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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems.
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ISSN 2152-0798Verify ISSN ↗2152-0801Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 279 / 744 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 429 / 876 | 51st | Q2 |
| Development | 167 / 314 | 46th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 213 / 387 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 279 of 744), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 429 of 876) and Q3 in Development (rank 167 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.431, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$500 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.
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development is published by Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems. Its print ISSN is 2152-0798 and its online ISSN is 2152-0801.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #336 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development published 152 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (70.1%), Canada (7.5%) and Indonesia (4.7%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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