Archivos de Zootecnia. Informe Editorial 2019

Abstract

Archivos de Zootecnia reached its 264 issue during 2019. In the present editorial report, we address the facts and figures derived from the editorial process during the past yearly editorial cycle. Archivos de Zootecnia would like to express its sincere gratitude to the Section Editors involved in the editorial process as well as the Reviewers without whose work our labour, otherwise would not be possible. 646 new members have registered in the website. A total of 544 manuscripts have been submitted. Brazil was the most contributing country, however the percentage of submissions remarkably decreased (52.56%) in favour of an increase of the submissions by authors from other countries. Therefore, the most frequently used language in the manuscripts was Portuguese, followed by English. 79 works were published in 2019: 66 articles, 10 short notes and 3 reviews. Published papers came from 15 countries. The two main topics the articles published were about were “Nutrition and Feeding” (30.77%) and “Breeding and genetics” (14.10%); while the most frequent species the works dealt with was cattle (14.10%). Editorial times between the reception and publication of the manuscripts have cotinued reducing from the previous years’ reports. CiteScore reached a value of 0.44, placing the journal at a Q3 position in Scopus.