Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Food Science journal rankings 2023
141 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Food Science has 141 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Trends in Food Science & Technology, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, and Food Hydrocolloids.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
141 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.64Q1 | 18.75 0.59 up from 2022 | 1,239 | 26% | $5,440 | ||
2Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.17Q1 | 14.46 2.84 down from 2022 | 545 | 59% | $5,000 | ||
3Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 11.18 0.34 up from 2022 | 2,554 | 26% | $4,990 | ||
4Future FoodsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 8.77 1.72 up from 2022 | 192 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
5Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 7.80 1.21 down from 2022 | 3,111 | 32% | $4,320 | ||
6Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 9.15 0.41 down from 2022 | 8,188 | 21% | $4,930 | ||
7Current Research in Food ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 7.57 0.06 up from 2022 | 410 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
8Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.57Q1 | 8.39 1.70 down from 2022 | 1,658 | 17% | — | ||
9Journal of Future FoodsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.56Q1 | 7.00 0.20 up from 2022 | 70 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
10Food Chemistry XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 7.52 1.25 up from 2022 | 448 | 100% | $2,330 | ||
11Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.47Q1 | 6.70 1.00 down from 2022 | 115 | 36% | $3,090 | ||
12Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 6.98 0.58 down from 2022 | 759 | 33% | $4,470 | ||
13NFS JournalOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 5.76 0.92 down from 2022 | 67 | 100% | $2,800 | ||
14Applied Food ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 6.17 3.28 up from 2022 | 245 | 100% | $2,050 | ||
15Food Production Processing and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 5.74 0.23 down from 2022 | 97 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
16Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 5.57 0.43 down from 2022 | 730 | 66% | $4,420 | ||
17Food Reviews InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.21Q1 | 6.03 0.36 down from 2022 | 427 | 27% | — | ||
18Discover FoodOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 2.20Q1 | 5.16 5.16 up from 2022 | 37 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
19LWTOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 6.86 0.06 up from 2022 | 5,044 | 100% | $3,240 | ||
20British Food JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 5.05 0.78 up from 2022 | 885 | 36% | — | ||
21Food ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 6.45 0.32 down from 2022 | 2,175 | 37% | $4,340 | ||
22Food Chemistry AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 5.20 3.53 up from 2022 | 167 | 100% | $2,080 | ||
23Food StructureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 5.81 0.49 up from 2022 | 136 | 31% | $3,570 | ||
24Journal of Food EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 5.73 0.49 down from 2022 | 901 | 34% | $4,350 | ||
25International Journal of Gastronomy and Food ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 4.66 0.33 down from 2022 | 428 | 39% | $3,580 | ||
26FoodsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.86Q1 | 5.64 0.60 down from 2022 | 9,263 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
27Food BioscienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 5.60 0.24 down from 2022 | 1,654 | 18% | $3,380 | ||
28International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 5.13 0.24 down from 2022 | 922 | 43% | $4,090 | ||
29Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 4.94 0.44 down from 2022 | 608 | 45% | $4,210 | ||
30Probiotics and Antimicrobial ProteinsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.69Q1 | 4.72 0.35 down from 2022 | 392 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
31Food Hydrocolloids for HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 5.24 2.49 up from 2022 | 102 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
32International Journal of Food ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.77 0.96 down from 2022 | 309 | 100% | $860 | ||
33Journal of Ethnic FoodsOABioMed Central · South Korea | 1.58Q1 | 3.92 0.48 up from 2022 | 127 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
34BeveragesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.56Q1 | 3.62 0.77 down from 2022 | 235 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
35Food and Bioprocess TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.55Q1 | 5.91 0.75 down from 2022 | 567 | 24% | $2,690 | ||
36Journal of Food QualityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United States | 1.47Q1 | 4.18 0.21 up from 2022 | 696 | 100% | $2,570 | ||
37Journal of Essential Oil ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 3.13 0.43 down from 2022 | 162 | 21% | — | ||
38Food Science & NutritionWiley · United States | 1.40Q2 | 4.23 0.19 down from 2022 | 1,733 | 98% | $3,630 | ||
39Plant Foods for Human NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 3.76 1.00 down from 2022 | 250 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
40Journal of the Science of Food and AgricultureWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 3.70 0.68 down from 2022 | 2,112 | 51% | $4,620 | ||
41Food and Bioproducts ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 3.91 1.57 down from 2022 | 434 | 43% | $3,970 | ||
42International Journal of Food PropertiesOAMarcel Dekker · United States | 1.31Q2 | 3.88 0.23 up from 2022 | 508 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
43Annual Review of Food Science and TechnologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.31Q2 | 10.71 2.91 down from 2022 | 71 | 96% | — | ||
44International Journal of MicrobiologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 3.97 0.59 down from 2022 | 304 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
45European Food Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.29Q2 | 3.58 0.26 down from 2022 | 754 | 40% | $2,590 | ||
46FermentationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.29Q2 | 4.05 0.44 down from 2022 | 1,228 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
47Journal of Food ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 3.54 0.62 down from 2022 | 1,430 | 58% | $4,550 | ||
48Measurement FoodOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 3.75 0.83 down from 2022 | 57 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
49EFSA JournalOAWiley · Italy | 1.28Q2 | 4.01 0.13 down from 2022 | 1,287 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
50Journal of Food Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 1.22Q2 | 3.16 0.51 down from 2022 | 1,398 | 100% | $4,090 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Food Science highlighted.
- Plant Science557
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics151
- Food Science141
- Animal Science and Zoology56
- Insect Science49
- Soil Science42
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science36
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
48 additional Food Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 141
- Window papers (baseline)
- 124,739 +21.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.81 +10.6% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 23
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.