Journal profile · Genetics & Heredity
Genes and Nutrition
ISSN 1555-8932 · eISSN 1865-3499 · BioMed Central · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 2006
Genes and Nutrition: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.89; fully open access; APC about USD 3,690; median 119 days to acceptance (64 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: moderate; 31 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Genes and Nutrition is published by BioMed Central 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 Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism and Diet and metabolism studies, together about 26.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Genes & Nutrition is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-review journal for research on the relationship between nutrition and genomes, with the ultimate goal of improving human health and performance. The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, commentaries, opinion pieces, study design papers, and special articles in the format of interviews. This journal also serves as a forum for nutritionists, healthcare providers, and all those interested in diet and disease prevention or management. The following are examples of the specific areas that may be covered by the journal. - The study of individual genetic differences in response to dietary components for disease and performance outcomes. - The development of safe and effective diets for individuals or subgroups of the population on the basis of genotypic or phenotypic data. - The effects of diet on the microbiome and the role of the microbiome in modifying response to diet. - Diet-induced changes in the transcriptome that provide insights into underlying mechanisms. - Genome wide association studies of nutrition-related outcomes. - The development and application of biomarkers using metabolomics and other approaches to assess diet exposure or study the impact of nutrition on health and performance. - Systems biology and machine learning approaches to precision nutrition. - Epigenetics and epigenomics to describe mechanisms by which nutrients and food bioactives impact disease development or performance outcomes - Molecular mechanisms underlying the relationship between diet and development of chronic diseases.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Genetics & Heredity
Editor-in-chief Jarlei FiamonciniPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Italy 9, United States 8, Brazil 7, Spain 4, South Korea 3 (43 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Nutrition, Genetics, and DiseaseBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.3%
- Adipose Tissue and MetabolismMedicine8%
- Diet and metabolism studiesMedicine6.1%
- Fatty Acid Research and HealthNursing5.8%
- Nutritional Studies and DietMedicine5.8%
- Folate and B Vitamins ResearchMedicine4.5%
- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic DiseasesMedicine4.5%
- Trace Elements in HealthNursing4%
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 | Genetics & Heredity | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Nutrition & Dietetics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Genetics & Heredity | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Nutrition & Dietetics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Genetics & Heredity | 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
EmbaseCASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
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
- 2.89LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.98LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.94LetPub ·
- h-index
- 41LetPub ·
- h-index
- 81OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 566OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.47OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 30LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 535,300Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 824 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 31 | 6 |
| 2025 | 31 | 31 | 145 |
| 2024 | 24 | 24 | 147 |
| 2023 | 16 | 16 | 169 |
| 2022 | 17 | 17 | 429 |
| 2021 | 22 | 22 | 313 |
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
119 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 86 days – 146 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 17 days (64 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 141 days
- Sample
- 64 articles with submission and acceptance dates (66 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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- ModerateLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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 accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,690 / EUR 2,990 / GBP 2,690 | — | — | |
| LetPub | EUR 2,790 / USD 3,390 / GBP 2,490 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 2,790 / USD 3,790 / EUR 3,090 | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers2, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Templates
- LaTeX
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted5
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- correspondenceResearch paper Comment Correspondence Review DebateLength not stated
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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
Open access under CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY licence; authors retain copyright. Model summary
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. Genes & Nutrition articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution Non-C…
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 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
- BioMed Central
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 2006
- ISSN
- 1555-8932
- Electronic ISSN
- 1865-3499
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Genes and Nutrition
What CAS zone is Genes and Nutrition in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Genes and Nutrition is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Genetics & Heredity / 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 Genes and Nutrition?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.89; CiteScore 6.2, h-index 81.
How long does peer review take at Genes and Nutrition?
Based on the dates recorded on 64 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 119 days (interquartile range 86–146 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Moderate”. 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 Genes and Nutrition?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Templates: LaTeX; Suggested reviewers: Optional. 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 Genes and Nutrition based?
Of the 43 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (9), United States (8) and Brazil (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Genes and Nutrition?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Genes and Nutrition is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Embase, CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Genes and Nutrition open access, and what is the APC?
Genes and Nutrition is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,690.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-24). Last updated: .