Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2003
41 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 41 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.27, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 0.66. The top three are Journal of Animal Science, Meat Science, and Veterinary Microbiology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
41 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.35Q1 | 1.82 0.22 up from 2002 | 1,255 | 6% | $4,368 | ||
2Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.02 0.38 up from 2002 | 567 | 5% | $4,740 | ||
3Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q1 | 1.61 0.31 down from 2002 | 698 | 8% | $3,110 | ||
4British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 0.96 0.14 up from 2002 | 264 | 9% | — | ||
5Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q1 | 1.16 0.54 up from 2002 | 83 | 23% | — | ||
6Avian and Poultry Biology ReviewsUnited Kingdom | 0.95Q1 | 0.33 2.33 down from 2002 | 34 | 10% | — | ||
7World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 0.88 0.01 up from 2002 | 104 | 21% | — | ||
8Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.91Q1 | 1.23 0.03 down from 2002 | 840 | 98% | $2,600 | ||
9Journal of Muscle FoodsWiley · United States | 0.82Q1 | 0.58 0.24 up from 2002 | 69 | 3% | — | ||
10Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.71Q1 | 0.81 0.39 up from 2002 | 254 | 47% | — | ||
11Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.66Q1 | 0.77 0.25 up from 2002 | 88 | 85% | — | ||
12Archiv für TierernaehrungTaylor & Francis · Germany | 0.64Q2 | 0.67 0.19 up from 2002 | 109 | 0% | — | ||
13Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 0.64Q2 | 1.07 0.13 down from 2002 | 418 | 2% | — | ||
14Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 0.61Q2 | 0.82 0.14 up from 2002 | 146 | 13% | $4,650 | ||
15Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.54Q2 | 0.60 0.23 down from 2002 | 113 | 58% | $1,533 | ||
16The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.52Q2 | 0.42 0.08 up from 2002 | 213 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
17Recent Advances in Animal NutritionUnited Kingdom | 0.42Q2 | 0.49 0.10 up from 2002 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
18Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.41Q2 | 0.29 0.06 up from 2002 | 99 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.40Q2 | 0.81 0.08 up from 2002 | 241 | 8% | $3,360 | ||
20Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.32Q2 | 0.42 0.15 up from 2002 | 237 | 100% | — | ||
21Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 0.27Q2 | 0.31no 2002 value | 32 | 100% | $1,590 | — | |
| 0.22Q3 | 0.25 0.14 up from 2002 | 44 | 0% | — | |||
23Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal SciencesOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 0.20Q3 | 0.50 0.22 up from 2002 | 1,007 | 100% | $370 | ||
24Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.16Q3 | 0.28 0.11 up from 2002 | 170 | 67% | $1,533 | ||
25Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.13Q3 | 0.30 0.08 down from 2002 | 822 | 100% | $61 | ||
26The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.13Q3 | 0.31 0.54 down from 2002 | 116 | 48% | $452 | ||
27Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.12Q3 | 0.15 0.03 up from 2002 | 91 | 0% | $609 | ||
| 0.12Q3 | 0.09 0.14 down from 2002 | 34 | 0% | — | |||
29Animal Science Papers and ReportsPublisher not listed | 0.11Q3 | 0.39 0.39 up from 2002 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
30South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.11Q3 | 0.26 0.06 up from 2002 | 161 | 100% | $500 | ||
31Japanese poultry scienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.10Q3 | 0.22 0.09 down from 2002 | 65 | — | — | ||
32Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.08Q4 | 0.12 0.06 up from 2002 | 92 | 100% | $400 | ||
33International Journal of Poultry ScienceOAAsian Network for Scientific Information · Pakistan | 0.07Q4 | 0.13 0.02 up from 2002 | 54 | 62% | — | ||
34Revue Méd VétOAAnkara University · France | 0.06Q4 | 0.08 0.05 down from 2002 | 88 | 0% | — | ||
34Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research ReportsNew Prairie Press · United States | 0.06Q4 | 0.03no change | 293 | 100% | — | ||
36Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.05Q4 | 0.07 0.04 up from 2002 | 73 | 0% | — | ||
37Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 0.05Q4 | 0.10 0.10 up from 2002 | 69 | 100% | $300 | ||
38Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 0.04Q4 | 0.07 0.07 up from 2002 | 101 | 95% | $383 | ||
39Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.02Q4 | 0.04 0.03 down from 2002 | 108 | — | — | ||
40Indian Journal of Animal ResearchAgricultural Research Communication Centre · India | 0.01Q4 | 0.02 0.02 up from 2002 | 131 | 0% | — | ||
41Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia | 0.00Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2002 | 48 | 91% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science281
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics109
- Food Science65
- Insect Science42
- Animal Science and Zoology41
- Agronomy and Crop Science28
- Soil Science27
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Aquatic Science17
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 additional Animal Science and Zoology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 41
- Window papers (baseline)
- 13,464 +26.5% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.268 -39.8% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 26 | 31 | 36 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 48 | 47 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 59 | 60 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 56 | 58 | 58 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,647 | 12,167 | 12,651 | 13,464 | 13,344 | 14,310 | 15,532 | 16,590 | 18,273 | 19,887 | 22,854 | 25,921 | 27,698 | 27,900 | 27,548 | 28,559 | 29,359 | 29,199 | 28,813 | 29,206 | 30,906 | 33,489 | 35,731 | 36,573 | 36,513 | 37,939 | |
| Median OJR | 0.445 | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.268 | 0.275 | 0.31 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 0.444 | 0.439 | 0.46 | 0.64 | 0.655 | 0.62 | 0.698 | 0.658 | 0.65 | 0.68 | 0.668 | 0.656 | 0.697 | 0.674 | 0.61 | 0.699 | 0.663 | 0.57 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.