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npj Science of Food is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2396-8370Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 52 / 725 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Food Science | 69 / 420 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.3.
npj Science of Food is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 52 of 725) and Q1 in Food Science (rank 69 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
npj Science of Food 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 8.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.609, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,790 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.
npj Science of Food is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2396-8370.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
npj Science of Food has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
npj Science of Food published 312 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (60.1%), United States (5.1%) and United Kingdom (3.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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.
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