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International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1878-450XVerify ISSN ↗1878-4518Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,580 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 22 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Food Science | 106 / 420 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2012), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 22 of 1434) and Q2 in Food Science (rank 106 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.673, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,580 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 Gastronomy and Food Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1878-450X and its online ISSN is 1878-4518.
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.
International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 3.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science published 301 papers in 2025. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (21.4%), Türkiye (14.3%) and Spain (12.6%).
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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