Journal profile · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences
ACS Food Science & Technology
ISSN 2692-1944 · American Chemical Society · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 2021
ACS Food Science & Technology: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3 (journal website); transformative journal; APC about USD 4,500; median 78 days to acceptance (16 articles, last 24 months); 431 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ACS Food Science & Technology is published by American Chemical Society and is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities, Proteins in Food Systems and Food composition and properties, together about 27.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Food Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
ACS Food Science & Technology is an international forum for cutting-edge original research in all areas of food science, technology, engineering, and nutrition. This interdisciplinary journal is focused on reports of new research related to characterization, development, processing, and safety of foods, as well as food waste and byproducts as sources of food additives. The Journal encourages submissions across all areas of fundamental and applied research in food sciences, with a special emphasis on topics including, but not limited to, areas of: Food security: Food science and microbiology; food toxicology and chemical food safety; nutrition; novel foods. Food preservation: Food quality and authenticity/origin; food engineering; food processing and packaging; nanotechnology and materials science in food. Health-promoting food ingredients: functional foods; bioavailability and microbiome.
Source: LetPub
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMedicine10.2%
- Proteins in Food SystemsAgricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
- Food composition and propertiesNursing7.3%
- Fermentation and Sensory AnalysisAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.2%
- Meat and Animal Product QualityAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.8%
- Nanocomposite Films for Food PackagingMaterials Science5.7%
- Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive PeptidesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.9%
- Microencapsulation and Drying ProcessesAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 40OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 394OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.28OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 23.06%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 396LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,764 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 270 | 99 | 93 |
| 2025 | 431 | 149 | 1,290 |
| 2024 | 322 | 89 | 1,972 |
| 2023 | 244 | 46 | 2,150 |
| 2022 | 222 | 49 | 2,778 |
| 2021 | 259 | 32 | 4,090 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
78 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 67 days – 103 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (16 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 109 days
- Sample
- 16 articles with submission and acceptance dates (19 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Transformative journalLetPub
A subscription journal moving to full open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,500 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 2021
- ISSN
- 2692-1944
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 6, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ACS Food Science & Technology
What CAS zone is ACS Food Science & Technology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ACS Food Science & Technology is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Food Science & Technology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ACS Food Science & Technology?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.4, h-index 40.
How long does peer review take at ACS Food Science & Technology?
Based on the dates recorded on 16 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 78 days (interquartile range 67–103 days). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index ACS Food Science & Technology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ACS Food Science & Technology is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is ACS Food Science & Technology open access, and what is the APC?
ACS Food Science & Technology is a transformative journal. APC about USD 4,500.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .