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Journal of Nutrition and Food Security

Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences · Iran · Est. 2016

ISSN2476-7425

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2025-08-01). DOAJ's stated reason: Other reasons. 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

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.171

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.169

Total Worksi

436

Total Citationsi

665

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.51

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Food Science; Medicine (miscellaneous); Nutrition and Dietetics; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionIran

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2016

Annual Volume~ 72 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications436

Publisher OrgShahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences

OA Since2017

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA LicenseCC BY-NC 3.0

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2476-7425

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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

178

2019

121

2020

2021

2022

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 ScienceQ4

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q4

Nutrition and DieteticsQ4

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Nutrition and DieteticsFood SciencePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Child Nutrition and Water AccessFood Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsObesity, Physical Activity, DietNutritional Studies and DietHealth and Well-being StudiesDiet and metabolism studiesLiver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentNutrition and Health in AgingDiet, Metabolism, and DiseaseNutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Nutrition and Food Security

Is Journal of Nutrition and Food Security a predatory journal?

Journal of Nutrition and Food Security was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Other reasons" (2025-08-01). 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 Journal of Nutrition and Food Security?

Journal of Nutrition and Food Security is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.171.

Is Journal of Nutrition and Food Security indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Nutrition and Food Security is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of Nutrition and Food Security?