Sugar Tech – 25 Years of Glorious
Service to the Global Sugar Industry
Sugar Tech – has successfully completed its 25 years of glorious journey. The idea to publish Sugar Tech journal was conceptualized in 1998 at Sugarcane Research Station Campus, Kunraghat, Gorakhpur,India. In 1999, the Society for Sugar Research & Promotion was registered with its major objective to publish an international research journal on sugar crops and related industries, and late Shri Ashok Datta provided the space for the society activities at New Delhi and also took the responsibility of printing the early issues of Sugar Tech journal. The Editorial Board and Advisory Board were constituted and the first issue (Vol.I&II) was published in 1999, with 10 articles. The Sugar Tech journal became an official publication of International Conferences viz. IS-2004, IS-2006, IS-2008, IS-2011, IS-2014,IS-2019 and IS-2022 held at Nanning (China), Guilin (China), Al-Arish (Egypt), New Delhi (India), Nanning (China), Udon Thani (Thailand) and Lucknow (India). In 2008, the global publishing company Springer took over the publication of Sugar Tech with four issues a year which was really a milestone in the journey of the journal and subsequently increased to six issues in 2020. Ever since we started publishing in association with Springer Nature India Pvt. Ltd., the quality of the published articles has increased substantially. On time publication of high quality papers during the last two and half decades was our priority. Special theme based issues were also planned to increase the visibility and scope of the journal. The release of the 2011 journal citation report from Thomson Reuter added to our delight when Sugar Tech fetched its maiden impact factor (IF) of 0.431 and since then there is no looking back. At present, Sugar Tech is a peer reviewed bi-monthly research journal, publishing high quality research articles and reviews on the innovative and eco-friendly technologies related to the improvement, production, processing and diversification of sugar crops (sugarcane, sugar beet, sweet sorghum, stevia, palm sugar, etc) and their residues, aligning with the spirit of SDGs. It is one of the leading journals in the world on sugar crops and ancillary industries with current ISI Impact Factor of 1.872 (2021), over 103478 downloads per year, Scopus h-index of 31 and quartile (Q2), circulated in over 127 countries.
The journal is cited in more than sixty international citation services, with ISI Thomspon Reuters, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, INSDOC, Elsevier Biobase, Indian Science Abstracts, SCIMago, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), AGRICOLA, CAB Abstracts, Biology & Environmental Sciences, EBSCO Discovery Service, EMBiology, Global Health, Indian Science Abstracts, WTIAG,Wanfangetc. The high Impact Factor has also led to a dramatic increase in the number of submissions. It is encouraging to see Sugar Tech articles being cited by the major internationally recognized high Impact journals and many other publications.
The great success of Sugar Tech would not have been possible without the crucial support of the Society for Sugar Research & Promotion (SSRP) and International Association of Professionals in Sugar & Integrated Technologies (IAPSIT), the editors, advisory board members, reviewers and authors who constantly ensured the quality of the papers being published. We would like to thank Springer Nature Pvt. Ltd. for co-publishing Sugar Tech, which has become a milestone for SSRP. We are grateful to our editors, authors, society members, Springer team, advisory team and others for facilitating the journey of Sugar Tech from a hard copy format to an online platform of international standards, thereby disseminating scientific contents to a global audience. The Sugar Tech with the support from Springer Nature has been making rapid and consistent progress since 1999. We are hopeful that Sugar Tech will reach the pinnacle of expectations of scientists working in the area of sugar crops, sugar processing technologies and by-products. Currently, a large number of articles published in Sugar Tech journal address social, environmental, and economic issues related to the SDGs. Recently two special issue were published with the theme Innovation for Sustainability of the Sugar Agro-Industry (March-April, 2022) and Diversification of Sugar Crops for Value Addition (Nov – Dec, 2021). These issues highlight the shared vision for a sustainable global sugar industry as well as mapping SDGs related interdisciplinary research priorities to broader the global collaboration and partnership.
In view of the growing importance of sugarcane varieties in sustaining global sugar industry, a special issue was published on the History of Sugarcane Breeding, Germplasm Development and Related Molecular Research (Jan-Feb, 2022). This is for the first time that detailed and comparable information about sugarcane genetics and breeding updates from all the major sugarcane producing countries were brought together. This issue is a valuable repository for the breeders, scientists, industry investors, technologists and students involved in sugarcane improvement programme all over the world. In 2022, we have received more than 450 articles, published all the issues well in time and have also worked out strategies for the growth and promotion of the journal with a special focus on improving the quality of articles.
As Editor-in-Chief of Sugar Tech, it becomes our moral responsibility to ensure continuity of the activities of Sugar Tech and SSRP with greater zeal and dedication. We would like to thank our eminent editors across the globe, who have been instrumental in supporting the editorial activities of Sugar Tech.
Sugar Tech being one of the technical sponsors of the XXXI ISSCT Congress, Hyderabad has onus to publish high quality research papers of the congress in forthcoming issues of journal. On behalf of the Sugar Tech Editorial Board and SSRP, we welcome all the ISSCT delegates and hope that you will continue to patronize Sugar Tech for publishing your valuable research and review articles. Our sincere greetings and thanks to the esteemed contributors, readers and the publisher.