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Acta Alimentaria

Akademiai Kiado · Hungary

ISSN0139-3006eISSN1588-2535

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.289

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.319

Total Worksi

1,695

Total Citationsi

13,052

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.58

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Food Science & Technology; Nutrition & Dietetics; Food Science.

General Information

Country / RegionHungary

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 60 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications1,695

Publisher OrgAkadémiai Kiadó

Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Akademiai Kiado

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0139-3006 / 1588-2535

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

506

2019

481

2020

413

2021

191

2022

487

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Food ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Food Science & TechnologyNutrition & Dietetics

Scopus Categories

Food Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMeat and Animal Product QualityFood composition and propertiesProbiotics and Fermented FoodsMicrobial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology

Frequently asked questions about Acta Alimentaria

Is Acta Alimentaria a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Acta Alimentaria: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Acta Alimentaria?

Acta Alimentaria is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.58.

Is Acta Alimentaria indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Acta Alimentaria is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Acta Alimentaria?