Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Food Science journal rankings 2008
79 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 79 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2007 to 0.64, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Trends in Food Science & Technology, and International Journal of Food Microbiology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
79 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.88Q1 | 5.76 0.15 down from 2007 | 115 | 13% | — | ||
2Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 3.52 0.05 down from 2007 | 267 | 13% | $5,440 | ||
3International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 3.27 0.15 up from 2007 | 997 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
4Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.15 0.95 up from 2007 | 293 | 9% | $4,210 | ||
5Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 2.31no change | 413 | 5% | $4,320 | ||
6Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.40 0.19 up from 2007 | 517 | 10% | $4,990 | ||
7Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 2.13 0.20 up from 2007 | 1,503 | 11% | $4,350 | ||
8International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.46 0.16 down from 2007 | 531 | 7% | $3,290 | ||
9Foodborne Pathogens and DiseaseMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.59 0.13 down from 2007 | 162 | 6% | — | ||
10Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 1.84 0.11 up from 2007 | 279 | 12% | $4,420 | ||
11Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 1.85 0.70 down from 2007 | 215 | 10% | $4,470 | ||
12Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.50 0.15 up from 2007 | 2,548 | 6% | $4,930 | ||
13Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.93 0.49 up from 2007 | 524 | 7% | $4,340 | ||
14Food BiophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.00 0.38 down from 2007 | 48 | 16% | $2,590 | ||
15British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.14 0.17 down from 2007 | 208 | 18% | — | ||
16Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.46Q1 | 2.27 0.23 down from 2007 | 1,240 | 99% | $2,300 | ||
17Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.46Q1 | 1.95 0.13 up from 2007 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
18Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.95 0.14 up from 2007 | 1,134 | 7% | $4,550 | ||
19LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.56 0.03 down from 2007 | 646 | 8% | $3,240 | ||
20Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.57 0.12 down from 2007 | 121 | 12% | $3,920 | ||
21Letters in Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.99 0.13 up from 2007 | 646 | 8% | $3,240 | ||
22Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.51 0.03 up from 2007 | 1,062 | 7% | $4,620 | ||
23Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 1.94 0.59 up from 2007 | 94 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
24Journal of Food Process EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.17 0.02 down from 2007 | 129 | 11% | $3,570 | ||
25Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.05Q2 | 1.90no 2007 value | 41 | 10% | $2,690 | — | |
26Journal of Sensory StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.64 0.59 up from 2007 | 120 | 11% | $4,030 | ||
27International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.14 0.17 down from 2007 | 582 | 8% | $2,638 | ||
28Journal of the American Oil Chemists SocietyWiley · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.87 0.45 up from 2007 | 473 | 5% | $3,555 | ||
29European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.93Q2 | 1.33 0.06 up from 2007 | 892 | 14% | $2,590 | ||
30Le LaitEDP Sciences · France | 0.92Q2 | 1.00 0.41 down from 2007 | 120 | — | — | ||
31International Journal of Dairy TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.09 0.11 down from 2007 | 163 | 10% | $3,950 | ||
32Food Science and Technology InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.02 0.10 down from 2007 | 182 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
33Drying TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.17 0.55 down from 2007 | 609 | 4% | — | ||
34Food and FoodwaysTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.77Q2 | 0.13 0.27 down from 2007 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
35Journal of Food SafetyWiley · United States | 0.75Q2 | 0.70 0.09 down from 2007 | 89 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
36Journal of Food Processing and PreservationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.86 0.02 down from 2007 | 157 | 63% | $2,700 | ||
37International Journal of Food PropertiesOAMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.18 0.35 up from 2007 | 205 | 64% | $2,306 | ||
38Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.69 0.05 down from 2007 | 171 | 12% | $2,570 | ||
39International Journal of Food EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.66Q2 | 0.68 0.17 up from 2007 | 130 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
40Journal of the Institute of BrewingOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 0.79 0.06 down from 2007 | 193 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
41Journal of the American Society of Brewing ChemistsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.60Q3 | 0.91 0.02 up from 2007 | 135 | 2% | — | ||
42Flavour and Fragrance JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.97 0.25 up from 2007 | 393 | 13% | $3,950 | ||
43Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.64 0.35 down from 2007 | 140 | 4% | $3,970 | ||
44Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.51Q3 | 0.48 0.34 down from 2007 | 105 | 31% | $3,390 | ||
45Food technologyInstitute of Food Technologists · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.53 0.65 up from 2007 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
46Italian Journal of Food ScienceOAChiriotti Editori · Italy | 0.47Q3 | 0.47no change | 59 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
47Journal of Rapid Methods & Automation in MicrobiologyWiley · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.83 0.18 up from 2007 | 92 | 5% | — | ||
48Food Science and TechnologySociedade Brasileira de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos · Brazil | 0.40Q3 | 0.47 0.11 up from 2007 | 433 | 100% | $750 | ||
49Food Protection TrendsUnited States | 0.39Q3 | 0.24 0.13 down from 2007 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
50Current Nutrition & Food ScienceBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.38Q3 | 0.69 0.12 down from 2007 | 96 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science337
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics103
- Food Science79
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Insect Science44
- Soil Science29
- Agronomy and Crop Science28
- Aquatic Science22
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
24 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 79
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,224 +31.6% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.64 +14.9% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.