About the Journal

Coffee Science is an open-access journal with the mission to publish high quality
research in all scientific areas of coffee. Papers published by the journal represent
important contributions to the development of coffee science in the fields of agronomy,
biology, food Science, plant breeding, plant physiology, genetics, pest and disease
management, post-harvest processing, quality evaluation, beverage, health and social
sciences, waste management, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic aspects of coffee production. Information about the common editorial policies of Coffee Science is available at coffeescience.ufla.br

 

Open Science Compliance

Coffee Science follows the Open Access model, allowing virtual access to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to other interested parties, using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, track them for indexing, use them as data for software or use them for any other legal purpose.

 

Ethics in Publication

The journal complies with the SciELO Guidelines Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication as well as the ethical principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Manuscript that involves experimentation with living animals must provide evidence that it was performed under local ethical guidelines. This evidence must be officially stated in the Material and Methods section, describing that the study was evaluated and approved by an appropriate ethical committee.

Focus and Scope  

Articles published in Coffee Science cover research areas of coffee science, as agricultural, biological, food science, waste management, health and social sciences. Submission of a manuscript to the journal requires that it has neither been published nor it is under consideration for publication elsewhere, except in the case of articles deposited in preprint repositories. Concepts and affirmations included in articles are the entire responsibility of the author(s). The journal is published online in a continuous flow mode. Original research articles and reviews (by invitation only) are the main publication formats.

 

Digital Preservation

The journal follows the Digital Preservation Policy of the SciELO Program

 

Indexing Sources

  • AGRIS - International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
  • AGROBASE - Base de Dados da Agricultura Brasileira
  • CAB Abstracts - Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau
  • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
  • LATINDEX - Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, Espanã y Portugal
  • SCOPUS - Elsevier
  • Sumários.org - Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras
  • MIAR - Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas

 

Bibliographic Journal Information

  • Title: Coffee Science
  • Abbreviated title: Coffee Sci. 
  • Publisher: Editora UFLA
  • eISSN: 1984-3909; ISSN: 1809-6875
  • Periodicity: Annual
  • Publication model: Continuous publication
  • Year of journal start: 2006

 

Websites and Social Media

https://coffeescience.ufla.br/index.php/Coffeescience/index

 

Editorial Policy

Received manuscripts are forwarded to the editorial board to be initially evaluated in terms of comparative relevance to other manuscripts of the same research area that were submitted for publication. If considered as relevant, the manuscript is submitted for peer review. If considered as not relevant, the manuscript is rejected without further review.

 

Preprints

Preprints (previously deposited at the SciELO Preprints repository) may also be published. If the preprint is accepted for publication, it is the responsibility of the corresponding author to report the fact to the preprint repository.

 

Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscripts will be forwarded to the editorial board to be initially evaluated in terms of comparative relevance to other papers of the same area that were submitted for publication. If it is considered relevant, the manuscript will be submitted to blind peer reviewers. If approved and if necessary, the manuscript may return to the corresponding author for corrections. If the corrections are not returned within the required deadline, the publication process will be automatically canceled. Requested corrections not attended without justification may also lead to cancellation. After these revisions, the manuscript will receive corrections of scientific nomenclature, English, references and international system of units. After these corrections, the manuscript will be edited and published.

 

Open Data

Reproducibility of research can be improved by increasing transparency of the research process and products. In this context, research data may be made available by author(s) upon request.

Fees

Coffee Science does not charge fees for submission, publication, or manuscript evaluation.

 

Copyright

The authors of an article hold the copyright of their work upon publication, while the journal holds the copyright as the first place of publication. Unless otherwise specified, all content in the journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, which allows unrestricted use as long as the original article is properly cited.

 

Policy on Conflict of Interest

In conflit of interest presence, for any reason, the author(s) must inform the journal by mean a specific statement. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers or editors have personal, commercial, financial or academic interests that may interfere with the preparation, analysis or judgment of the manuscript.