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Food Science and Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by The Korean Society of Food Science and Technology.
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ISSN 1226-7708Verify ISSN ↗2092-6456Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Korean Society of Food Science and Technology
Cost to publish: About US$2,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 115 / 420 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 125 / 325 | 61st | Q2 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 52 / 134 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.
Food Science and Biotechnology is Q2 in Food Science (rank 115 of 420), Q2 in Biotechnology (rank 125 of 325) and Q2 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 52 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Food Science and Biotechnology 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 6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.744, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 77.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,190 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 Science and Biotechnology is published by The Korean Society of Food Science and Technology. Its print ISSN is 1226-7708 and its online ISSN is 2092-6456.
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 Science and Biotechnology has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 4.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
Food Science and Biotechnology published 279 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 305. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from South Korea (52.9%), China (18.7%) and India (4.2%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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