Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Food Science journal rankings 2006
74 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 74 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2005 to 0.62, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.95. The top three are Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, International Journal of Food Microbiology, and Trends in Food Science & Technology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
74 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2006. | Compare |
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1Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.24Q1 | 5.27 1.10 up from 2005 | 97 | 5% | — | ||
2International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 3.02 0.01 up from 2005 | 924 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
3Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 2.54 0.35 up from 2005 | 223 | 6% | $5,440 | ||
4Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.44 0.22 up from 2005 | 52 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
5International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.28 0.05 down from 2005 | 441 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
6Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.08 0.25 up from 2005 | 182 | 8% | $4,470 | ||
7Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.22 0.07 up from 2005 | 339 | 8% | $4,210 | ||
8Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.28 0.45 up from 2005 | 421 | 12% | $4,990 | ||
9Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.62 0.02 down from 2005 | 1,179 | 99% | $2,300 | ||
10Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.62 0.30 down from 2005 | 308 | 9% | $4,420 | ||
11Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 1.95 0.30 up from 2005 | 459 | 5% | $4,320 | ||
12Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 1.57 0.02 up from 2005 | 1,399 | 6% | $4,350 | ||
13Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 1.90 0.15 down from 2005 | 1,917 | 5% | $4,930 | ||
14Letters in Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.03 0.17 up from 2005 | 535 | 8% | $3,240 | ||
15LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 1.20 0.16 down from 2005 | 551 | 4% | $3,240 | ||
16British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 1.10 0.14 up from 2005 | 188 | 5% | — | ||
17Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q1 | 1.22 0.11 up from 2005 | 498 | 9% | $4,340 | ||
18Foodborne Pathogens and DiseaseMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.99Q1 | 1.55 0.55 up from 2005 | 87 | 2% | — | ||
19Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q1 | 1.49 0.01 down from 2005 | 1,243 | 5% | $4,550 | ||
20Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 1.32 0.11 up from 2005 | 961 | 12% | $4,620 | ||
21International Journal of Dairy TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.09 0.18 up from 2005 | 121 | 10% | $3,950 | ||
22Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 0.90 0.31 up from 2005 | 116 | 9% | $3,920 | ||
23Food Science and Technology InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.03 0.25 up from 2005 | 167 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
24Drying TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.85Q2 | 1.45 0.28 up from 2005 | 428 | 4% | — | ||
25International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.04 0.17 down from 2005 | 431 | 11% | $2,638 | ||
26Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.82Q2 | 1.23 0.37 up from 2005 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
27Le LaitEDP Sciences · France | 0.82Q2 | 0.92 0.08 down from 2005 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
28European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.81Q2 | 1.22 0.14 down from 2005 | 769 | 7% | $2,590 | ||
29Food and FoodwaysTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.76Q2 | 0.33 0.23 up from 2005 | 39 | 5% | — | ||
30Food / NahrungWiley · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 1.42 0.38 up from 2005 | 133 | 100% | — | ||
31Food Service TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.74 0.17 up from 2005 | 52 | — | — | ||
32Journal of the American Oil Chemists SocietyWiley · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.28 0.01 up from 2005 | 539 | 3% | $3,555 | ||
33Food Protection TrendsUnited States | 0.67Q2 | 0.58 0.05 down from 2005 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
34Journal of Sensory StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 1.08 0.10 up from 2005 | 106 | 6% | $4,030 | ||
35Journal of Food Process EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 0.86 0.08 up from 2005 | 105 | 4% | $3,570 | ||
36Journal of the American Society of Brewing ChemistsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q2 | 1.00 0.48 up from 2005 | 127 | 0% | — | ||
37Flavour and Fragrance JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 0.91 0.01 down from 2005 | 454 | 6% | $3,950 | ||
38International Journal of Food EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.61Q3 | 0.53no 2005 value | 32 | 5% | $2,712 | ||
39Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.64 0.12 up from 2005 | 127 | 2% | $3,970 | ||
40Journal of the Institute of BrewingOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 0.86 0.21 up from 2005 | 190 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
41Journal of Food SafetyWiley · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.79 0.19 up from 2005 | 70 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
42Food BiotechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.48Q3 | 0.93 0.13 up from 2005 | 57 | 8% | — | ||
43International Journal of Food PropertiesOAMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.92 0.15 up from 2005 | 151 | 61% | $2,306 | ||
44Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.49 0.08 up from 2005 | 134 | 7% | $2,570 | ||
45Food technologyInstitute of Food Technologists · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.41 0.06 up from 2005 | 276 | 0% | — | ||
46Italian Journal of Food ScienceOAChiriotti Editori · Italy | 0.35Q3 | 0.58 0.23 up from 2005 | 76 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
47Journal of Food Processing and PreservationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.37 0.17 down from 2005 | 112 | 51% | $2,700 | ||
48Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic EnergyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.39 0.13 up from 2005 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
49Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.33Q3 | 0.88 0.60 up from 2005 | 170 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
50Food Science and TechnologySociedade Brasileira de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos · Brazil | 0.31Q3 | 0.35 0.14 up from 2005 | 381 | 100% | $750 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science313
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics103
- Food Science74
- Insect Science45
- Animal Science and Zoology42
- Soil Science26
- Agronomy and Crop Science25
- Aquatic Science21
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 74
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,005 +25.8% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.620 +6.8% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 57 | 62 | 63 | 65 | 68 | 71 | 74 | 78 | 79 | 82 | 90 | 90 | 98 | 106 | 114 | 122 | 132 | 142 | 146 | 146 | 139 | 138 | 135 | 141 | 143 | 143 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 23,802 | 27,613 | 29,648 | 32,605 | 33,868 | 37,418 | 41,005 | 45,025 | 49,224 | 53,915 | 60,495 | 67,616 | 73,777 | 78,992 | 83,751 | 88,320 | 90,740 | 91,510 | 92,833 | 96,087 | 102,584 | 111,656 | 119,977 | 124,739 | 127,440 | 133,186 | |
| Median OJR | 0.53 | 0.55 | 0.54 | 0.580 | 0.52 | 0.56 | 0.620 | 0.583 | 0.64 | 0.725 | 0.616 | 0.743 | 0.76 | 0.71 | 0.738 | 0.68 | 0.65 | 0.60 | 0.67 | 0.717 | 0.736 | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.81 | 0.79 | 0.90 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.