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World Food Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2372-8639Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,140 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 253 / 745 | 66th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 259 / 744 | 65th | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 121 / 253 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Food Science | 254 / 420 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
World Food Policy is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 253 of 745), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 259 of 744) and Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 121 of 253), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
World Food Policy is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2, 66th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.323, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,140 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.
World Food Policy is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2372-8639.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Food Policy has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 1.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
World Food Policy published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 23. 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 74 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (10.1%), United States (8.7%) and United Kingdom (6.9%).
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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