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Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0022-5142Verify ISSN ↗1097-0010Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,620 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 55 / 422 | 87th | Q1 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 22 / 147 | 85th | Q1 |
| Food Science | 72 / 420 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 84 / 325 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1950–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.1.
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture is Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 55 of 422), Q1 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 22 of 147) and Q1 in Food Science (rank 72 of 420), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 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 8.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.760, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 199.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,620 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 Science of Food and Agriculture is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0022-5142 and its online ISSN is 1097-0010.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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 Science of Food and Agriculture has an h-index of 240 and a 2-year mean of 3.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture published 773 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 906. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (47.6%), Türkiye (11.3%) and Brazil (3.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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