On December 7^th, 2023, eFood, an international journal initiated by scholars from Jinan University, Dalian Polytechnic University, Nanchang University, Northwest University, Jiangsu University, China Agricultural University, Jilin University, Zhejiang University, and other domestic universities, was formally indexed in the Web of Science, and was retrieved by Emerging Sources Citation Index, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, and will receive its first impact factor in June 2024. All papers published since the journal's inception in January 2020 will be indexed in Web of Science.