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ACS Food Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 2692-1944Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: About US$4,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 161 / 420 | 61st | Q2 |
| Organic Chemistry | 104 / 215 | 51st | Q2 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 80 / 160 | 50th | Q2 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 78 / 137 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
ACS Food Science and Technology is Q2 in Food Science (rank 161 of 420), Q2 in Organic Chemistry (rank 104 of 215) and Q2 in Analytical Chemistry (rank 80 of 160), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
ACS Food Science and Technology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.558, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,500 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
ACS Food Science and Technology is published by American Chemical Society. Its ISSN is 2692-1944.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
ACS Food Science and Technology has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
ACS Food Science and Technology published 431 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (20.2%), United States (15%) and Brazil (11.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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