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Functional Foods in Health and Disease

Functional Food Center Inc. · United States · Est. 2011

ISSN2378-7007

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2019-10-10). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 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

0.326

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.528

Total Worksi

749

Total Citationsi

7,169

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.93

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Food Science; Medicine (miscellaneous); Nutrition and Dietetics; Biochemistry.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2011

Annual Volume~ 62 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications749

Publisher OrgFood Science Publisher

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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

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Functional Food Center Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2378-7007

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

N/A

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

451

2019

276

2020

459

2021

411

2022

255

2023

180

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

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Nutrition and DieteticsQ3

BiochemistryQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

BiochemistryNutrition and DieteticsFood ScienceMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesNatural Antidiabetic Agents StudiesProbiotics and Fermented FoodsNutrition, Genetics, and DiseaseProtein Hydrolysis and Bioactive PeptidesDiet and metabolism studiesAntioxidant Activity and Oxidative StressGut microbiota and healthFood composition and propertiesDiet, Metabolism, and Disease

Frequently asked questions about Functional Foods in Health and Disease

Is Functional Foods in Health and Disease a predatory journal?

Functional Foods in Health and Disease was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2019-10-10). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Functional Foods in Health and Disease?

Functional Foods in Health and Disease is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.326.

Is Functional Foods in Health and Disease indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Functional Foods in Health and Disease is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Functional Foods in Health and Disease?