Journal profile · Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Food and Energy Security
ISSN 2048-3694 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · United Kingdom
Food and Energy Security: CAS Zone 2 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.55; fully open access; APC about USD 4,610; median 140 days to acceptance (99 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 32% (journal website); 156 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Food and Energy Security is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd and is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement, Climate change impacts on agriculture and Agricultural Innovations and Practices, together about 22.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Food and Energy Security seeks to publish high quality and high impact original research on agricultural crop and forest productivity to improve food and energy security. It actively seeks submissions from emerging countries with expanding agricultural research communities. Papers from China, other parts of Asia, India and South America are particularly welcome. The Editorial Board, headed by Co-Editors-in-Chief Professor Christine Foyer and Dr Jonathan Ingram, is determined to make FES the leading publication in its sector. Primary research articles should report hypothesis driven investigations that provide new insights into mechanisms and processes that determine productivity and properties for exploitation. Review articles are welcome but they must be critical in approach and provide particularly novel and far reaching insights. Food and Energy Security offers authors a forum for the discussion of the most important advances in this field and promotes an integrative approach of scientific disciplines. Papers must contribute substantially to the advancement of knowledge. Examples of areas covered in Food and Energy Security include: • Agronomy• Biotechnological Approaches• Breeding & Genetics• Climate Change• Quality and Composition• Food Crops and Bioenergy Feedstocks• Developmental, Physiology and Biochemistry• Functional Genomics• Molecular Biology• Pest and Disease Management• Political, economic and societal influences on food security and agricultural crop production• Post Harvest Biology• Soil Science• Systems BiologyThe journal is Open Access and published online. Submission of manuscripts to Food and Energy Security is exclusively via a web-based electronic submission and tracking system enabling rapid submission to first decision times. Before submitting a paper for publication, potential authors should first read the Author Guidelines. Instructions as to how to upload your manuscript can be found on ScholarOne Manuscripts. Keywords Agricultural economics, Agriculture, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Breeding, Composition, Development, Diseases, Feedstocks, Food, Food Security, Food Safety, Forestry, Functional Genomics, Genetics, Horticulture, Pests, Phenomics, Plant Architecture, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Science. Quality Traits, Secondary Metabolites, Social policies, Weed Science. Abstracting and Indexing Information Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI) AgBiotechNet (CABI) AGRICOLA Database (National Agric
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Editor-in-chief Christine FoyerPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Rice Cultivation and Yield ImprovementAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.2%
- Climate change impacts on agricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.6%
- Agricultural Innovations and PracticesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.5%
- Crop Yield and Soil FertilityAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.6%
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolismAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.2%
- Plant Stress Responses and ToleranceAgricultural and Biological Sciences5%
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping SystemsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.8%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceCASCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: 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
- 4.55LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 4.6Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 8.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 8.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.07LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.47LetPub ·
- h-index
- 19LetPub ·
- h-index
- 66OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 395OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.52OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 139LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 140Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 425,407Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 932 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 134 | 134 | 72 |
| 2025 | 156 | 156 | 728 |
| 2024 | 97 | 97 | 950 |
| 2023 | 81 | 81 | 1,008 |
| 2022 | 92 | 92 | 2,529 |
| 2021 | 89 | 89 | 2,148 |
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
140 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 98 days – 184 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 15 days (99 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 157 days
- Sample
- 99 articles with submission and acceptance dates (295 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 19 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 32%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 32%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 60 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 60 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 169 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 19 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 | USD 4,610 / GBP 2,610 / EUR 4,050 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 4,190 / EUR 3,050 / GBP 2,610 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 3,630 / GBP 2,260 / EUR 2,640 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted4, with length limits
- commentarybeen recently published in the journal. Commentaries should include 1 figure and be no more than 1000 words in length with up to 10 references (not included in …main text ≤ 1,000 words
- editorial• EditorialLength not stated
- original article• Original articleLength not stated
- review• ReviewLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Peer review, Preprints
- Data availability Data Sharing
Data archiving in public repository expected Model summary
Food and Energy Security recognizes the many benefits of archiving research data. Food and Energy Security expects you to archive all the data from which your published results are derived in a public repository. The repository that you choose should offer you guaranteed preservation (see the registry of research data repositories at https://www.re3data.org/) and should help you make it findable, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 1. Submission and Peer Review Process
Single-blind peer review Model summary
Free Format submission Food and Energy Security now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. Before you submit, you will need: Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files – whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract (which does need to be…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint servers allowed Model summary
Food and Energy Security will consider for review articles previously available on preprint servers. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Authors may also post the final published version of the article immediately after publication.
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-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2048-3694
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 15, Issue 5 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Food and Energy Security
What CAS zone is Food and Energy Security in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Food and Energy Security is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Food Science & Technology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Food and Energy Security?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.55; CiteScore 8.7, h-index 66.
How long does peer review take at Food and Energy Security?
Based on the dates recorded on 99 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 140 days (interquartile range 98–184 days); authors report an average review time of about 19 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 32% (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 Food and Energy Security?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; 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.
Which databases index Food and Energy Security?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Food and Energy Security is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, CAS, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Food and Energy Security open access, and what is the APC?
Food and Energy Security is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 4,610.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .