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Journal rankings · indicator year 2014

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Subfield ranking · 2014

Small Animals journal rankings 2014

49 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary

Small Animals has 49 ranked journals in 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, and Veterinary Parasitology.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 score is computed on.

49
88% 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.

0.67+0.04 vs 2013
This subfieldAll 0.90World 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.

37%
All fields: 27%
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.

$2,995
Median positive listed APC: $2,995 among 28 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 20 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Veterinary (2)

49 ranked journals

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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)
Small Animals ranking, 2014

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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014.

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2.24Q13.89 0.76 up from 201361100%$2,700
2Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.65Q12.43 0.22 up from 201349321%$3,220
3Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.50Q12.86 0.20 down from 20131,41020%$3,680
4BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.39Q12.61 0.19 up from 2013595100%$3,190
5Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.32Q12.02 0.10 down from 201330113%$3,000
1.31Q12.30 0.47 down from 201358795%$2,000
7Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
1.31Q11.73 0.05 up from 201324032%$3,550
8ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States
1.24Q12.23 0.57 up from 201311884%—
9Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark
1.16Q11.74 0.13 down from 2013250100%$2,990
10American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States
1.15Q11.74 0.09 down from 201366975%—
11The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.14Q11.93 0.06 down from 20131,06519%$3,310
12Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States
1.08Q11.93 0.31 up from 2013793%$2,740
13Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.06Q11.89 0.23 up from 201376519%$3,290
14Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom
1.01Q21.63 0.29 up from 201342011%$3,000
15New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand
0.96Q21.18 0.08 down from 201320932%—
0.93Q21.40 0.06 up from 20132395%$2,950
17Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States
0.89Q21.45 0.07 down from 201398655%—
18Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea
0.82Q21.69 0.36 up from 2013197100%$300
19Zoo BiologyWiley · United States
0.79Q21.33 0.20 up from 201315711%$3,920
20Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States
0.78Q21.20 0.26 up from 20137027%—
21Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.75Q21.51 0.12 down from 2013493100%$1,800
22Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea
0.72Q21.73 0.27 up from 2013127100%$0 listed
23Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.71Q21.30 0.28 up from 201315738%$3,400
24Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia
0.71Q21.08 0.02 down from 2013240100%$609
25Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom
0.67Q21.22 0.06 up from 201338524%$4,520
0.62Q30.99 0.16 down from 20132768%—
27Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.60Q30.88 0.29 down from 201313925%$4,150
0.55Q30.87 0.37 up from 2013137100%$65
0.53Q30.81 0.05 down from 2013984%$3,000
30Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States
0.51Q30.83 0.05 up from 20134742%—
31Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary
0.48Q30.70 0.17 down from 201317389%—
32Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya
0.46Q30.63 0.31 up from 201345100%$350
33Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States
0.38Q30.69 0.22 down from 20131458%$3,620
34Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia
0.31Q30.55 0.05 up from 2013284100%—
35Veterinary Record Case ReportsWiley · United Kingdom
0.29Q30.44no 2013 value524%$1,480—
36In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom
0.28Q30.39 0.02 up from 201322215%$2,900
37Case Reports in Veterinary MedicineOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.22Q30.42 0.31 up from 201353100%$790
0.21Q40.37 0.04 down from 20135325%—
39Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia
0.21Q40.52 0.16 up from 2013180100%$129
0.20Q40.33 0.07 down from 20131822%—
0.16Q40.30 0.01 up from 20131861%—
42Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland
0.15Q40.20 0.01 down from 20137128%—
0.15Q40.23 0.01 down from 2013265100%—
44Vlaams Diergeneeskundig TijdschriftGhent University · Belgium
0.14Q40.26 0.04 up from 201316034%—
45Veterinary Science DevelopmentOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy
0.12Q40.25 0.10 up from 201385100%—
46Berliner und Münchener tierärztliche WochenschriftOASchluetersche GmbH and Co · Germany
0.07Q40.10 0.07 up from 2013530%—
47LivestockUnited Kingdom
0.05Q40.07 0.04 down from 20132011%—
48The Veterinary NurseMark Allen Group · United Kingdom
0.04Q40.18 0.04 up from 20132593%—
49Companion animalUnited Kingdom
0.03Q40.03 0.02 down from 20133402%—

Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

12 additional Small Animals journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
49
Window papers (baseline)
14,750 +8.8% from indicator year 2011
Median OJR
0.67 +1.2% from indicator year 2011
Rising journals (2025)
7

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.