Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2018
59 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 59 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.99. The top three are Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology, Meat Science, and Animal nutrition.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
59 ranked journals
Filters
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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 4.41 0.18 up from 2017 | 213 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
2Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.84 0.53 up from 2017 | 823 | 32% | $4,740 | ||
3Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 1.97Q1 | 2.62 0.57 up from 2017 | 199 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
4AnimalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.68Q1 | 2.59 0.13 down from 2017 | 255 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
5Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 3.00 0.07 up from 2017 | 967 | 21% | $3,110 | ||
6Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.29Q1 | 2.25 0.08 down from 2017 | 1,387 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
7animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 1.97 0.10 up from 2017 | 939 | 99% | $2,000 | ||
8Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 1.74 0.33 down from 2017 | 109 | 26% | — | ||
9Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.15Q1 | 3.06 1.21 up from 2017 | 86 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
10Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q1 | 1.59 0.03 down from 2017 | 746 | 33% | $2,970 | ||
11Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 2.27 0.20 up from 2017 | 433 | 23% | $3,360 | ||
12Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 1.01Q1 | 1.38 0.12 down from 2017 | 547 | 14% | $4,650 | ||
13Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 1.01Q1 | 1.76 0.63 up from 2017 | 235 | 100% | — | ||
14Journal of Applied Animal NutritionCambridge University Press · Netherlands | 0.99Q1 | 1.65 0.79 up from 2017 | 35 | 14% | $1,941 | ||
15World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q1 | 1.25 0.32 down from 2017 | 255 | 13% | — | ||
16Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 0.94Q2 | 1.85 0.37 up from 2017 | 116 | 100% | $383 | ||
17British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 1.54 0.12 up from 2017 | 312 | 19% | — | ||
18Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.28 0.11 up from 2017 | 327 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
19Meat and Muscle BiologyOAUnited States | 0.91Q2 | 1.16no 2017 value | 37 | 100% | $1,000 | — | |
20Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal SciencesOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 0.88Q2 | 1.24 0.15 down from 2017 | 761 | 100% | $370 | ||
21Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 0.87Q2 | 1.27 0.06 up from 2017 | 379 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
22Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.26 0.48 down from 2017 | 2,406 | 72% | $4,368 | ||
23International Journal of Veterinary Science and MedicineOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 0.85Q2 | 1.45 0.95 up from 2017 | 49 | 100% | $250 | ||
24Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.83Q2 | 1.06 0.09 up from 2017 | 286 | 100% | $61 | ||
25The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.82Q2 | 0.88 0.33 down from 2017 | 219 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
26Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 0.78Q2 | 1.51 0.04 up from 2017 | 279 | 7% | — | ||
27Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.73Q2 | 0.99 0.35 up from 2017 | 328 | 100% | $400 | ||
28World Rabbit ScienceOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.70Q2 | 1.04 0.01 up from 2017 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
29Translational Animal ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.69Q2 | 1.01no 2017 value | 85 | 100% | $3,308 | — | |
30Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.67Q2 | 0.90 0.12 up from 2017 | 228 | 59% | — | ||
31Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.63Q3 | 1.07no change | 123 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.60Q3 | 0.82 0.31 down from 2017 | 74 | 96% | — | ||
33South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.57Q3 | 0.87 0.06 down from 2017 | 209 | 100% | $500 | ||
34Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.56Q3 | 1.12 0.09 down from 2017 | 201 | 100% | $609 | ||
35Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.55Q3 | 1.04 0.02 down from 2017 | 308 | 100% | — | ||
36Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.83 0.13 up from 2017 | 69 | 56% | — | ||
37Open Journal of Animal SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.11 0.37 up from 2017 | 122 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.97 0.44 up from 2017 | 233 | 19% | — | ||
39The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.42Q3 | 0.77 0.02 down from 2017 | 152 | 100% | $452 | ||
40Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 0.42Q3 | 1.23 0.19 up from 2017 | 171 | 100% | $300 | ||
| 0.41Q3 | 0.69 0.47 up from 2017 | 84 | 100% | — | |||
42Poultry Fisheries & Wildlife SciencesOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.42 0.03 down from 2017 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
43Asian Journal of Animal SciencesOAPakistan | 0.38Q3 | 0.54 0.10 down from 2017 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
44Advances in Animal and Veterinary SciencesOANexus Academic Publishers · Pakistan | 0.38Q3 | 0.46 0.08 down from 2017 | 228 | 100% | — | ||
45Animal Science Papers and ReportsPublisher not listed | 0.36Q3 | 0.65 0.12 down from 2017 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
46Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary AdvancesOAPakistan | 0.35Q4 | 0.55 0.11 down from 2017 | 241 | 74% | — | ||
47Revue Méd VétOAAnkara University · France | 0.31Q4 | 0.48 0.18 up from 2017 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
48International Journal of Poultry ScienceOAAsian Network for Scientific Information · Pakistan | 0.31Q4 | 0.56 0.03 up from 2017 | 249 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Food and Health ScienceTürkiye | 0.27Q4 | 0.50 0.19 up from 2017 | 62 | — | — | ||
50Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia | 0.26Q4 | 0.34 0.06 down from 2017 | 136 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science571
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics148
- Food Science146
- Animal Science and Zoology59
- Insect Science54
- Aquatic Science44
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Soil Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 59
- Window papers (baseline)
- 28,813 +0.9% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.668 +1.5% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 | 26 | 31 | 36 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 48 | 47 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 59 | 60 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 56 | 58 | 58 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,647 | 12,167 | 12,651 | 13,464 | 13,344 | 14,310 | 15,532 | 16,590 | 18,273 | 19,887 | 22,854 | 25,921 | 27,698 | 27,900 | 27,548 | 28,559 | 29,359 | 29,199 | 28,813 | 29,206 | 30,906 | 33,489 | 35,731 | 36,573 | 36,513 | 37,939 | |
| Median OJR | 0.445 | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.268 | 0.275 | 0.31 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 0.444 | 0.439 | 0.46 | 0.64 | 0.655 | 0.62 | 0.698 | 0.658 | 0.65 | 0.68 | 0.668 | 0.656 | 0.697 | 0.674 | 0.61 | 0.699 | 0.663 | 0.57 |
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.