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Journal rankings · indicator year 2013

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Subfield ranking · 2013

Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2013

48 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Animal Science and Zoology has 48 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 0.99. The top three are Meat Science, Poultry Science, and Veterinary Microbiology.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 score is computed on.

48
5% of Agricultural and Biological 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.

0.62-0.03 vs 2012
This subfieldAll 0.92World 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.

58%
All fields: 26%
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.

$1,590
Median positive listed APC: $1,590 among 23 journals. 25 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)

48 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.

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APC (list price)
Animal Science and Zoology ranking, 2013

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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013.

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1Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.24Q12.81 0.19 down from 20121,00113%$4,740
2Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States
1.52Q11.99 0.07 up from 20121,17594%$2,600
3Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.51Q12.93 0.05 up from 20121,29219%$3,110
4Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States
1.45Q12.12 0.24 down from 20121,60514%$4,368
5animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.35Q11.95 0.35 up from 2012791100%$2,000
6World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.23Q11.10 0.03 down from 20122229%—
7AnimalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
1.22Q11.69 0.83 up from 201269100%$2,896
8Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.19Q11.52 0.15 down from 201293016%$2,970
9British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.06Q11.11 0.38 down from 20123195%—
10Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.05Q11.31 0.03 down from 20121103%—
11The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States
1.05Q10.88 0.45 down from 2012219100%$2,300
12Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States
0.99Q11.53 0.51 down from 20124965%—
0.99Q21.46 0.27 up from 201240018%$4,650
14Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.87Q21.68 0.19 up from 201226114%$3,360
15Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan
0.83Q21.44 0.10 up from 2012258100%$300
0.81Q20.98 0.08 up from 20127296%—
17Journal of Muscle FoodsWiley · United States
0.77Q2—no 2012 value49——
18Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia
0.76Q21.19 0.01 up from 2012199100%$609
19World Rabbit ScienceOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain
0.73Q21.04 0.26 up from 2012481100%—
20Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada
0.72Q21.17 0.09 down from 201220852%—
21Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal SciencesOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea
0.69Q20.90 0.01 up from 2012628100%$370
22Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil
0.67Q20.60 0.21 down from 20121,151100%$61
23International Journal of Poultry ScienceOAAsian Network for Scientific Information · Pakistan
0.67Q20.58 0.23 down from 2012508100%—
24Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States
0.66Q20.85 0.17 down from 20121195%—
0.59Q31.17 0.91 up from 201263100%$2,790
26Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil
0.59Q30.55 0.29 down from 2012126100%$400
27Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands
0.57Q31.04 0.16 up from 20125665%$1,533
28The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan
0.56Q30.84 0.14 down from 2012172100%$452
29Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy
0.54Q30.81 0.09 down from 2012255100%$1,590
30Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland
0.51Q30.66 0.26 down from 201216698%—
0.50Q30.87 0.86 down from 201237245%—
0.49Q30.38 0.47 down from 20129510%—
33Animal Science Papers and ReportsPublisher not listed
0.47Q31.03 0.21 up from 20121020%—
0.44Q30.88 0.18 up from 201225296%—
35Journal of Cell and Animal BiologyOAAcademic Journals · Nigeria
0.42Q30.57 0.06 down from 2012105100%—
36South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa
0.39Q30.41 0.11 down from 2012333100%$500
37Open Journal of Animal SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States
0.35Q40.51 0.29 up from 201257100%—
38Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland
0.34Q40.60 0.01 up from 2012145100%—
0.27Q40.20 0.09 down from 20121080%—
40Revista Mvz CórdobaOAUniversity of Cordoba · Colombia
0.27Q40.46 0.11 up from 2012151100%—
0.24Q40.45 0.03 up from 201221922%—
42Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia
0.23Q40.28 0.04 down from 2012332100%—
43Revue Méd VétOAAnkara University · France
0.21Q40.33 0.09 up from 201294100%—
44Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States
0.20Q40.66 0.44 up from 201226853%$1,533
45Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea
0.16Q40.34 0.06 down from 201219999%$383
46Indian Journal of Animal ResearchAgricultural Research Communication Centre · India
0.10Q40.09 0.02 up from 20122030%—
47Revista Colombiana de Ciencias PecuariasOAUniversidad de Antioquia · Colombia
0.10Q40.11 0.08 down from 2012283100%$200
0.09Q40.05 0.08 down from 2012227100%—

Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

13 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
48
Window papers (baseline)
27,900 +22.1% from indicator year 2010
Median OJR
0.62 +34.1% from indicator year 2010
Rising journals (2025)
7

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 journals2631364142414242444644444548475151525960585859565858
Window papers (baseline)10,64712,16712,65113,46413,34414,31015,53216,59018,27319,88722,85425,92127,69827,90027,54828,55929,35929,19928,81329,20630,90633,48935,73136,57336,51337,939
Median OJR0.4450.360.300.2680.2750.310.290.350.4440.4390.460.640.6550.620.6980.6580.650.680.6680.6560.6970.6740.610.6990.6630.57

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.