Sugar Tech

Sugar Tech is an international journal of sugar crops and related industries, co-published by Springer with the Society for Sugar Research & Promotion and carrying a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9.《糖业技术》（Sugar Tech）是糖料作物与相关产业的国际期刊，由 Springer 与糖业研究与促进学会（Society for Sugar Research & Promotion）共同出版，2025 年影响因子为 1.9。

Its pages divide between crop science and factory practice, and the 2025 figures place the title 60th among 133 agronomy journals, with 161 citable papers in the year and 2900 citations.版面在作物科学和制糖工艺之间分配，2025 年统计在 133 种农艺学期刊中排第 60 位，当年可引用论文 161 篇，累计被引 2900 次。

Scope

• The stated aim is to print current, high-profile research, comment and review on the most innovative and rigorous work in agricultural technology, so that sugar crops improve and their industries advance.宗旨写明刊载农业技术中最具创新性和严谨性的新研究、评论与综述，用来改良糖料作物、推动相关产业前进。
• Five crops set the boundaries of the field as the journal defines it, sugarcane, sugar beet, sweet sorghum, Stevia and palm sugar, and each brings its own agronomy and its own factory.刊物界定的对象以五种作物为轴，包括甘蔗，也包括甜菜与甜高粱，甜叶菊和棕榈糖同样在内，每一种都带来各自的栽培体系与加工厂。
• Breeding and genetics take the largest share, with crossing designs, selection indices, molecular markers and the population structure of elite clones such as Co 11015.育种与遗传占版面最多，涉及杂交与选择指数，也涉及分子标记，以及 Co 11015 这类优良无性系的群体结构。
• Gene editing and genomics arrived later and now fill whole special issues, from targeted work on sucrose and stress genes to transcriptome and genome assemblies for cane and beet.基因编辑与基因组学进入较晚，如今已能撑起整期专刊，从蔗糖与抗逆基因的定点改造，到甘蔗和甜菜的转录组与基因组组装。
• Field agronomy covers planting geometry, irrigation scheduling, fertiliser response and ratoon management, along with the mechanisation that labour scarcity has forced on the cane belt.田间农艺覆盖种植规格与灌溉制度，也覆盖施肥反应与宿根管理，机械化同样在列，后者是蔗区劳力紧张之后的现实选择。
• Plant pathology has a permanent place, and red rot, smut, wilt, grassy shoot and yellow leaf return to the pages year after year.植物病理学长期占有一席之地，赤腐病与黑穗病在列，枯萎病与草苗病同样常见，黄叶病也几乎年年回到版面。
• Entomology runs from borers and aphids to parasitoid releases, and a 2026 paper on superparasitism in Cotesia flavipes against a cane borer shows how applied the section stays.昆虫学一面从螟虫、蚜虫延伸到天敌释放，2026 年一篇讨论 Cotesia flavipes 对甘蔗螟超寄生的论文，可见这一栏目的应用取向。
• Crop physiology deals with ripening and sucrose accumulation, water deficit, salinity and the priming treatments that buy a beet crop a few more weeks of assimilation under drought.作物生理处理成熟与蔗糖积累、水分亏缺，也处理盐分胁迫和引发处理，后者在干旱下为甜菜多争取几周同化时间。
• Sugar processing is treated as a scientific problem, covering juice clarification, crystallisation, dextran control, colour and the specification of raw and refined sugars.制糖按科学问题处理，涵盖蔗汁澄清与结晶，也涵盖葡聚糖控制、色值以及原糖和精炼糖的规格。
• By-products and value addition carry bagasse, molasses, press mud and spent wash into boards, feed, compost, cogeneration and specialty chemicals, a line followed since early volumes.副产物与增值利用涉及蔗渣与糖蜜，也涉及滤泥和废醪，去向包括板材和饲料，也包括堆肥、热电联产与精细化学品，这一线从早期卷次延续至今。
• Ethanol and bioenergy form a section of their own, with fermentation yields, second-generation feedstock, stillage handling and the energy balance of a distillery attached to a mill.乙醇与生物能源自成一类，内容包括发酵产率与第二代原料，也涉及废液处理和附设于糖厂的蒸馏车间能量平衡。
• Interdisciplinary work on fundamental problems is given high priority, so a paper may join plant physiology to process chemistry, or soil microbiology to factory economics.基础问题的跨学科研究被放在优先位置，一篇论文可以把植物生理与工艺化学放在一起，也可以把土壤微生物与工厂经济放在一起。
• Sustainability runs through recent issues, from life-cycle and carbon-footprint accounting for beet and cane to the sustainable development goals the journal says it promotes.可持续议题贯穿近年卷次，从甜菜与甘蔗的生命周期和碳足迹核算，到刊物明言支持的联合国可持续发展目标。
• Country surveys of a national sugar industry, feature articles, comments and scientific correspondence sit beside full papers and short communications, which leaves room for the trade as well as the laboratory.国别糖业综述与专题文章，评论与科学通信，同全文和短篇并列，版面因此既留给实验室，也留给产业。

