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Food Additives and Contaminants
Food Additives and Contaminants is not currently indexed in Scopus. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0265-203XVerify ISSN ↗1464-5122Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Quick answers
Is Food Additives and Contaminants indexed in Scopus?
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2020–present (also 2018, 1984–2014)).
What is the impact factor of Food Additives and Contaminants?
Food Additives and Contaminants has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.478, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 129.
Who publishes Food Additives and Contaminants and what is its ISSN?
Food Additives and Contaminants is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0265-203X and its online ISSN is 1464-5122.
Is Food Additives and Contaminants covered under ONOS in India?
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.
Is Food Additives and Contaminants in Web of Science?
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Is Food Additives and Contaminants open access?
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Scopus coverage history
Scopus indexed Food Additives and Contaminants for 39 years, between 1984 and 2026, with 4 years in that span missing. Scopus now lists the title as inactive.
Is it still publishing? OpenAlex lists 2,599 works and 100,058 citations for the title. Its most recent paper is from 2008, in line with the end of Scopus coverage in 2026, which suggests the journal stopped publishing around then.
How well cited is Food Additives and Contaminants? — open metrics via OpenAlex
Food Additives and Contaminants has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
Food Additives and Contaminants published 8 papers in 2008; its busiest recent year was 2001 with 196. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
Are there integrity warnings for Food Additives and Contaminants? — indicators, not proof of misconduct
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 2026. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
- Scopus statusInactive — coverage ended 2026
- Retracted papers None recorded
- Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged
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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