The ''Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry'' is a weekly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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established in 1953 by the
American Chemical Society
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. Since 2015,
Thomas Hofmann (
Technical University of Munich
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) has been the
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The journal covers research dealing with the chemistry
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and biochemistry
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of agriculture
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and food including work with chemistry and/or biochemistry as a major component combined with biological/sensory/nutritional/toxicological evaluation related to agriculture and/or food.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service
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, PubMed
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, CABI CABI (in various spellings) is an abbreviation that may refer to:
* Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI, sometimes also referred to as CAB International), a UK-based nonprofit inter-governmental organisation for scientific res ...
, and the Science Citation Index Expanded
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'', the ''Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry'' has a 2015 impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 4.192.
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American Chemical Society academic journals
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