Food Packaging and Shelf Life

Food Packaging and Shelf Life is a peer-reviewed journal covering food packaging and shelf-life evaluation, established in 2014 and published from Amsterdam in the Netherlands by Elsevier, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.8（Food Packaging and Shelf Life）是 2014 年创刊、由（Elsevier）在荷兰阿姆斯特丹出版的食品包装与货架期评估领域同行评审期刊，2025 年影响因子为 10.8。

Scope

• The journal addresses the role of packaging in protecting and preserving food across the supply chain该刊关注包装在整个供应链中保护与保存食品所起的作用。
• Its first subject area is material development in food packaging, covering polymer, glass, metal and paper-based systems其第一主题领域为食品包装材料开发，覆盖聚合物、玻璃、金属与纸基包装体系。
• That area also includes nano-enabled packaging, biodegradable materials, and active and intelligent packaging systems该领域还包含纳米赋能包装、可生物降解材料以及活性与智能包装系统。
• Migration studies and food-package interaction analyses are handled with emphasis on full food-safety evaluations迁移研究与食品—包装相互作用分析在其范围内，并强调整体的食品安全评价。
• The second subject area is packaging technologies and applications, including packaging machinery together with vacuum, aseptic and sterile systems第二主题领域为包装技术与应用，含包装机械以及真空、无菌与灭菌包装系统。
• The third subject area is shelf life and food safety, covering shelf life modeling and prediction for packaged foods第三主题领域为货架期与食品安全，涵盖包装食品的货架期建模与预测。
• The journal does not cover papers dealing exclusively with food product development, functional foods, food chemistry or dairy processing, and films made by simple casting are not sent for review该刊不收录仅涉及食品产品开发、功能食品、食品化学或乳品加工的论文，采用简单流延法制备的薄膜也不送审。

History

• The journal was established in 2014 and the opening issue of the first volume appeared in March of that year该刊于 2014 年创办，第 1 卷第 1 期于当年 3 月出版。^[1]
• Its founding editorial was written jointly by Horst Christian Langowski and Ali Abas Wani of the Fraunhofer IVV institute in Freising其创刊社论由弗赖辛（Fraunhofer IVV）的（Horst Christian Langowski）与（Ali Abas Wani）共同撰写。
• The journal is issued by Elsevier from Amsterdam and appears four times each year该刊由（Elsevier）在阿姆斯特丹出版，每年出版 4 期。
• It is an electronic only journal that carries the single identifier 2214-2894该刊为纯电子期刊，仅使用 2214-2894 这一识别号。
• Its editorial board is made up of thirty-eight editors and editorial board members其编委会由 38 名编辑与编委组成。
• The journal reports a median of twenty days from submission to first decision and one hundred and twenty-one days from submission to acceptance该刊公布投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 20 天，投稿至录用的中位时间为 121 天。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Ali Abas Wani of the Islamic University of Science and Technology in Pulwama, India现任主编为（Ali Abas Wani），任职于印度普尔瓦马的伊斯兰科技大学。
• The managing editor is Preeti Singh, based at the Fraunhofer IVV institute in Freising, Germany执行编辑为（Preeti Singh），任职于德国弗赖辛的（Fraunhofer IVV）。
• Associate editors include Roland Franz in Freising and Dong Sun Lee of Kyungnam University in Changwon副主编包括弗赖辛的（Roland Franz）与昌原（Kyungnam University）的（Dong Sun Lee）。
• They also include Luciano Piergiovanni of the University of Milan, Nur Hanani Z. A. of Universiti Putra Malaysia and Sven Saengerlaub of the Munich University of Applied Sciences还包括米兰大学的（Luciano Piergiovanni）、（Universiti Putra Malaysia）的（Nur Hanani Z. A.）以及慕尼黑应用科学大学的（Sven Saengerlaub）。
• Editorial board members are affiliated with institutions across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa and Oceania编委会成员所属机构遍及欧洲、亚洲、美洲、非洲与大洋洲。