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SCImago
Q1
WOS
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Impact factor
3.3
SJR
1.111
CiteScore
5.9
Categories
Animal Science and Zoology
Food Science
Parasitology
Plant Science
Veterinary (miscellaneous)
Microbiology
Areas
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Immunology and Microbiology
Veterinary
Years of issue
2003-2025
journal names
EFSA Journal
EFSA J
Publications
8 750
Citations
105 339
h-index
141
Publications
2 683
Citations
70 073
Top-3 citing journals
EFSA Journal
EFSA Journal (25518 citations)
Foods
Foods (2470 citations)
EFSA Supporting Publications (2436 citations)
Top-3 countries
Italy (44 publications)
Denmark (27 publications)
United Kingdom (25 publications)
Spain (20 publications)
Italy (17 publications)
Greece (8 publications)

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EFSA Supporting Publications
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Microorganisms
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252 citations, 0.24%
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250 citations, 0.24%
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248 citations, 0.24%
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246 citations, 0.23%
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239 citations, 0.23%
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200 citations, 0.19%
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199 citations, 0.19%
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194 citations, 0.18%
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192 citations, 0.18%
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188 citations, 0.18%
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186 citations, 0.18%
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184 citations, 0.17%
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179 citations, 0.17%
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175 citations, 0.17%
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171 citations, 0.16%
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171 citations, 0.16%
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169 citations, 0.16%
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164 citations, 0.16%
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160 citations, 0.15%
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158 citations, 0.15%
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156 citations, 0.15%
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151 citations, 0.14%
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149 citations, 0.14%
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149 citations, 0.14%
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138 citations, 0.13%
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134 citations, 0.13%
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132 citations, 0.13%
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131 citations, 0.12%
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130 citations, 0.12%
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128 citations, 0.12%
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120 citations, 0.11%
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119 citations, 0.11%
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118 citations, 0.11%
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115 citations, 0.11%
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110 citations, 0.1%
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106 citations, 0.1%
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102 citations, 0.1%
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102 citations, 0.1%
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99 citations, 0.09%
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98 citations, 0.09%
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97 citations, 0.09%
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95 citations, 0.09%
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94 citations, 0.09%
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94 citations, 0.09%
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93 citations, 0.09%
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92 citations, 0.09%
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Citing publishers

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Wiley
31858 citations, 30.24%
Elsevier
19012 citations, 18.05%
MDPI
14546 citations, 13.81%
Springer Nature
11395 citations, 10.82%
Frontiers Media S.A.
4014 citations, 3.81%
Taylor & Francis
3989 citations, 3.79%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
2139 citations, 2.03%
Publications Office of the European Union
2139 citations, 2.03%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
1983 citations, 1.88%
Oxford University Press
1030 citations, 0.98%
American Society for Microbiology
760 citations, 0.72%
Cambridge University Press
625 citations, 0.59%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
531 citations, 0.5%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
429 citations, 0.41%
Walter de Gruyter
412 citations, 0.39%
Wageningen Academic Publishers
412 citations, 0.39%
Mary Ann Liebert
361 citations, 0.34%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
360 citations, 0.34%
Hindawi Limited
303 citations, 0.29%
SAGE
264 citations, 0.25%
IntechOpen
255 citations, 0.24%
International Association for Food Protection
227 citations, 0.22%
Environmental Health Perspectives
213 citations, 0.2%
Microbiology Society
208 citations, 0.2%
American Society for Nutrition
140 citations, 0.13%
PAGEPress Publications
121 citations, 0.11%
Veterinary World
115 citations, 0.11%
Pensoft Publishers
103 citations, 0.1%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
99 citations, 0.09%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
99 citations, 0.09%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
96 citations, 0.09%
S. Karger AG
96 citations, 0.09%
F1000 Research
96 citations, 0.09%
EDP Sciences
93 citations, 0.09%
Emerald
92 citations, 0.09%
Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
91 citations, 0.09%
IOP Publishing
84 citations, 0.08%
BMJ
82 citations, 0.08%
PeerJ
74 citations, 0.07%
Annual Reviews
72 citations, 0.07%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
70 citations, 0.07%
Pleiades Publishing
67 citations, 0.06%
Federal Scientific Center for Hygiene F.F.Erisman
64 citations, 0.06%
OAE Publishing Inc.
