Food Additives & Contaminants: Part B publishes surveillance data indicating the presence and levels of occurrence of designated food additives, residues and contaminants in foods, food supplements and animal feed. Data using validated methods must meet stipulated quality standards to be acceptable and must be presented in a prescribed format for subsequent data-handling.
Food Additives & Contaminants: Part B restricts its scope to include certain classes of food additives, residues and contaminants. This is based on a goal of covering those areas where there is a need to record surveillance data for the purposes of exposure and risk assessment.
The scope is initially restricted to:
Additives - food colours, artificial sweeteners, and preservatives;
Residues – veterinary drug and pesticide residues;
Contaminants – metals, mycotoxins, phycotoxins, plant toxins, nitrate/nitrite, PCDDs/PCFDs, PCBs, PAHs, acrylamide, 3-MPCD and contaminants derived from food packaging.
Readership: The readership includes scientists involved in all aspects of food safety and quality and particularly those involved in monitoring human exposure to chemicals from the diet.
Papers reporting surveillance data in areas other than the above should be submitted to Part A. The scope of Part Bwill be expanded from time-to-time to ensure inclusion of new areas of concern. Peer Review Statement
Food Additives & Contaminants: Part B is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes high quality, original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Journal metrics
Usage
32K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.5 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
3.3 (2023) 5 year IF
5.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.844 (2023) SNIP
0.557 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
17 days avg. from submission to first
decision
52 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
15 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
35% acceptance rate
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Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
P. M Bolger(USA) - US Food and Drug Administration
C. Hamlet(UK) – RHM Technology
C. von Holst(Belgium) – European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
L. Jorhem(Sweden) – National Food Administration
D. Mortimer(UK) – Food Standards Agency
G. Moy(Switzerland) – Consultant
M. Pascale(Italy) – Instituteof Sciencesof Food Production of the Italian National Research Council (ISPA)
M. M. Storelli(Italy) – University of Bari
A. Theobald(Italy) – European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
B. Thomson(New Zealand) – Environmental Science and Research (ESR)
S. Tittlemier(Canada) – Health Canada
G.S. Toteja(India) – Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
P. Verger(Switzerland) – World Health Organization (WHO)
Y. N. Wu(China) – China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA)
Updated 03-05-2021
Abstracting and indexing
Food Additives & Contaminants,Part B is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services : BIOSIS; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Chemical Abstracts; Current Awareness in Biological Services (CABS); Environmental Abstracts; Environmental Periodical Bibliography; Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Fish and Fisheries Worldwide; Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Index Copernicus Journals Master List; Research Alert; SIIC DataBases Uncover and Index; ProQuest; OCLC; PubMed; Scopus; Web of Science; Science Citation Index Expanded; Medicus/MEDLINE.
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