Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Food Science journal rankings 2015
122 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 122 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2014 to 0.68, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Trends in Food Science & Technology, and Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
122 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 4.89Q1 | 7.85 1.18 up from 2014 | 134 | 18% | $5,000 | ||
2Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 7.19 1.14 up from 2014 | 228 | 18% | $5,440 | ||
3Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 4.04 0.15 down from 2014 | 395 | 24% | $4,470 | ||
4Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.94Q1 | 4.55 0.61 up from 2014 | 60 | 26% | $3,090 | ||
5Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 3.73 0.47 down from 2014 | 444 | 31% | $4,420 | ||
6Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 4.55 0.23 up from 2014 | 907 | 22% | $4,990 | ||
7Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 3.91 0.72 down from 2014 | 598 | 16% | $4,210 | ||
8Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.67Q1 | 4.84 1.15 up from 2014 | 412 | 14% | — | ||
9International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 3.94 0.16 down from 2014 | 1,058 | 23% | $4,090 | ||
10Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 3.88 0.49 up from 2014 | 1,214 | 24% | $4,350 | ||
11Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.88 0.33 up from 2014 | 1,677 | 20% | $4,340 | ||
12Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 3.95 0.22 up from 2014 | 1,659 | 22% | $4,320 | ||
13Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 4.66 0.64 up from 2014 | 4,980 | 16% | $4,930 | ||
14LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.16 0.02 down from 2014 | 1,426 | 20% | $3,240 | ||
15Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.95 0.13 down from 2014 | 683 | 22% | $2,690 | ||
16Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.73 0.24 up from 2014 | 276 | 19% | $3,970 | ||
17Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.47 0.30 down from 2014 | 57 | 9% | — | ||
18International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.35 0.23 down from 2014 | 460 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
19British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.96 0.50 up from 2014 | 330 | 16% | — | ||
20Foodborne Pathogens and DiseaseMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.63Q1 | 3.20 0.60 up from 2014 | 471 | 15% | — | ||
21Journal of Sensory StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.59 0.31 up from 2014 | 155 | 14% | $4,030 | ||
22International Journal of MicrobiologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.23 0.98 down from 2014 | 126 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
23Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.23 0.06 up from 2014 | 1,527 | 13% | $4,620 | ||
24Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 3.21 0.32 up from 2014 | 189 | 24% | $3,990 | ||
25Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 2.04 0.16 down from 2014 | 1,192 | 13% | $4,550 | ||
26Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.35Q1 | 2.06 0.59 down from 2014 | 873 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
27Probiotics and Antimicrobial ProteinsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.29Q1 | 1.88 0.09 down from 2014 | 89 | 0% | $4,090 | ||
28Food Science & NutritionWiley · United States | 1.27Q1 | 1.87 0.63 up from 2014 | 158 | 95% | $3,630 | ||
29Food BiophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.18Q1 | 1.48 0.42 down from 2014 | 142 | 13% | $2,590 | ||
30Microbial Ecology in Health and DiseaseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 3.38 1.47 up from 2014 | 52 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
31International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 1.92 0.28 up from 2014 | 1,046 | 12% | $2,638 | ||
| 1.11Q2 | 1.77 1.13 up from 2014 | 53 | 92% | — | |||
33Food BioscienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 2.05 0.53 up from 2014 | 85 | 8% | $3,380 | ||
34Drying TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.14 0.07 up from 2014 | 672 | 11% | — | ||
35Dairy Science and TechnologyEDP Sciences · France | 1.10Q2 | 1.81 0.33 up from 2014 | 154 | 100% | — | ||
36Letters in Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.90 0.07 down from 2014 | 494 | 11% | $3,240 | ||
37European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 1.62 0.28 down from 2014 | 746 | 16% | $2,590 | ||
38EFSA JournalOAWiley · Italy | 1.06Q2 | 1.70 0.10 down from 2014 | 1,446 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
39Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.53 0.16 up from 2014 | 117 | 25% | $3,920 | ||
40Flavour and Fragrance JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.87 0.12 up from 2014 | 145 | 18% | $3,950 | ||
41Annual Review of Food Science and TechnologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.01Q2 | 8.42 0.73 down from 2014 | 70 | 72% | — | ||
42FoodsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.99Q2 | 1.67 0.76 up from 2014 | 96 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
43International Journal of Organisational Design and EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 1.12 0.12 up from 2014 | 38 | — | — | ||
44Food Science and Technology InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.98Q2 | 1.30 0.08 up from 2014 | 223 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
45Journal of the American Oil Chemists SocietyWiley · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.94 0.32 up from 2014 | 585 | 13% | $3,555 | ||
46Journal of the Institute of BrewingOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.34 0.05 down from 2014 | 181 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
47Journal of Food SafetyWiley · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.30 0.12 down from 2014 | 187 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
48Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 1.11no change | 81 | 21% | $3,390 | ||
49International Journal of Food ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.36 0.36 up from 2014 | 70 | 100% | $860 | ||
50Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.20 0.10 down from 2014 | 141 | 19% | $2,570 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science554
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics144
- Food Science122
- Insect Science54
- Animal Science and Zoology51
- Agronomy and Crop Science37
- Aquatic Science36
- Soil Science35
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
42 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 122
- Window papers (baseline)
- 88,320 +19.7% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.68 -11.3% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.