Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2019
60 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 60 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Animal nutrition, Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology, and Meat Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
60 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.92Q1 | 5.26 2.64 up from 2018 | 206 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
2Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 5.20 0.79 up from 2018 | 243 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
3Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 4.33 0.50 up from 2018 | 875 | 29% | $4,740 | ||
4AnimalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.58Q1 | 3.03 0.43 up from 2018 | 423 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
5Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 2.68 0.39 down from 2018 | 65 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
6animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.56 0.58 up from 2018 | 1,002 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
7Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.41Q1 | 3.14 0.14 up from 2018 | 963 | 29% | $3,110 | ||
8Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 1.77 0.03 up from 2018 | 103 | 28% | — | ||
9Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 1.30Q1 | 2.28 0.43 up from 2018 | 99 | 100% | $383 | ||
10Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.28Q1 | 2.70 0.45 up from 2018 | 1,587 | 99% | $2,600 | ||
11Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q1 | 1.96 0.37 up from 2018 | 693 | 36% | $2,970 | ||
12Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 2.95 0.67 up from 2018 | 539 | 20% | $3,360 | ||
13International Journal of Veterinary Science and MedicineOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 1.16Q1 | 2.09 0.64 up from 2018 | 100 | 100% | $250 | ||
14Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 1.15Q1 | 1.94 0.56 up from 2018 | 590 | 19% | $4,650 | ||
15Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.05Q1 | 1.75 0.48 up from 2018 | 359 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
16Veterinary and Animal ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.43 0.49 down from 2018 | 42 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
17Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal SciencesOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 1.01Q2 | 1.86 0.61 up from 2018 | 661 | 100% | $370 | ||
18Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.99Q2 | 1.61 0.15 down from 2018 | 225 | 100% | — | ||
19British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.98 0.44 up from 2018 | 310 | 9% | — | ||
20Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.40 0.12 up from 2018 | 333 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
21Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.95Q2 | 1.32 0.26 up from 2018 | 338 | 100% | $61 | ||
22World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.51 0.27 up from 2018 | 262 | 3% | — | ||
23Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.88Q2 | 1.61 0.79 up from 2018 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
24South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.83Q2 | 1.38 0.51 up from 2018 | 213 | 100% | $500 | ||
25Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.41 0.15 up from 2018 | 2,639 | 99% | $4,368 | ||
26Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.56 0.05 up from 2018 | 285 | 3% | — | ||
27Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.73Q2 | 1.38 0.30 up from 2018 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Applied Animal NutritionCambridge University Press · Netherlands | 0.69Q2 | 1.25 0.40 down from 2018 | 30 | 100% | $1,941 | ||
| 0.69Q2 | 1.40 0.71 up from 2018 | 88 | 100% | — | |||
30The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.25 0.37 up from 2018 | 220 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
31Translational Animal ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.03 0.02 up from 2018 | 224 | 100% | $3,308 | ||
32Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.63Q3 | 1.14 0.15 up from 2018 | 338 | 100% | $400 | ||
33Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.58Q3 | 0.88 0.02 down from 2018 | 299 | 71% | — | ||
34Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 0.58Q3 | 1.32 0.09 up from 2018 | 157 | 100% | $300 | ||
35Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.55Q3 | 1.09 0.03 down from 2018 | 187 | 100% | $609 | ||
36Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.54Q3 | 1.21 0.23 up from 2018 | 258 | 22% | — | ||
37Meat and Muscle BiologyOAUnited States | 0.53Q3 | 1.17 0.01 up from 2018 | 93 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
38Asian Journal of Animal SciencesOAPakistan | 0.53Q3 | 0.57 0.03 up from 2018 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
39Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.51Q3 | 0.74 0.30 down from 2018 | 313 | 100% | — | ||
39World Rabbit ScienceOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.51Q3 | 0.91 0.13 down from 2018 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
41Open Journal of Animal SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.99 0.12 down from 2018 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Food and Health ScienceTürkiye | 0.45Q3 | 0.76 0.26 up from 2018 | 38 | — | — | ||
43The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.43Q3 | 0.93 0.17 up from 2018 | 139 | 100% | $452 | ||
44Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary AdvancesOAPakistan | 0.43Q3 | 0.55no change | 192 | 100% | — | ||
45Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.37Q3 | 0.39 0.44 down from 2018 | 75 | 75% | — | ||
46Revue Méd VétOAAnkara University · France | 0.37Q4 | 0.84 0.36 up from 2018 | 36 | — | — | ||
47International Journal of Poultry ScienceOAAsian Network for Scientific Information · Pakistan | 0.35Q4 | 0.70 0.14 up from 2018 | 232 | 100% | — | ||
48Animal Science Papers and ReportsPublisher not listed | 0.33Q4 | 0.63 0.02 down from 2018 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
49Advances in Animal and Veterinary SciencesOANexus Academic Publishers · Pakistan | 0.31Q4 | 0.41 0.05 down from 2018 | 233 | 100% | — | ||
50Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia | 0.31Q4 | 0.41 0.07 up from 2018 | 125 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics150
- Food Science146
- Animal Science and Zoology60
- Insect Science53
- Aquatic Science43
- Agronomy and Crop Science40
- Soil Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 60
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,206 -0.5% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.656 +0.3% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.