Archivos de Zootecnia. Editorial Report 2020

• Published in: Archivos de zootecnia Vol. 70; no. 269; pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Navas, F.J, Delgado Bermejo, Juan Vicente
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Actividad editorial; Animal Production; Editorial activity; Producción Animal; Revistas científicas; Scientific journals; Scientific manuscripts; Trabajos científicos; Zootechny; Zootecnia
• ISSN: 0004-0592
• DOI: 10.21071/az.v70i269.5411

Archivos de Zootecnia reached its 268 issue during 2020. 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. 1233 new members have registered in the website. A total of 362 manuscripts have been submitted. Brazil was the most contributing country, however the percentage of submissions remarkably decreased (43%) in favour of an increase of the submissions by authors from other countries. Brazil was followed by contributions from Spain (18%). Language frequency used in the manuscripts was equal for English, Portuguese and Spanish with a slightly higher percentage of manuscript submitted in English (3-5%, respectively). 62 works were published in 2020: 46 articles, 7 short notes and 7 reviews. Published papers came from 12 countries. The main topics the articles published were about were “Monogastric Nutrition” (20%), “Pasture and Forrages” (18%) and “Etnology” (15%); while the most frequent species the works dealt with was cattle (24%) followed by pigs (18%) and poultry (17%). Editorial times between the reception and publication of the manuscripts have cotinued reducing from the previous years’ reports. CiteScore reached a value of 0.6, placing the journal at a Q3 position in Scopus