62 citations, 0.06%
British Veterinary Association
60 citations, 0.06%
IGI Global
55 citations, 0.05%
Scientific Societies
54 citations, 0.05%
European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)
52 citations, 0.05%
Canadian Science Publishing
51 citations, 0.05%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
50 citations, 0.05%
Korean Society of Food Science and Technology
49 citations, 0.05%
CSIRO Publishing
49 citations, 0.05%
Research Square Platform LLC
48 citations, 0.05%
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
45 citations, 0.04%
American Society of Animal Science
44 citations, 0.04%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
44 citations, 0.04%
Akademiai Kiado
44 citations, 0.04%
The Gorbatov's All-Russian Meat Research Institute
42 citations, 0.04%
HACCP Consulting
41 citations, 0.04%
King Saud University
37 citations, 0.04%
JMIR Publications
37 citations, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
36 citations, 0.03%
Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology
36 citations, 0.03%
Brill
34 citations, 0.03%
IWA Publishing
33 citations, 0.03%
Food Safety Commission, Cabinet Office
33 citations, 0.03%
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
32 citations, 0.03%
Japanese Society for Food Hygiene and Safety
32 citations, 0.03%
The Royal Society
30 citations, 0.03%
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
30 citations, 0.03%
Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
30 citations, 0.03%
Remedium, Ltd.
30 citations, 0.03%
CABI Publishing
30 citations, 0.03%
American Dairy Science Association
30 citations, 0.03%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
29 citations, 0.03%
Baishideng Publishing Group
29 citations, 0.03%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
28 citations, 0.03%
Copernicus
27 citations, 0.03%
IMR Press
26 citations, 0.02%
Tsinghua University Press
25 citations, 0.02%
Inter-Research Science Center
25 citations, 0.02%
Academic Journals
25 citations, 0.02%
IOS Press
24 citations, 0.02%
AIP Publishing
24 citations, 0.02%
Kemerovo State University
24 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)
24 citations, 0.02%
Entomological Society of America
23 citations, 0.02%
Swedish Nutrition Foundation
22 citations, 0.02%
American Association of Avian Pathologists Inc.
22 citations, 0.02%
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute Microbe
21 citations, 0.02%
The Electrochemical Society
21 citations, 0.02%
Mark Allen Group
21 citations, 0.02%
Media Sphere Publishing House
21 citations, 0.02%
FGI Federal Centre for Animal Health (FGI ARRIA)
21 citations, 0.02%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
20 citations, 0.02%
The Endocrine Society
20 citations, 0.02%
Portland Press
19 citations, 0.02%
Eco-Vector LLC
19 citations, 0.02%
SciELO
19 citations, 0.02%
FARC of the North-East named N.V. Rudnitskogo
19 citations, 0.02%
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Technical University of Denmark
14 publications, 0.16%
University of Copenhagen
10 publications, 0.11%
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
8 publications, 0.09%
University of Granada
6 publications, 0.07%
Polytechnic University of Cartagena
5 publications, 0.06%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
4 publications, 0.05%
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
4 publications, 0.05%
Michigan State University
4 publications, 0.05%
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
4 publications, 0.05%
University of Helsinki
3 publications, 0.03%
University College London
3 publications, 0.03%
Aarhus University
3 publications, 0.03%
Maastricht University
3 publications, 0.03%
Norwegian Institute of Marine Research
3 publications, 0.03%
University of Aberdeen
3 publications, 0.03%
Food and Drug Administration
3 publications, 0.03%
Ghent University
2 publications, 0.02%
Karolinska Institute
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Zurich
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Bologna
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Dundee
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 0.02%
Johns Hopkins University
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Trento
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Parma
2 publications, 0.02%
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
2 publications, 0.02%
Institute of Sciences of Food Production
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest
2 publications, 0.02%
Justus Liebig University Giessen
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Konstanz
