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International Journal of Food Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1556-3758Verify ISSN ↗2194-5764Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 130 / 300 | 56th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 211 / 420 | 49th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 193 / 325 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
International Journal of Food Engineering is Q2 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 130 of 300), Q3 in Food Science (rank 211 of 420) and Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 193 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Food Engineering 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.369, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
International Journal of Food Engineering is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1556-3758 and its online ISSN is 2194-5764.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Food Engineering has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 268 Scopus journals in Engineering (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Food Engineering published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 116. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (50.5%), India (15.2%) and Türkiye (8.1%). 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. 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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