Fastest-accepting nutrition journals 2026

31 nutrition journals ranked by the median number of days from submission to acceptance, measured from the dates publishers deposit in PubMed for articles published 2024–2025. The interval includes peer review and revisions.

Journals: 31
Typical median: 107 d
Under 60 days: 2
Over 180 days: 1

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Accepted papers only. Rejected manuscripts never receive an acceptance date, so these figures say nothing about desk-rejection speed, rejection rates or your chance of acceptance.
Not the time to a first decision. The interval runs from the “received” date to the “accepted” date the publisher deposits in PubMed. It includes editorial handling, peer review, every round of revision and the time authors spent revising.
Journals record dates differently. Some reset the received date when a revised manuscript arrives, and manuscripts transferred from another journal may keep or lose their earlier dates. Short medians are therefore not always comparable with long ones.
Past timelines are not a promise. Each figure comes from up to 100 recent articles published 2024–2025. Article types, special issues, editors and workload all change, and your paper may take much longer or much less time.
Fast is not the same as good. Check the journal’s scope, indexing, peer-review policy and editorial board before submitting. An unusually quick acceptance can be a warning sign of light peer review.

Journal Metrics is independent and is not affiliated with any journal or publisher listed. The figures are for information only, may contain errors and change as PubMed records are updated. Confirm current timelines on the journal’s own website. See how to spot predatory journals.

Nutrition journals by median days from submission to acceptance

Nutrition journals ranked by median days from submission to acceptance in PubMed
Rank	Journal	Median days	Middle half	Articles	Quartile	2026 score
1	Foods	33	27–39	100	Q1	6.5
2	Preventive Nutrition and Food Science	50	35–80	97	Q2	2.3
3	BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH	68	52–92	100	Q2	3.3
4	Current Research in Food Science	77	62–101	100	Q1	7.4
4	ACS Food Science & Technology	77	67–102	21	Q2	3.0
6	Journal of Applied Glycoscience	78	54–108	45	Q3	1.3
7	FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL	89	71–124	100	Q1	6.8
8	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	91	71–146	100	Q1	4.3
9	LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY	95	73–140	97	Q2	2.3
10	FOOD MICROBIOLOGY	97	70–120	100	Q1	4.7
10	JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY	97	71–128	100	Q2	2.8
12	JOURNAL OF FOOD PROTECTION	98	68–125	100	Q1	3.7
13	Microbiome Research Reports	104	80–151	92	Q1	4.7
14	Advances in Nutrition	106	73–166	100	Q1	7.5
15	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY	107	84–131	100	Q1	4.9
15	JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE	107	83–137	100	Q1	3.8
17	Food Chemistry-X	109	84–136	100	Q1	6.0
17	FOOD SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY	109	65–152	99	Q1	3.9
19	JOURNAL OF TEXTURE STUDIES	118	99–149	100	Q2	3.0
20	COMPREHENSIVE REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY	121	96–146	100	Q1	14.1
21	JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE	137	97–198	100	Q1	3.7
22	Food Science & Nutrition	144	79–203	100	Q1	4.1
23	BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY	145	99–203	100	Q2	2.3
24	Food Chemistry	148	113–175	100	Q1	9.4
25	JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION	149	107–182	100	Q1	2.6
26	JOURNAL OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY	152	114–245	100	Q1	3.8
27	International Breastfeeding Journal	156	119–207	100	Q1	3.3
28	JOURNAL OF PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION	160	119–219	100	Q2	2.3
29	Beneficial Microbes	177	133–261	100	Q2	2.2
30	International Journal of Food Science	180	122–235	100	Q2	2.9
31	FOOD TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY	286	231–361	92	Q1	11.7

Median days: half of the journal’s accepted articles took less time from submission to acceptance and half took more. Middle half: the 25th to 75th percentile. Articles: how many recent PubMed articles had both dates. Journals with the same rounded median share a rank.

Median under 30 days. Very short intervals usually reflect how a journal records its dates (for example a new received date after revision) or invited and fast-track article types such as reviews and editorials, not unusually quick peer review. Check the journal’s peer-review policy before reading anything into them.

Questions about nutrition journal acceptance times

Which nutrition journals accept papers fastest?

Among the 31 nutrition journals with enough PubMed dates, the shortest median times from submission to acceptance (leaving out medians under 30 days, which usually reflect how dates are recorded) are Foods (33 days), Preventive Nutrition and Food Science (50 days), BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH (68 days), Current Research in Food Science (77 days), ACS Food Science & Technology (77 days). These medians include peer review and revisions, and cover accepted papers only.

How long does a nutrition journal take to accept a paper?

The typical nutrition journal on this page has a median of 107 days from submission to acceptance. 2 of 31 journals have a median under 60 days and 1 take more than 180 days.

Is this the peer review time?

No. PubMed records when a manuscript was received and when it was accepted, not the individual review stages. The interval includes editorial handling, peer review, revisions and the time authors spent revising, so it is longer than the time to a first decision. For first-decision times, check the journal’s own website.

Does a fast journal mean my paper is more likely to be accepted?

No. Only accepted papers have an acceptance date, so this ranking says nothing about acceptance rates or how quickly a journal rejects papers. A very fast acceptance can also be a sign of light peer review. Check the journal’s scope, indexing and peer-review policy before submitting.

About this data

Source: the received and accepted dates publishers deposit in PubMed, read through the public NCBI E-utilities for articles published 2024-01-01 to 2025-12-31, up to 100 recent articles per journal. Data checked 2026-11-03.
A journal is ranked only when at least 20 articles have both dates and at least half of the articles checked have them. Journals that do not deposit dates in PubMed, including most journals outside the life sciences, cannot be ranked here.
The ranking uses each journal’s median: half of its accepted articles took less time and half took more. The middle-half range shows the 25th to 75th percentile.
Fields come from the OpenAlex classification of each journal’s research topics. A journal joins a field when at least two of its four main topics are in it, so a journal can appear in more than one field and some classifications are imperfect.
Quartile and score are the journal’s best OpenAlex subfield quartile and its Journal Metrics Score, shown for context; they play no part in the order.

The full journal-level dataset is in the journal acceptance times study (with a CSV download). Spot an error or a journal whose dates look wrong? Tell us.

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