Journal profile · Food Science & Technology
Agribusiness
ISSN 0742-4477 · eISSN 1520-6297 · Wiley-VCH Verlag · UNITED STATES · Quarterly
Agribusiness: CAS Zone 3 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.4; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,800; median 196 days to acceptance (97 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 128 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Agribusiness is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag and is in Zone 3 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets, Organic Food and Agriculture and Agricultural Economics and Policy, together about 34.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Agribusiness: An International Journal publishes research that improves our understanding of how food systems work, how they are evolving, and how public and/or private actions affect the performance of the global agro-industrial complex. The journal focuses on applying economics, marketing, management, policy and beyond analysis to the organization and performance of firms and markets in industrial food systems. Subject matter areas include supply and demand analysis, industrial organization analysis, price and trade analysis, marketing, finance, and public policy analysis. International, cross-country comparative, and within-country studies are welcome.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Food Science & Technology
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 10%); most named United States 18, Mainland China 5, Canada 5, Germany 4, Netherlands 4 (49 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Economics of Agriculture and Food MarketsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance17.2%
- Organic Food and AgricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences9.2%
- Agricultural Economics and PolicyAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.1%
- Global trade and economicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.8%
- Consumer Market Behavior and PricingBusiness, Management and Accounting6.5%
- Wine Industry and TourismBusiness, Management and Accounting6%
- Agricultural Innovations and PracticesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.8%
- Economic and Environmental ValuationEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Agricultural Economics & Policy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Agricultural Economics & Policy | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Agricultural Economics & Policy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePubMedINSPECPsycINFOCAB AbstractsEconLitCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, AGRICOLA
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 2.4LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38LetPub ·
- h-index
- 75OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 892OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.31OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 12.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 43.13%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 113LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 120Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 178,276Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,463 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 103 | 53 | 19 |
| 2025 | 128 | 75 | 232 |
| 2024 | 124 | 82 | 569 |
| 2023 | 98 | 66 | 796 |
| 2022 | 73 | 33 | 859 |
| 2021 | 45 | 14 | 553 |
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 Crossref · to
196 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 133 days – 271 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (98 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 209 days
- Sample
- 97 articles with submission and acceptance dates (253 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".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 12%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 12%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 190 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,800 / EUR 3,230 / GBP 2,500 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≤ 7
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted2, with length limits
- letterArticle Type Description Length Abstract / Structure Other Requirements Research Article reports of new research findings or conceptual analyses with an empiric…main text ≤ 2,500 words
- research articleArticle Type Description Length Abstract / Structure Other Requirements Research Article reports of new research findings or conceptual analyses with an empiric…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use AI Policy
Any AI-assisted technologies used in preparing a manuscript are limited to language editing and readability improvement and are not used to generate scientific content, analysis, interpretations, or conclusions.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author Contributions
mandates CRediT author contributions Model summary
For all articles, this journal mandates the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy)—more information is available on our Author Services site.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Availability
This journal mandates data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
uses iThenticate CrossCheck for plagiarism detection Model summary
This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Reproduction of Copyright Material
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Agribusiness is a subscription journal that offers an open access option. You'll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an APC, unless a waiver applies. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 1. Submission and Peer Review Process
double-blind peer review; anonymize manuscript and supply separate title page file Model summary
Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://authors.wiley.com/journal/AGR For help with submissions, please contact: Julieana Durai, agreditorial@wiley.com This journal does not charge submission fees. AI Policy Any AI-assisted technologies used in preparing a manuscript are limited to language editing…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
preprints allowed; submitted version may be posted to preprint server Model summary
Agribusiness will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-VCH Verlag
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 0742-4477
- Electronic ISSN
- 1520-6297
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 42, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Agribusiness
What CAS zone is Agribusiness in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Agribusiness is in Zone 3 of Economics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Economics / Food Science & Technology / Agricultural Economics & Policy. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Agribusiness?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.4; CiteScore 5.7, h-index 75.
How long does peer review take at Agribusiness?
Based on the dates recorded on 97 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 196 days (interquartile range 133–271 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 12% (2025). 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Agribusiness?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≤ 7; Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Agribusiness based?
Of the 49 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 10%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (18), Mainland China (5) and Canada (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Agribusiness?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Agribusiness is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PubMed, INSPEC, PsycINFO, CAB Abstracts, EconLit and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Agribusiness open access, and what is the APC?
Agribusiness is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,800.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .