Economia agro-alimentare/Food Economy is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Franco Angeli Edizioni on behalf of the Italian Society of Agri-food Economics (SIEA), founded in 1996 by the then President of SIEA Fausto Cantarelli.
It offers an international forum for the discussion and analysis of mono and interdisciplinary socio-economic, political, cultural, legal and technical issues, related to agricultural and food systems.
It welcomes submissions of original papers focusing on agriculture, food, natural resources, safety, nutrition and health, including all processes and infrastructure involved in providing food to populations; as well as the processes, inputs and outputs involved in consumption and disposal of food and food-related items. Analyses also include social, political, economic and environmental contexts and human resource challenges.
Submissions should be addressed to an international audience of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, and they may consider local, national, or global scales.
The journal is indexed by Scopus and Clarivate Analytics (Emerging Sources Citation Index).
Editorial Board
Editor-in-chief
Valeria Borsellino
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
Søren Marcus Pedersen
Københavns Universitet, Denmark
Associate Editors
Giovanna Bertella
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Lucia Briamonte
CREA - Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura, Italy
Luca Cacciolatti
University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Nicola Cantore
UNIDO Vienna, Austria
Alessandra Castellini
Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy
Alessio Cavicchi
Università di Pisa, Italy
Fabio A. Madau
University of Sassari, Italy
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Contacts
Editorial secretariat
Alessandro Palmieri, Ph.D.
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences - Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy
viale Giuseppe Fanin, 50
40127 Bologna (BO), Italy
Tel. +39 0512096126
e-mail: [email protected]
Open Access journal (2020-present)
Performance indicators
Time to first decision
11 days
Review time
(during last year: May 2025-April 2026)
Accept: 194 days - Reject: 7 days
Rejection rate
Desk reject rate: 81%
After review reject rate: 9%
News
First Impact Factor in the Journal Citation Reports™ 2024 by Clarivate
June 19, 2025
Economia agro-alimentare/Food Economy officially enters Clarivate rankings: it has been awarded the Journal Impact Factor™ for the first time, published in the 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports™.
📈 Impact Factor (JIF): 0.8
📈 Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 0.2
The journal was ranked in three thematic categories (ESCI edition):
- Agricultural Economics & Policy - Quartile 4
- Agriculture, Multidisciplinary - Quartile 3
- Food Science & Technology - Quartile 4
The Clarivate journal profile is available here.
Scopus CiteScore 2024 Reach 1.8
June 3, 2025
Economia Agro-alimentare has received its 7th CiteScore.
The new CiteScore 2024 calculated on Scopus data is 1.8.
The best ranking is in the Subject Category "Social Sciences (miscellaneous)", where it ranks 277/674 (58th percentile, Q2).
The Scopus journal profile is available here:
Special Issue
CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL ISSUE
Economia Agro-Alimentare / Food Economy – n. 3/2026
Sustainable Agri-Food Value Chains: State of the Art and Results of Empirical Surveys
The call has been published in the Special Issues section
Guest Editors:
Alessandro Scuderi, Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente- DI3A Università di Catania
Carla Zarbà, Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente- DI3A Università di Catania
Gaetano Chinnici, Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa - DEI - Università degli Studi di Catania
Filippo Arfini, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e aziendali - Università degli Studi di Parma
DEADLINES
First submission by 31 May 2026 - First round of revisions by 15 July 2026
Second submission of revised manuscript 15 September 2026 - Second round of revisions (if necessary) by 15 October 2026
Final version of the article by 31 October 2026 - Proofreading: 15 November 2026
Publication: n. 3/2026 – December 2026
Economia agro-alimentare/Food Economy accepted for inclusion in Clarivate
June 12, 2024
Economia Agro-alimentare / Food Economy** has been selected for inclusion in the Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index®.
Starting with articles published in volume 24(1) from 2022, the journal will be included in the Web of Science® database.
NEW SCIMAGOJR indicators published
Issue 3/2023 published Open Access
Economia Agro-alimentare is now in latindex
Jan 27, 2024
The journal Economia Agro-Alimentare is now registered in the Directorio and in the Catálogo 2.0 of Latindex, the Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.
Economia agro-alimentare is now included in Sherpa Romeo
July 30, 2023
Economia agro-alimentare is now included in the Sherpa Romeo database:
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/43772
Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
Scopus CiteScore 2022 up to 1.4
July 1, 2023
Economia Agro-alimentare has received its 5th CiteScore.
The new CiteScore 2022 calculated on Scopus data is up to 1.4 from the previous value of 1.3.
The best ranking is in the Subject Category "Social Sciences (miscellaneous)", where it ranks 224/502 (55th percentile, Q2).
The Scopus journal profile is available here:
Best Paper Award 2022
June 16, 2023
The SIEA Best Paper Award 2022 has been assigned by the SIEA Presidential Board to the article "Does the Covid-19 affect food consumption patterns? A Transaction Cost Perspective", authored by Bianca Polenzani and Andrea Marchini, and published in Economia Agro-Alimentare, volume 24 (2022), issue 2.
The Award has been delivered to Andrea Marchini during the SIEA annual meeting in Venice.
The list of previous awardees starting from the year 2016 is available at this page:
Best paper awards
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