Global scientific trends on aflatoxin research during 1998–2017: a bibliometric and visualized study

Table 2 Most influential journals publishing aflatoxin research

Ranking^a	Journal	Number of publications (%)	IF^b	SNIP^c
1st	Food Control	384 (3.90)	4.248	1.731
2nd	Food and Chemical Toxicology	158 (1.60)	3.775	1.277
2nd	Toxins	158 (1.60)	3.895	1.245
4th	Mycotoxin Research	151 (1.53)	3.741	1.187
5th	Food Additives and Contaminants: Part A	146 (1.48)	2.170	0.909
5th	International Journal of Food Microbiology	146 (1.48)	4.006	1.556
7th	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	143 (1.45)	3.571	1.321
8th	World Mycotoxin Journal	140 (1.42)	2.406	0.840
9th	Journal of Food Protection	115 (1.17)	1.559	0.744
10th	Food Additives and Contaminants^d	103 (1.05)	NA	1.355

SNIP Source Normalized Impact per Paper, IF Impact factor, NA Not available
^aEqual journals have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
^bImpact factors (IF) based on Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2018 from Clarivate Analytics
^cSNIP based on Scopus data which was freely available at www.scopus.com/sources
^dContinued as: Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A (2008 - current), and Food Additives & Contaminants: Part B: Surveillance (2008 - current)

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