Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Food Science journal rankings 2022
135 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 135 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are Trends in Food Science & Technology, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, and Food Hydrocolloids.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
135 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.70Q1 | 18.16 0.39 up from 2021 | 1,272 | 34% | $5,440 | ||
2Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.67Q1 | 17.30 0.41 down from 2021 | 457 | 34% | $5,000 | ||
3Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 10.84 0.89 up from 2021 | 2,432 | 21% | $4,990 | ||
4Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.92Q1 | 10.09 0.93 down from 2021 | 1,195 | 15% | — | ||
5Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 9.00 1.58 up from 2021 | 2,478 | 24% | $4,320 | ||
6Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.77Q1 | 7.70 0.35 down from 2021 | 111 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
7Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 9.57 1.19 up from 2021 | 7,067 | 19% | $4,930 | ||
8Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 7.55 0.27 up from 2021 | 641 | 26% | $4,470 | ||
9Current Research in Food ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.63Q1 | 7.51 0.33 up from 2021 | 169 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
10Future FoodsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 7.05 3.91 up from 2021 | 103 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
11Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 6.00 0.60 down from 2021 | 724 | 58% | $4,420 | ||
12NFS JournalOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 6.67 1.83 down from 2021 | 61 | 100% | $2,800 | ||
13Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.25Q1 | 6.39 1.06 down from 2021 | 355 | 17% | — | ||
14LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 6.80 0.80 up from 2021 | 4,843 | 100% | $3,240 | ||
15Food Chemistry XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 6.27 0.20 down from 2021 | 141 | 100% | $2,330 | ||
16Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 6.22 0.32 up from 2021 | 967 | 29% | $4,350 | ||
17Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 6.77 0.49 up from 2021 | 2,084 | 32% | $4,340 | ||
18Food Production Processing and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 5.97 0.52 up from 2021 | 76 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
19FoodsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.97Q1 | 6.24 0.37 down from 2021 | 5,822 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
20International Journal of Gastronomy and Food ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 5.00 0.77 up from 2021 | 293 | 32% | $3,580 | ||
21Food StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 5.33 1.01 up from 2021 | 114 | 34% | $3,570 | ||
22Food BioscienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 5.84 0.57 up from 2021 | 1,028 | 12% | $3,380 | ||
23Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 5.38 0.33 down from 2021 | 680 | 48% | $4,210 | ||
24International Journal of Food ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 4.72 0.40 down from 2021 | 237 | 100% | $860 | ||
25Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.80Q1 | 6.66 0.60 up from 2021 | 498 | 25% | $2,690 | ||
26Journal of Ethnic FoodsOABioMed Central · South Korea | 1.79Q1 | 3.44 0.82 down from 2021 | 111 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
27International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 5.37 0.04 up from 2021 | 875 | 35% | $4,090 | ||
28Probiotics and Antimicrobial ProteinsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.73Q1 | 5.07 0.15 down from 2021 | 363 | 20% | $4,090 | ||
29British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 4.27 0.20 up from 2021 | 938 | 33% | — | ||
30Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 5.49 0.18 down from 2021 | 501 | 44% | $3,970 | ||
31International Journal of Dairy TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 3.90 0.37 down from 2021 | 242 | 24% | $3,950 | ||
32Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 4.37 0.31 up from 2021 | 2,112 | 13% | $4,620 | ||
33Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 4.76 0.04 up from 2021 | 231 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
34Food Science & NutritionWiley · United States | 1.49Q1 | 4.42 0.40 up from 2021 | 1,717 | 96% | $3,630 | ||
35BeveragesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.47Q2 | 4.39 0.38 down from 2021 | 220 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
36Annual Review of Food Science and TechnologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.43Q2 | 13.62 1.51 down from 2021 | 76 | 74% | — | ||
37Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 1.42Q2 | 3.97 0.17 up from 2021 | 509 | 100% | $2,570 | ||
38FermentationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.38Q2 | 4.49 1.48 down from 2021 | 557 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
39Journal of Food Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 1.37Q2 | 3.67 0.03 up from 2021 | 1,756 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
40Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 4.15 0.48 up from 2021 | 1,437 | 17% | $4,550 | ||
41International Journal of Food PropertiesOAMarcel Dekker · United States | 1.36Q2 | 3.65 0.14 down from 2021 | 469 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
42Potato ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 3.13 0.21 down from 2021 | 118 | 35% | $3,390 | ||
43Journal of Texture StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 3.07 0.73 down from 2021 | 224 | 20% | $3,920 | ||
44European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.31Q2 | 3.84 0.06 up from 2021 | 693 | 39% | $2,590 | ||
45Journal of Essential Oil ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 3.55 0.66 up from 2021 | 153 | 4% | — | ||
46EFSA JournalOAWiley · Italy | 1.29Q2 | 4.14 0.62 up from 2021 | 1,206 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
47International Journal of MicrobiologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 4.56 0.77 down from 2021 | 286 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
48International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 3.71 0.17 down from 2021 | 656 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
49Journal of Food Measurement & CharacterizationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.16Q2 | 4.10 0.77 up from 2021 | 1,203 | 11% | $3,490 | ||
50International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 3.39 0.22 down from 2021 | 1,421 | 13% | $2,638 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science571
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics150
- Food Science135
- Animal Science and Zoology59
- Insect Science49
- Soil Science41
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences35
- Aquatic Science34
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
50 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 135
- Window papers (baseline)
- 119,977 +24.9% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.85 +18.9% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.