BrewingScience comes off well

A scientific journal published by Fachverlag Hans Carl, Nuremberg does very well compared to its international competitors: BrewingSience, as the former “Monatsschrift für Brauwissenschaft” is called since 2007, achieved a very high rank in the SCImage Journal Ranking (SJR) by scientific publisher Elsevier.

Like its competitor, the American company Thomson Reuters, Elsevier also publishes bibliometric data, which can be used by universities for the evaluation of scientific publications and scientists alike. In Natural Sciences and Medicine, Thomson Reuter’s “impact factor” is well known. This factor measures the frequency with which a scientific article in a journal has been cited in a particular period, and thereby defines its relevance for the scientific world.

According to its own statement, Elsevier offers a parameter called “Cites per document”, which is comparable to the impact factor and which also measures the frequency of citations per article in a certain period. With a “Cites per document”-factor of 1.16, BrewingScience comes off well, compared to other international journals on brewing science (the Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists received a factor of 1.11, the Journal of the Institute of Brewing 0.97).

This goes to show that the transformation of the former German Monatsschrift für Brauwissenschaft into the international peer-reviewed and “online first”-journal BrewingScience (publication language: English) has been a great success.

The publication platform mainly addresses scientists from universities and research facilities as well as all representatives from the brewing and beverage industry throughout the world who carry out scientific work.

For further information see www.brewingscience.de