Food Chemistry: impact and ranking
Food Chemistry has a 2-year mean citedness of 10.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #374 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 399. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 10.3 #374 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 399 #205 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.8M #64 of 18,122
- Works
- 53k 52.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Food Chemistry?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Food Chemistry: 10.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Food Chemistry #374 of 18,122 journals, in the top 2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Food Chemistry?
OpenAlex gives Food Chemistry an h-index of 399: 399 of its papers have each been cited at least 399 times. That ranks #205 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Food Chemistry publish?
OpenAlex records 52,518 works in Food Chemistry from 1887 to 2026, cited 2,777,232 times in all, 52.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #64 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Food Chemistry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0308-8146
- In OpenAlex
- 1887 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Food Chemistry as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,930.
- OpenAlex record
- S98026630
Journals ranked near Food Chemistry
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Food Chemistry on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 339 | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 10.7 | 428 |
| 346 | Desalination | 10.7 | 283 |
| 356 | Renewable Energy | 10.5 | 319 |
| 375 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 10.2 | 340 |
| 376 | Genome biology | 10.2 | 388 |
| 383 | Construction and Building Materials | 10.1 | 353 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.