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Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Field ranking · 2005

Veterinary journal rankings 2005

44 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences

Veterinary has 44 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.35, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 0.84. The top three are Animal Welfare, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, and Laboratory Animals.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

44
2% of Health Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.35-0.01 vs 2004
This fieldAll 0.79World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

30%
All fields: 15%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,000
Median positive listed APC: $3,000 among 25 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 18 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields in Veterinary (2)

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44 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
Veterinary ranking, 2005

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.

OJR

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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005.

Compare
1Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
1.35Q11.35 0.30 up from 200418613%$3,550
2Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.19Q12.01 0.04 up from 20044287%$3,220
3Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.01Q11.50 0.29 down from 200412641%$3,400
0.99Q11.19 0.21 up from 20041132%$2,850
5Equine Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom
0.98Q11.43 0.05 down from 20044999%$4,480
6Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States
0.96Q11.87 1.17 up from 2004870%—
7Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.95Q11.79 0.17 up from 20048667%$3,680
8American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States
0.86Q11.53 0.20 up from 200473779%—
9ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States
0.85Q11.32 0.20 down from 200412875%—
10Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.85Q11.18 0.42 up from 20041062%$3,000
11Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom
0.84Q11.30 0.14 up from 200423611%$3,000
12Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States
0.79Q21.28 0.10 down from 200490645%—
13Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.76Q21.12 0.10 down from 20042846%$3,290
14Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States
0.72Q21.41 0.03 up from 200459239%$2,000
15The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.71Q21.17 0.17 up from 20043946%$3,310
0.66Q21.39 0.20 up from 20042086%$2,950
17Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.59Q21.31 0.52 up from 200413770%$1,800
18Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.58Q20.70 0.05 down from 20042887%$4,150
19Zoo BiologyWiley · United States
0.48Q20.62 0.17 down from 20041405%$3,920
20Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom
0.43Q20.71 0.06 down from 200426011%$4,520
21Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea
0.40Q20.76 0.31 up from 2004152100%$300
22Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary
0.36Q20.67 0.10 up from 20041490%—
0.33Q30.44 0.06 down from 20041260%—
24Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia
0.32Q30.81 0.19 down from 2004165100%$609
25Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark
0.32Q30.37 0.05 up from 2004206100%$2,990
26Journal of Equine Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · United States
0.31Q30.44 0.15 up from 20041360%$3,210
0.30Q30.47 0.26 up from 200448100%—
28Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States
0.29Q30.49 0.12 down from 20042192%—
29Equine Veterinary EducationWiley · United Kingdom
0.29Q30.52 0.04 up from 20042003%$3,760
30New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand
0.28Q31.05 0.54 up from 20041931%—
31Equine and comparative exercise physiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
0.27Q30.58no 2004 value310%——
32Clinical techniques in equine practiceElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.26Q30.16 0.02 down from 20041020%—
33Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia
0.24Q30.42 0.03 up from 2004230100%—
0.22Q40.50 0.24 up from 200410526%$3,000
0.19Q40.36 0.01 down from 2004112100%$65
0.18Q40.44 0.16 up from 2004370%—
37In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom
0.10Q40.22no change706%$2,900
0.08Q40.10 0.03 up from 200419195%—
39Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia
0.05Q40.16 0.04 down from 200413796%$129
40Vlaams Diergeneeskundig TijdschriftGhent University · Belgium
0.04Q40.07 0.01 up from 200416791%—
0.03Q40.06 0.01 down from 20041150%—
0.02Q40.04 0.03 up from 20041160%—
0.02Q40.02 0.01 up from 2004123100%—
44Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea
0.00Q40.00no change1170%$0 listed

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

8 additional Veterinary journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
44
Window papers (baseline)
9,096 +13.0% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR
0.347 -10.3% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025)
7Comparison-group list (7)

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3439414243444551515053535555565862656967696971716868
Window papers (baseline)7,2107,8688,0508,6138,5649,0969,82010,95411,89012,90214,37116,21517,01417,37817,54818,57419,06218,98619,02419,35220,09620,88721,56621,79621,68421,592
Median OJR0.420.340.390.400.360.3470.430.3500.510.5560.550.630.620.5720.610.540.5880.640.5710.5900.5940.5640.5580.5690.5750.50
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 7.0%45 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 0.505 per 1,00055 journals
Output growthMedian: -10.4%68 journals
Open access shareMedian: 72.9%68 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $2,99540 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 23.3%67 journals
Review shareMedian: 0.2%68 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.5068 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 44.6%68 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 43.8%68 journals

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.