About the Journal

Coffee Science  is a scientific journal edited by Editora UFLA, the publishing house of
the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Brief Background


Coffee Science is a scientific journal from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil. Since
its beginning in 2006, the journal has been dedicated to promoting agricultural sciences
globally by disseminating discoveries and knowledge from researchers and scientists across the
world. It is an open-access journal with the mission of publishing high-quality research in all
scientific fields related to coffee. Information regarding Coffee Science's editorial policies is
available at https://coffeescience.ufla.br./index.php/Coffeescience

 

Open Access 

This journal follows the Open Access model, providing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal.

Open Access is the condition where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution - CC-BY 4.0) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

 

Open Science Compliance

 Coffee Science follows a series of open science practices. The journal publishes under the Open Access model and therefore, articles are free for anyone to read, download, copy, and disseminate for educational purposes. The journal also requires an indication of the role of each of the authors in articles with multiple authorship. The name of the editor is published in each article. Upon previous acceptance by the reviewer and author(s), the content of the reviewer's suggestions might be open for access. All articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and all authors must be registered with an Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) number.

 

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

Authors publishing in Coffee Science retain full copyright of their work while granting the journal the right of first publication. The manuscripts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, permitting unrestricted distribution and reuse, provided the original article is properly credited..

 

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.

Adoption of similarity software

Ideas or writing from someone else has to be properly cited. The journal might use similarity software to detect article plagiarism. If detected, the submitted manuscript is automatically rejected without further review.