What are the best journals for Food Science?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Food Science journals include Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Trends in Food Science & Technology, Food Hydrocolloids, Food Chemistry, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. The top 40 of 212 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Food Science journals ranked?

Journals are placed by two independent classifications, OpenAlex's and Scimago's, plus any documented corrections. A journal both place under Food Science ranks ahead, within its Scimago quartile, of one only OpenAlex places there — because Scimago does not cover it, files it as Multidisciplinary, or files it under a neighbouring subject or only under a broad “(miscellaneous)” category (which counts as agreement when Food Science is the journal's main OpenAlex subfield). 10 journals OpenAlex files under Food Science are left out because OpenAlex's main field for them and Scimago's categories both place them in another discipline. By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, journals both sources place under Food Science come first, then venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Food Science come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Food Science — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Food Science — is listed after all the others. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Food Science journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Food Science paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Food Science · 212 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Food Science

The top 40 of 212 Food Science journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by whether OpenAlex and Scimago agree on the subject and how central Food Science is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), leaving out journals both place in another discipline, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 15 November 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

Match journals to your paper →

All Best open-access journals

1
Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
15.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
2
Trends in Food Science & Technology
15.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
3
Food Hydrocolloids
13.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
4
Food Chemistry
10.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
5
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
9.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
6
Current Opinion in Food Science
9.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
7
Current Research in Food Science
8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
8
LWT
7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
9
Foods
7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
10
Food Control
7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
11
Food Research International
7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
12
Food Chemistry Advances
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
13
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
6.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
14
Future Foods
6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
15
Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies
6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
16
Food Chemistry X
6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
17
npj Science of Food
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
18
Food & Function
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
19
Food Bioscience
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
20
Food and Bioprocess Technology
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
21
Journal of Food Engineering
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
22
Fermentation
5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
23
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
24
Food Science of Animal Resources
5.6 cites/paper · Q1
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
25
Food Reviews International
5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
ScopusWeb of Science
26
Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
27
International Journal of Food Microbiology
5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
28
International Journal of Food Science & Technology
5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
29
Food Microbiology
5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
30
Food Quality and Preference
5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
31
Food Science & Nutrition
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
32
International Journal of Food Properties
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Marcel Dekker
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
33
International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
34
Food Science and Biotechnology
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
35
Journal of Food Science
4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
36
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
37
British Food Journal
4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
38
Applied Food Research
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
39
EFSA Journal
3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
40
European Food Research and Technology
3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.