Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Small Animals journal rankings 2015
51 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary
Small Animals has 51 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2014 to 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.07. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, ILAR Journal, and Applied Animal Behaviour Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
51 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug ResistanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 4.42 0.53 up from 2014 | 88 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
2ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.04 0.81 up from 2014 | 122 | 71% | — | ||
3Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 2.28 0.15 down from 2014 | 470 | 27% | $3,220 | ||
4BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.37 0.23 down from 2014 | 842 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
5Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 2.56 0.30 down from 2014 | 1,266 | 25% | $3,680 | ||
6Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.39Q1 | 2.50 0.20 up from 2014 | 607 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
7Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.33 0.40 down from 2014 | 245 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
8Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 1.63 0.39 down from 2014 | 316 | 16% | $3,000 | ||
9The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 2.07 0.14 up from 2014 | 1,112 | 24% | $3,310 | ||
10Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 1.47 0.15 down from 2014 | 481 | 17% | $3,000 | ||
11Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 1.13Q1 | 1.90 0.17 up from 2014 | 265 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
12Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.09Q1 | 1.74 0.34 up from 2014 | 228 | 5% | $2,950 | ||
13Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 1.07Q1 | 1.25 0.67 down from 2014 | 77 | 12% | $2,740 | ||
14Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 1.73 0.16 down from 2014 | 702 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
15American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.47 0.26 down from 2014 | 569 | 58% | — | ||
16New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.95Q2 | 1.52 0.34 up from 2014 | 206 | 43% | — | ||
17Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.90Q2 | 1.38 0.07 down from 2014 | 938 | 42% | — | ||
18Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.83 0.31 up from 2014 | 494 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
19Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.80Q2 | 1.39 0.30 down from 2014 | 209 | 100% | $300 | ||
20Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.80Q2 | 1.40 0.34 down from 2014 | 97 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
21Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.29 0.04 down from 2014 | 187 | 16% | $3,920 | ||
22Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.56 0.26 up from 2014 | 163 | 42% | $3,400 | ||
23Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 1.20 0.02 down from 2014 | 395 | 33% | $4,520 | ||
24Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.49 0.68 up from 2014 | 101 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
25Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q2 | 1.06 0.14 down from 2014 | 94 | 18% | — | ||
26Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.59Q2 | 0.83 0.24 down from 2014 | 241 | 100% | $609 | ||
27Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.56Q3 | 0.88no change | 135 | 100% | $65 | ||
28Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.53Q3 | 1.07 0.36 up from 2014 | 150 | 87% | — | ||
29Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.46Q3 | 0.86 0.13 down from 2014 | 261 | 8% | — | ||
30Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.57 0.31 down from 2014 | 154 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
31Veterinary Medicine Research and ReportsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.43Q3 | 0.42 0.89 down from 2014 | 47 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
32Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.75 0.09 down from 2014 | 514 | 2% | — | ||
33Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.45 0.24 down from 2014 | 158 | 5% | $3,620 | ||
34Macedonian Veterinary ReviewOASs.Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje · North Macedonia | 0.34Q3 | 0.44 0.18 down from 2014 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
35Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.30Q3 | 0.52 0.03 down from 2014 | 263 | 98% | — | ||
36Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya | 0.25Q3 | 0.31 0.32 down from 2014 | 54 | 100% | $350 | ||
37Slovenian Veterinary ResearchOASlovenia | 0.24Q3 | 0.27 0.10 down from 2014 | 57 | 16% | — | ||
38In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.23Q3 | 0.44 0.05 up from 2014 | 211 | 12% | $2,900 | ||
39Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.23Q3 | 0.87 0.35 up from 2014 | 168 | 100% | $129 | ||
40Case Reports in Veterinary MedicineOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.43 0.01 up from 2014 | 68 | 100% | $790 | ||
41Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K Kleintiere / HeimtiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.19Q4 | 0.26 0.04 down from 2014 | 184 | 1% | — | ||
42Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe G Großtiere / NutztiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.17Q4 | 0.25 0.08 down from 2014 | 167 | 2% | — | ||
43Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland | 0.14Q4 | 0.17 0.03 down from 2014 | 733 | 49% | — | ||
44Vlaams Diergeneeskundig TijdschriftGhent University · Belgium | 0.13Q4 | 0.20 0.05 down from 2014 | 151 | 40% | — | ||
45The Thai Journal of Veterinary MedicinePublisher not listed | 0.12Q4 | 0.21 0.02 down from 2014 | 259 | 100% | — | ||
46Veterinary Science DevelopmentOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.10Q4 | 0.05 0.20 down from 2014 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
47Veterinary Record Case ReportsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.10Q4 | 0.19 0.25 down from 2014 | 128 | 4% | $1,480 | ||
48Berliner und Münchener tierärztliche WochenschriftOASchluetersche GmbH and Co · Germany | 0.07Q4 | 0.10no change | 58 | 0% | — | ||
49LivestockUnited Kingdom | 0.05Q4 | 0.06 0.01 down from 2014 | 211 | 3% | — | ||
50The Veterinary NurseMark Allen Group · United Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.18no change | 251 | 4% | — |
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Small Animals journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 51
- Window papers (baseline)
- 15,717 +10.7% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.592 -12.6% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 |
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| 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.