Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Small Animals journal rankings 2003
35 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary
Small Animals has 35 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2002 to 0.46, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.76. The top three are Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Veterinary Parasitology, and The Veterinary Journal.
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 Veterinary (2)
35 ranked journals
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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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1Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 1.57 0.19 up from 2002 | 369 | 8% | $3,220 | ||
2Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q1 | 1.80 0.34 up from 2002 | 753 | 7% | $3,680 | ||
3The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 1.41 0.19 up from 2002 | 215 | 5% | $3,310 | ||
4American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.90Q1 | 1.39 0.18 up from 2002 | 852 | 77% | — | ||
5Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.89Q1 | 1.30 0.13 up from 2002 | 945 | 49% | — | ||
6Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q1 | 1.23 0.19 up from 2002 | 202 | 15% | $3,000 | ||
7ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 0.82Q1 | 1.62 0.94 down from 2002 | 107 | 77% | — | ||
8Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 0.78Q1 | 1.41 0.42 up from 2002 | 460 | 36% | $2,000 | ||
9Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.76Q1 | 0.85 0.18 up from 2002 | 131 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
10Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.73Q2 | 1.04 0.15 down from 2002 | 275 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
11Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.56Q2 | 1.16 0.18 up from 2002 | 135 | 40% | $3,400 | ||
12Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.55Q2 | 0.53 0.12 down from 2002 | 80 | 0% | — | ||
13Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.53Q2 | 0.60 0.01 up from 2002 | 159 | 2% | $3,920 | ||
14Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.51Q2 | 0.74 0.12 up from 2002 | 185 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
15New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.49Q2 | 0.74 0.63 down from 2002 | 159 | 0% | — | ||
16Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.49Q2 | 0.55 0.22 down from 2002 | 212 | 3% | $2,950 | ||
17Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 0.49Q2 | 0.52 0.09 up from 2002 | 132 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
18Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.46Q2 | 0.60 0.09 up from 2002 | 336 | 12% | $4,520 | ||
19Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.66 0.33 up from 2002 | 83 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
20Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.30Q3 | 0.34 0.11 down from 2002 | 114 | 2% | — | ||
21Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.29Q3 | 0.46 0.18 up from 2002 | 187 | 70% | — | ||
22Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.29Q3 | 0.46 0.13 up from 2002 | 84 | 90% | $1,800 | ||
23Compendium on Continuing Education for The Practicing VeterinarianPublisher not listed | 0.27Q3 | 0.42 0.07 up from 2002 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
24Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.27Q3 | 0.37 0.03 up from 2002 | 143 | 100% | $65 | ||
25In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.26Q3 | 0.30 0.14 down from 2002 | 54 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
26Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.23Q3 | 0.26 0.05 down from 2002 | 224 | 0% | — | ||
27Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.20Q3 | 0.43 0.28 down from 2002 | 106 | 2% | $3,000 | ||
28Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.16Q4 | 0.78 0.45 up from 2002 | 149 | 100% | $609 | ||
29Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.16Q4 | 0.35 0.01 up from 2002 | 175 | 96% | — | ||
30Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.09Q4 | 0.17 0.10 up from 2002 | 103 | 100% | $300 | ||
31Vlaams Diergeneeskundig TijdschriftGhent University · Belgium | 0.06Q4 | 0.06 0.01 down from 2002 | 212 | 3% | — | ||
32Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.06Q4 | 0.16 0.06 up from 2002 | 74 | 98% | $129 | ||
33Wiener Tierarztliche MonatsschriftAustrian Society of Veterinarians | 0.04Q4 | 0.00 0.06 down from 2002 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
34The Thai Journal of Veterinary MedicinePublisher not listed | 0.03Q4 | 0.00 0.02 down from 2002 | 90 | 100% | — | ||
35Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 97 | 0% | $0 listed |
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.
10 additional Small Animals 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
- 35
- Window papers (baseline)
- 7,217 +21.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.46 +5.0% 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 | 28 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 43 | 43 | 42 | 45 | 46 | 48 | 48 | 49 | 51 | 55 | 58 | 62 | 59 | 61 | 61 | 63 | 63 | 60 | 60 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,959 | 6,619 | 6,728 | 7,217 | 7,093 | 7,527 | 8,162 | 9,019 | 9,862 | 10,734 | 12,132 | 13,551 | 14,194 | 14,423 | 14,750 | 15,717 | 16,212 | 16,177 | 16,212 | 16,502 | 17,026 | 17,717 | 18,291 | 18,631 | 18,602 | 18,615 | |
| Median OJR | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.525 | 0.572 | 0.55 | 0.665 | 0.68 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.592 | 0.5931 | 0.656 | 0.5928 | 0.590 | 0.594 | 0.58 | 0.566 | 0.585 | 0.60 | 0.519 |
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.