Journal profile · Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Food Safety and Risk
ISSN 2731-9245 · BMC · United Kingdom
Food Safety and Risk: impact factor 2.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,490; median 101 days to acceptance (56 articles, last 24 months); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Food Safety and Risk is published by BMC. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Food Safety and Hygiene, Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology and Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food, together about 30.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The United Nations's second Sustainable Development Goal, Zero Hunger, aims to end world hunger by 2030. Access to safe food is imperative for achieving this goal. Food Safety and Risk is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that aims to contribute to this need by providing a multidisciplinary forum for all research dedicated to the perspective of risk assessment in promoting food safety, by encouraging more studies presenting risk/benefit analyses of scenarios impacting food safety. Areas such as biological, chemical, and physical hazards, food hygiene, water safety are included in the scope of the journal. It aims to create a forum welcoming all scientists whose research interests have relevance for food safety, including social, economic, and systemic approaches. Key topics of interest include: Risk/benefit assessments of food, nutrition and diets Biological, chemical, and physical hazards Drinking water safety Clean water for food production and food safety Emerging hazards Decontamination methods and applications Food preservation and storage Allergens and food safety Risk/benefit assessments of food from Genetically Modified Organisms Environmental and climate change effects on food safety Scientific studies analyzing the impact of migration, war, conflict, and extreme weather on food safety Food safety and risk in livelihoods and land ecosystems Food safety and risk in local and indigenous food systems Impact of food processing and manufacture (both established and novel methods) on food safety and health Novel methods for the detection of contaminants Toxicology of food contaminants Predictive models in food safety Risk management in food production and distribution
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Editor-in-chief Godfred DarkoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 6%); most named Italy 3, Spain 3, Belgium 3, Serbia 3, Mainland China 2 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Food Safety and HygieneAgricultural and Biological Sciences11.2%
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and FoodAgricultural and Biological Sciences9.2%
- Identification and Quantification in FoodBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.1%
- Heavy metals in environmentEnvironmental Science6.1%
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food SafetyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.1%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental ImpactsEnvironmental Science4.1%
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy CowsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.1%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
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)
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.68LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.87LetPub ·
- h-index
- 8OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.53OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 166,400Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 63 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 38 | 38 | 20 |
| 2025 | 17 | 17 | 57 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 2023 | 6 | 6 | 73 |
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
101 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 69 days – 163 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 21 days (56 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 124 days
- Sample
- 56 articles with submission and acceptance dates (52 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 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 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 2,190 / USD 2,490 / GBP 1,890 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,690 / USD 2,290 / EUR 1,990 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,890 / USD 2,490 / EUR 2,190 | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted5
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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. Food Safety and Risk articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution No…
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 - Who decides whether my work will be accepted? 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
- BMC
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2731-9245
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- 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 Safety and Risk
What is the impact factor of Food Safety and Risk?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.6, h-index 8.
How long does peer review take at Food Safety and Risk?
Based on the dates recorded on 56 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 101 days (interquartile range 69–163 days); authors report an average review time of about 13 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Food Safety and Risk based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (3), Spain (3) and Belgium (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Food Safety and Risk?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Food Safety and Risk is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Food Safety and Risk open access, and what is the APC?
Food Safety and Risk is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,490.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, DOAJ, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .