Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2021
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 58 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Animal nutrition, Meat Science, and Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
58 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.75Q1 | 5.84 0.31 down from 2020 | 183 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
2Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 6.39 0.13 up from 2020 | 831 | 34% | $4,740 | ||
3Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 7.14 1.26 up from 2020 | 297 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
4Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 9.20 5.55 up from 2020 | 67 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
5animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 3.34 0.17 up from 2020 | 1,032 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
6International Journal of Veterinary Science and MedicineOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 1.68Q1 | 3.72 0.20 down from 2020 | 81 | 100% | $250 | ||
7Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.44Q1 | 4.21 0.45 up from 2020 | 2,200 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
8AnimalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.36Q1 | 3.93 0.61 up from 2020 | 3,898 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
9Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal SciencesOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 1.21Q1 | 2.85 0.46 up from 2020 | 573 | — | $370 | ||
10World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 2.58 0.44 up from 2020 | 203 | 9% | — | ||
11Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 3.53 0.13 up from 2020 | 980 | 21% | $3,110 | ||
12Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 1.15Q1 | 2.86 0.68 up from 2020 | 593 | 25% | $4,650 | ||
13Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 3.03 0.67 up from 2020 | 97 | 20% | — | ||
14Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.11Q1 | 2.78 0.52 up from 2020 | 373 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
15Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 3.15no change | 698 | 24% | $3,360 | ||
16Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 2.27 0.07 up from 2020 | 906 | 44% | $2,970 | ||
17Veterinary and Animal ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 2.85 0.60 up from 2020 | 125 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
18Food Science of Animal ResourcesOAPublisher not listed | 1.05Q2 | 3.46 0.75 up from 2020 | 205 | 100% | — | ||
19Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 0.96Q2 | 1.95 0.42 down from 2020 | 189 | 100% | $383 | ||
20The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.52 0.91 up from 2020 | 307 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
21Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.90Q2 | 2.28 0.48 up from 2020 | 255 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
22British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.18 0.04 up from 2020 | 304 | 26% | — | ||
23Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.87Q2 | 2.31 0.03 up from 2020 | 277 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 0.86Q2 | 2.17 0.18 up from 2020 | 2,192 | 82% | $4,368 | ||
25Translational Animal ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.75 0.15 up from 2020 | 561 | 100% | $3,308 | ||
26Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.71Q2 | 1.37 0.10 up from 2020 | 315 | 100% | $61 | ||
27Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q2 | 2.15 0.39 up from 2020 | 257 | 17% | — | ||
28South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.69Q2 | 1.37 0.06 down from 2020 | 283 | 100% | $500 | ||
29Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.68Q2 | 1.70 0.06 down from 2020 | 120 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.67Q3 | 2.20 1.40 up from 2020 | 118 | 100% | — | |||
31Animal BioscienceOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 0.61Q3 | 1.40 0.40 up from 2020 | 143 | 100% | $700 | ||
32Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.59Q3 | 1.50 0.06 up from 2020 | 163 | 100% | $609 | ||
33The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.59Q3 | 1.44 0.33 up from 2020 | 130 | 100% | $452 | ||
34Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 0.57Q3 | 1.82 0.65 up from 2020 | 300 | 100% | $300 | ||
35Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.57Q3 | 1.44 0.22 up from 2020 | 310 | 100% | $400 | ||
36Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 0.56Q3 | 1.36 0.16 down from 2020 | 299 | 3% | — | ||
37Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.55Q3 | 1.23 0.44 down from 2020 | 59 | 95% | — | ||
38World Rabbit ScienceOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.52Q3 | 1.55 0.18 down from 2020 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
39Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.47Q3 | 1.02 0.01 down from 2020 | 304 | 70% | — | ||
40Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 1.00 0.19 up from 2020 | 56 | 71% | — | ||
41Advances in Animal and Veterinary SciencesOANexus Academic Publishers · Pakistan | 0.40Q3 | 1.10 0.49 up from 2020 | 541 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Applied Animal NutritionCambridge University Press · Netherlands | 0.39Q3 | 1.04 0.32 down from 2020 | 31 | 100% | $1,941 | ||
43Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.36Q3 | 0.97 0.04 up from 2020 | 294 | 100% | — | ||
44Open Journal of Animal SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.85 0.07 up from 2020 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
45International Journal of Poultry ScienceOAAsian Network for Scientific Information · Pakistan | 0.30Q4 | 0.55 0.28 down from 2020 | 251 | 100% | — | ||
46Revista Mvz CórdobaOAUniversity of Cordoba · Colombia | 0.28Q4 | 0.61 0.17 down from 2020 | 160 | 100% | — | ||
47Animal Science Papers and ReportsPublisher not listed | 0.28Q4 | 0.82 0.13 up from 2020 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
48Revista Colombiana de Ciencias PecuariasOAUniversidad de Antioquia · Colombia | 0.26Q4 | 0.49 0.15 down from 2020 | 108 | 100% | $200 | ||
49Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia | 0.22Q4 | 0.55 0.06 up from 2020 | 119 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical SocietyOANational Documentation Centre · Greece | 0.21Q4 | 0.79 0.30 up from 2020 | 522 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics147
- Food Science138
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science51
- Soil Science43
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 33,489 +16.2% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.674 +0.9% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.