Journal profile · FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods
ISSN 1757-8361 · eISSN 1757-837X · Wageningen Academic Publishers · ENGLAND · Founded 2009
Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods: CAS Zone 3 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.64; fully open access; review about 1 month (community reports); community-reported acceptance: about 95%; 81 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods 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 Food composition and properties, Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities and Food Safety and Hygiene, together about 28.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Food Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
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From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Food composition and propertiesNursing15.1%
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMedicine7.4%
- Food Safety and HygieneAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.5%
- Meat and Animal Product QualityAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.1%
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and FoodAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.8%
- Microbial Metabolites in Food BiotechnologyNursing4.8%
- Polysaccharides Composition and ApplicationsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.5%
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric AnalysesChemistry4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Food Science & Technology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- 4.64LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.79LetPub ·
- h-index
- 16LetPub ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 403OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.66OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.47%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 80LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,060 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 56 | 56 | 28 |
| 2025 | 81 | 81 | 503 |
| 2024 | 36 | 36 | 449 |
| 2023 | 71 | 71 | 1,238 |
| 2022 | 67 | 67 | 1,180 |
| 2021 | 46 | 46 | 746 |
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 1 monthLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 95%LetPub ·
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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wageningen Academic Publishers
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2009
- ISSN
- 1757-8361
- Electronic ISSN
- 1757-837X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods
What CAS zone is Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Food Science & Technology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.64; CiteScore 9.6, h-index 42.
How long does peer review take at Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods?
Authors report an average review time of about 1 month; the community-reported acceptance is “about 95%”. 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.
Which databases index Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods open access, and what is the APC?
Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods is a fully open-access journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
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: .