Journal of Probiotics & Health
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Probiotics and Health in the year 2021

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On behalf of the Board of Journal of Probiotics and Health (JPH), I am glad to present the Volume 9, Issue 2 of the journal. The journal established in September 2013 has now published 26 issues with three issues in a year. Articles published in our journal are getting more citations and exposure all around the world. All these are promising signs. We could reach this stage through the constant support of Board Members and intellectual generosity of the readers and contributors (authors and reviewers). One of the objectives of this journal is to encourage publication from different streams of research that helps to enrich further the discourse on probiotics.

First and foremost, I express heartfelt appreciation to all authors and reviewers of the 9th year of Journal of Probiotics and Health on behalf of the entire editorial board and the publisher. It was with the mere co-operation, enthusiasm, and spirit of the authors and reviewers we could make a grand success.

Readers can particularly notice progress made in this direction through the special issue which is emerging as an important section of this journal. We take this opportunity to thank the authors/ publishers for sending their knowledgeable articles. Special issue has been released last year which is being handled by Dr. Kayode Adu, one of the Chief Editor of this journal. I am sure with his efforts the journal will be able to strengthen the links between gut microbiome and others recent trends in probiotics.

The Journals aims to flourish and to maintain the standards in research and practice, provide platform and opportunity to present the interface of nutrition and other scientific fields of inquiry such as Gut microbiota and probiotics, and probably the journal aims to be the voice of the overall Probiotics and Helath Sciences academic group. JPH impact factor for the year 2020 was 1.72. All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Global Impact Factor (GIF), Publons, Open J Gate, CAS Source Index (CASSI), RefSeek, International committee of medical journals editors (ICMJE), OCLC- WorldCat, EBSCO AZ, Hamdard University, Sherpa Romeo, Studies receiving funding from a funding organization that is included on the list of PMC and Research Funder Policies or authors having NIH grant were submitted to PubMed.

Journal of Probiotics and Health is the field dealing with Probiotics, gastrointestinal infections, gut-microbiota, study of impact of microflora on health, and its role in control of diseases, digestive system & microbes, fermentation process, etc.,

We are seeking to increase the number of quality manuscripts submitted to JPH by providing frequent and targeted communication to interested authors about the journal. We will use both traditional methods (e.g., contact at professional association meetings) and emerging methods (e.g., social media and e-mail lists) to reach potential authors.

The goal of increasing the number of quality submissions relates to another goal, the inclusion of JHP in pertinent databases and indexing systems. For example, Google Scholar requires that a journal publish at least 100 articles in the past 5 years to be included as a journal in the system. To clarify, JPH individual articles are already indexed in Google Scholar and have citation details.