International Journal of Food Design

International Journal of Food Design is published by Intellect Ltd.. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Culinary Culture and Tourism, Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices and Sustainable Design and Development, together about 34.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Food Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Although the journal is open towards different background disciplines, knowledge and expertise, it focuses on collecting any food design-related research outcome: research that somehow combines food and design. We define food design as simply the discipline that connects food and design: design applied to food and eating, or food and eating investigated from a design perspective. In other words, among all knowledge on food and eating, we look at research where design has an important role, and among all knowledge on design, we look at research that focuses on aspects of food or eating. Connecting food and design of course means connecting any aspect of food with any aspect of design. For this reason, the journal is interested in pushing the boundaries of research that connect aspects from culinary arts, hospitality, food science, food culture, and any other food discipline, with aspects from design theory, design education, industrial design, design history and any other design discipline. Connecting food and design can also mean looking at how design is or can be used in all aspects of the eating experience. The eating experience is the process that transforms stimuli of an eating situation into emotions, knowledge and ultimately memories. The stimuli are many, and analysing them is a complex issue. Here we are interested in looking at how design can be applied to the control of such stimuli, and therefore, to the control of the different aspects influencing the eating experience. The aspects influencing the eating experience can be grouped into those related to food itself, those related to the eating environment, those related to the relationship between people eating together, those related to the atmosphere, and those related to management, marketing, distribution and manufacturing. We look at how design is applied to the control of such stimuli surrounding any type of food: food eaten at a restaurant, in a coffee shop, or at the cinema, food that comes in a packaging or on a plate, food eaten during physical exercise, food eaten in a space station, food connected to religion, culture or celebrations, etc. How is design used to influence or modify any of the aspects influencing the eating experience? What design methods, processes or theories apply to the design of food or of the eating situation? How should we teach design methods and process theories applied to the design of food or eating situation? And more: is there a scope for a sub-discipline c

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

3.8LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.36LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.58LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

19OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

39OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.44OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 24 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

Intellect Ltd.

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

2056-6522

Electronic ISSN

2056-6530

Official links

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• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub