Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Food Science journal rankings 2011
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 90 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2010 to 0.74, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Trends in Food Science & Technology, and Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
90 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.06Q1 | 6.35 0.28 down from 2010 | 176 | 10% | — | ||
2Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 4.98 1.12 up from 2010 | 231 | 20% | $5,440 | ||
3Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 3.06Q1 | 6.05 2.07 up from 2010 | 94 | 6% | $5,000 | ||
4International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 4.17 0.31 up from 2010 | 1,089 | 11% | $4,090 | ||
5Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 3.65 0.02 down from 2010 | 472 | 16% | $4,210 | ||
6Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 4.09 0.79 up from 2010 | 246 | 16% | $4,470 | ||
7Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 3.59 0.17 down from 2010 | 3,511 | 12% | $4,930 | ||
8Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 2.99 0.28 up from 2010 | 1,181 | 20% | $4,350 | ||
9Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 2.93 0.16 down from 2010 | 661 | 14% | $4,340 | ||
10Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 3.31 0.08 up from 2010 | 551 | 14% | $4,990 | ||
11LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 3.03 0.39 up from 2010 | 718 | 42% | $3,240 | ||
12Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 3.61 0.56 up from 2010 | 801 | 12% | $4,320 | ||
13International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 2.75 0.12 up from 2010 | 337 | 11% | $3,290 | ||
14Foodborne Pathogens and DiseaseMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.92 0.51 up from 2010 | 516 | 15% | — | ||
15Food BiophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.56 0.29 up from 2010 | 144 | 15% | $2,590 | ||
16Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 2.21 1.32 down from 2010 | 290 | 17% | $4,420 | ||
17Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 3.45 0.34 up from 2010 | 135 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
18Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.74 0.26 up from 2010 | 1,069 | 83% | $2,300 | ||
19Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 2.29 0.15 up from 2010 | 1,319 | 10% | $4,550 | ||
20British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 1.44 0.16 down from 2010 | 250 | 8% | — | ||
21Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 1.11 0.87 down from 2010 | 81 | 47% | $3,390 | ||
22Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.10 0.47 up from 2010 | 218 | 10% | $3,970 | ||
23Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.67 0.97 down from 2010 | 59 | 5% | — | ||
24Probiotics and Antimicrobial ProteinsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.36Q2 | 1.93 1.27 up from 2010 | 58 | 11% | $4,090 | ||
25Dairy Science and TechnologyEDP Sciences · France | 1.31Q2 | 1.45 0.18 up from 2010 | 157 | 45% | — | ||
26Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.92 0.26 up from 2010 | 1,105 | 10% | $4,620 | ||
27Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.23Q2 | 2.47 0.25 up from 2010 | 437 | 20% | $2,690 | ||
28Advance Journal of Food Science and TechnologyOAMaxwell Scientific Publication Corp. · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 1.13 0.63 up from 2010 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
29Letters in Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 2.08 0.12 up from 2010 | 737 | 14% | $3,240 | ||
30European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.20Q2 | 1.89 0.09 down from 2010 | 590 | 10% | $2,590 | ||
31Journal of Sensory StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 2.16 0.06 down from 2010 | 183 | 10% | $4,030 | ||
32International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 1.82 0.12 up from 2010 | 973 | 10% | $2,638 | ||
33Drying TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.33 0.48 up from 2010 | 520 | 8% | — | ||
34Journal of the American Oil Chemists SocietyWiley · United States | 1.13Q2 | 1.95 0.21 down from 2010 | 557 | 9% | $3,555 | ||
35Flavour and Fragrance JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.34 0.55 down from 2010 | 184 | 12% | $3,950 | ||
36Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.30 0.28 up from 2010 | 144 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
37Food Science and Technology InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.99Q2 | 1.17 0.13 up from 2010 | 208 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
38International Journal of Dairy TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 1.32 0.35 up from 2010 | 264 | 6% | $3,950 | ||
39American Journal of Food TechnologyOAUnited States | 0.91Q2 | 1.73 0.98 up from 2010 | 102 | 41% | — | ||
40International Journal of MicrobiologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.58 0.51 up from 2010 | 81 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
41Research Journal of PhytochemistryOAUnited States | 0.89Q2 | 1.90 1.43 up from 2010 | 34 | 48% | — | ||
42Journal of Food SafetyWiley · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.04 0.07 up from 2010 | 183 | 11% | $3,790 | ||
43International Journal of Food EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.80Q2 | 0.89 0.05 up from 2010 | 224 | 6% | $2,712 | ||
44EFSA Supporting PublicationsOAEuropean Food Safety Authority · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 1.05 0.60 up from 2010 | 103 | 54% | — | ||
45Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 0.78Q2 | 0.85 0.08 down from 2010 | 178 | 13% | $2,570 | ||
46Journal of the Institute of BrewingOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.19 0.36 down from 2010 | 160 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
47Food Culture & SocietyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 0.74 0.34 up from 2010 | 111 | 6% | — | ||
48International Journal of Biological ChemistryOAPublisher not listed | 0.69Q3 | 1.29 0.79 up from 2010 | 44 | 31% | — | ||
49Journal of FoodserviceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.84 0.16 up from 2010 | 84 | — | — | ||
50Grasas y AceitesOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.69Q3 | 1.42 0.51 up from 2010 | 160 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science431
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics128
- Food Science90
- Insect Science48
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Agronomy and Crop Science34
- Soil Science30
- Aquatic Science28
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences23
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
33 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 67,616 +37.4% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.743 +16.5% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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 |
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| 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.