available
grew and has been published in English paper ever since.
copies only since 2004.
II. Formation of outstanding
▍ Implementation Strategy editing team to strictly
safeguard quality of papers
The JFDA has been available for more
than 30 years and has managed to grow under In the past, the Editor-in-Chief of the JFDA
the leadership of Editor-in-Chief over the was a deputy chief of a government agency and
years and devoted efforts of editing members staff of the specific agency would take care of
as well as the collective wisdom of experts and its publication. Upon inception, for example,
scholars. the Editor-in-Chief was the incumbent Deputy
Director-General Erick Tsi-Tee Suen of the
I. Defined as international NLFD. Since 2012, professors of academic units
scientific journal have been asked to serve as Editor-in-Chief, such
as Professor Lucy Sun Hwang from the National
The JFDA has been expected to become Taiwan University and outstanding scholars
an international scientific journal since it was in the academia and research community in
first created. In the beginning, it was published respective countries have been hired for the
bilingually (Chinese and English) and has been editing group. The online submission and
gradually adjusted ever since. In 1996, when review system was created by an international
the Internet was yet to be popular, the English publishing company to facilitate the submission
abstract was released on the official website of papers by authors and reviews by editing
to facilitate inquiries by readers. Meanwhile, members. In 2018, Professor Gow-Chin Yen of
overseas resources of papers were proactively the National Chung Hsing University served
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