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Journal of Food Distribution Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), formerly ABDC C. Published by Food Distribution Research Society.
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ISSN 2643-3354Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Food Distribution Research Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 370 / 422 | 12th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 664 / 755 | 12th | Q4 |
| Food Science | 373 / 420 | 11th | Q4 |
| Marketing | 199 / 221 | 10th | Q4 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 206 / 225 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Food Distribution Research is Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 370 of 422), Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 664 of 755) and Q4 in Food Science (rank 373 of 420), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Food Distribution Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4, 12th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.150, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Food Distribution Research is published by Food Distribution Research Society. Its ISSN is 2643-3354.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Food Distribution Research has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #370 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Journal of Food Distribution Research published 2 papers in 2017; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 4. 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.
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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