Journal profile · NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
ISSN 1973-798X · eISSN 1973-7998 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.7 (journal website); subscription journal; APC about USD 4,150; 32 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and metabolism studies and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, together about 35.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Nutritional Studies and DietMedicine12.6%
- Diet and metabolism studiesMedicine12.1%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, DietMedicine11.1%
- Nutrition and Health in AgingMedicine7.5%
- Diet, Metabolism, and DiseaseMedicine4.9%
- Consumer Attitudes and Food LabelingMedicine4.4%
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMedicine4.2%
- Clinical Nutrition and GastroenterologyNursing3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Nutrition & Dietetics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Nutrition & Dietetics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.31LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- h-index
- 32OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 150OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.66OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 2.25%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 807 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 32 | 2 | 41 |
| 2024 | 30 | 5 | 88 |
| 2023 | 28 | 5 | 95 |
| 2022 | 35 | 6 | 114 |
| 2021 | 46 | 7 | 217 |
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
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 1,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- insufficient quality; study protocols for pilot or feasibility studies
Article types accepted17, with length limits
- brief communicationResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- commentariesCommentaries can be around 1000 words with an abstract and no other subdivisions. Comments that refer to a paper in the journal must be received within 3 months…Length not stated
- commentaryResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- editoriall. There is no abstract required and an editorial should not exceed 1000 words, have a maximum of 2 figures or tables and have no more thamain text ≤ 1,000 words
- full articleResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- hypothesisResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- letters to the editorles and have no more than 5 references. Letters to the Editor Authors can submit comments of 1000 words or less concerning prior articles published in the journ…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- original researchResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- original research paperResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- protocolResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- research articleResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- research paperResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- research papersOriginal research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and provides a substant…Length not stated
- reviewResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
- reviewsReviews should be authoritative and topical and provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of a timely and/or controversial issue. When possible, systematic re…Length not stated
- study protocolsStudy protocol articles can be for proposed or ongoing prospective clinical research, and should provide a detailed account of the hypothesis, rationale and met…Length not stated
- systematic reviewResearch Papers Original research papers. The journal considers all original research manuscripts of work that contains scientifically valid experiments and pro…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review and publication process, this journal has adopted CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). CRediT is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which is used to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work. You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Member of COPE Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
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
- SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- ISSN
- 1973-798X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1973-7998
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
What CAS zone is Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Nutrition & Dietetics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.7; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2, h-index 32.
What are the manuscript requirements of Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 1,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; 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 Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism open access, and what is the APC?
Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,150.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .