Food Security

Aims & Scope

Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions.

Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system.

We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches.

Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge.

To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet.

From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption.

Nutrition, food quality and food safety.

Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	6.2
2024	5.60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2137

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2092

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.599

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	86

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Crops that feed the world 10. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security

  Citation: 1001

  Authors: Bekele, Melinda, Hans-Joachim, Etienne, Mathew, Geoffrey

• Crops that feed the world 6. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by maize in global food security

  Citation: 940

  Authors: Bekele, Boddupalli M., Jonathan, Marianne

• Crop losses due to diseases and their implications for global food production losses and food security

  Citation: 896

  Authors: Serge, Andrea, Jean-Noël, Clayton

• Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications

  Citation: 775

  Authors: Olaf, Moti, Kai, Khondoker, B.M.

• Crops that feed the world 7: Rice

  Citation: 658

  Authors: Papa Abdoulaye, Aliou, Samarendu, Marco C. S.

• Feeding 9 billion by 2050 – Putting fish back on the menu

  Citation: 647

  Authors: Christophe, Manuel, Rohana, Per, Gorka, Gro-Ingunn, Meryl

• Food security: definition and measurement

  Citation: 643

  Authors: Per

• Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks

  Citation: 613

  Authors: Christophe

• Crops that feed the World 2. Soybean—worldwide production, use, and constraints caused by pathogens and pests

  Citation: 491

  Authors: Glen L., Ellen D., Theresa K.

• A food systems approach to researching food security and its interactions with global environmental change

  Citation: 483

  Authors: John

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