WHY IS THE FSTA® THESAURUS IMPORTANT?

 

FSTA - is your quality-checked source for results you can trust.

"FSTA contains a large (1.84M), clean (expert verified) dataset (food and beverage only) and gives you the unbiased global content that you want.

Content from Multiple Publishers, Countries, and Languages

Many databases only have information from one publisher. FSTA® helps scientists discover content from multiple publishers. We include research from 89 countries and 41 languages.

We bring the entire world of trusted food science to you.

Unique Thesaurus and Indexing

Every abstract in our database is carefully indexed against the world’s most comprehensive subject-specific food and beverage thesaurus, unique to FSTA®. This has 16,000 terms.

This means that searches are hyper-efficient and Narrow Terms (NTs) allow researchers to get exactly what they want.

Excludes Predatory Journals

Unlike some databases, e.g. PubMed, FSTA® filters out Predatory Journals.

Did you know- predatory journals 1

From 2017-2023, a total of 366 journals have been assessed, but not included in FSTA®. This includes out-of-scope and poor-quality journals, as well as suspected predatory journals. Out of the 366 journals on the list, 223 were potentially predatory.

Reliability, relevance and results are FSTA®’s greatest strengths.

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