Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Veterinary journal rankings 2018
69 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Veterinary has 69 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2017 to 0.57, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.93. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, ILAR Journal, and Porcine Health Management.
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.
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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 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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1International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug ResistanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 3.58 0.26 down from 2017 | 113 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
2ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.49 0.76 down from 2017 | 110 | 77% | — | ||
3Porcine Health ManagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.40 0.32 down from 2017 | 77 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
4Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.47Q1 | 2.54 0.04 down from 2017 | 425 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
5Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 2.17 0.03 up from 2017 | 553 | 31% | $3,220 | ||
6Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.67 0.18 down from 2017 | 635 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
7Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 2.34 0.39 down from 2017 | 1,035 | 34% | $3,680 | ||
8BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 2.25 0.26 down from 2017 | 989 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
9Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 1.34 0.15 down from 2017 | 195 | 49% | $3,550 | ||
10Equine Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 2.00 0.32 up from 2017 | 373 | 47% | $4,480 | ||
11Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 1.18Q1 | 1.82 0.12 down from 2017 | 259 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
12The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.11Q1 | 2.01 0.11 down from 2017 | 652 | 38% | $3,310 | ||
13Veterinary Clinics of North America Equine PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.09Q1 | 1.60 0.30 down from 2017 | 104 | 13% | $2,850 | ||
14Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 1.59 0.20 down from 2017 | 320 | 18% | $3,000 | ||
15Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q1 | 1.95 0.04 down from 2017 | 694 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
16Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.96Q1 | 1.32 0.12 down from 2017 | 164 | 29% | $3,400 | ||
17New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.94Q1 | 1.31 0.16 up from 2017 | 167 | 24% | — | ||
18Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.93Q1 | 1.47 0.11 up from 2017 | 224 | 2% | $2,950 | ||
19Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.93Q2 | 1.50 0.31 up from 2017 | 104 | 32% | — | ||
20Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.55 0.36 up from 2017 | 177 | 9% | $3,920 | ||
21Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.85Q2 | 1.40 0.26 up from 2017 | 77 | 100% | $65 | ||
22Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.43 0.24 up from 2017 | 384 | 22% | $3,000 | ||
23Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.85Q2 | 1.69 0.21 up from 2017 | 236 | 100% | $300 | ||
24Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.47 0.14 up from 2017 | 354 | 29% | $4,520 | ||
25Veterinary Medicine and ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 1.34 0.47 up from 2017 | 72 | 100% | $3,880 | ||
26Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 1.40 0.35 down from 2017 | 430 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
27Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.60 0.74 up from 2017 | 116 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
28Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.63 0.22 up from 2017 | 111 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
29American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.33 0.09 up from 2017 | 437 | 1% | — | ||
30Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.71Q2 | 0.96 0.07 down from 2017 | 237 | 17% | — | ||
31Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.63Q2 | 0.96 0.20 down from 2017 | 803 | 4% | — | ||
32Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.63Q2 | 1.21 0.04 down from 2017 | 148 | 89% | — | ||
33Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland | 0.61Q2 | 0.92 0.10 up from 2017 | 96 | 50% | — | ||
34Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.58Q2 | 1.38 0.44 down from 2017 | 104 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
35Veterinary Medicine Research and ReportsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.57Q2 | 0.86 0.18 down from 2017 | 59 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
36Journal of Equine Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.93 0.02 up from 2017 | 598 | 15% | $3,210 | ||
37Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.76 0.02 down from 2017 | 82 | 20% | $2,740 | ||
38Journal of Equine ScienceOAJapan | 0.49Q3 | 0.83 0.04 up from 2017 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
39Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.47Q3 | 0.82 0.15 up from 2017 | 284 | 100% | $609 | ||
40Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.82 0.05 down from 2017 | 515 | 5% | — | ||
41Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.43Q3 | 0.94 0.15 up from 2017 | 144 | 100% | $129 | ||
42The Journal of zoo and aquarium researchOANetherlands | 0.42Q3 | 0.62 0.12 down from 2017 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
43Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.42Q3 | 0.67no change | 166 | 100% | — | ||
44In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.37Q3 | 0.53 0.04 up from 2017 | 175 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
45Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya | 0.37Q3 | 0.67 0.17 down from 2017 | 122 | 100% | $350 | ||
46Equine Veterinary EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.42 0.30 down from 2017 | 523 | 22% | $3,760 | ||
47Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.31Q3 | 0.63 0.14 down from 2017 | 150 | 8% | $3,620 | ||
48International Journal of Veterinary Health Science & ResearchOAUnited States | 0.29Q3 | 0.56 0.24 up from 2017 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.28Q3 | 0.44 0.10 up from 2017 | 43 | 100% | — | |||
50Comparative Exercise PhysiologyNetherlands | 0.28Q3 | 0.60 0.14 up from 2017 | 90 | 25% | — |
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.
8 additional Veterinary 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
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 19,024 +2.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.571 +5.3% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7Comparison-group list (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 34 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 51 | 51 | 50 | 53 | 53 | 55 | 55 | 56 | 58 | 62 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 69 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 68 | 68 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,210 | 7,868 | 8,050 | 8,613 | 8,564 | 9,096 | 9,820 | 10,954 | 11,890 | 12,902 | 14,371 | 16,215 | 17,014 | 17,378 | 17,548 | 18,574 | 19,062 | 18,986 | 19,024 | 19,352 | 20,096 | 20,887 | 21,566 | 21,796 | 21,684 | 21,592 | |
| Median OJR | 0.42 | 0.34 | 0.39 | 0.40 | 0.36 | 0.347 | 0.43 | 0.350 | 0.51 | 0.556 | 0.55 | 0.63 | 0.62 | 0.572 | 0.61 | 0.54 | 0.588 | 0.64 | 0.571 | 0.590 | 0.594 | 0.564 | 0.558 | 0.569 | 0.575 | 0.50 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 7.0% | 45 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.505 per 1,000 | 55 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -10.4% | 68 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 72.9% | 68 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,995 | 40 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 23.3% | 67 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.2% | 68 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.50 | 68 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 44.6% | 68 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.8% | 68 journals |
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.