Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Nutrition and Dietetics journal rankings 2021
55 ranked journals · Subfield in Nursing
Nutrition and Dietetics has 55 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2020 to 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are Food Security, Frontiers in Nutrition, and Nutrition Research Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 Nursing (4)
55 ranked journals
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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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Food SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.56Q1 | 9.22 5.58 up from 2020 | 343 | 66% | $2,790 | ||
2Frontiers in NutritionOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.67Q1 | 8.19 0.53 down from 2020 | 628 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
3Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 6.34 0.12 up from 2020 | 79 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
4American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.13Q1 | 6.89 0.35 down from 2020 | 1,066 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
5Water SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 5.70 1.92 up from 2020 | 57 | 43% | $3,534 | ||
6Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 6.11 0.92 up from 2020 | 201 | 52% | — | ||
7Journal of Health Population and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.03 0.87 up from 2020 | 88 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
8Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.54Q1 | 4.26 0.14 up from 2020 | 577 | 18% | $3,930 | ||
9Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 4.28 0.64 down from 2020 | 1,072 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
10Grain & Oil Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.46Q1 | 5.49 2.46 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary FibreElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 4.29 0.29 up from 2020 | 85 | 11% | $3,340 | ||
12Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 3.89 0.93 down from 2020 | 185 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
13Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 4.28 0.69 up from 2020 | 511 | 100% | $4,130 | ||
14Journal of Nutritional ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 3.22 0.54 down from 2020 | 132 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
15Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.31Q2 | 3.52 0.76 down from 2020 | 215 | 23% | — | ||
16Current Developments in NutritionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.27Q2 | 3.59 0.31 up from 2020 | 333 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
17MetallomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 4.08 0.88 down from 2020 | 467 | 41% | $2,653 | ||
18Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.18Q2 | 3.21 0.86 down from 2020 | 524 | 28% | $4,110 | ||
19Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 4.27 0.37 up from 2020 | 611 | 20% | $3,700 | ||
20Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q2 | 4.51 0.92 up from 2020 | 1,200 | 14% | $4,290 | ||
21Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 1.13Q2 | 3.57 0.43 up from 2020 | 381 | 24% | $3,570 | ||
22BMC NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 3.28 0.35 up from 2020 | 191 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
23Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.96 1.02 down from 2020 | 222 | 39% | $3,790 | ||
24Clinical Nutrition ExperimentalOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.84 1.08 up from 2020 | 91 | — | $1,200 | ||
25Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.08Q2 | 3.49 0.41 up from 2020 | 299 | 25% | — | ||
26Pediatric Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.07Q2 | 2.81 0.41 down from 2020 | 106 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
27Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 1.00Q2 | 2.67 0.37 up from 2020 | 131 | 39% | $4,150 | ||
28BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 3.65 0.18 up from 2020 | 187 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
29Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 2.06 0.36 up from 2020 | 118 | 19% | — | ||
30Nutrition Research and PracticeOASouth Korea | 0.91Q3 | 2.51 0.05 up from 2020 | 184 | 100% | — | ||
31Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.87Q3 | 2.61 0.35 up from 2020 | 350 | 18% | $3,750 | ||
32MOJ Food Processing & TechnologyOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.80Q3 | 1.33 0.15 down from 2020 | 116 | 100% | — | ||
33Environmental Health InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.79Q3 | 1.77 0.87 down from 2020 | 70 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
34Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary MetabolismOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.78Q3 | 2.09 0.14 down from 2020 | 52 | — | $1,850 | ||
35Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.72Q3 | 2.52 0.04 down from 2020 | 404 | 11% | $4,260 | ||
36Nutrition and Metabolic InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.72Q3 | 2.22 0.19 up from 2020 | 46 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
37Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for DevelopmentOAIWA Publishing | 0.61Q3 | 2.04 0.43 up from 2020 | 252 | 100% | — | ||
38Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.73 0.02 up from 2020 | 338 | 3% | — | ||
39NutrireSpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.58Q3 | 1.81 0.29 up from 2020 | 59 | 18% | $3,890 | ||
40Nutrition and Dietary SupplementsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.58Q3 | 1.62 1.38 down from 2020 | 39 | 100% | $1,806 | ||
41LipidsWiley · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.54 0.13 down from 2020 | 260 | 30% | $3,589 | ||
42International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition ResearchOAHogrefe Verlag · Switzerland | 0.49Q3 | 1.84 0.39 up from 2020 | 230 | 22% | — | ||
43Journal of Food Science and Nutrition ResearchOAUnited States | 0.41Q4 | 1.10 0.33 up from 2020 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
44World NutritionOAUnited Kingdom | 0.41Q4 | 0.73 0.11 down from 2020 | 130 | 100% | — | ||
45International Journal Of NutritionOAOpen Access Pub · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.98 0.11 up from 2020 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Applied GlycoscienceOAJapanese Society of Applied Glycoscience · Japan | 0.29Q4 | 0.83 0.65 down from 2020 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
47WaterlinesPractical Action Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.28Q4 | 0.44 1.41 down from 2020 | 53 | 11% | — | ||
48Food and Nutrition SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.76 0.14 up from 2020 | 294 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Nutritional Health & Food ScienceOASymbiosis Group · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.52 0.01 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
50Cereal Foods WorldAmerican Association of Cereal Chemists · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.60 0.25 up from 2020 | 223 | — | — |
Subfields of Nursing, with Nutrition and Dietetics highlighted.
- Nutrition and Dietetics55
- Research and Theory7
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 additional Nutrition and Dietetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 55
- Window papers (baseline)
- 59,785 +19.4% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.998 +6.4% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 31 | 34 | 34 | 38 | 41 | 46 | 47 | 52 | 55 | 55 | 59 | 55 | 58 | 60 | 56 | 51 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 16,951 | 18,730 | 19,527 | 20,904 | 21,283 | 23,094 | 24,625 | 26,541 | 28,390 | 30,819 | 34,790 | 37,780 | 40,071 | 40,631 | 43,276 | 45,966 | 48,187 | 48,911 | 50,091 | 52,396 | 55,338 | 59,785 | 63,146 | 64,703 | 64,179 | 67,159 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.66 | 0.69 | 0.73 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.997 | 0.97 | 1.01 | 1.16 | 1.13 | 1.21 | 1.18 | 1.08 | 1.001 | 1.03 | 0.96 | 0.938 | 0.920 | 0.943 | 0.998 | 0.940 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.917 |
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.