Journal profile · Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Food Technology and Biotechnology
ISSN 1330-9862 · eISSN 1334-2606 · University of Zagreb · CROATIA · Quarterly · Founded 1996
Food Technology and Biotechnology: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.87; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 267 days to acceptance (78 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: about 50%; 50 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Food Technology and Biotechnology is published by University of Zagreb 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 Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities, Food composition and properties and Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides, together about 23.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Food Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The following areas are covered in Food Technology and Biotechnology journal: Food engineering and preservation: production and characterization of novel and functional food and beverages; improvements of food preservation and processing operations; new techniques of separation and concentration of food components; advances in food waste recovery and wastewater treatment; development of new production processes for improvement of food quality; mathematical modelling, optimization and control of novel technological processes in food production; new insights into thermodynamic processes in complex food matrices. Food quality and analysis: physicochemical, nutritional and sensory properties of food; food quality attributes influenced by processing and storage; advances in food composition and quality analyses including development of sensors; analysis of postharvest physiological processes; methods for improving food quality and safety. Nutrition: role of nutrients in physiological mechanisms that influence health status; impact of dietary habits and intake of macro- and micronutrients on metabolism, microbiota and energy balance; dietary interventions in prevention and management of chronic diseases; therapeutic potential of nutrients, bioactive compounds and dietary supplements; development and implementation of new dietary assessment methods, omics technologies and bioinformatic tools for monitoring and improving nutritional outcomes. Applied microbiology: new insights into different biotechnological processes; production of novel enzymes, antibiotics, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics; application of enzymes and microorganisms in food processing and preservation as well as in the production of different biofuels and biochemicals; determination of parameters and methods of improving microbial growth or inactivation; identification, characterization and inactivation of foodborne pathogens. Bioprocess (or biochemical) engineering: new methods for monitoring and control of reaction kinetics; mathematical modelling of biotechnological processes; design of bioreactors, downstream processes; research on cell biology and physiology in bioprocesses using enzymes, microorganisms, mammalian cells, plant cells and tissue; design of specific biocatalysts or specific bioreactor operations; development of new biotechnological processes for converting renewable raw materials into valuable products such as biofuels, enzymes, nutraceuticals and functional ingredients; use of emerging technologies like nanotechnology, precision fermentation and metabolic engineering to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of biotechnological processes. Molecular biotechnology: characterization of genes and genomes of biotechnologically important organisms including biochemical and physiological studies; characterization and production of biotechnologically and biomedically interesting compounds (e.g. pharmaceuticals, bioactive compounds, enzymes); in silico studies of biotechnologically important organisms and compounds; molecular genetics and molecular biology of biotechnologically important organisms, including construction and molecular characterization of biotechnologically interesting strains, by genetic engineering, adaptive evolution and genome editing; construction of strains for bioremediation and production of biofuels; biotechnological and biomedical application of tissue cultures and cell-free systems; molecular regulation of gene expression, metabolism and physiology; genome stability, DNA damage and repair; protein and metabolic engineering.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Croatia 4, Poland 3, United States 2, Austria 2, Japan 1 (17 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMedicine9.3%
- Food composition and propertiesNursing7%
- Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive PeptidesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7%
- Probiotics and Fermented FoodsAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.9%
- Proteins in Food SystemsAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.2%
- Meat and Animal Product QualityAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.9%
- Fermentation and Sensory AnalysisAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.1%
- Microbial Metabolites in Food BiotechnologyNursing5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 2.87LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 65Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.55LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.67LetPub ·
- h-index
- 59LetPub ·
- h-index
- 56OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 434OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 11.87OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 46LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 750 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 27 | 27 | 1,063 |
| 2025 | 50 | 50 | 135 |
| 2024 | 46 | 46 | 262 |
| 2023 | 45 | 45 | 478 |
| 2022 | 38 | 38 | 561 |
| 2021 | 60 | 60 | 1,137 |
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
267 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 197 days – 360 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 156 days (40 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 419 days
- Sample
- 78 articles with submission and acceptance dates (82 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 12 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 50%LetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 36 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 websiteSelf-archiving
- Self-archiving
Financed by Croatian Ministry of Science and Education Model summary
financed by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education
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
- University of Zagreb
- Country or region
- CROATIA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1996
- ISSN
- 1330-9862
- Electronic ISSN
- 1334-2606
- Society / sponsor
- Croatian Society of Biotechnology and Slovenian Microbiological Society
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 64, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗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
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Food Technology and Biotechnology
What CAS zone is Food Technology and Biotechnology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Food Technology and Biotechnology is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology / Food Science & Technology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Food Technology and Biotechnology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.87; CiteScore 4.4, h-index 56.
How long does peer review take at Food Technology and Biotechnology?
Based on the dates recorded on 78 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 267 days (interquartile range 197–360 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 months; the community-reported acceptance is “about 50%”. 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 Technology and Biotechnology based?
Of the 17 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Croatia (4), Poland (3) and United States (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Food Technology and Biotechnology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Food Technology and Biotechnology is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Food Technology and Biotechnology open access, and what is the APC?
Food Technology and Biotechnology is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .