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Food Packaging and Shelf Life is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2214-2894Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 3 / 282 | 99th | Q1 |
| Food Science | 10 / 420 | 97th | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 7 / 147 | 95th | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 10 / 168 | 94th | Q1 |
| Biomaterials | 9 / 146 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.4.
Food Packaging and Shelf Life is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 3 of 282), Q1 in Food Science (rank 10 of 420) and Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 7 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Food Packaging and Shelf Life 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 19.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.746, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 105.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,690 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.
Food Packaging and Shelf Life is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2214-2894.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Food Packaging and Shelf Life has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 11.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Food Packaging and Shelf Life published 264 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (56.9%), United States (5.9%) and South Korea (5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.5 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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