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Foodborne Pathogens and Disease is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1535-3141Verify ISSN ↗1556-7125Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 94 / 520 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Food Science | 174 / 420 | 58th | Q2 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 74 / 134 | 45th | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 118 / 194 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 94 of 520), Q2 in Food Science (rank 174 of 420) and Q3 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 74 of 134), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.542, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1535-3141 and its online ISSN is 1556-7125.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 2.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease published 118 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 156. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (35.2%), United States (11.7%) and India (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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