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Porto
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Sheffield
2 publications, 0.02%
Medical University of Warsaw
2 publications, 0.02%
University of East Anglia
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Guelph
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Córdoba
2 publications, 0.02%
Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
2 publications, 0.02%
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2 publications, 0.02%
Université de Lille
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Brighton
2 publications, 0.02%
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
2 publications, 0.02%
Free University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.01%
ETH Zurich
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Gothenburg
1 publication, 0.01%
Technische Universität Dresden
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Naples Federico II
1 publication, 0.01%
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
1 publication, 0.01%
Imperial College London
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Liverpool
1 publication, 0.01%
Statens Serum Institut
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Padua
1 publication, 0.01%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.01%
Copenhagen Business School
1 publication, 0.01%
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
1 publication, 0.01%
Carnegie Mellon University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Southampton
1 publication, 0.01%
Cornell University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Perugia
1 publication, 0.01%
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
1 publication, 0.01%
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
1 publication, 0.01%
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Foggia
1 publication, 0.01%
Tuscia University
1 publication, 0.01%
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
1 publication, 0.01%
George Institute for Global Health (India)
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Iceland
1 publication, 0.01%
Harvard University
1 publication, 0.01%
Newcastle University
1 publication, 0.01%
Queen's University Belfast
1 publication, 0.01%
Universidad de Sevilla
1 publication, 0.01%
McMaster University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Minnesota
1 publication, 0.01%
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
1 publication, 0.01%
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
1 publication, 0.01%
Leiden University Medical Center
1 publication, 0.01%
Leiden University
1 publication, 0.01%
Universidad de León
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
1 publication, 0.01%
Brown University
1 publication, 0.01%
Jagiellonian University
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Leeds
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1 publication, 0.01%
AGH University of Krakow
1 publication, 0.01%
Poznań University of Economics and Business
1 publication, 0.01%
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
1 publication, 0.01%
Erasmus University Medical Center
1 publication, 0.01%
Wageningen University and Research Centre
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Maribor
1 publication, 0.01%
Jožef Stefan Institute
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Ottawa
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Alicante
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Leicester
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Oviedo
1 publication, 0.01%
Center for Applied Soil Science and Biology of the Segura
1 publication, 0.01%
University of Florida
1 publication, 0.01%
Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación
1 publication, 0.01%
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University of Granada
6 publications, 0.22%
Polytechnic University of Cartagena
5 publications, 0.19%
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
4 publications, 0.15%
Technical University of Denmark
3 publications, 0.11%
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
3 publications, 0.11%
University of Bologna
2 publications, 0.07%
Aarhus University
2 publications, 0.07%
Norwegian Institute of Marine Research
2 publications, 0.07%
University of Parma
2 publications, 0.07%
Institute of Sciences of Food Production
2 publications, 0.07%
University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest
2 publications, 0.07%
University of Porto
2 publications, 0.07%
University of Córdoba
2 publications, 0.07%
Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
2 publications, 0.07%
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca
2 publications, 0.07%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0.04%
Karolinska Institute
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Naples Federico II
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Padua
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Perugia
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Foggia
1 publication, 0.04%
Tuscia University
1 publication, 0.04%
Universidad de Sevilla
1 publication, 0.04%
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
1 publication, 0.04%
Universidad de León
1 publication, 0.04%
Jagiellonian University
1 publication, 0.04%
AGH University of Krakow
1 publication, 0.04%
Poznań University of Economics and Business
1 publication, 0.04%
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Maribor
1 publication, 0.04%
Jožef Stefan Institute
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Alicante
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Oviedo
1 publication, 0.04%
Center for Applied Soil Science and Biology of the Segura
1 publication, 0.04%
Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentación
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Burgos
1 publication, 0.04%
Université Paris-Saclay
1 publication, 0.04%
University College Dublin
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Malta
1 publication, 0.04%
Kaunas University of Technology
1 publication, 0.04%
Trakia University
1 publication, 0.04%
University of Western Brittany
1 publication, 0.04%
Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.04%
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Italy, 44, 0.5%
Italy
44 publications, 0.5%
Denmark, 27, 0.31%
Denmark
27 publications, 0.31%
United Kingdom, 25, 0.29%
United Kingdom
25 publications, 0.29%
Spain, 21, 0.24%
Spain
21 publications, 0.24%
Germany, 18, 0.21%
Germany
18 publications, 0.21%
USA, 16, 0.18%
USA
16 publications, 0.18%
Greece, 13, 0.15%
Greece
13 publications, 0.15%
Belgium, 8, 0.09%
Belgium
8 publications, 0.09%
Netherlands, 8, 0.09%
Netherlands
8 publications, 0.09%
Poland, 8, 0.09%
Poland
8 publications, 0.09%
France, 6, 0.07%
France
6 publications, 0.07%
Canada, 6, 0.07%
Canada
6 publications, 0.07%
Finland, 6, 0.07%
Finland
6 publications, 0.07%
Switzerland, 6, 0.07%
Switzerland
6 publications, 0.07%
Sweden, 6, 0.07%
Sweden
6 publications, 0.07%
Portugal, 5, 0.06%
Portugal
5 publications, 0.06%
Norway, 5, 0.06%
Norway
5 publications, 0.06%
Austria, 4, 0.05%
Austria
4 publications, 0.05%
China, 2, 0.02%
China
2 publications, 0.02%
Hungary, 2, 0.02%
Hungary
2 publications, 0.02%
Ireland, 2, 0.02%
Ireland
2 publications, 0.02%
Romania, 2, 0.02%
Romania
2 publications, 0.02%
Australia, 1, 0.01%
Australia
1 publication, 0.01%
Bulgaria, 1, 0.01%
Bulgaria
1 publication, 0.01%
India, 1, 0.01%
India
1 publication, 0.01%
Iceland, 1, 0.01%
Iceland
1 publication, 0.01%
Latvia, 1, 0.01%
Latvia
1 publication, 0.01%
Lithuania, 1, 0.01%
Lithuania
1 publication, 0.01%
Malta, 1, 0.01%
Malta
1 publication, 0.01%
New Zealand, 1, 0.01%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.01%
Slovenia, 1, 0.01%
Slovenia
1 publication, 0.01%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.01%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.01%
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Spain, 20, 0.75%
Spain
20 publications, 0.75%
Italy, 17, 0.63%
Italy
17 publications, 0.63%
Greece, 8, 0.3%
Greece
8 publications, 0.3%
Germany, 6, 0.22%
Germany
6 publications, 0.22%
Poland, 6, 0.22%
Poland
6 publications, 0.22%
Portugal, 4, 0.15%
Portugal
4 publications, 0.15%
Denmark, 4, 0.15%
Denmark
4 publications, 0.15%
Norway, 3, 0.11%
Norway
3 publications, 0.11%
France, 2, 0.07%
France
2 publications, 0.07%
Hungary, 2, 0.07%
Hungary
2 publications, 0.07%
Romania, 2, 0.07%
Romania
2 publications, 0.07%
Austria, 1, 0.04%
Austria
1 publication, 0.04%
Belgium, 1, 0.04%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.04%
Bulgaria, 1, 0.04%
Bulgaria
1 publication, 0.04%
Ireland, 1, 0.04%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.04%
Latvia, 1, 0.04%
Latvia
1 publication, 0.04%
Lithuania, 1, 0.04%
Lithuania
1 publication, 0.04%
Malta, 1, 0.04%
Malta
1 publication, 0.04%
Netherlands, 1, 0.04%
Netherlands
1 publication, 0.04%
Slovenia, 1, 0.04%
Slovenia
1 publication, 0.04%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.04%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.04%
Sweden, 1, 0.04%
Sweden
1 publication, 0.04%
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