Journal profile · Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agronomy and Crop Science
Agriculture and Food Security
ISSN 2048-7010 · Springer Nature · United Kingdom
Agriculture and Food Security: CAS Zone 1 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 6.1 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,390; median 222 days to acceptance (95 articles, last 24 months); 53 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Agriculture and Food Security is published by Springer Nature and is classed under Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations and Child Nutrition and Water Access, together about 37.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Agriculture & Food Security is a peer-reviewed open access journal that addresses the challenge of food security. It publishes articles within the field of food security research, with a particular focus on research that may inform more sustainable agriculture and food systems that better address local, regional, national and/or global food and nutritional insecurity. Agriculture & Food Security may welcome contributions from relevant academic disciplines, including agricultural, ecological, environmental, nutritional, public health and policy, however particularly encourages research focused on economic analyses and conveying policy implications. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
· Agricultural and environmental sciences, including genetics and systems ecology
· Global change, biodiversity and sustainability
· Agricultural and food economics and policy
· Food technology and innovation
· Information sciences and decision theory
· Health economics and policy for food and nutritional security
· Strategies for the implementation of new policies and practices The pioneering advances in research reported in Agriculture & Food Security have far reaching implications both for the developing world and for sustainability in the developed world. The published articles are accessible not only to researchers, but are also of special interest to the wider community of farmers, development and public health workers, policy makers and the general public.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agronomy and Crop Science
Editor-in-chief Fabio SanteramoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 13, United Kingdom 8, India 7, South Africa 7, Italy 5 (65 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Agricultural Innovations and PracticesAgricultural and Biological Sciences15.6%
- Food Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsHealth Professions12.1%
- Child Nutrition and Water AccessNursing9.7%
- Agricultural risk and resilienceAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.6%
- Climate change impacts on agricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.6%
- Urban Agriculture and SustainabilityAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.9%
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.8%
- Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareSocial Sciences3.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Agriculture, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
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 (publisher) 2025
- 6.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.09LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 79OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 437OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.24OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.36%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 52LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 1,100,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 672 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 79 | 79 | 65 |
| 2025 | 53 | 53 | 306 |
| 2024 | 54 | 54 | 604 |
| 2023 | 52 | 52 | 1,573 |
| 2022 | 59 | 59 | 1,844 |
| 2021 | 62 | 62 | 3,320 |
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
222 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 153 days – 351 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 109 days (95 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 334 days
- Sample
- 95 articles with submission and acceptance dates (145 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)
- about 41 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 9 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 41 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 2,090 / USD 2,390 / GBP 1,890 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,290 / EUR 1,990 / GBP 1,790 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,890 / USD 2,390 / EUR 2,090 | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted6
- book reviewBook Review Commentary Meeting Report Methodology Research ReviewLength not stated
- commentaryBook Review Commentary Meeting Report Methodology Research ReviewLength not stated
- meeting reportBook Review Commentary Meeting Report Methodology Research ReviewLength not stated
- methodologyBook Review Commentary Meeting Report Methodology Research ReviewLength not stated
- researchBook Review Commentary Meeting Report Methodology Research ReviewLength not stated
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. Agriculture & Food Security articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribu…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review policy Model summary
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
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
- Springer Nature
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2048-7010
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Agriculture and Food Security
What CAS zone is Agriculture and Food Security in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Agriculture and Food Security?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 6.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 9.6, h-index 79.
How long does peer review take at Agriculture and Food Security?
Based on the dates recorded on 95 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 222 days (interquartile range 153–351 days); authors report an average review time of about 41 weeks. 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 Agriculture and Food Security?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: APA; Templates: LaTeX and Word; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional. 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 Agriculture and Food Security based?
Of the 65 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 3 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (13), United Kingdom (8) and India (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Agriculture and Food Security?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Agriculture and Food Security is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Agriculture and Food Security open access, and what is the APC?
Agriculture and Food Security is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,390.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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: .