History

• Volume 1 carries 1999 on its title page and runs to 34 deposited items, and a good share of them are notices of meetings, society news and workshop announcements rather than research papers.第 1 卷的卷首页标 1999 年，存档里共 34 条记录，其中相当一部分是会议通知、学会消息与研讨会公告，并非研究论文。
• Springer has stood behind the title from that first volume. Papers up to 2007 are registered under legacy article numbers in the bf0294 and bf0295 blocks, and no change of publisher interrupts the run.从第 1 卷起，出版方就是 Springer，2007 年以前的论文沿用 bf0294 与 bf0295 两段旧式文章编号，整段沿革里没有换过出版方。
• Volume 10 in 2008 moved article numbering to the s12355 stem, the house pattern Springer applies to its journals, while the prefix stayed 10.1007.2008 年第 10 卷把文章编号换成 s12355 词干，这是 Springer 期刊通用的社内格式，前缀仍是 10.1007。
• For its first decade the journal stayed small, and the deposit of the 1999 volume shows the character, with short communications and announcements mixed among the papers, so a record count overstates the research it carries.最初十年刊物体量很小，1999 年那一卷的存档可见其性格，短篇通讯与各类公告夹在论文之间，记录条数因此高估了其中的研究分量。
• Four numbers a year was the original rhythm and combined issues were routine, volume 1 pairing the first two, volume 4 issuing 1-2 and 3-4 as double numbers.最初每年四期，合刊是常事，第 1 卷即把前两期合为 1-2 期，第 4 卷则有两个合刊，分别是 1-2 期与 3-4 期。
• Volume 18 in 2016 broke that pattern and opened six numbers a year, the bimonthly shape the journal still keeps in 2026.2016 年第 18 卷打破旧例，改为每年六期，双月的形制一直保持到 2026 年。
• Output grew with the format. Ninety-two articles carry a 2019 date and 180 carry a 2025 date, and because papers are posted before an issue closes a volume now runs into the following year.载文量随形制变化而增，标 2019 年的文章有 92 篇，标 2025 年的有 180 篇，论文提前上线之后，一卷的日期往往跨入次年。
• The silver jubilee fell in 2024, when volume 26 carried a special issue on sustainability through diversification and a review of the journal's first twenty-five years by Govind P. Rao and Sushil Solomon.银禧落在 2024 年，第 26 卷刊出「以多元化求可持续」专刊，另有（Govind P. Rao）与（Sushil Solomon）合写的二十五年回顾。^[1]
• Guest-edited issues have become regular since, among them targeted gene editing in sugarcane and sugar crops in July-August 2024 and artificial intelligence in the sugar industry in November-December 2025.此后客座主编的专刊渐成惯例，2024 年 7 至 8 月的一期讨论甘蔗与糖料作物的定点基因编辑，2025 年 11 至 12 月的一期讨论人工智能在糖业中的应用。
• Two ISSNs have run in parallel, print 0972-1525 and electronic 0974-0740, so each issue exists in paper and online form.纸本与网络版并行使用两个刊号，印刷版为 0972-1525，电子版为 0974-0740。
• Impact factors over five years read 1.591 for 2021, 1.872 for 2022, 1.8 for 2023, 2.0 for 2024 and 1.9 for 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.0 and a percentile of 55.3.近五年影响因子依次为 2021 年 1.591，2022 年 1.872，2023 年 1.8，2024 年 2.0，2025 年 1.9，五年影响因子 2.0，综合百分位 55.3。
• Access is subscription-based with a hybrid open option, gold open access covered 5.66 per cent of the 2025 papers, and the site lists 62 open access articles in all.发行以订阅为主，另有混合开放选项，2025 年论文中金色开放获取占 5.66%，网站累计列出 62 篇开放获取文章。
• Volume numbering has never restarted, so 2026 stands at volume 28 and the December issue closes the year, twenty-eight volumes without a gap.卷号从未重起，2026 年排到第 28 卷，12 月一期收束全年，二十八卷中间没有断档。

