Journal profile · Food Science & Technology
Grasas y Aceites
ISSN 0017-3495 · eISSN 1988-4214 · CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas · SPAIN · Quarterly
Grasas y Aceites: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.17; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 3 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 46 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Grasas y Aceites is published by CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas 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 Edible Oils Quality and Analysis, Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis and Meat and Animal Product Quality, together about 37.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Food Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Grasas y Aceites publishes in English original papers (neither previously published nor submitted for publication anywhere) on fats and oils from oleaginous seeds and fruits, as well as animals and fungi, relevant to the food industry, and related products of interest in the field of oleochemistry, in the form of articles, notes, reviews, and informative papers.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Food Science & Technology
Editor-in-chief José MaríaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Edible Oils Quality and AnalysisChemistry22.1%
- Food Chemistry and Fat AnalysisAgricultural and Biological Sciences8%
- Meat and Animal Product QualityAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.2%
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMedicine6.3%
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial ActivityAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.6%
- Fatty Acid Research and HealthNursing5.4%
- Nuts composition and effectsNursing4.7%
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric AnalysesChemistry3.9%
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 | Chemistry, Applied | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Applied | 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 | Chemistry, Applied | 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
- 1.17LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.45LetPub ·
- h-index
- 41LetPub ·
- h-index
- 65OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 829OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 89.81%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 12LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,007 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 2025 | 46 | 46 | 14 |
| 2024 | 49 | 49 | 105 |
| 2023 | 54 | 54 | 196 |
| 2022 | 48 | 48 | 289 |
| 2021 | 57 | 57 | 384 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 3 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 48 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
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)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 100–150 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 words
- Templates
- Word
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted4
- articlesin the form of articles, notes, reviews, and informative papersLength not stated
- informative papersin the form of articles, notes, reviews, and informative papersLength not stated
- notesin the form of articles, notes, reviews, and informative papersLength not stated
- reviewsin the form of articles, notes, reviews, and informative papersLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Data availability, License & copyright, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
- AI use
AI use must be disclosed in the corresponding section Model summary
If the authors have used Artificial Intelligence tools, they must mention this in the in the corresponding section.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship contribution
CRediT taxonomy for authorship contributions Model summary
This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles. For more information see "Submissions/Authorship identification".
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Research data policy compliance Model summary
I have consulted and applied the journal's Research data policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
CC BY 4.0 license for electronic edition contents Model summary
© CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International basic information legal text
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Original work not previously published nor under consideration elsewhere Model summary
The article has not been previously published, and has not been sent to another journal for consideration.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Self-archiving of non-published versions not allowed Model summary
Self-archiving in repositories, personal webpages or similar, of any version other than the published by the Editor, is not allowed.
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
- CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
- Country or region
- SPAIN
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 0017-3495
- Electronic ISSN
- 1988-4214
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 76, Issue 3 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- 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 Grasas y Aceites
What CAS zone is Grasas y Aceites in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Grasas y Aceites is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Chemistry, Applied / Food Science & Technology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Grasas y Aceites?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.17; CiteScore 2.9, h-index 65.
How long does peer review take at Grasas y Aceites?
Authors report an average review time of about 3 months; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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 Grasas y Aceites?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 100–150 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 words; Templates: Word; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; 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.
Which databases index Grasas y Aceites?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Grasas y Aceites is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Grasas y Aceites open access, and what is the APC?
Grasas y Aceites 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 2026-08-24). Last updated: .