Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Food Science journal rankings 2012
98 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 98 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.50. The top three are Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, and Trends in Food Science & Technology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
98 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 4.55Q1 | 7.25 1.20 up from 2011 | 81 | 5% | $5,000 | ||
2Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.00Q1 | 6.07 0.27 down from 2011 | 186 | 11% | — | ||
3Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 5.75 0.78 up from 2011 | 238 | 9% | $5,440 | ||
4International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.99Q1 | 4.40 0.23 up from 2011 | 1,105 | 12% | $4,090 | ||
5Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 3.95 0.30 up from 2011 | 525 | 11% | $4,210 | ||
6Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.32 1.08 up from 2011 | 43 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
7Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.19 0.88 up from 2011 | 587 | 12% | $4,990 | ||
8Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 3.11 0.98 down from 2011 | 284 | 16% | $4,470 | ||
9Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 3.25 1.04 up from 2011 | 330 | 23% | $4,420 | ||
10Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 3.37 0.24 down from 2011 | 1,187 | 20% | $4,320 | ||
11LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.25 0.22 up from 2011 | 803 | 68% | $3,240 | ||
12Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 3.72 0.12 up from 2011 | 3,744 | 10% | $4,930 | ||
13Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 2.92 0.07 down from 2011 | 1,229 | 18% | $4,350 | ||
14Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.98 0.06 up from 2011 | 882 | 14% | $4,340 | ||
15International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.57 0.18 down from 2011 | 370 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
16Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 3.82 0.37 up from 2011 | 160 | 8% | $3,990 | ||
17British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 1.29 0.15 down from 2011 | 270 | 8% | — | ||
18Journal of Sensory StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.11 0.95 up from 2011 | 170 | 5% | $4,030 | ||
19Foodborne Pathogens and DiseaseMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.77 0.14 down from 2011 | 551 | 17% | — | ||
20Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.69Q1 | 2.89 1.21 up from 2011 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
21Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.42 0.13 up from 2011 | 1,482 | 10% | $4,550 | ||
22Food BiophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.01 0.55 down from 2011 | 143 | 15% | $2,590 | ||
23Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.35 0.39 down from 2011 | 1,031 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
24Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.34 0.41 up from 2011 | 1,271 | 8% | $4,620 | ||
25Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.22 0.12 up from 2011 | 228 | 12% | $3,970 | ||
26Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.43Q2 | 2.34 0.13 down from 2011 | 577 | 20% | $2,690 | ||
27American Journal of Food TechnologyOAUnited States | 1.36Q2 | 1.94 0.22 up from 2011 | 168 | 36% | — | ||
28Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.32Q2 | 1.16 0.05 up from 2011 | 71 | 19% | $3,390 | ||
29Letters in Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 2.20 0.12 up from 2011 | 704 | 14% | $3,240 | ||
30Flavour and Fragrance JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 2.08 0.75 up from 2011 | 176 | 10% | $3,950 | ||
31Advance Journal of Food Science and TechnologyOAMaxwell Scientific Publication Corp. · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.38 0.25 up from 2011 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
32International Journal of MicrobiologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 2.48 0.91 up from 2011 | 123 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
33European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.17Q2 | 1.89no change | 647 | 13% | $2,590 | ||
34Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 1.52 0.22 up from 2011 | 167 | 12% | $3,920 | ||
35International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.85 0.03 up from 2011 | 1,058 | 9% | $2,638 | ||
36International Journal of Dairy TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.40 0.08 up from 2011 | 289 | 10% | $3,950 | ||
37Research Journal of PhytochemistryOAUnited States | 1.13Q2 | 2.21 0.31 up from 2011 | 48 | 31% | — | ||
38Journal of the American Oil Chemists SocietyWiley · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.90 0.04 down from 2011 | 631 | 12% | $3,555 | ||
39Dairy Science and TechnologyEDP Sciences · France | 1.08Q2 | 1.55 0.10 up from 2011 | 156 | 48% | — | ||
40Food Culture & SocietyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 0.88 0.14 up from 2011 | 113 | 8% | — | ||
41Food Science and Technology InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.45 0.28 up from 2011 | 183 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
42Drying TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.97 0.36 down from 2011 | 551 | 11% | — | ||
43EFSA Supporting PublicationsOAEuropean Food Safety Authority · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.13 0.07 up from 2011 | 183 | 61% | — | ||
44Journal of the Institute of BrewingOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.22 0.03 up from 2011 | 185 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
45Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.12 0.27 up from 2011 | 182 | 14% | $2,570 | ||
46Probiotics and Antimicrobial ProteinsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.85Q2 | 1.38 0.55 down from 2011 | 84 | 12% | $4,090 | ||
47Annual Review of Food Science and TechnologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.85Q2 | 7.33 2.00 up from 2011 | 42 | 9% | — | ||
48Grasas y AceitesOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.85Q2 | 1.34 0.09 down from 2011 | 154 | 100% | — | ||
49International Journal of Biological ChemistryOAPublisher not listed | 0.76Q2 | 1.27 0.02 down from 2011 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
50International Journal of Dairy ScienceOAPakistan | 0.76Q3 | 1.04 0.20 up from 2011 | 86 | 31% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science463
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics130
- Food Science98
- Insect Science48
- Animal Science and Zoology45
- Agronomy and Crop Science33
- Aquatic Science31
- Soil Science30
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences23
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
34 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 98
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,777 +36.8% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.76 +5.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.