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Journal of Food Biochemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), WoS SCIE. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0145-8884Verify ISSN ↗1745-4514Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$2,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 13 / 155 | 91st | Q1 |
| Food Science | 43 / 420 | 89th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 38 / 328 | 88th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 58 / 289 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
Journal of Food Biochemistry is Q1 in Biophysics (rank 13 of 155), Q1 in Food Science (rank 43 of 420) and Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 38 of 328), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Food Biochemistry 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.859, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,700 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 Food Biochemistry is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0145-8884 and its online ISSN is 1745-4514.
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 Biochemistry has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Journal of Food Biochemistry published 215 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 492. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (29.7%), Bangladesh (9.8%) and Iran (6.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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