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About the Journal

Cenicafé Journal is a biannual scientific publication published and financed since November 1949 by the National Center for Coffee Research. The objective of the journal is to publish among the international scientific community, the Extension Service of the Federation of Coffee Growers, the research results of Cenicafé, in the form of scientific articles. ISSN 2711-3477 (En línea) - ISSN 0120-0275 (Impresa)


Cenicafé Journal is a biannual scientific publication published and financed since November 1949 by the National Center for Coffee Research. Initially, this publication began under the name of the Informative Bulletin "organ of the Library of the National Coffee Research Center" in July 1949 by the direction of Dr. Bernardo González Casas with the aim of publicizing the scientific work carried out by the center. Results that had as main themes: soil conservation, fertility, soil physics, climate, diseases and coffee pests.

In 1956, under the direction of Dr. Hernán Uribe Arango, the Informative Bulletin was renamed Revista Cenicafé, and in January 1957, after indexing the previous magazines and design modifications, volume VII of the publication appeared.

About the year 1975 with the edition of volume 26, the first full color photograph appeared and the scientific articles included an abstract in English. Undoubtedly, Cenicafé magazine with its 71 years of life is still strengthened with the presentation of the research results obtained by the National Federation of Coffee Growers in the process of developing Scientific and Technological research.