Journal profile · FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Food Safety and Health
ISSN 2835-1096
Food Safety and Health: CAS Zone 2 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 5.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,500; median 103 days to acceptance (90 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 36% (journal website); 82 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Food Safety and Health is classed under Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities, Food composition and properties and Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, together about 18.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMedicine6.9%
- Food composition and propertiesNursing6%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.5%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5.5%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science5.5%
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food SafetyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.1%
- Natural Antidiabetic Agents StudiesMedicine5.1%
- Biosensors and Analytical DetectionEngineering5.1%
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 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 5.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.3Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.22OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 87LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 72Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 103,889Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 224 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 56 | 56 | 22 |
| 2025 | 82 | 82 | 228 |
| 2024 | 62 | 62 | 594 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 187 |
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
103 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 70 days – 164 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 15 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 120 days
- Sample
- 90 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 36%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 105 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 17 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 | USD 2,500 / GBP 2,880 / EUR 2,400 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 3,000 / EUR 2,850 / GBP 2,500 | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Understanding open access
Food Safety and Health is open access. All content is freely available to read, download and share immediately upon 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
- ISSN
- 2835-1096
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Food Safety and Health
What CAS zone is Food Safety and Health in?
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 Safety and Health?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 5.5 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 17.
How long does peer review take at Food Safety and Health?
Based on the dates recorded on 90 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 103 days (interquartile range 70–164 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 36% (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.
Which databases index Food Safety and Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Food Safety and Health is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ.
Is Food Safety and Health open access, and what is the APC?
Food Safety and Health is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,500.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .