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Nutrients is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2072-6643Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: About US$3,499 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 12 / 147 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Food Science | 40 / 420 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.2.
Nutrients is Q1 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 12 of 147) and Q1 in Food Science (rank 40 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Nutrients 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 10.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.499, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 279.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,499 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.
Nutrients is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2072-6643.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Nutrients has an h-index of 333 and a 2-year mean of 6.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 146 Scopus journals in Nutrition and Dietetics.
Nutrients published 3,935 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 5,409. 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 (14.2%), United States (10%) and Italy (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 36 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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