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Food, Culture and Society

Taylor and Francis Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 2004

ISSN1552-8014eISSN1751-7443

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.54

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.942

Total Worksi

1,445

Total Citationsi

11,794

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.92

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research is an international peer-reviewed publication dedicated to exploring the complex relationships among food, culture, and society from numerous disciplines. The journal publishes in the areas of Sociology, Cultural Studies, Food Science, and Social Psychology.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2004

FrequencyQuarterly, 2008-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,445

Publisher OrgRoutledge

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Submission Info

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?

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1552-8014 / 1751-7443

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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

926

2019

769

2020

161

1.2k

2021

387

2022

320

2023

184

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.

Cultural StudiesQ1

Food ScienceQ2

Social PsychologyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Sociology

Scopus Categories

Social PsychologyCultural StudiesFood Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Culinary Culture and TourismOrganic Food and AgricultureMigration, Ethnicity, and EconomyWine Industry and TourismGeographies of human-animal interactionsUrban Agriculture and SustainabilityAgriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentHuman auditory perception and evaluationHistory of Science and MedicineFood Waste Reduction and Sustainability

Frequently asked questions about Food, Culture and Society

Is Food, Culture and Society a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Food, Culture and Society: 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 Food, Culture and Society?

Food, Culture and Society 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 0.92.

Is Food, Culture and Society indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Food, Culture and Society is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.