International Journal of Food Studies

FOREWORD

The 14^th issue (vol 7 | issue 2) of the International Journal of Food Studies, second issue of the 7^th year of publication, is now online.

This issue counts with the last invited paper from the 4^th International ISEKI Food Conference - ISEKI Food 2016 - Bridging Training and Research for Industry and the Wider Community - Responsible Research and Innovation in the Food Value, in the area of Education methods, eight research papers and one critical review paper of scientific literature.

The International Journal of Food Studies created in 2012, has been publishing, annually, 20 scientific articles, distributed over 2 issues. In 2013 the indexing to Scopus was requested, which was accepted in 2016, representing the international recognition of the journal and its author’s quality articles by one of the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, property of the well-known Elsevier. In total, since 2013, there are already 100 published articles that are indexed and available in Scopus.

Based on citations acquired since 2016, the International Journal of Food Studies officially enters the fourth "quartile" of the scientific journals international metrics, being its current impact factor of 0.30.

We would like to invite all those interested in the food sector to take advantage of the last published issue, now available in a single pdf file with all the articles of the 14th issue.

Enjoy issue 14^th of IJFS.

Editor-in-Chief
Cristina L.M. Silva | CBQF – Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina – Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Porto | Portugal