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Cogent Food and Agriculture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Informa Healthcare.
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ISSN 2331-1932Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 65 / 253 | 74th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 180 / 420 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Cogent Food and Agriculture is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 65 of 253) and Q2 in Food Science (rank 180 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Cogent Food and Agriculture is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.555, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
Cogent Food and Agriculture is published by Informa Healthcare. Its ISSN is 2331-1932.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cogent Food and Agriculture has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 3.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Cogent Food and Agriculture published 375 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 384. 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 Indonesia (15.4%), China (10.9%) and Tanzania (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (4.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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