Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Food Science journal rankings 2016
132 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 132 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Trends in Food Science & Technology, and Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
132 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.23Q1 | 8.66 0.80 up from 2015 | 165 | 16% | $5,000 | ||
2Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 7.52 0.33 up from 2015 | 283 | 14% | $5,440 | ||
3Microbial Ecology in Health and DiseaseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 8.78 5.40 up from 2015 | 51 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
4Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.37Q1 | 4.57 0.02 up from 2015 | 71 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
5Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 4.48 0.75 up from 2015 | 492 | 23% | $4,420 | ||
6Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 4.87 0.96 up from 2015 | 596 | 20% | $4,210 | ||
7Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 5.14 0.59 up from 2015 | 1,079 | 18% | $4,990 | ||
8Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.66 0.38 down from 2015 | 475 | 23% | $4,470 | ||
9International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 4.09 0.15 up from 2015 | 1,104 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
10Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 5.06 0.40 up from 2015 | 5,011 | 22% | $4,930 | ||
11Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 3.43 0.45 down from 2015 | 1,194 | 21% | $4,350 | ||
12Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 3.94 0.01 down from 2015 | 1,740 | 18% | $4,320 | ||
13Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 3.96 0.08 up from 2015 | 1,720 | 17% | $4,340 | ||
14Food StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 3.21 0.45 down from 2015 | 39 | 25% | $3,570 | ||
15Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.13Q1 | 3.23 0.28 up from 2015 | 611 | 21% | $2,690 | ||
16Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.09Q1 | 2.85 1.99 down from 2015 | 672 | 20% | — | ||
17LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.36 0.20 up from 2015 | 1,885 | 25% | $3,240 | ||
18British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 1.92 0.04 down from 2015 | 431 | 21% | — | ||
19Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.45 0.28 down from 2015 | 295 | 14% | $3,970 | ||
20International Journal of MicrobiologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.52 1.28 up from 2015 | 95 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
21Foodborne Pathogens and DiseaseMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.56Q1 | 2.69 0.51 down from 2015 | 442 | 14% | — | ||
22Food BioscienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 2.78 0.74 up from 2015 | 135 | 9% | $3,380 | ||
23Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.42 0.05 down from 2015 | 68 | 15% | — | ||
24Dairy Science and TechnologyEDP Sciences · France | 1.47Q1 | 1.88 0.07 up from 2015 | 170 | 97% | — | ||
25Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 2.16 0.06 down from 2015 | 1,527 | 13% | $4,620 | ||
26Journal of Ethnic FoodsOABioMed Central · South Korea | 1.40Q1 | 3.33 2.08 up from 2015 | 40 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
27Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 1.56 0.02 up from 2015 | 143 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
28EFSA JournalOAWiley · Italy | 1.39Q1 | 2.44 0.75 up from 2015 | 1,274 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
29Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.38Q1 | 2.93 0.28 down from 2015 | 193 | 28% | $3,990 | ||
30International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 2.58 0.23 up from 2015 | 452 | 16% | $3,290 | ||
31Journal of Sensory StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 1.65 0.94 down from 2015 | 150 | 13% | $4,030 | ||
32Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.14 0.10 up from 2015 | 1,127 | 8% | $4,550 | ||
33Food Science & NutritionWiley · United States | 1.28Q1 | 1.95 0.08 up from 2015 | 258 | 95% | $3,630 | ||
34Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.26Q2 | 1.56 0.46 up from 2015 | 75 | 28% | $3,390 | ||
35International Journal of BacteriologyHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 1.22Q2 | 2.05 0.78 up from 2015 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
36Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition SciencesOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.22Q2 | 1.94 0.74 up from 2015 | 100 | 100% | $485 | ||
37International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.42 0.50 up from 2015 | 960 | 8% | $2,638 | ||
38Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.95 0.11 down from 2015 | 887 | 94% | $2,300 | ||
39Food BiophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.18Q2 | 2.15 0.67 up from 2015 | 140 | 9% | $2,590 | ||
40Probiotics and Antimicrobial ProteinsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.18Q2 | 2.15 0.28 up from 2015 | 81 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
41Flavour and Fragrance JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.92 0.04 up from 2015 | 150 | 13% | $3,950 | ||
42European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 2.01 0.38 up from 2015 | 709 | 20% | $2,590 | ||
43Drying TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.20 0.07 up from 2015 | 712 | 15% | — | ||
44Annual Review of Food Science and TechnologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.06Q2 | 11.13 2.71 up from 2015 | 53 | 64% | — | ||
45FoodsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.06Q2 | 1.84 0.17 up from 2015 | 143 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
46Letters in Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 1.97 0.08 up from 2015 | 499 | 14% | $3,240 | ||
47International Journal of Food ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.58 0.22 up from 2015 | 83 | 100% | $860 | ||
48Journal of Food Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.97Q2 | 1.75 0.71 up from 2015 | 1,204 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
49Food Science and TechnologySociedade Brasileira de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos · Brazil | 0.92Q2 | 1.52 0.32 up from 2015 | 364 | 100% | $750 | ||
50International Journal of Dairy TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.16 0.13 up from 2015 | 233 | 11% | $3,950 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics144
- Food Science132
- Insect Science56
- Animal Science and Zoology51
- Aquatic Science39
- Agronomy and Crop Science38
- Soil Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences30
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
35 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 132
- Window papers (baseline)
- 90,740 +14.9% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.65 -7.7% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.