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Journal of the Institute of Brewing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. Published by Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers.
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ISSN 0046-9750Verify ISSN ↗2050-0416Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers
Cost to publish: About US$3,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 181 / 420 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1914–present (also 1910–1912, 1908, 1904), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Journal of the Institute of Brewing is Q2 in Food Science (rank 181 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Institute of Brewing 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.507, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 71.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,450 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 the Institute of Brewing is published by Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers. Its print ISSN is 0046-9750 and its online ISSN is 2050-0416.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Institute of Brewing has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #259 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
Journal of the Institute of Brewing published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 102. 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 81 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (20.4%), China (17.9%) and Brazil (11.7%).
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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