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Food Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0306-9192Verify ISSN ↗1873-5657Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,330 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 27 / 1530 | 98th | Q1 |
| Development | 11 / 314 | 96th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 49 / 755 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Food Science | 32 / 420 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 45 / 432 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.
Food Policy is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 27 of 1530), Q1 in Development (rank 11 of 314) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 49 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Food Policy is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 11, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.011, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 154.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,330 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 Policy is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0306-9192 and its online ISSN is 1873-5657.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Food Policy has an h-index of 195 and a 2-year mean of 6.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Food Policy published 181 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (34.4%), China (13.7%) and Germany (8.1%).
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.
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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