Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Small Animals journal rankings 2011
46 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary
Small Animals has 46 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2010 to 0.66, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.09. The top three are BMC Veterinary Research, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and Veterinary Surgery.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
46 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.66 0.78 down from 2010 | 158 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
2Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.61 0.26 up from 2010 | 606 | 67% | $2,000 | ||
3Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 1.88 0.26 up from 2010 | 410 | 16% | $3,000 | ||
4Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 2.19 0.22 up from 2010 | 431 | 13% | $3,220 | ||
5Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 3.04 0.31 up from 2010 | 1,417 | 14% | $3,680 | ||
6The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.94 0.13 down from 2010 | 776 | 15% | $3,310 | ||
7Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 1.32Q1 | 1.69 0.26 down from 2010 | 200 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
8American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 1.26Q1 | 1.86no change | 606 | 82% | — | ||
9ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 1.25Q1 | 2.75no change | 119 | 81% | — | ||
10Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.22Q1 | 2.34 0.78 up from 2010 | 241 | 10% | $2,950 | ||
11Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 1.16Q1 | 1.70 0.01 down from 2010 | 789 | 56% | — | ||
12Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 2.13 0.59 up from 2010 | 382 | 92% | $1,800 | ||
13Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.33 0.14 down from 2010 | 224 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
14Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 1.27 0.11 down from 2010 | 195 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
15Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q2 | 1.52 0.08 down from 2010 | 617 | 9% | $3,290 | ||
16New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.98Q2 | 1.45 0.06 up from 2010 | 179 | 3% | — | ||
17Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.58 0.82 up from 2010 | 82 | 3% | $2,740 | ||
18Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.89Q2 | 1.54 0.06 up from 2010 | 182 | 100% | $300 | ||
19Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.09 0.40 up from 2010 | 265 | 21% | $3,550 | ||
20Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.41 0.40 up from 2010 | 348 | 16% | $4,520 | ||
21Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.37 0.09 down from 2010 | 184 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
22Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.67Q2 | 0.98 0.14 down from 2010 | 274 | 9% | — | ||
23Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.83 0.14 down from 2010 | 88 | 8% | — | ||
24Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.66Q3 | 0.92 0.12 up from 2010 | 204 | 8% | $3,920 | ||
25Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.63Q3 | 0.87 0.14 up from 2010 | 117 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
26Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.62Q3 | 1.01 0.12 down from 2010 | 155 | 4% | — | ||
27Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.55Q3 | 0.99 0.09 up from 2010 | 242 | 100% | $609 | ||
28Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.50 0.06 down from 2010 | 133 | 1% | $3,620 | ||
29The journal of applied research in veterinary medicineUnited States | 0.39Q3 | 0.56 0.45 up from 2010 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
30Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.38Q3 | 0.55 0.10 up from 2010 | 148 | 100% | $65 | ||
31Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.59 0.02 down from 2010 | 351 | 4% | — | ||
32In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.45 0.16 down from 2010 | 111 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
33Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.33Q3 | 0.46 0.01 down from 2010 | 375 | 63% | — | ||
34Wiener Tierarztliche MonatsschriftAustrian Society of Veterinarians | 0.23Q3 | 0.35 0.29 up from 2010 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
35Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.16Q3 | 0.26no change | 181 | 100% | $129 | ||
36Vlaams Diergeneeskundig TijdschriftGhent University · Belgium | 0.16Q4 | 0.29 0.10 up from 2010 | 200 | 91% | — | ||
37Slovenian Veterinary ResearchOASlovenia | 0.14Q4 | 0.17 0.14 down from 2010 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
38The Thai Journal of Veterinary MedicinePublisher not listed | 0.10Q4 | 0.25 0.05 up from 2010 | 161 | 100% | — | ||
39Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K Kleintiere / HeimtiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.07Q4 | 0.19 0.01 up from 2010 | 203 | 1% | — | ||
40Berliner und Münchener tierärztliche WochenschriftOASchluetersche GmbH and Co · Germany | 0.06Q4 | 0.09 0.08 up from 2010 | 110 | 0% | — | ||
41Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.05Q4 | 0.11 0.08 up from 2010 | 177 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
42Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe G Großtiere / NutztiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.04Q4 | 0.13 0.07 up from 2010 | 215 | 5% | — | ||
43LivestockUnited Kingdom | 0.04Q4 | 0.06 0.01 up from 2010 | 191 | 5% | — | ||
44Alternatives to animal testing and experimentation : AATEXPublisher not listed | 0.04Q4 | 0.08 0.04 up from 2010 | 174 | — | — | ||
45The Veterinary NurseMark Allen Group · United Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.14no 2010 value | 37 | 1% | — | — | |
46Companion animalUnited Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.02 0.02 down from 2010 | 365 | 0% | — |
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% 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 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 46
- Window papers (baseline)
- 13,551 +37.4% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.665 +26.6% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.