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Frontiers in Food Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 2674-1121Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 60 / 253 | 76th | Q1 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 102 / 300 | 66th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 162 / 420 | 61st | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 161 / 325 | 50th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Frontiers in Food Science and Technology is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 60 of 253), Q2 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 102 of 300) and Q2 in Food Science (rank 162 of 420), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Frontiers in Food Science and Technology is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.584, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,353 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.
Frontiers in Food Science and Technology is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2674-1121.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Food Science and Technology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 4.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Frontiers in Food Science and Technology published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 55. 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 India (13.9%), South Africa (9%) and United States (6.1%).
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.
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