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Discover Food is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2731-4286Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 92 / 253 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 173 / 422 | 59th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 108 / 259 | 58th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 71 / 144 | 51st | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Discover Food is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 92 of 253), Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 173 of 422) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 108 of 259), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover Food 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.570, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,590 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.
Discover Food is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2731-4286.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Food has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 3.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Discover Food published 492 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (17%), Ethiopia (12.2%) and Iran (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (3.3 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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