Meat Research was founded in 1987, sponsored by the China Meat Products Comprehensive Research Center. Monthly magazine. The journal is an official publication published monthly in Chinese with an ISSN number of 1001-8123 and a CN number of 11-2682/TS. Meat Research as an authoritative peer-reviewed publication in China focuses on both theoretical and technological advances.
The columns of Meat Research can be divided as follows: Fundamental research, Processing technologies, Quality and safety, Packaging, transportation and storage, Analysis and testing, and Review. The content relates to subjects of food chemistry, food microbiology, food biochemistry, food nutrition, food quality and food safety, food engineering, food biotechnology, food immunology, food enzymology, food processing and packaging, postharvest physiology, food storage and preservation, etc.
The journal has been consecutively recognized as Chinese Core Scientific Journal by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) in 2023, and it has been listed in the Peking University’s Guide to Chinese Core Journals (7th, 8th, and 10th editions). It has also been fully included in databases such as Chinese Core Journal Database, Chinese Journal Full-text Database, Chinese Scientific Journal Database, China Journal Net, CAB Abstracts and FSTA.