Centro Azucar

Centro Azucar is published by Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing, Biofuel production and bioconversion and Process Optimization and Integration, together about 40.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About the Centro Azúcar Journal Centro Azúcar is a journal of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas. It was founded in 1973, each volume consisted of 4 issues, that is, quarterly (January-April-July-October). Its abbreviation is CAZ, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips. As of 2025, it adopts the modality of continuous publication with one volume per year, without issues, conducive to the immediacy in the editorial flow and dissemination of contents and its access address is: http://centroazucar.uclv.edu.cu/. It was created to publish scientific papers on sugar production, but has expanded its profile to other topics related to the sugar cane industry and its derivatives, obtaining biofuels, technical, economic, environmental and social problems of its operation and development, chemical processes in general and derivatives, simulation and optimization of processes, environmental management, chemical engineering in general, and has a miscellaneous section. Centro Azúcar is in favor of Open Science (CC BY-NC), and therefore receives manuscripts from preprint repositories, and promotes the placement of research data in dataservers among other manifestations. It is an open access journal whose Mission and Goals are to publish free of charge original scientific articles, reviews and short communications, in Spanish and English, that are unpublished, related to the topics described above. This journal applies open peer review as a mechanism to favor transparency in the editorial and scientific communication process. e-ISSN: 2223-4861 │ p-ISSN: 0253-5777 │ RNPS:0179 │ RNSP:2152 Conditions for the acceptance of works Original articles: they must be finished works with special importance and must be presented in a clear and concise form. Reviews articles: The authors of articles to be reviewed must consult previously the publishers to know the possible acceptance of the topic in question. Brief communications: Short communications of investigations will be accepted in the incipient condition and with potential for their diffusion across the journal. Form and preparation of manuscripts ContentThe Publishing Committee to consider any paper for it further publication in Centro Azúcar Journal, it must follow certain regulations: Papers must be written in Microsoft Word for Windows, normal 12 font size in Times New Roman, and one and a half line spacing. It must con

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 2, Argentina 2, Colombia 2, Belgium 1, Croatia 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

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Impact

h-index

3OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

1OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 8 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas

Country or region

Cuba

Language

English, Spanish

ISSN

0253-5777

Electronic ISSN

2223-4861

Official links

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