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Preventive Nutrition and Food Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition.
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ISSN 2287-1098Verify ISSN ↗2287-8602Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 164 / 420 | 61st | Q2 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 67 / 147 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Preventive Nutrition and Food Science is Q2 in Food Science (rank 164 of 420) and Q2 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 67 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Preventive Nutrition and Food Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.614, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
Preventive Nutrition and Food Science is published by Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition. Its print ISSN is 2287-1098 and its online ISSN is 2287-8602.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Preventive Nutrition and Food Science has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 2.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #163 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
Preventive Nutrition and Food Science published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 92. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (40.9%), Indonesia (15.2%) and Iran (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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