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International Food Research Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Universiti Putra Malaysia.
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ISSN 1985-4668Verify ISSN ↗2231-7546Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 257 / 420 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2027 (also 2007–2025), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
International Food Research Journal is Q3 in Food Science (rank 257 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
International Food Research Journal 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.299, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 79.
International Food Research Journal is published by Universiti Putra Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 1985-4668 and its online ISSN is 2231-7546.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Food Research Journal has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #217 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
International Food Research Journal published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 174. 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 87 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from Malaysia (24.1%), China (21.3%) and Indonesia (8.6%).
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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