Increased the Indexing and IC Value of EJFA

The indexing of Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture (EJFA) has been increased to a wide variety of international bibliographic databases and abstracting services. You can see that the number of indexing of EJFA is now 85. And, recently, Index Copernicus International released their 2010 IC value for the world’s most important scholarly journals. The EJFA received an IC value of 5.28 which is a good number while comparing with previous years. IC value of a journal is calculated on the basis of five important parameters such as Scientific quality: 580 base points (58.0%), Editorial quality: 200 base points (20.0%), International availability: 135 base points (13.5%), Frequency-Regularity-Stability: 50 base points (5.0%), Technical quality: 35 base points (3.5%), Total: 1000 base points (100,0%). The international indexation, the annual percent of original research papers, the number of papers published annually from centers outside the journal’s country of origin indirectly indicates the journal’s acceptance on the international market, the number of all papers published on annual basis and the international editorial board are evaluated to assess the scientific quality. The leading element to assess the editorial quality is the uniform composition of presented manuscripts and adherence to the authors’ guidelines of journal. International availability is evaluated by considering two important factors: the language of publication (English is preferred) and the internet availability. Regularity of issue is also assessed, which is an important factor for the stability of a journal. Technical quality is determined by proper presentation of the scientific content. On behalf of the Editorial Team, we express our profound gratitude to all our Authors, reviewers and readers for this exciting achievement.