Applied Food Research

Applied Food Research is a peer-reviewed, gold open access journal published by Elsevier, launched in 2021 and focused on applied research across food science and technology, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.4《应用食品研究》（Applied Food Research）是由（Elsevier）出版的金色开放获取同行评审期刊，2021 年创刊，聚焦食品科学与技术领域的应用研究，2025 年影响因子为 5.4。

Scope

• Food processing, preservation and engineering, including emerging thermal and non-thermal technologies食品加工、保藏与工程，包括新兴热加工与非热加工技术。
• Food chemistry, analysis, composition and the behaviour of ingredients during processing and storage食品化学、分析、组成以及配料在加工与贮藏过程中的变化。
• Food microbiology, safety, spoilage and antimicrobial strategies along the food chain食品微生物学、安全、腐败以及食物链中的抗菌策略。
• Quality, sensory science, consumer perception and shelf-life of foods and beverages食品与饮料的品质、感官科学、消费者感知与货架期。
• Development of novel foods, functional ingredients, plant-based products and alternative proteins新型食品、功能性配料、植物基产品与替代蛋白的开发。
• Food packaging, waste valorisation, sustainability and circular economy approaches食品包装、废弃物资源化、可持续性与循环经济路径。
• Modelling, digitalisation and data-driven methods supporting food product and process design支撑食品产品与工艺设计的建模、数字化与数据驱动方法。

History

• The journal was launched in 2021, and its first volume appeared in June 2021该刊于 2021 年创刊，第 1 卷于 2021 年 6 月出版。
• It is published by Elsevier as a gold open access journal, with article processing charges of 2340 US dollars该刊由（Elsevier）以金色开放获取模式出版，文章处理费为 2340 美元。
• Authors may publish under CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND licences作者可选择（CC BY）、（CC BY-NC）或（CC BY-NC-ND）许可协议。
• The journal publishes two issues a year and reached volume 6 in 2026该刊每年出版 2 期，2026 年出版至第 6 卷。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 6.2 in 2024 and 5.4 in 2025, ranking 48th among 187 journals in Food Science and Technology其影响因子 2024 年为 6.2、2025 年为 5.4，在（Food Science and Technology）类别的 187 种期刊中排名第 48 位。
• Article types include research papers, review articles, short communications and case studies文章类型包括研究论文、综述、短通讯与案例研究。

Editors

• The co-Editors-in-Chief are Francisco J. Barba of the University of Valencia in Spain and Hosahalli Ramaswamy of McGill University in Canada共同主编为西班牙瓦伦西亚大学（University of Valencia）的（Francisco J. Barba）与加拿大麦吉尔大学（McGill University）的（Hosahalli Ramaswamy）。
• Associate editors include Alaa El-Din Bekhit of the University of Otago, Donghong Liu of Zhejiang University and Sangeeta Prakash of the University of Queensland副编辑包括奥塔哥大学（University of Otago）的（Alaa El-Din Bekhit）、浙江大学（Zhejiang University）的（Donghong Liu）与昆士兰大学（University of Queensland）的（Sangeeta Prakash）。
• The journal operates a single anonymized review process, and each manuscript is assessed by at least two independent reviewers该刊实行单匿名评审，每篇稿件至少由两位独立评审人评估。
• The editorial board draws members from Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania编委会成员来自欧洲、北美、亚洲与大洋洲。
• As an Elsevier title, the journal is hosted on ScienceDirect and makes articles openly available immediately on publication作为（Elsevier）旗下期刊，该刊论文在（ScienceDirect）平台发表后即时开放获取。