Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2008
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 44 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2007 to 0.44, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.89. The top three are Meat Science, Journal of Animal Science, and World s Poultry Science Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
44 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.33 0.14 down from 2007 | 928 | 4% | $4,740 | ||
2Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.36 0.04 down from 2007 | 1,372 | 15% | $4,368 | ||
3World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.55 0.22 up from 2007 | 166 | 22% | — | ||
4Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 2.61 0.37 up from 2007 | 983 | 45% | $3,110 | ||
5Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q1 | 1.82 0.14 down from 2007 | 1,090 | 94% | $2,600 | ||
6animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 1.44 1.44 up from 2007 | 185 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
7British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.39 0.02 down from 2007 | 297 | 22% | — | ||
8Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 1.16Q1 | 2.04 0.42 up from 2007 | 395 | 6% | — | ||
9Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.13Q1 | 1.21 0.50 down from 2007 | 130 | 9% | — | ||
10Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q1 | 1.39 0.31 up from 2007 | 661 | 10% | $2,970 | ||
11Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.89Q1 | 1.28 0.49 up from 2007 | 48 | 78% | $1,533 | ||
12The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.82 0.11 down from 2007 | 256 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
13Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 0.76Q2 | 1.21no change | 241 | 21% | $4,650 | ||
14Journal of Muscle FoodsWiley · United States | 0.76Q2 | 0.79 0.08 down from 2007 | 95 | 13% | — | ||
15Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.72Q2 | 0.84 0.07 up from 2007 | 185 | 41% | — | ||
16Avian and Poultry Biology ReviewsUnited Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.69 0.89 up from 2007 | 35 | — | — | ||
17Recent Advances in Animal NutritionUnited Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 0.74 0.06 up from 2007 | 54 | 0% | — | ||
18Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.58Q2 | 0.65 0.02 down from 2007 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.56Q2 | 1.13 0.25 up from 2007 | 225 | 5% | $3,360 | ||
20Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.50Q2 | 0.44 0.07 down from 2007 | 126 | 100% | $400 | ||
21Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.49Q2 | 0.80 0.19 up from 2007 | 100 | 96% | — | ||
22International Journal of Poultry ScienceOAAsian Network for Scientific Information · Pakistan | 0.48Q2 | 0.56 0.01 up from 2007 | 599 | 99% | — | ||
23Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.38 0.15 down from 2007 | 83 | 3% | — | ||
24Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.35Q3 | 0.88 0.15 up from 2007 | 210 | 100% | $609 | ||
25The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.34Q3 | 0.81 0.30 up from 2007 | 210 | 47% | $452 | ||
26South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.34Q3 | 0.50 0.12 up from 2007 | 116 | 100% | $500 | ||
27Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.31Q3 | 0.55 0.02 down from 2007 | 905 | 100% | $61 | ||
28Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal SciencesOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 0.28Q3 | 1.03 0.11 up from 2007 | 831 | 100% | $370 | ||
| 0.21Q3 | 0.26 0.01 up from 2007 | 55 | 0% | — | |||
30Revue Méd VétOAAnkara University · France | 0.21Q3 | 0.28 0.05 up from 2007 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
31Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 0.20Q3 | 0.57 0.39 up from 2007 | 55 | 100% | $300 | ||
32Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.19Q3 | 0.23 0.11 down from 2007 | 449 | 100% | — | ||
33Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 0.15Q3 | 0.17 0.14 down from 2007 | 976 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
34Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 0.13Q4 | 0.19 0.03 up from 2007 | 347 | 90% | $383 | ||
35Animal Science Papers and ReportsPublisher not listed | 0.12Q4 | 0.32 0.27 up from 2007 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
36Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.22 0.09 up from 2007 | 239 | 76% | $1,533 | ||
37Food Science of Animal ResourcesOAPublisher not listed | 0.09Q4 | 0.10 0.02 up from 2007 | 150 | 0% | — | ||
38Revista Mvz CórdobaOAUniversity of Cordoba · Colombia | 0.06Q4 | 0.10 0.04 up from 2007 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
39Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.06Q4 | 0.05 0.04 down from 2007 | 93 | 0% | — | ||
40Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary AdvancesOAPakistan | 0.06Q4 | 0.05 0.04 down from 2007 | 57 | 66% | — | ||
41Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research ReportsNew Prairie Press · United States | 0.05Q4 | 0.06 0.01 up from 2007 | 214 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.05Q4 | 0.04 0.04 down from 2007 | 91 | 0% | — | |||
43Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia | 0.01Q4 | 0.04 0.19 down from 2007 | 321 | 98% | — | ||
44Indian Journal of Animal ResearchAgricultural Research Communication Centre · India | 0.01Q4 | 0.01 0.01 up from 2007 | 141 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science337
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics103
- Food Science79
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Insect Science44
- Soil Science29
- Agronomy and Crop Science28
- Aquatic Science22
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
3 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 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,273 +27.7% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.444 +45.3% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.