Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Veterinary journal rankings 2021
69 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Veterinary has 69 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.56, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 0.87. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, and Porcine Health Management.
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 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 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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1International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug ResistanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 4.83 0.03 down from 2020 | 168 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
2Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.55Q1 | 4.36 0.13 up from 2020 | 1,920 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
3Porcine Health ManagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 4.33 0.78 up from 2020 | 103 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
4The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 2.86 0.06 down from 2020 | 375 | 35% | $3,310 | ||
5Veterinary Medicine Research and ReportsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.28Q1 | 3.73 1.03 up from 2020 | 46 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
6Veterinary Clinics of North America Equine PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.26Q1 | 2.61 0.05 up from 2020 | 117 | 7% | $2,850 | ||
7BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 3.38 0.05 up from 2020 | 1,360 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
8Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.24Q1 | 3.28 0.47 down from 2020 | 815 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
9Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 1.23Q1 | 2.72 0.52 up from 2020 | 206 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
10Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.98 0.55 up from 2020 | 135 | 54% | $3,550 | ||
11Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 2.68no change | 487 | 47% | $3,220 | ||
12Equine Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 2.09 0.29 down from 2020 | 460 | 44% | $4,480 | ||
13Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.00Q1 | 2.62 0.54 up from 2020 | 232 | 6% | $2,950 | ||
14Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.00Q1 | 3.12 0.51 up from 2020 | 139 | 37% | $3,400 | ||
15Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.98Q1 | 2.78 0.20 up from 2020 | 733 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
16Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.91Q1 | 1.61 0.15 down from 2020 | 132 | 19% | — | ||
17New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.87Q1 | 2.00 0.49 up from 2020 | 146 | 41% | — | ||
18Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.87Q1 | 3.21 0.21 up from 2020 | 652 | 28% | $3,680 | ||
19Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 2.49 0.74 up from 2020 | 57 | 48% | $4,150 | ||
20Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.64 0.11 down from 2020 | 168 | 24% | $3,920 | ||
21Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 2.21 0.28 up from 2020 | 380 | 99% | $1,800 | ||
22Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.77Q2 | 2.39 0.35 up from 2020 | 114 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.71 0.29 up from 2020 | 348 | 23% | $3,000 | ||
24ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 0.75Q2 | 1.54 0.04 up from 2020 | 94 | 55% | — | ||
25Veterinary Medicine and ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 2.09 0.04 up from 2020 | 303 | 100% | $3,880 | ||
26Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 1.89 0.58 up from 2020 | 495 | 22% | $3,000 | ||
27Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 2.01 0.68 up from 2020 | 337 | 28% | $4,520 | ||
28Journal of Equine Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.56 0.21 up from 2020 | 728 | 17% | $3,210 | ||
29Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.67Q2 | 1.97 0.17 up from 2020 | 289 | 100% | $300 | ||
30Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.66Q2 | 1.15 0.77 down from 2020 | 68 | 100% | $65 | ||
31Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal ScienceAmerican Association for Laboratory Animal Science · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.81 0.37 up from 2020 | 203 | 99% | — | ||
32Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya | 0.61Q2 | 1.55 0.16 up from 2020 | 185 | 100% | $350 | ||
33Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.58Q2 | 1.05 0.85 down from 2020 | 130 | 25% | $2,740 | ||
34Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.58Q2 | 1.13 0.06 down from 2020 | 255 | 12% | — | ||
35Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.56Q2 | 1.19 0.10 down from 2020 | 812 | 21% | — | ||
36American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.55Q3 | 1.24 0.07 down from 2020 | 379 | 41% | — | ||
37Journal of Equine ScienceOAJapan | 0.50Q3 | 1.37 0.51 up from 2020 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
38Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland | 0.46Q3 | 1.02 0.22 down from 2020 | 85 | 52% | — | ||
| 0.45Q3 | 0.82 0.37 down from 2020 | 75 | 100% | — | |||
40Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.44Q3 | 1.30 0.17 up from 2020 | 163 | 89% | — | ||
41Comparative Exercise PhysiologyNetherlands | 0.42Q3 | 1.01 0.20 up from 2020 | 148 | 21% | — | ||
42Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.40Q3 | 1.20 0.18 up from 2020 | 120 | 100% | $129 | ||
43Slovenian Veterinary ResearchOASlovenia | 0.38Q3 | 1.03 0.02 down from 2020 | 185 | 100% | — | ||
44Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.37Q3 | 1.38 0.51 up from 2020 | 114 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
45Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.35Q3 | 1.01 0.05 up from 2020 | 161 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.32Q3 | 1.11 0.27 up from 2020 | 388 | 5% | — | ||
47Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.32Q3 | 0.90 0.18 up from 2020 | 219 | 100% | $609 | ||
48Case Reports in Veterinary MedicineOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.29Q3 | 0.55 0.02 down from 2020 | 46 | 100% | $790 | ||
49Journal of Dairy Veterinary & Animal ResearchOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.28Q3 | 0.53 0.12 down from 2020 | 111 | 100% | — | ||
50Equine Veterinary EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.28Q3 | 0.76 0.05 up from 2020 | 487 | 27% | $3,760 |
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.
10 additional Veterinary 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
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 20,887 +9.8% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.564 -1.2% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7Comparison-group list (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.