Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed is an electronic journal that Brill publishes under its Wageningen Academic imprint, and it follows edible insects from harvest in the wild through to industrial production. It appeared first in 2015 and covers the whole chain from rearing to the marketing of insect products. Its 2025 impact factor is 3.3 and its five-year figure is 5.0.《昆虫食品与饲料杂志》是 Brill 以 Wageningen Academic 名义出版的电子期刊，追踪可食用昆虫从野外采捕到工业化生产的全过程。该刊 2015 年创刊，覆盖从饲养到昆虫产品营销的整条链条。其 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子为 5.0。

Scope

• The journal covers edible insects from harvesting in the wild through to industrial scale production, so it treats gathering and factory farming as parts of one subject.该刊覆盖可食用昆虫从野外采捕到工业化规模生产的全过程，把采集与工厂化养殖当作同一主题的两个部分。

• It publishes contributions to the understanding of the ecology and biology of edible insects, which keeps the entomological base of the field in view.该刊发表有助于理解可食用昆虫生态学与生物学的稿件，使这一领域的昆虫学基础始终在视野之内。

• The factors that determine the abundance of edible insects are named as a subject, since supply depends on how many insects can be found or reared.决定可食用昆虫数量的因素被列为一项选题，因为供应取决于能采到或养出多少昆虫。

• The importance of food insects in people's livelihoods is treated in its own right, which gives the journal a development as well as a technical dimension.食用昆虫在人们生计中的重要性被单独处理，这使该刊既有技术维度也有人类发展维度。

• The value of ethno-entomological knowledge is covered, so knowledge held outside formal research has a place in the programme.民族昆虫学知识价值也在覆盖之列，因此正规研究之外的知识在选题中同样有位置。

• The role of technology transfer is named, and the journal states that it exists to help people use traditional knowledge to improve the value of insect foods in their lives.技术转移的作用被点出，该刊声明其宗旨是帮助人们运用传统知识，提升昆虫食品在其生活中的价值。

• The editors aim to cover the whole chain of collecting or rearing insects through to the marketing of edible products.编辑力求覆盖从昆虫采集或饲养到可食用产品营销的整条链条。

• The development of sustainable technology falls inside that chain, and automation processes are given as an example.可持续技术的发展属于这条链条之内，自动化流程被举为例子。

• Papers on the nutrition and safety of insect-derived food and feed are taken, since the readership includes food scientists as well as entomologists.涉及昆虫源食品与饲料营养及安全的论文会被接收，因为其读者既包括昆虫学家也包括食品科学家。

• Consumer acceptance and the behaviour of buyers form a subject, which connects the laboratory side of the field to the market.消费者接受度与购买者行为构成一项选题，把该领域的实验室一侧与市场连接起来。

• The journal is open to work on regulation and on the framing of edible insects as food, since new protein sources raise questions of law as well as of science.该刊对涉及法规以及把可食用昆虫界定为食品的研究开放，因为新的蛋白来源会带来法律与科学两方面的问题。

• It appears four times a year, and it is published in electronic form only.该刊每年出版四期，且只以电子形式出版。

• Work on the processing of insects into ingredients and finished foods falls inside the chain that the journal covers.把昆虫加工成配料与成品食品的研究，属于该刊所覆盖的链条之内。

• Papers on the environmental footprint of insect rearing are taken as well, since the field is promoted partly on sustainability grounds.涉及昆虫饲养环境足迹的论文也在接收之列，因为这一领域部分是以可持续为由被推举的。

• Its readership includes policy makers and entrepreneurs alongside researchers, because the field spans science, industry and development at once.其读者除研究者之外还包括政策制定者与创业者，因为这一领域同时横跨科学，产业与发展。

• Papers that compare insect protein with conventional protein sources fall inside the scope, and the journal has carried such comparisons.把昆虫蛋白与常规蛋白来源相比较的论文属于其范围，该刊也刊载过这类比较。

History

• The journal began in 2015, which makes it one of the newer titles in a young field.该刊 2015 年创办，这使它成为一个年轻领域中较新的刊物之一。

• It carries the single electronic number 2352-4588 and has no print edition.它只有电子刊号 2352-4588，没有印本。

• The publisher is Brill, which issues the title under the Wageningen Academic imprint from the Netherlands.出版方是 Brill，以 Wageningen Academic 的名义在荷兰出版这份刊物。

• Its record in the National Library of Medicine gives Wageningen as the place of publication and names the same single number.美国国立医学图书馆的编目把瓦赫宁根列为出版地，并载有同一个刊号。

• The 2025 impact factor stands at 3.3 and the five-year figure at 5.0, which places the title in the first quartile of entomology.该刊 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子为 5.0，位于昆虫学的第一象限。

