International Journal of Food Microbiology

ISSN 0168-1605 · Elsevier BV · Netherlands · active 1984–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
5.3
SJR
1.116
h-index
269

“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 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, International Journal of Food Microbiology is Q1 in 3 of its 4 subject categories and Q2 in the other 1. Its best category quartile is Q1.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of International Journal of Food Microbiology in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityQ1#20 of 221
Food ScienceQ1#54 of 422
Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1#423 of 2,517
MicrobiologyQ2#56 of 192
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
6.32
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
403

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).

International Journal of Food Microbiology is Q1 in 3 of its 4 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: Q1, #20 of 221), with SJR 1.116 (Scimago) and an h-index of 269 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

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ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
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Scope

listeriamonocytogenesfoodsafetybiotechnologyprobioticsfermentedfoodssalmonellacampylobacterepidemiologymicrobial

Frequently asked

Is International Journal of Food Microbiology a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag International Journal of Food Microbiology. 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 Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is International Journal of Food Microbiology indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, International Journal of Food Microbiology appears in: 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 International Journal of Food Microbiology?

Papers in International Journal of Food Microbiology are cited about 5.3 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 269. 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 International Journal of Food Microbiology (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, International Journal of Food Microbiology is Q1 in 3 of its 4 subject categories and Q2 in the other 1. By category: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: Q1, #20 of 221; Food Science: Q1, #54 of 422; Medicine (miscellaneous): Q1, #423 of 2,517; Microbiology: Q2, #56 of 192. 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; International Journal of Food Microbiology is cited about 5.3 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 269.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of International Journal of Food Microbiology?

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 International Journal of Food Microbiology. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 2 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 International Journal of Food Microbiology open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". 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.

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