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Journal of Food Quality is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0146-9428Verify ISSN ↗1745-4557Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 27 / 282 | 90th | Q1 |
| Food Science | 68 / 420 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present (also 1977), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Journal of Food Quality is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 27 of 282) and Q1 in Food Science (rank 68 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Food Quality 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.666, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,570 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 Quality is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0146-9428 and its online ISSN is 1745-4557.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Food Quality has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Journal of Food Quality published 127 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 311. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (16.1%), Türkiye (14%) and Ethiopia (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 88 retracted papers are recorded (23.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 14 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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