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Journal of Food and Drug Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. Published by National Laboratories of Foods and Drugs.
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ISSN 1021-9498Verify ISSN ↗2224-6614Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Laboratories of Foods and Drugs
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 129 / 420 | 69th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 125 / 328 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
Journal of Food and Drug Analysis is Q2 in Food Science (rank 129 of 420) and Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 125 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Food and Drug Analysis 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.630, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 95.
Journal of Food and Drug Analysis is published by National Laboratories of Foods and Drugs. Its print ISSN is 1021-9498 and its online ISSN is 2224-6614.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Food and Drug Analysis has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 3.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
Journal of Food and Drug Analysis published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 1,061. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Taiwan (47.7%), China (20%) and Indonesia (4.7%).
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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