Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Field ranking · 2020
Veterinary journal rankings 2020
69 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Veterinary has 69 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 0.97. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, Porcine Health Management, and Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 in Veterinary (2)
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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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug ResistanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 4.86 1.56 up from 2019 | 160 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
2Porcine Health ManagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.56 0.87 up from 2019 | 90 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
3Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.76Q1 | 4.23 1.09 up from 2019 | 1,028 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
4Veterinary Clinics of North America Equine PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.56 1.07 up from 2019 | 113 | 9% | $2,850 | ||
5Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.40Q1 | 3.75 1.08 up from 2019 | 747 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
6ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 1.38Q1 | 1.50 1.06 down from 2019 | 109 | 81% | — | ||
7BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 3.33 0.89 up from 2019 | 1,213 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
8Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 2.68 0.25 up from 2019 | 513 | 38% | $3,220 | ||
9The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 2.92 0.50 up from 2019 | 441 | 35% | $3,310 | ||
10Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 3.00 0.39 up from 2019 | 760 | 27% | $3,680 | ||
11Equine Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 2.39 0.14 up from 2019 | 413 | 42% | $4,480 | ||
12Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 1.19Q1 | 2.20 0.10 down from 2019 | 225 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
13Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 2.43 1.02 up from 2019 | 155 | 45% | $3,550 | ||
14Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 2.61 0.67 up from 2019 | 154 | 23% | $3,400 | ||
15Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 2.57 0.41 up from 2019 | 718 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
16Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.05Q1 | 2.08 0.12 up from 2019 | 225 | 17% | $2,950 | ||
17Veterinary Medicine Research and ReportsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.04Q1 | 2.70 1.55 up from 2019 | 45 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
18Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q1 | 1.76 0.47 up from 2019 | 135 | 13% | — | ||
19Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.96Q2 | 1.92 0.60 up from 2019 | 73 | 100% | $65 | ||
20Veterinary Medicine and ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 2.06 0.76 up from 2019 | 156 | 100% | $3,880 | ||
21Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.93 0.63 up from 2019 | 397 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
22Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.75 0.39 up from 2019 | 165 | 23% | $3,920 | ||
23Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.80Q2 | 1.90 0.80 up from 2019 | 103 | 23% | $2,740 | ||
24Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.80Q2 | 1.80 0.01 down from 2019 | 296 | 100% | $300 | ||
25New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.77Q2 | 1.51 0.20 up from 2019 | 154 | 40% | — | ||
26Journal of Equine Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 0.69Q2 | 1.36 0.35 up from 2019 | 644 | 23% | $3,210 | ||
27Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 1.42 0.03 up from 2019 | 402 | 20% | $3,000 | ||
28Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 1.34 0.09 down from 2019 | 350 | 41% | $4,520 | ||
29Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.65Q2 | 1.31 0.22 down from 2019 | 469 | 19% | $3,000 | ||
30Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.62Q2 | 1.74 0.61 up from 2019 | 59 | 32% | $4,150 | ||
31Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.60Q2 | 1.29 0.18 up from 2019 | 845 | 3% | — | ||
32American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.60Q2 | 1.31 0.12 up from 2019 | 424 | 20% | — | ||
33Journal of Equine ScienceOAJapan | 0.60Q2 | 0.86 0.23 down from 2019 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
34Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya | 0.60Q2 | 1.39 0.54 up from 2019 | 187 | 100% | $350 | ||
35Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.59Q2 | 1.18 0.32 up from 2019 | 237 | 11% | — | ||
36Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.59Q3 | 2.04 0.72 up from 2019 | 115 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
| 0.56Q3 | 1.19 0.38 up from 2019 | 90 | 100% | — | |||
38Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland | 0.55Q3 | 1.23 0.30 up from 2019 | 101 | 59% | — | ||
39Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal ScienceAmerican Association for Laboratory Animal Science · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.44 0.42 up from 2019 | 126 | 98% | — | ||
40Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.86 0.34 down from 2019 | 116 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
41Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.48Q3 | 1.13 0.02 down from 2019 | 167 | 94% | — | ||
42Slovenian Veterinary ResearchOASlovenia | 0.42Q3 | 1.06 0.61 up from 2019 | 190 | 100% | — | ||
43Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.42Q3 | 1.02 0.13 up from 2019 | 128 | 100% | $129 | ||
44Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.38Q3 | 0.96 0.25 up from 2019 | 167 | 100% | — | ||
45Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.38Q3 | 0.73 0.03 down from 2019 | 239 | 100% | $609 | ||
46Comparative Exercise PhysiologyNetherlands | 0.37Q3 | 0.81 0.24 up from 2019 | 122 | 17% | — | ||
47Journal of Dairy Veterinary & Animal ResearchOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.65 0.19 up from 2019 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
48Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.84 0.06 up from 2019 | 444 | 6% | — | ||
49Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.29Q3 | 0.75 0.28 up from 2019 | 212 | 9% | $3,620 | ||
50Macedonian Veterinary ReviewOASs.Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje · North Macedonia | 0.29Q3 | 0.72 0.25 up from 2019 | 60 | 100% | — |
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Veterinary journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 20,096 +5.8% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.594 -7.0% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7Comparison-group list (7)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 | 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.