About the 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.
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
