Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Food Science journal rankings 2013
106 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 106 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2012 to 0.71, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Trends in Food Science & Technology, and Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
106 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 4.87Q1 | 6.11 1.15 down from 2012 | 80 | 7% | $5,000 | ||
2Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 5.98 0.22 up from 2012 | 227 | 16% | $5,440 | ||
3Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.45Q1 | 6.04 0.04 down from 2012 | 245 | 15% | — | ||
4Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.93Q1 | 4.33 0.01 up from 2012 | 47 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
5Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 4.55 0.36 up from 2012 | 664 | 13% | $4,990 | ||
6Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 4.02 0.07 up from 2012 | 551 | 16% | $4,210 | ||
7International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 3.99 0.42 down from 2012 | 1,075 | 17% | $4,090 | ||
8Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.22 0.03 down from 2012 | 376 | 17% | $4,420 | ||
9Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 3.27 0.35 up from 2012 | 1,244 | 22% | $4,350 | ||
10Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 3.68 0.30 up from 2012 | 1,326 | 21% | $4,320 | ||
11Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.27 0.15 up from 2012 | 293 | 22% | $4,470 | ||
12Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 3.02 0.80 up from 2012 | 249 | 17% | $3,970 | ||
13LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.00 0.26 down from 2012 | 944 | 42% | $3,240 | ||
14Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 3.72 0.01 up from 2012 | 4,275 | 11% | $4,930 | ||
15Journal of Sensory StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 3.40 0.29 up from 2012 | 167 | 10% | $4,030 | ||
16Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 3.21 0.22 up from 2012 | 1,220 | 11% | $4,340 | ||
17Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.89Q1 | 2.86 0.52 up from 2012 | 719 | 26% | $2,690 | ||
18Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 3.43 0.39 down from 2012 | 182 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
19International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.85 0.28 up from 2012 | 380 | 14% | $3,290 | ||
20Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.34 0.08 down from 2012 | 1,557 | 14% | $4,550 | ||
21Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q1 | 2.58 0.23 up from 2012 | 954 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
22Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.56Q1 | 2.95 0.06 up from 2012 | 63 | 6% | — | ||
23Foodborne Pathogens and DiseaseMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.70 0.08 down from 2012 | 510 | 14% | — | ||
24Advance Journal of Food Science and TechnologyOAMaxwell Scientific Publication Corp. · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 1.71 0.33 up from 2012 | 59 | 97% | — | ||
25International Journal of MicrobiologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.41 0.92 up from 2012 | 141 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
26Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.26 0.74 up from 2012 | 160 | 14% | $3,920 | ||
27Food BiophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.47Q1 | 1.74 0.27 down from 2012 | 133 | 22% | $2,590 | ||
28International Journal of Organisational Design and EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 0.53 0.70 down from 2012 | 38 | 44% | — | ||
29Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.09 0.25 down from 2012 | 1,395 | 11% | $4,620 | ||
30Flavour and Fragrance JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 2.58 0.50 up from 2012 | 171 | 5% | $3,950 | ||
31British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.38 0.09 up from 2012 | 290 | 12% | — | ||
32Letters in Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.07 0.13 down from 2012 | 562 | 12% | $3,240 | ||
33Food Science and Technology InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.18Q2 | 1.88 0.42 up from 2012 | 175 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
34European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 1.90no change | 672 | 16% | $2,590 | ||
35Drying TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.13 0.16 up from 2012 | 546 | 12% | — | ||
36International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.79 0.06 down from 2012 | 1,148 | 9% | $2,638 | ||
37Dairy Science and TechnologyEDP Sciences · France | 1.08Q2 | 1.60 0.05 up from 2012 | 143 | 84% | — | ||
38American Journal of Food TechnologyOAUnited States | 1.02Q2 | 1.45 0.49 down from 2012 | 217 | 47% | — | ||
39International Journal of Dairy TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.28 0.12 down from 2012 | 284 | 7% | $3,950 | ||
40Annual Review of Food Science and TechnologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.97Q2 | 7.36 0.03 up from 2012 | 76 | 20% | — | ||
41Journal of the Institute of BrewingOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.31 0.09 up from 2012 | 191 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
42Journal of the American Oil Chemists SocietyWiley · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.81 0.10 down from 2012 | 646 | 11% | $3,555 | ||
43EFSA JournalOAWiley · Italy | 0.95Q2 | 1.64 0.03 down from 2012 | 1,610 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
44Probiotics and Antimicrobial ProteinsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.31 0.07 down from 2012 | 85 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
45Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.91Q2 | 1.10 0.06 down from 2012 | 76 | 50% | $3,390 | ||
46Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.25 0.14 up from 2012 | 174 | 21% | $2,570 | ||
47Grasas y AceitesOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.85Q2 | 1.50 0.17 up from 2012 | 142 | 100% | — | ||
48International Food Research JournalUniversity of Putra Malaysia · Malaysia | 0.85Q2 | 1.13 0.99 down from 2012 | 210 | 0% | — | ||
49Journal of Food SafetyWiley · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.31 0.30 up from 2012 | 210 | 8% | $3,790 | ||
50Czech Journal of Food SciencesOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.78Q2 | 1.20 0.29 down from 2012 | 234 | 100% | $609 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science489
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics137
- Food Science106
- Insect Science53
- Animal Science and Zoology48
- Agronomy and Crop Science36
- Aquatic Science31
- Soil Science31
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences24
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
39 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 106
- Window papers (baseline)
- 78,992 +30.6% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.71 +14.8% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.