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Journal of Food Safety and Food Quality is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS SCIE. Published by IMR Press Limited.
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ISSN 0003-925XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IMR Press Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 371 / 420 | 11th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 384 / 432 | 11th | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 181 / 194 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1973–1989, 1959–1961), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Food Safety and Food Quality is Q4 in Food Science (rank 371 of 420), Q4 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 384 of 432) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 181 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Food Safety and 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of Food Safety and Food Quality is published by IMR Press Limited. Its ISSN is 0003-925X.
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 Safety and Food Quality has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #275 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
Journal of Food Safety and Food Quality published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 23. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (40%), China (17.6%) and Algeria (6.3%).
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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