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Journal rankings · indicator year 2006

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Subfield ranking · 2006

Small Animals journal rankings 2006

37 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary

Small Animals has 37 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2005 to 0.50, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.82. The top three are ILAR Journal, Veterinary Parasitology, and Applied Animal Behaviour Science.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 score is computed on.

37
82% of Veterinary
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.

0.50+0.09 vs 2005
This subfieldAll 0.84World 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.

32%
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 21 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 15 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Veterinary (2)

37 ranked journals

Filters

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)
Small Animals ranking, 2006

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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006.

Compare
1ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States
1.20Q12.46 1.13 up from 200511859%—
2Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.09Q12.30 0.51 up from 20059579%$3,680
3Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.07Q11.68 0.33 down from 200548512%$3,220
4Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States
1.01Q11.70 0.42 up from 200593442%—
5Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
0.99Q11.04 0.31 down from 200522912%$3,550
6American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States
0.96Q11.57 0.04 up from 200576680%—
7Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom
0.95Q11.37 0.07 up from 200526019%$3,000
8Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.89Q10.84 0.34 down from 20051402%$3,000
0.88Q11.19 0.20 down from 20052094%$2,950
10Zoo BiologyWiley · United States
0.82Q11.29 0.67 up from 20051457%$3,920
11Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.80Q21.04 0.27 down from 200521476%$1,800
12Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States
0.75Q21.69 0.28 up from 200563639%$2,000
13Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.73Q21.22 0.10 up from 20052809%$3,290
14The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.67Q21.01 0.16 down from 20055318%$3,310
15Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States
0.63Q20.41 1.46 down from 2005835%—
16Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea
0.62Q21.21 0.45 up from 2005170100%$300
17Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.59Q21.05 0.45 down from 200513340%$3,400
18Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom
0.53Q21.16 0.45 up from 200525421%$4,520
19New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand
0.50Q20.97 0.08 down from 20052003%—
20Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.43Q30.75 0.04 up from 20052609%$4,150
0.37Q30.56 0.19 up from 2005110100%$65
22Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary
0.36Q30.72 0.05 up from 200514926%—
23Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States
0.34Q30.46 0.03 down from 20052683%—
0.34Q30.66 0.16 up from 2005986%$3,000
0.33Q30.43 0.02 down from 20051322%—
26Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia
0.30Q30.72 0.09 down from 2005193100%$609
27In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom
0.26Q30.35 0.13 up from 2005956%$2,900
28Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark
0.25Q30.55 0.17 up from 2005203100%$2,990
29Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia
0.25Q40.56 0.14 up from 2005239100%—
0.19Q40.27 0.18 down from 2005410%—
0.10Q40.17 0.11 up from 20051732%—
32Vlaams Diergeneeskundig TijdschriftGhent University · Belgium
0.04Q40.07 0.01 down from 200516371%—
33Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia
0.04Q40.11 0.05 down from 200514696%$129
34Berliner und Münchener tierärztliche WochenschriftOASchluetersche GmbH and Co · Germany
0.03Q40.02 0.02 down from 2005525%—
0.02Q40.04 0.01 up from 2005133100%—
0.02Q40.04 0.01 down from 20051750%—
37Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea
0.00Q40.00no change1480%$0 listed

Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

11 additional Small Animals journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
37
Window papers (baseline)
8,162 +13.1% from indicator year 2003
Median OJR
0.50 +10.3% from indicator year 2003
Rising journals (2025)
7

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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 journals2833353536363743434245464848495155586259616163636060
Window papers (baseline)5,9596,6196,7287,2177,0937,5278,1629,0199,86210,73412,13213,55114,19414,42314,75015,71716,21216,17716,21216,50217,02617,71718,29118,63118,60218,615
Median OJR0.430.340.390.460.400.420.500.450.5250.5720.550.6650.680.630.670.5920.59310.6560.59280.5900.5940.580.5660.5850.600.519

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.