On October 12, 2019, Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI) held a conference on review and development orientation for Journal of Food and Science Technology (JFST) at Nha Trang city, Vietnam.
It had the honor to welcome the leading scientists such as Prof., Dr. Sc. Academic Dang Vu Minh - VUSTA President, Prof. Dr. Sc. Vu Quang Con, Prof. Dr.Sc. Le Huy Ba, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Prof. Dr. Dang Dinh Kim and the delegates represented Ministry of Industry and Trade, universities such as Nha Trang University, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. On the side of HUFI was Mr Phan Xuan Cuong - Secretary of Party Committee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoan - HUFI President also Editor-in-chief of JFST, Dr. Vo Tuyen - HUFI Vice President together with members of the Editor Board.
Photo: Dr. Vo Tuyen - HUFI Vice President delivered the opening speech for conference
On behalf of HUFI, Dr. Vo Tuyen - Vice President, warmly welcomed the attendance of all delegates and delivered the opening speech for conference. The conference aimed at exchanging and sharing experiences in attracting many high-quality articles; strengthening research cooperation between scientists, lecturers in and outside the university, with the goal of suggesting some quality improvement solutions for JFST to meet international standards and regulations. This is also a premise for JFST to become a national-standard journal with the aim to meet ACI (ASEAN Citation Index) and Scopus / ISI standards.
In the conference, Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Xuan Hoan stated the report and JFST’s resolution: by 2021, the percentage of articles in English will increase to 50% and by 2024 up to 100%; by 2022, JFST journal online will be published; by 2024, there were at least 07 branches and inter-branches under the Journal will be graded by the Vietnamese State Council for Professorship; in 2027, striving to meet ACI standard (ASEAN Citation Index). Thereby, he also gave some development orientations of the Journal: Appreciation of the proper role and function of the Journal; management of good editorial board, editorial advisory and reviewer as well as forming of satisfactory handing process and regulation on submitted manuscript; policy implementation to attract high-quality scientific manuscript written by the prestigious researchers; promotion on the Journal; expanding cooperation with publication agencies; strengthen connection, cooperation between domestic and foreign scientific journals; building a healthy, independent, and attractive scientific research environment.
Photo: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoan, HUFI President -reported review and development orientation of the Journal
Following President Nguyen Xuan Hoan’s speech, Dr. Van The Thanh - Secretary of the Journal - presented the presentation with the theme "Application of scientific data analysis to create interdisciplinary research products - A development way for JFST". The presentation introduced the needs for scientific data analysis; the problem of analyzing fresh meat through deep learning system; quality classification and evaluation according to national standard; milk production forecast; stock forecast; project cost forecast; microbiological prediction analysis; documentation on fruit products; data processing tool. This is an orientation to create interdisciplinary research products.
Photo: Dr. Van The Thanh presented his presentation
In the discussion session, many opinions were contributed by meeting participants. Most of them are that: The Journal is interested by the university; the content is quite good, varied and plentiful but not focused; so in the future, publish content should be grouped into branches. On other hand, the increasing of number of quality scientific works, especially those in English is strongly recommended. The JFST should operate many policies to attract quality scientific works from prestige researchers; inviting experts who have professional knowledge; building software/website for manuscript submission and reviewer online. Besides, the Journal needs to overcome some problems such as: the network of collaborator is not continuous; the quality of articles is not even; the writing structure in articles is not unity, and so on.
By the end of the conference, on the behalf of JFST, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoan received comments and highly appreciated the responsible and enthusiastic spirit of delegates. This is an important event to improve JFST’s quality that to contribute in the academic development of the country's science and sustainable development in the context of industrialization, modernization and international integration.
Photo: All distinguished guests took a souvenir photo.
Source: N.T. Thủy, Phương Thùy, N. Tỉnh
Translator: IICT