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publication published over the past 2 calendar years.
The 2018 award will be compiled from articles published from Jan-Feb of 2016 until Nov-Dec 2017.
Donna Bahun will obtain data based upon downloads
in the prior calendar year.
*
Most-downloaded general interest publication.
This award will recognize the most-downloaded
publication published over the past 2 calendar years.
The 2018 award will be compiled from articles published from Jan-Feb of 2016 until Nov-Dec 2017.
Donna Bahun will obtain data based upon downloads
in the prior calendar year.
It is recommended that the final survey be delivered via
a web-based platform that will allow for integrated logic
to be established within the survey (direct next question
based upon response). Cathy Cutter, Faith Critzer, and
Donna Bahun will work to craft a preamble to the survey
and test the instrument once available prior to release to
all IAFP members. It is also recommended that a $100
gift card be awarded randomly to one participant in order
to incentivize participation.
It is recommended that a new online viewing platform be
considered by the Executive Board for FPT. The current
platform makes it difficult for the IAFP membership to
access and view content. Consider allowing for a hyperlinked table of contents so readers don't have to advance
through all content to get to an article they are interested
in reading and improve the ability to view content (ex. font
is too small and zoom is too close).

Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT. A midyear conference call will be scheduled to occur January-
February 2018.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:15 p.m.
Chairperson: Faith Critzer.

Journal of Food Protection Management Committee
Members Present: Vijay Juneja, Sean Leighton, Joe Frank,
Lauren Jackson, Elliot Ryser, Panagiotis Skandamis, Faith
Critzer (FPT Chair), Fred Breidt, Alejandro Castillo, Peyman
Fatemi, Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona, Barbara Ingham, Stephen
Kenney, James O'Donnell, Laurie Post, Abani Pradhan,
Manan Sharma, and Hyun-Gyun Yuk.
Board/Staff Present: Linda Harris, Tim Jackson, Kalmia
Kniel, Alejandro Mazzotta, Mickey Parish, Lisa Hovey, Didi
Loynachan, and David Tharp.
Visitors/Guests Present: Larry Beuchat, Catherine Cutter,
Tong-Jen Fu, Gopal Gopinath, Sherri McGarry, and Guodong
Zhang. Number of Attendees: 32.
Meeting Called to Order: 9:05 a.m., Sunday, July 9, 2017.
Recording Secretary of Minutes: Sean Leighton.
Old Business: Committee reviewed minutes from 2016 JFP
Management Committee meeting. A motion was approved to
accept the 2016 minutes, as written. No edits were needed.
New Business: The meeting opened with a vote to approve
the 2016 minutes as written.

Dr. Panos Skandamis, who began his tenure as Scientific
Editor on January 1, 2017, provided the Scientific Editors'
Report. Highlights include that Vol. 79 (2016) included 2,224
pages and 275 articles (263 research articles). By comparison, Vol. 78 published in 2015 contained 2,312 pages and
302 articles, which included 295 research papers and seven
review papers. The average length of time between receipt of
manuscripts and their publication remained the same in 2016
compared to 2015. Georgia and Texas were the most-published states within the USA and the top-published international countries were South Korea (16), Canada and China
(15 each) and Brazil (11). The Editorial Board consisted of
159 members, with 51 representing non-USA countries. Dr.
P. Michael Davidson retired in 2017 after serving the Journal
for 15 years. Dr. Skandamis concluded the report by stating
that the "John N. Sofos Most-cited Publication Award" and
the "Most-downloaded Publication Qward" were given again
this year. Dr. Frank commented that the increase in papers
seen in 2016 could have been driven by the editors' active
solicitation for review papers. The editors recently sent out an
additional solicitation for this year. For more details about the
Journal in 2016, please see the Scientific Editors' Report and
the Administrative Editor's report prepared by Didi Loynachan.
Dr. Ryser spoke on a topic raised by a member around
the page number order for articles in the JFP print TOC
where articles are currently ordered by topic. This causes the
page numbers to be out of numerical order. Readers trying
to find an article only by page number have a difficult time
finding an article and must scan through the whole table of
contents. Because there are no "sub sections" to direct the
reader to the relevant topic, this creates a more complicated interface with the print issue. This issue is not present in
the online version of the Journal where articles are listed in
numerical order by paper type. The Committee decided to
revert to putting the articles in numerical order in the print
table of contents. In the September 2017 issue, the Journal
will begin placing articles in numerical order by paper type
(research articles, research notes, review, mini-review, and
general interest) to facilitate ease in referencing and searching for specific articles. This will match the online table of
contents.
Didi mentioned in the report from the Administrative
Editor that the website launched on Dec. 1, 2016, which gave
us a month to help our subscribers get their passwords set up
in the website before the content was removed from Ingenta
and available completely on Pinnacle. Also in December,
we started charging publication fees shortly after a paper is
accepted (within about 1 week) and authors can pay online
with a credit card, which has improved the time to receive
payment. About 80% of our authors are using the online credit
card payment mechanism. We signed on with Kudos in early
June. Kudos sends a message on behalf of JFP to corresponding authors to ask authors to enter a description of their
article in "plain language." Kudos also allows authors a mechanism to share their paper on social media and tracks metrics
and interest in articles in the social media space. Some other
new features include: all content over 5 years old is now free
to read and refreshes every month; final published articles are
published online ahead of print now which should cut publication time down from 8 months to about 7 months; subscribers
can sign up for new issue alerts; three special sections are
available consisting of Featured Articles (selected by the
Editors), Top Articles (based on previous month downloads),
and Top Cited Articles (via an interface with CrossRef); supplemental materials are being posted along with the article;

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