Aims and Scope

Food & Nutrition Research is a peer-reviewed journal that presents the latest basic and clinical research in various fields.

Through an Open Access publishing model, Food & Nutrition Research opens an important forum for researchers from academic and private arenas to exchange the latest results from research on human nutrition in a broad sense, both original papers and reviews, including:

• Scientific substantiation of health claims on foods
• Nutrition and physical activity/performance
• Nutrition and cognitive functions
• Nutrition and the metabolic syndrome
• Molecular nutrition
• Nutritional effects of food composition and processing
• Nutrition epidemiology
• Nutrition in developing countries
• Animal and in vitro models relevant for human nutrition

The journal focuses on the different aspects of nutrition for people involved in nutrition research such as Dentists, Dieticians, Medical doctors, Nutritionists, Teachers, Journalists and Manufacturers in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Section Policies

Editorials

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Invited Editorials

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Invited Review Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Original Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Invited Original Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reports

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Letters to the Editor

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Papers submitted to Food & Nutrition Research are subject to rigorous peer review so as to ensure that the research published is 'good science'.

Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail. Although the peer review process is accelerated by the use of electronic communication, traditional, high-quality peer-review standards are applied to all manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Food & Nutrition Research has a 'single blind' review process: Authors are not told who reviewed their paper. The peer referees’ identity remains unknown to the authors although it is up to the referee if he/she wants to contact the author at a later stage and reveal his/her identity.

Peer reviewers are asked to give their opinion on a number of issues pertinent to the scientific and formal aspects of a paper, and to judge the papers on grounds of originality and urgency. All relevant information will be forwarded to the author(s).

Peer reviewers will have six possible options, for each article:

1. Accept manuscript (i.e. no need for any revision)
2. Accept after revision (i.e. accepted if the author makes the requested revisions)
3. Revise and resubmit (i.e. accepted or rejected after revisions have been made - paper will be sent out for another peer review round)
4. Submit elsewhere (i.e. if the manuscript is better suited for another journal)
5. Reject manuscript (i.e. if the manuscript is substandard)
6. See comments (i.e. if the reviewer cannot choose from any of the above)

In addition, papers may be rejected directly by the Chief Editor if judged to be out of scope or if scientifically or formally sub-standard.

When asking for revisions, reviewers have two possible goals: to ask authors to tighten their arguments based on existing data or to identify areas where more data are needed. Even formal revision may be required if the language or style is sub-standard. To facilitate rapid publication, authors are given a maximum of 2 months for revision. After 2 months, revised manuscripts will be considered new submissions.

Publication Frequency

All articles to Food & Nutrition Research are posted online immediately as they are ready for publication. All articles will be assigned a DOI number (Digital Object Identifier) whereby they become searchable and citeable without delay.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

In addition, all files will be archived with PubMed Central (PMC), CLOCKSS and Portico.

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post items submitted to this journal on personal or institutional websites, prior to and after publication (while providing the bibliographic details of that publication)

Open Access Policy

Food & Nutrition Research is accessible via the journal’s website at www.foodandnutritionresearch.net as well as via international search engines such as Google Scholar, in addition to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

See also the copyright section.

Under the Open Access model authors retain copyright. See copyright section.

Publication fee

The Open Access model used for Food & Nutrition Research implies that production costs are mainly covered by publication fees. We strive to keep publication fee at a minimum. The publication of an article (up to 7 typeset pages) in Food & Nutrition Research incurs a charge of €925 (Europe) or $1275 (rest of the world). Articles exceeding 7 pages incur an additional charge of €70/$95 per page. Swedish VAT (25%) will be added to customers within the European Union, except non-Swedish organisations that provide their VAT-number. It is customary that the author’s institution covers the publication costs for articles resulting from research undertaken at the institution, or that money has been earmarked in the grant or stipend the author has received to be able to carry out the research. For a list of OA-friendly universities and funding agencies, please see here. Additional information on how to claim reimbursement/support for publication fees can be found here.

The total sum will be charged to the author(s) upon acceptance of his/her article. Publication fees may be waived for authors from developing countries lacking sufficient research funding. The ability of authors to pay remains unknown to the Editors.

Indexing

Food & Nutrition Research is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services: CAB Abstracts, CAS, CINAHL, DOAJ, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), EMcare, Food Science Source, Food Science and Technology Abstract (FSTA), Google Scholar, HINARI, Intute: Agriculture, Food and Forestry, J-Gate, JournalSeek, Leatherhead Food International's FoodlineWeb, ProQuest Summon, PubMed, Scopus, SWEMED

The 2010 unofficial impact calculation for Food & Nutrition Research is 2.708.

Material in FNR is also further distributed by EBSCO, one of the world's largest content aggregators and research database providers.

Commercial Reprints & Advertising

If you wish to purchase reprints or advertise in FNR, you are welcome to contact:

Caroline Sutton, Sales & Marketing Director

Email: caroline.sutton@co-action.net
Tel (SkypeIn): +46 18 495 11 26
Tel (cell): +47 90 69 05 06