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Food Safety and Risk is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2731-9245Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 293 / 725 | 59th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 193 / 420 | 54th | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 93 / 151 | 38th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Food Safety and Risk is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 293 of 725), Q2 in Food Science (rank 193 of 420) and Q3 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 93 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Food Safety and Risk is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2, 59th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.683, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. Authors elsewhere should check the fee on the journal's own website.
Food Safety and Risk is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2731-9245.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Food Safety and Risk has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 1.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #331 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Food Safety and Risk published 17 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 62 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Ethiopia (18.5%), India (10.5%) and Ghana (7%).
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.
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