Journal profile · Veterinary-Food Animals
Meat Technology
ISSN 2466-4812 · eISSN 2560-4295 · Institute of meat hygiene and technology · Serbia
Meat Technology: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 115 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Meat Technology is published by Institute of meat hygiene and technology. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Meat and Animal Product Quality, Food and Agricultural Sciences and Food Safety and Hygiene, together about 50.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Food Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
„Meat Technology“ is multidisciplinary scientific journal that covers original research in a wide range in area of biotechnological sciences i.e the following subcategories: veterinary sciences, food engineering and biotechnology. „Meat Technology“ features articles in microbiology, food hygiene and quality, food hygiene and technology, sensory analysis, food safety, molecular microbiology, packaging, food packaging, environmental protection, animal welfare, analytical chemistry, residues and contaminats of the environmental. Journal „Meat Technology“ is abstracted in FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstract). Full text is available in CABI Database, DOAJ, EBSCO publishing, AGRIS Database. “Meat Technology” is published two times per a year. There is no publication fee electronic version of journal. Also, there is no submission fee. Annual subscription rate for paper issue is 100 e for aboard and 5000,00 din for the Republic of Serbia.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Veterinary-Food Animals
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Serbia 23, Slovenia 5, France 2, Russia 2, Germany 1 (37 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Meat and Animal Product QualityAgricultural and Biological Sciences29.7%
- Food and Agricultural SciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences12%
- Food Safety and HygieneAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.8%
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.1%
- Animal Nutrition and PhysiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences4%
- Probiotics and Fermented FoodsAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.5%
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life ManagementAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.3%
- Advanced Scientific Research MethodsAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Animals | Q4 | 42/46 | 9th |
| Food Science | Q4 | 381/420 | 9th |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | Q4 | 123/134 | 8th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.17LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- h-index
- 14OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.33OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 512 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 6 | 150 |
| 2025 | 115 | 115 | 134 |
| 2024 | 16 | 16 | 136 |
| 2023 | 112 | 112 | 124 |
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 87 |
| 2021 | 24 | 24 | 113 |
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 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified 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 prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted1
- reviewMeat Technology offers a fast online and printed publication for all articles which have not been published or considered for publication elsewhere, and peer re…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteConflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
- Conflicts of interest Competing interests
A competing interest exists when your interpretation of data or presentation of information may be influenced by your personal or financial relationship with people or organizations. Authors are required to complete a declaration of competing interests. All competing interests that are declared will be listed at the end of published articles. Where an author gives no competing interests, the listi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Original work, not under consideration elsewhere Model summary
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Authors retain copyright Model summary
Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, authors assign a License to Publish. Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant the publisher the right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media. The final proof will be sent to the Corresponding Author, together with a License to Publish, which all au…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Open access under CC BY 4.0 Model summary
Meat Technology is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge and used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CCBY 4.0).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review Model summary
Names and individual decisions of the reviewers are not transmitted to the author or vice versa (double blind review).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from "passing off" another author’s paper as the one’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another author’s paper, to claming results from research conducted by others…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Self-archiving Policy
The journal Meat Technology allows authors to deposit author´s Post-print (accepted version) and Publisher´ version/PDF in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories, such as Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCO or to publish it on Author's personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or departmental website, at any time…
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
- Institute of meat hygiene and technology
- Country or region
- Serbia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2466-4812
- Electronic ISSN
- 2560-4295
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Meat Technology
How long does peer review take at Meat Technology?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. 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 Meat Technology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Meat Technology based?
Of the 37 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Serbia (23), Slovenia (5) and France (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Meat Technology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Meat Technology is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Meat Technology open access, and what is the APC?
Meat Technology 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, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .