Principles of Transparency and Best Practice
As an open access journal, Food Science and Preservation will follow the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing version 4.0 (https://doaj.org/bestpractice) developed by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
1. Name of Journal
The official journal title is Food Science and Preservation (herein “FSP”), the abbreviation of ISO is Food Sci Preserv.
2. Website
The URL of official journal web site is https://www.ekosfop.or.kr.
The editorial team endeavors to make a good website. Our website demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It does not contain any misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site.
3. Publishing Schedule
FSP is published bimonthly (February, April, June, August, October, and December).
4. Archiving
It is accessible without barrier from Korea Citation Index (https://kci.go.kr) or National Library of Korea (http://nl.go.kr) in the event a journal is no longer published. Authors cannot archive pre-print (i.e., pre-refereeing), and they can archive post-print (i.e., final draft post-refereeing). Authors can archive publisher’s version/PDF.
5. Copyright
Copyright to all published materials is owned by The Korean Society of Food Preservation. All authors should agree to the copyright transfer during the submission process.
6. Licensing
FSP is an open access journal. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To use the tables or figures of FSP in other journals, books or media for scholarly, educational purposes, the process of permission request to the publisher is not necessary.
7. Publication ethics and related editorial policies
FSP follows the Guideline on Good Publication of COPE (https://publicationethics.org) and Recommendations of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations).
Our publication ethics are displayed on the For Authors (Research and Publication Ethics) tab of journal homepage.
The Editorial Board carefully examines whether all submitted manuscripts abide the ethical guidelines of ICMJE and COPE.
When the journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct such as a redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fabricated data, changes in authorship, undisclosed conflicts of interest, an ethical problem discovered with the submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and other issues, the resolving process will follow the flowchart provided by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The Editorial Board will discuss the suspected cases and reach a decision. FSP will not hesitate to publish errata, corrigenda, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
8. Peer review
FSP has an online submission and peer review system at http://submission.ekosfop.or.kr.
FSP reviews all manuscripts received. A manuscript is first reviewed for its format and adherence to the aims and scope of the journal. If the manuscript meets these two criteria, it is dispatched to two or more reviewers in the field with relevant knowledge.
Before reviewing, all submitted manuscripts are inspected by Similarity Check powered by iThenticate (https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/), a plagiarism-screening tool.
FSP adopts double blind review, which means that the reviewers and authors cannot identify each others’ information. The authors’ names and affiliations are removed during peer review.
Assuming the manuscript is sent to reviewers, FSP waits to receive opinions from at least two reviewers. In addition, if deemed necessary, a review of statistics may be requested. The acceptance criteria for all papers are based on the quality and originality of the research and its scientific significance. Acceptance of the manuscript is decided based on the critiques and recommended decision of the reviewers.
An initial decision will normally be made within 4 weeks of receipt of a manuscript, and the reviewers’ comments are sent to the corresponding author by e-mail and submission system. The corresponding author must indicate the alterations that have been made in response to the reviewers’ comments item by item. Failure to resubmit the revised manuscript within 8 weeks of the editorial decision is regarded as a withdrawal. A final decision on acceptance/rejection for publication is forwarded to the corresponding author from the editor.
All manuscripts from editors, employees, or members of the editorial board are processed same to other unsolicited manuscripts. During the review process, submitters will not engage in the decision process. Editors will not handle their own manuscripts although they are commissioned ones.
We neither guarantee the acceptance without review nor very short peer review times for unsolicited manuscripts. Commissioned manuscripts also reviewed before publication.
9. Access
FSP is an open access journal. A free full-text service, both in XML and PDF formats, is available immediately upon publication without an embargo period.
10. Ownership and management
This journal is owned by the publisher, the The Korean Society of Food Preservation.
The journal is managed by the editorial board.
11. Advisory body
The advisory body is the journal's editorial board. The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors are displayed on the Editorial Board of the journal website.
12. Editorial team and contact information
The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors and members of journal management team are displayed on the Editorial Board of journal homepage, and the contact information for the editorial office is on the Contact Information.
13. Author fees
https://www.ekosfop.or.kr/author/charge
14. Other revenue
Revenue sources of journal are from the support of publisher (The Korean Society of Food Preservation), and author fees.
15. Advertising
Food Science and Preservation (FSP) does not allow advertising of commercial products until the policy changes otherwise.
16. Direct marketing
Journal propagation has been done through the journal web site and distribution of an introduction pamphlet. Invitations to submit a manuscript are usually focused on the presenters at conferences, seminars, or workshops if the topic is related to the journal's aims and scope.
