Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed is published by Wageningen Academic Publishers and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Insect Utilization and Effects, Animal and Plant Science Education and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, together about 66.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Insect Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Insects as Food and Feed covers edible insects from harvesting in the wild through to industrial scale production. It publishes contributions to understanding the ecology and biology of edible insects and the factors that determine their abundance, the importance of food insects in people’s livelihoods, the value of ethno-entomological knowledge, and the role of technology transfer to assist people to utilise traditional knowledge to improve the value of insect foods in their lives. The journal aims to cover the whole chain of insect collecting or rearing to marketing edible insect products, including the development of sustainable technology, such as automation processes at affordable costs, detection, identification and mitigating of microbial contaminants, development of protocols for quality control, processing methodologies and how they affect digestibility and nutritional composition of insects, and the potential of insects to transform low value organic wastes into high protein products. At the end of the edible insect food or feed chain, marketing issues, consumer acceptance, regulation and legislation pose new research challenges. Food safety and legislation are intimately related. Consumer attitude is strongly dependent on the perceived safety. Microbial safety, toxicity due to chemical contaminants, and allergies are important issues in safety of insects as food and feed. Innovative contributions that address the multitude of aspects relevant for the utilisation of insects in increasing food and feed quality, safety and security are welcomed.

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Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Insect Science

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Impact

Impact factor

3.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

5.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.58LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.95LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

68OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

431OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.53OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

21.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

36.66%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

200LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Wageningen Academic Publishers

Country or region

NETHERLANDS

Language

English

ISSN

2352-4588

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub