Journal History
| 2009 | The inaugural issue was released. Nutrients was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2010 | Nutrients adopted a monthly publication schedule. Nutrients was indexed in Scopus. |
| 2011 | Nutrients was indexed in Web of Knowledge (ISI), Medline and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). |
| 2012 | Nutrients received its first Impact Factor (0.676). |
| 2013 | The second Impact Factor was 2.072. |
| 2014 | The 2013 Impact Factor was 3.148. |
| 2015 | The 2014 Impact Factor was 3.270. Nutrients published its 1,000th paper. Two new societies, Nutrition Society of New Zealand (NSNZ) and Australasian Section—American Oil Chemists Society (AAOCS), became affiliated with Nutrients. |
| 2016 | The 2015 Impact Factor was 3.759. Nutrients published its 2,000th paper. A new society, Asia Pacific Nutrigenomics Nutrigenetics Organisation (APNNO), became affiliated with Nutrients. |
| 2017 | The 2016 Impact Factor was 3.550. Nutrients published its 3,000th paper. A new society, Italian Society for Pediatric Nutrition and Gastroenterology (SIGENP), became affiliated with Nutrients. |
| 2018 | The 2017 Impact Factor was 4.196. Nutrients was ranked 18/81 (Q1) in the Category ‘Nutrition & Dietetics’ in SCIE. Nutrients published its 5,000th paper. Two new societies, The Nutrition Society of Australia (NSA) and International Chair for Advanced Studies on Hydration (CIEAH), became affiliated with Nutrients. |
| 2019 | The 2018 Impact Factor was 4.171. Nutrients was ranked 16/86 (Q1) in the Category ‘Nutrition & Dietetics’ in SCIE. Nutrients held the first international conference Nutrients 2019 - Nutritional Advances in the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease, in Barcelona, Spain, September 25‒27, 2019. The subject areas were refined to 13 sections. Two new societies, European Sport Nutrition Society (ESNS) and Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC), became affiliated with Nutrients. |
| 2020 | The 2019 Impact Factor was 4.546. Nutrients was ranked 17/89 (Q1) in the Category ‘Nutrition & Dietetics’ in SCIE. Nutrients published its 10,000th paper. Nutrients held the first electronic international conference - Nutritional and Microbiota Effects on Chronic Disease, November 2‒15, 2020. A new society, Spanish Nutrition Society (SEN), became affiliated with Nutrients. |
| 2021 | The 2020 Impact Factor was 5.717. Nutrients was ranked 17/89 (Q1) in the Category ‘Nutrition & Dietetics’ in SCIE. Two new societies, Spanish Nutrition Foundation (FEN) and Ocular Wellness & Nutrition Society (OWNS), became affiliated with Nutrients. |
| 2022 | Nutrients adopted a semimonthly publication schedule. The 2021 Impact Factor was 6.706. Nutrients was ranked 15/90 (Q1) in the Category ‘Nutrition & Dietetics’ in SCIE. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2009–2017 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Peter Howe |
| 2013–2018 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jonathan Buckley |
| 2018–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Lluís Serra-Majem and Prof. Dr. Maria Luz Fernandez |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2020 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Antje Hebestreit for the section on Nutrition Methodology and Assessment |
| 2020–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gloria Lena Vega for the section on Nutrition and Metabolism |
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Maria Dolores del Castillo for the section on Phytochemicals and Human Health |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bernard Venn for the section on Macronutrients and Human Health | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Federica I. Wolf for the section on Micronutrients and Human Health | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Valerie B. Duffy for the section on Nutrition and Public Health | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Francisco J. Pérez-Cano for the section on Nutritional Immunology | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Luis A. Moreno for the section on Nutritional Epidemiology | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. M. Luisa Bonet for the section on Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stefano Guandalini for the section on Prebiotics and Probiotics | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David C. Nieman for the section on Sport Nutrition | |
| 2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gunter G.C. Kuhnle for the section on Nutrition Methodology and Assessment |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Leanne M. Redman for the section on Nutrition in Women | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yvan Vandenplas for the section on Pediatric Nutrition | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Manohar Garg for the section on Lipids | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kimber L. Stanhope for the section on Carbohydrates | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Philip J. Atherton for the section on Protein | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Javier Gómez-Ambrosi for the section on Nutrition and Obesity | |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stavros Kavouras for the section on Hydration |
| 2020–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ina Bergheim for the section on Clinical Nutrition |
| 2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jaime Uribarri for the section on Clinical Nutrition Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. George Moschonis for the section on Nutrition Methodology & Assessment |
