Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2022
59 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 59 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2021 to 0.61, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology, Meat Science, and Animal nutrition.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
59 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 7.99 0.85 up from 2021 | 330 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
2Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 8.01 1.61 up from 2021 | 727 | 31% | $4,740 | ||
3Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.53Q1 | 6.80 0.95 up from 2021 | 288 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
4Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 8.42 0.77 down from 2021 | 74 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
5animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.38 1.05 up from 2021 | 939 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
6International Journal of Veterinary Science and MedicineOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 1.66Q1 | 3.29 0.43 down from 2021 | 34 | 100% | $250 | ||
7Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 4.68 0.46 up from 2021 | 2,275 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
8AnimalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.36Q1 | 3.67 0.26 down from 2021 | 7,278 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
9Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal SciencesOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 1.26Q1 | 3.83 0.98 up from 2021 | 341 | — | $370 | ||
10Food Science of Animal ResourcesOAPublisher not listed | 1.23Q1 | 3.69 0.24 up from 2021 | 268 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 1.14Q1 | 2.99 0.13 up from 2021 | 593 | 20% | $4,650 | ||
12Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q1 | 3.44 0.09 down from 2021 | 907 | 18% | $3,110 | ||
13Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.09Q1 | 2.75 0.03 down from 2021 | 504 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
14World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 2.46 0.13 down from 2021 | 202 | 6% | — | ||
15Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 3.14 0.01 down from 2021 | 770 | 28% | $3,360 | ||
16Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 1.03Q2 | 2.92 0.97 up from 2021 | 273 | 100% | $383 | ||
17Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 2.31 0.04 up from 2021 | 986 | 46% | $2,970 | ||
| 1.03Q2 | 3.80 1.60 up from 2021 | 118 | 100% | — | |||
19Veterinary and Animal ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 2.28 0.57 down from 2021 | 153 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
20Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.10 0.94 down from 2021 | 92 | 40% | — | ||
21The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.91Q2 | 2.30 0.22 down from 2021 | 318 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
22Animal BioscienceOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 0.86Q2 | 2.21 0.81 up from 2021 | 295 | 100% | $700 | ||
23British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 2.05 0.13 down from 2021 | 324 | 18% | — | ||
24Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.80Q2 | 1.80 0.48 down from 2021 | 224 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
25Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.96 0.20 down from 2021 | 1,941 | 94% | $4,368 | ||
26Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.73Q2 | 1.87 0.45 down from 2021 | 298 | 100% | — | ||
27Translational Animal ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.45 0.29 down from 2021 | 655 | 100% | $3,308 | ||
28Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 0.66Q2 | 2.53 0.71 up from 2021 | 260 | 100% | $300 | ||
29Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.63Q2 | 1.79 0.36 down from 2021 | 284 | 12% | — | ||
30Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.61Q2 | 1.25 0.45 down from 2021 | 120 | 100% | — | ||
31South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.59Q3 | 0.99 0.38 down from 2021 | 308 | 100% | $500 | ||
32Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.59Q3 | 1.35 0.02 down from 2021 | 267 | 100% | $61 | ||
33Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.51Q3 | 1.47 0.03 down from 2021 | 162 | 100% | $609 | ||
34Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.49Q3 | 0.99 0.45 down from 2021 | 276 | 100% | $400 | ||
35Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.48Q3 | 1.14 0.13 up from 2021 | 249 | 77% | — | ||
36The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.48Q3 | 1.11 0.33 down from 2021 | 122 | 100% | $452 | ||
37Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 0.46Q3 | 1.19 0.17 down from 2021 | 293 | 1% | — | ||
38Journal of Applied Animal NutritionCambridge University Press · Netherlands | 0.42Q3 | 1.00 0.04 down from 2021 | 34 | 100% | $1,941 | ||
39Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.79 0.21 down from 2021 | 43 | 23% | — | ||
40Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.35Q3 | 0.82 0.16 down from 2021 | 242 | 100% | — | ||
41World Rabbit ScienceOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.35Q3 | 1.12 0.44 down from 2021 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
42Advances in Animal and Veterinary SciencesOANexus Academic Publishers · Pakistan | 0.34Q3 | 0.84 0.26 down from 2021 | 711 | 100% | — | ||
43Open Journal of Animal SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.81 0.04 down from 2021 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.31Q3 | 0.92 0.31 down from 2021 | 57 | 86% | — | ||
45Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical SocietyOANational Documentation Centre · Greece | 0.29Q3 | 0.71 0.08 down from 2021 | 228 | 100% | — | ||
46International Journal of Poultry ScienceOAAsian Network for Scientific Information · Pakistan | 0.28Q4 | 0.79 0.24 up from 2021 | 188 | 100% | — | ||
47Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia | 0.28Q4 | 0.72 0.17 up from 2021 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
48Revista Mvz CórdobaOAUniversity of Cordoba · Colombia | 0.25Q4 | 0.53 0.08 down from 2021 | 156 | 100% | — | ||
49Revista Colombiana de Ciencias PecuariasOAUniversidad de Antioquia · Colombia | 0.24Q4 | 0.40 0.09 down from 2021 | 90 | 100% | $200 | ||
50Meat and Muscle BiologyOAUnited States | 0.21Q4 | 1.90 1.46 up from 2021 | 519 | 100% | $1,000 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science571
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics150
- Food Science135
- Animal Science and Zoology59
- Insect Science49
- Soil Science41
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences35
- Aquatic Science34
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 59
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,731 +22.3% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.61 -6.4% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.