Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Small Animals journal rankings 2010
45 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary
Small Animals has 45 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 0.96. The top three are BMC Veterinary Research, ILAR Journal, and Applied Animal Behaviour Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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)
45 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.43 0.73 up from 2009 | 134 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
2ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.76 0.90 up from 2009 | 117 | 76% | — | ||
3Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 1.96 0.24 up from 2009 | 449 | 16% | $3,220 | ||
4Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 2.72 0.23 up from 2009 | 1,285 | 21% | $3,680 | ||
5The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 2.06 0.03 down from 2009 | 811 | 13% | $3,310 | ||
6Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 1.30Q1 | 1.95 0.41 up from 2009 | 165 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
7American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 1.19Q1 | 1.86 0.05 up from 2009 | 601 | 79% | — | ||
8Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 1.38 0.19 down from 2009 | 197 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
9Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.14Q1 | 2.35 0.04 down from 2009 | 766 | 72% | $2,000 | ||
10Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 1.62 0.09 down from 2009 | 351 | 10% | $3,000 | ||
11Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 1.02Q1 | 1.72 0.07 up from 2009 | 845 | 51% | — | ||
12Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.96Q1 | 1.60 0.09 up from 2009 | 503 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
13Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.47 0.39 down from 2009 | 207 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
14New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.87Q2 | 1.39 0.12 up from 2009 | 185 | 11% | — | ||
15Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.83Q2 | 1.48 0.28 up from 2009 | 193 | 100% | $300 | ||
16Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.47 0.08 up from 2009 | 184 | 29% | $3,400 | ||
17Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.82Q2 | 1.56 0.60 up from 2009 | 242 | 10% | $2,950 | ||
18Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 0.69 0.50 down from 2009 | 293 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
19Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 1.54 0.16 up from 2009 | 340 | 93% | $1,800 | ||
20Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q2 | 0.97 0.20 up from 2009 | 95 | 0% | — | ||
21Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.69Q2 | 1.12 0.25 up from 2009 | 273 | 5% | — | ||
22Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.65Q2 | 1.00 0.20 down from 2009 | 388 | 17% | $4,520 | ||
23Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.55Q2 | 0.90 0.03 up from 2009 | 227 | 100% | $609 | ||
24Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.80 0.08 down from 2009 | 173 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
25Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.52Q3 | 1.13 0.26 up from 2009 | 159 | 0% | — | ||
26Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.76 0.51 up from 2009 | 51 | 5% | $2,740 | ||
27Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.73 0.01 up from 2009 | 110 | 12% | $3,000 | ||
28In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.61 0.17 up from 2009 | 119 | 12% | $2,900 | ||
29Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.60 0.13 down from 2009 | 319 | 4% | — | ||
30Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.56 0.31 up from 2009 | 133 | 6% | $3,620 | ||
31Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.30Q3 | 0.47 0.01 down from 2009 | 345 | 67% | — | ||
32Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.27Q3 | 0.45 0.05 up from 2009 | 134 | 100% | $65 | ||
33Slovenian Veterinary ResearchOASlovenia | 0.19Q3 | 0.31 0.17 up from 2009 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
34Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.13Q3 | 0.27 0.06 up from 2009 | 175 | 94% | $129 | ||
35Vlaams Diergeneeskundig TijdschriftGhent University · Belgium | 0.10Q4 | 0.19 0.03 up from 2009 | 187 | 75% | — | ||
36The journal of applied research in veterinary medicineUnited States | 0.09Q4 | 0.11 0.89 down from 2009 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
37Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K Kleintiere / HeimtiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.07Q4 | 0.18 0.03 up from 2009 | 196 | 1% | — | ||
38The Thai Journal of Veterinary MedicinePublisher not listed | 0.07Q4 | 0.19 0.12 up from 2009 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
39Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe G Großtiere / NutztiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.05Q4 | 0.06 0.03 down from 2009 | 205 | 4% | — | ||
40Wiener Tierarztliche MonatsschriftAustrian Society of Veterinarians | 0.05Q4 | 0.06no 2009 value | 35 | 0% | — | ||
41LivestockUnited Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.06 0.02 up from 2009 | 190 | 0% | — | ||
42Berliner und Münchener tierärztliche WochenschriftOASchluetersche GmbH and Co · Germany | 0.03Q4 | 0.01 0.08 down from 2009 | 126 | 0% | — | ||
43Alternatives to animal testing and experimentation : AATEXPublisher not listed | 0.03Q4 | 0.04 0.04 down from 2009 | 182 | 0% | — | ||
44Companion animalUnited Kingdom | 0.02Q4 | 0.04no change | 366 | 0% | — | ||
45Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.02Q4 | 0.03no change | 163 | 97% | $0 listed |
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
7 additional Small Animals journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 45
- Window papers (baseline)
- 12,132 +34.5% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.55 +23.6% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.