Editors

• Two editors-in-chief share the chair, Prakash Lakshmanan of the Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Science in Nanning, China, and R. Viswanathan of the Sugarcane Breeding Institute in Coimbatore, India.主编由两人共同担任，一位是南宁广西农业科学院的（Prakash Lakshmanan），一位是印度哥印拜陀甘蔗育种研究所的（R. Viswanathan）。
• Two executive chief editors sit above the daily flow, G. P. Rao of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences in New Delhi and S. Solomon of the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research in Lucknow.日常流程之上另设两位执行主编，为新德里国家农业科学院的（G. P. Rao）与勒克瑙印度甘蔗研究所的（S. Solomon）。
• Both executive editors also signed the twenty-five year survey, which carries the society's address in New Delhi and suggests how closely the office and the title are tied.两位执行主编同时署名刊物的二十五年回顾，该文标注学会设于新德里的地址，编辑部与刊物的紧密程度由此可见。
• Two managing editors handle the desk, Priyanka Singh and Ajay K. Tiwari, both at the Uttar Pradesh Council of Sugarcane Research in Shahjahanpur.稿件台务由两位管理编辑承担，即北方邦甘蔗研究理事会（Shahjahanpur）的（Priyanka Singh）与（Ajay K. Tiwari）。
• About forty consulting editors make up the board, drawn from some fifteen countries, and thirteen of them work in India, which keeps the home industry at the centre of judgment.顾问编辑约四十人，来自十五个国家左右，其中十三人在印度任职，本国糖业因此处在评审判断的中心。
• The Indian seats cluster at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute in Coimbatore, which supplies eight of them, and the rest sit in Lucknow, New Delhi, Ludhiana and Krishnanagar.印度的席位集中在哥印拜陀的甘蔗育种研究所，八人出自该所，其余分布在勒克瑙与新德里，卢迪亚纳和克里希纳纳加尔也有席位。
• The board reaches well past South Asia. China holds four seats, Thailand four, Brazil three, with two each for Colombia, Türkiye and South Africa and single members in Pakistan, Mexico, Poland, the United States, Egypt, France, Bangladesh and Réunion.编委远及南亚之外，中国四席，泰国四席，巴西三席，哥伦比亚与土耳其各两席，南非两席，巴基斯坦和墨西哥各一席，波兰与美国各一席，埃及和法国各一席，孟加拉国与留尼汪各一席。
• Manuscripts go through Editorial Manager at editorialmanager.com/sute, and the published median from submission to a first decision is seven days.稿件经 Editorial Manager 系统投递，地址为 editorialmanager.com/sute，官方公布的投稿到首次决定中位时间为 7 天。
• Membership is a condition of publication. At least one author must hold an annual membership for the current year or a life membership of the Society for Sugar Research & Promotion, and the member author receives a copy of the issue.会员身份是发表条件，至少一位作者须持有糖业研究与促进学会的当年年度会员或终身会员资格，该会员作者可获赠当期样刊。
• Length limits follow article type. Original papers may not exceed 25 double-spaced pages with 2.5 cm margins, tables and figures included, and short communications stop at ten.篇幅按栏目限定，原创论文连表格与图在内不超过 25 页双倍行距、页边距 2.5 厘米，短篇通信以 10 页为限。
• Reviews are invited rather than volunteered. An author who wants to write one sends a summary to the editor-in-chief first, and an official letter of invitation follows if the proposal is accepted.综述采取约稿制，有意撰写的作者须先把内容摘要寄给主编，选题获准后由主编发出正式邀请函。
• Authors may name reviewers they would like and ask that others be excluded, and the guidance asks for a mix of countries and institutions, with an institutional email for every name put forward.作者可以推荐审稿人，也可以要求回避某些人，指南要求推荐名单兼顾不同国家与机构，并为每个名字提供机构邮箱。
• Conflict-of-interest forms are collected from every listed author and printed before the acknowledgements, a contribution statement follows, and a notice of suspected misconduct may be attached to the published record.全体署名作者都须提交利益冲突表，声明刊于致谢之前，其后附作者贡献说明，若怀疑评审环节有不当行为，相关提示可附在已发表记录上。