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Food Security is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1876-4517Verify ISSN ↗1876-4525Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 7 / 314 | 97th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 16 / 422 | 96th | Q1 |
| Food Science | 24 / 420 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
Food Security is Q1 in Development (rank 7 of 314), Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 16 of 422) and Q1 in Food Science (rank 24 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Food Security 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 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.503, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 98.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,790 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 Security is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1876-4517 and its online ISSN is 1876-4525.
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 Security has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 3.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Food Security published 113 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 129. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.9%), China (12.8%) and Germany (9.5%).
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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