Journal profile · FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Food & Nutrition Research
ISSN 1654-6628 · eISSN 1654-661X · Swedish Nutrition Foundation · SWEDEN
Food & Nutrition Research: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.13; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 117 days to acceptance (84 articles, last 24 months); 53 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Food & Nutrition Research is published by Swedish Nutrition Foundation and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Nutritional Studies and Diet, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet and Diet and metabolism studies, together about 37% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Nutrition and Dietetics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Food & Nutrition Research is a non-profit, open access, peer-reviewed journal that presents scientific research in various fields within human nutrition. The purpose of Food & Nutrition Research is to publish original research studies directly relevant to human nutrition. Food & Nutrition Research encompasses the full spectrum of nutritional science, including public health nutrition, nutritional epidemiology and clinical nutrition. Food & Nutrition Research welcomes original papers, reviews and commentaries. Suggestions for special issues covering selected topics may be considered. Food & Nutrition Research is devoted to publish manuscripts that advance the knowledge of human nutrition beyond state-of-the-art. Animal, cell and molecular studies will only be considered if they are clearly relevant to scientific questions related to human nutrition. This could be by contributing to mechanistic explanations for associations between diet and health identified in clinical or epidemiological human nutritional studies. Manuscripts describing research in food chemistry (such as the chemical composition and analysis of foods), including exotic plants, extracts and ingredients, are generally not considered eligible unless the results have a clear impact on human nutrition and/or human health. The focus of all manuscripts submitted to Food & Nutrition Research should be to increase knowledge in human nutritional science. Authors may contact the Editor-in-Chief in advance to inquire about whether their research topic is suitable for consideration by Food & Nutrition Research. Through an Open Access publishing model, Food & Nutrition Research provides an important forum where nutrition researchers in academic, public and private arenas can present the latest results from research on human nutrition in a broad sense.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Editor-in-chief SNF SwedishPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Sweden 1, Norway 1, Finland 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Nutritional Studies and DietMedicine19.4%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, DietMedicine10%
- Diet and metabolism studiesMedicine7.7%
- Consumer Attitudes and Food LabelingMedicine6.3%
- Fatty Acid Research and HealthNursing4.8%
- Food composition and propertiesNursing4.6%
- Diet, Metabolism, and DiseaseMedicine4%
- Nutrition, Genetics, and DiseaseBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Nutrition & Dietetics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Nutrition & Dietetics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Nutrition & Dietetics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Index MedicusPublisher website
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
- 4.13LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.09LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.14LetPub ·
- h-index
- 30LetPub ·
- h-index
- 81OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 725OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.83OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.95%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 48LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,229 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 38 | 38 | 7 |
| 2025 | 53 | 53 | 140 |
| 2024 | 69 | 69 | 625 |
| 2023 | 84 | 84 | 1,030 |
| 2022 | 53 | 53 | 1,006 |
| 2021 | 62 | 62 | 1,421 |
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
117 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 62 days – 230 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 52 days (83 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 191 days
- Sample
- 84 articles with submission and acceptance dates (98 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 14 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 14 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 2,250 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | EUR 1,950 | — | — | |
| LetPub | EUR 1,950 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | EUR 2,250 / USD 2,500 / USD 100 / EUR 275 / USD 325 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- EUR 90
- Submission fee
- EUR 2,250
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 200–300 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 5
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 5
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteConflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Conflicts of interest Declaration of competing interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential competing interests include:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and License Notice
Authors retain copyright to their own article. Model summary
Authors contributing to Food & Nutrition Research agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, for any purpose, even commercially, under the condition that appropriate credit is given, that a link to the license is provided, an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Open access under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license. Model summary
Food & Nutrition Research is published Open Access under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license. Authors retain full copyright. For more information see the copyright section below. Articles are published immediately upon the final corrections of the master proof having been made. All articles are assigned a DOI number (Digital Object Identifier). Food & Nutrition Research is accessible via the jour…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Double-blind peer review; authors must remove identifying information from documents. Model summary
Papers submitted to Food & Nutrition Research are subject to rigorous peer review so as to ensure that the research published is 'good science'. Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail. Although the peer review process is accelerated by the use of electronic communication, traditional, high-quality peer-review standards are applied to all m…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism Detection
Plagiarism screening with Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate) on all submissions before publication. Model summary
Food and Nutrition Research uses Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) to screen all submissions for plagiarism before publication, but authors, researchers and freelancers can also use iThenticate to screen their work before submission by visiting http://research.ithenticate.com.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Author Self-Archiving
Automatic deposit of all articles in PubMed Central. Model summary
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post any version of their manuscript to personal or institutional websites, in repositories and similar, prior to and after publication (while providing the bibliographic details of that publication).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting Guidelines
Submitted manuscripts should follow the recommendations stated in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. In addition, please follow the respective guidelines for different study designs: For fields/clinical trials, please follow the CONSORT guidelines For observational studies, please follow the STROBE guidelines For systematic reviews and meta-analysis, please …
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
- Swedish Nutrition Foundation
- Country or region
- SWEDEN
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1654-6628
- Electronic ISSN
- 1654-661X
- Society / sponsor
- Open Academia
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- 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 Food & Nutrition Research
What CAS zone is Food & Nutrition Research in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Food & Nutrition Research is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Food Science & Technology / Nutrition & Dietetics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Food & Nutrition Research?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.13; CiteScore 7.1, h-index 81.
How long does peer review take at Food & Nutrition Research?
Based on the dates recorded on 84 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 117 days (interquartile range 62–230 days); authors report an average review time of about 14 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 Food & Nutrition Research?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 200–300 words; Keywords: ≥ 5; Reference style: Vancouver; Suggested reviewers: Required, 5; Cover letter: 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 Food & Nutrition Research based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Sweden (1), Norway (1) and Finland (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Food & Nutrition Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Food & Nutrition Research is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Food & Nutrition Research open access, and what is the APC?
Food & Nutrition Research is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, 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: .