• Its snapshot records 4154 citations and 180 articles, a large output for a title of its age.其快照记录总被引 4154 次，年发文 180 篇，对一份如此年轻的刊物而言产出相当大。

• The cited half-life of 4.2 years is short, which fits a fast-moving applied field.被引半衰期仅 4.2 年，这切合一个变化迅速的应用领域。

• About four articles in ten were open access in the same snapshot, so the journal is a subscription title with a substantial open share.在同一份快照中，约四成文章为开放获取，因此该刊是订阅刊物但开放比例相当高。

• It also appears in the food science and technology category, so its readership reaches beyond entomology.它同时出现在食品科学与技术类目中，因此读者范围超出昆虫学。

• The title is indexed by the science citation index expanded, and its record is held by the United States National Library of Medicine.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，并在美国国立医学图书馆留有编目记录。

• A Scopus CiteScore is reported alongside the impact factor, and the publisher prints both figures on the journal page.除影响因子之外还报告 Scopus 的 CiteScore，出版方把两个数字都印在刊物页面上。

• Its articles are indexed under entomology and under food science, so the title reaches two readerships at once.其文章同时被归入昆虫学与食品科学，因此该刊一举覆盖两类读者。

• The Wageningen Academic list was taken over, and the journal is now hosted on the publisher's own platform.Wageningen Academic 的刊物被接收之后，该刊现在由出版方自己的平台承载。

• Special issues appear from time to time, and a recent call concerned tropical entomophagy for human nutrition.该刊不时出版专号，最近一次征稿的主题是面向人类营养的热带食虫实践。

• The annual output is large for a title of its age, since the journal publishes about 180 articles a year.对一份如此年轻的刊物而言年产出很大，该刊每年约发表 180 篇论文。

• Its immediacy index stood at 1.7 in the same snapshot, which suggests that papers are picked up soon after they appear.在同一份快照中，其即时指数为 1.7，说明论文在发表后不久即被引用。

• The journal is listed under insect science as well as under food science in the citation databases.在引文数据库中，该刊同时被归入昆虫科学与食品科学之下。

• It is one of a small number of titles dedicated to insects as food, and it has grown alongside the sector it serves.它是少数专以昆虫食品为对象的刊物之一，与其所服务的行业一同成长。

• Its coverage begins with the founding volume in 2015, and the whole run is available in electronic form.其内容自 2015 年的创刊卷开始，全部出版内容均可以电子形式获取。

• The journal's remit also touches animal feed, since insect meal is used as a protein source for farmed fish and poultry.该刊的范围也涉及动物饲料，因为昆虫粉被用作养殖鱼类与家禽的蛋白来源。

• Articles are published with abstracts in English, and each paper is assigned a digital object identifier.文章以英文摘要发表，每篇论文都被赋予数字对象标识符。

Editors

• (Arnold van Huis) of Wageningen University in the Netherlands is editor-in-chief.（Arnold van Huis）任职于荷兰瓦赫宁根大学，是该刊主编。

• (Eraldo M. Costa-Neto) of the State University of Feira de Santana in Brazil is an associate editor for ethno-entomology and anthropology.（Eraldo M. Costa-Neto）任职于巴西费拉迪圣安娜州立大学，担任民族昆虫学与人类学方向的副编辑。

• (Mark Finke) of (Mark Finke) LLC in the United States is an associate editor for animal nutrition.（Mark Finke）在美国经营一家同名咨询公司，担任动物营养方向的副编辑。

• (Arnout Fischer) of Wageningen University is an associate editor for consumer behaviour.（Arnout Fischer）任职于瓦赫宁根大学，担任消费者行为方向的副编辑。

• The subject spread of the board matches the journal's chain, since the editors between them cover insect biology, nutrition, consumer research and social science.编委会的学科分布与该刊的链条相称，几位编辑合起来覆盖昆虫生物学，营养学，消费者研究与社会科学。

• The journal is edited for a readership that includes entomologists, food scientists, feed producers and development workers.该刊的读者包括昆虫学家，食品科学家，饲料生产者与发展工作者。

• The board also covers food safety, processing technology and the regulation of novel foods, which matches the applied reach of the title.编委会还覆盖食品安全，加工技术与新型食品法规，这与该刊的应用广度相称。

• The editors come from Europe, South America and North America, and the journal presents itself as international in scope.编辑来自欧洲，南美与北美，该刊自称具有国际视野。

• Manuscripts are handled through the publisher's online system, and the author instructions are published on the same platform.稿件通过出版方的在线系统处理，作者须知也在同一平台上公布。

• The editorial office works with the publisher from the Netherlands, where the journal is based.编辑部与设在荷兰的出版方协同工作，该刊的基地也在那里。

• The board is refreshed as the field grows, and new appointments are announced by the publisher when they are made.编委会随着领域成长而更新，新的任命在作出时由出版方公布。