Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

ISSN 2571-581x · Frontiers Media · Switzerland · active 2017–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
4.3
SJR
0.768
h-index
110

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 18 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems is Q1 in 4 of its 6 subject categories and Q2 in the other 2. Its best category quartile is Q1.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
HorticultureQ1#12 of 127
Agronomy and Crop ScienceQ1#77 of 428
Food ScienceQ1#95 of 422
EcologyQ1#117 of 496
Global and Planetary ChangeQ2#63 of 126
Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ2#147 of 424
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
4.33
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
1,056

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems is Q1 in 4 of its 6 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Horticulture: Q1, #12 of 127), with SJR 0.768 (Scimago) and an h-index of 110 (OpenAlex). Listed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Responding time

Submission to acceptance
112 days (median)
Estimated from our library (29 papers)
Acceptance to publication
25 days (median)
Estimated from our library (29 papers)
Submission to publication
130 days (median)
Estimated from our library (29 papers)

Turnaround figures are indicative, not a guarantee: DOAJ values are self-reported by the journal (average weeks, submission to publication); library estimates are medians of the received/accepted dates printed in papers we hold. Editorial times vary by article type and season — confirm on the journal’s own site.

Indexing & access

Indexed in
DOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

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Scope

agriculturalinnovationspracticesbiologicalagriculturesustainabilityenvironmentalimpactecologyorganicfoodplant

Frequently asked

Is Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems appears in: DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems?

Papers in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems are cited about 4.3 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 110. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems is Q1 in 4 of its 6 subject categories and Q2 in the other 2. By category: Horticulture: Q1, #12 of 127; Agronomy and Crop Science: Q1, #77 of 428; Food Science: Q1, #95 of 422; Ecology: Q1, #117 of 496; Global and Planetary Change: Q2, #63 of 126; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: Q2, #147 of 424. Its best category quartile is Q1. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems is cited about 4.3 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 110.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q1 in Horticulture and 3 other categories, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

How long does Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems take to publish a paper?

Submission to acceptance for Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems takes about 112 days (median) — Estimated from our library (n=29 papers). Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

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