Journal of Food Science: impact and ranking
Journal of Food Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.09 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,517 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 252. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.09 #2,517 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 252 #827 of 18,122
- Citations
- 939k #402 of 18,122
- Works
- 28k 32.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Food Science?
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 Journal of Food Science: 4.09, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Food Science #2,517 of 18,122 journals, in the top 14%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Food Science?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Food Science an h-index of 252: 252 of its papers have each been cited at least 252 times. That ranks #827 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Food Science publish?
OpenAlex records 28,489 works in Journal of Food Science from 1936 to 2026, cited 938,638 times in all, 32.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #402 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Food Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0022-1147
- In OpenAlex
- 1936 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Food Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,550.
- OpenAlex record
- S23579880
Journals ranked near Journal of Food Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Food Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,497 | Endocrinology | 4.11 | 374 |
| 2,504 | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | 4.10 | 369 |
| 2,507 | Geology | 4.10 | 325 |
| 2,566 | Applied Physics Letters | 4.05 | 562 |
| 2,591 | Physical review. B./Physical review. B | 4.03 | 220 |
| 2,643 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry C | 3.99 | 372 |
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.