EFSA Journal

EFSA Journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Agricultural safety and regulations, Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, together about 57.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Editorial policy The EFSA Journal is an open access, online journal which publishes the scientific outputs of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). It neither accepts nor commissions third party content. All articles published in the EFSA Journal are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY ND) which allows users to copy, distribute and transmit an article, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author(s). Articles are published continuously i.e. as soon as a scientific output is finalised, it is published in the EFSA Journal. All outputs published since EFSA’s inception in 2003 are retrievable in the “All Issues” section. Scientific outputs published in a particular month represent an issue. A volume includes all issues of a year. The outputs are published chronologically. All articles published in the EFSA Journal have been screened by CrossCheck similarity software prior to acceptance. To find out more about CrossCheck visit https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/. The EFSA Journal is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the European Food Safety Authority. Scope of the EFSA Journal The EFSA Journal covers methods of risk assessment, reports on data collected, and risk assessments in the individual areas of plant health, plant protection products and their residues, genetically modified organisms, additives and products or substances used in animal feed, animal health and welfare, biological hazards including BSE/TSE, contaminants in the food chain, food contact materials, enzymes, flavourings and processing aids, food additives and nutrient sources added to food, dietetic products, nutrition and allergies. EFSA Scientific Outputs The following types of documents are published in the EFSA Journal: Scientific Opinions of Scientific Committee/Panel: Opinion of the Scientific Committee/Panel Statement of the Scientific Committee/Panel Guidance of the Scientific Committee/Panel Other scientific outputs of EFSA, which are not prepared by the Scientific Committee/Panels: Statement of EFSA Guidance of EFSA Conclusion on Pesticide Peer Review Reasoned Opinion Scientific Report of EFSA Quality Management The scientific publications of the European Food Safety Authority are produced in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002. Every stage of the production life cycle is subject to EFSA’s quality management programme from

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Veterinary-Veterinary (miscellaneous)

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePubMedCASCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor

3.46LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

3.8Publisher website · 2026-09-20

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

5.9Publisher website · 2026-09-20

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

5.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.53LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

196OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,675OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.77OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

18.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

99.13%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

418LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher) 2025

436Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

4,778,458Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 5 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 5 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Unspecified 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.

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The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Country or region

ITALY

Language

English

ISSN

1831-4732

Latest issue on the website

Volume 24, Issue 9 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