Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Small Animals journal rankings 2022
63 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary
Small Animals has 63 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 0.96. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, Porcine Health Management, and Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
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 Veterinary (2)
63 ranked journals
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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 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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1International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug ResistanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 4.76 0.07 down from 2021 | 155 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
2Porcine Health ManagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 3.93 0.40 down from 2021 | 134 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
3Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.40Q1 | 3.87 0.48 down from 2021 | 3,190 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
4Veterinary Medicine Research and ReportsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.29Q1 | 2.09 1.64 down from 2021 | 77 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
5Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 2.73 0.04 up from 2021 | 549 | 53% | $3,220 | ||
6BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 3.17 0.21 down from 2021 | 1,329 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
7The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 2.56 0.30 down from 2021 | 307 | 50% | $3,310 | ||
8Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.17Q1 | 2.91 0.37 down from 2021 | 871 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
9Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.16Q1 | 2.41 0.21 down from 2021 | 236 | 3% | $2,950 | ||
10Frontiers in Animal ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.15Q1 | 2.29 2.04 up from 2021 | 90 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
11Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 1.13Q1 | 2.74 0.02 up from 2021 | 178 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
12Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.02Q1 | 2.50 0.01 up from 2021 | 59 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
13Journal of Zoological and Botanical GardensOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.02Q1 | 2.28 1.22 down from 2021 | 58 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
14Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.99Q1 | 1.54 1.58 down from 2021 | 135 | 28% | $3,400 | ||
15Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.98Q1 | 1.40 1.58 down from 2021 | 131 | 64% | $3,550 | ||
16Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.96Q1 | 2.82 0.05 up from 2021 | 811 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
17Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 0.96Q2 | 3.48 1.09 up from 2021 | 104 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 2.87 0.34 down from 2021 | 586 | 34% | $3,680 | ||
19Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.28 0.07 up from 2021 | 387 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
20ILAR JournalOxford University Press · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.84 0.30 up from 2021 | 84 | — | — | ||
21Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.77 0.12 down from 2021 | 536 | 34% | $3,000 | ||
22Veterinary Medicine and ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 2.12 0.03 up from 2021 | 536 | 100% | $3,880 | ||
23BMJ Open ScienceOABMJ · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 5.00 0.06 up from 2021 | 32 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
24New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.74Q2 | 1.55 0.45 down from 2021 | 150 | 38% | — | ||
25Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.55 0.06 down from 2021 | 145 | 46% | — | ||
26Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.83 0.19 down from 2021 | 361 | 38% | $4,520 | ||
27Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.69Q2 | 1.18 0.06 up from 2021 | 209 | 8% | — | ||
28Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.41 0.30 down from 2021 | 364 | 35% | $3,000 | ||
29Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya | 0.69Q2 | 1.70 0.15 up from 2021 | 207 | 100% | $350 | ||
30Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.66Q2 | 1.84 0.13 down from 2021 | 290 | 100% | $300 | ||
31Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.63Q2 | 1.72 0.08 up from 2021 | 180 | 36% | $3,920 | ||
32Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal ScienceAmerican Association for Laboratory Animal Science · United States | 0.57Q2 | 1.65 0.16 down from 2021 | 227 | 98% | — | ||
33Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.56Q3 | 1.44 0.39 up from 2021 | 167 | 26% | $2,740 | ||
34Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.53Q3 | 1.45 0.07 up from 2021 | 111 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
35American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.20 0.04 down from 2021 | 382 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.50Q3 | 0.98 0.17 down from 2021 | 60 | 100% | $65 | ||
37Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.12 0.07 down from 2021 | 869 | 55% | — | ||
| 0.43Q3 | 1.04 0.22 up from 2021 | 69 | 100% | — | |||
39Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland | 0.43Q3 | 0.75 0.27 down from 2021 | 106 | 72% | — | ||
40Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.41Q3 | 1.11 0.19 down from 2021 | 174 | 95% | — | ||
41Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.96 0.15 down from 2021 | 440 | 11% | — | ||
42Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.34Q3 | 0.71 0.49 down from 2021 | 120 | 100% | $129 | ||
43Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.33Q3 | 1.92 1.01 up from 2021 | 226 | 100% | $609 | ||
44Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe G Großtiere / NutztiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.33Q3 | 0.48 0.34 down from 2021 | 92 | 5% | — | ||
45Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.32Q3 | 0.75 0.26 down from 2021 | 164 | 100% | — | ||
46Macedonian Veterinary ReviewOASs.Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje · North Macedonia | 0.29Q3 | 0.81no change | 64 | 100% | — | ||
47Slovenian Veterinary ResearchOASlovenia | 0.26Q3 | 0.16 0.87 down from 2021 | 171 | 100% | — | ||
48Case Reports in Veterinary MedicineOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.24Q3 | 0.35 0.20 down from 2021 | 58 | 100% | $790 | ||
49Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.55 0.03 up from 2021 | 196 | 9% | $3,620 | ||
50Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K Kleintiere / HeimtiereSchattauer Verlag · Germany | 0.22Q4 | 0.52 0.01 up from 2021 | 123 | 2% | — |
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.
8 additional Small Animals 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
- 63
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,291 +10.8% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.566 -4.1% 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 | 28 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 43 | 43 | 42 | 45 | 46 | 48 | 48 | 49 | 51 | 55 | 58 | 62 | 59 | 61 | 61 | 63 | 63 | 60 | 60 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,959 | 6,619 | 6,728 | 7,217 | 7,093 | 7,527 | 8,162 | 9,019 | 9,862 | 10,734 | 12,132 | 13,551 | 14,194 | 14,423 | 14,750 | 15,717 | 16,212 | 16,177 | 16,212 | 16,502 | 17,026 | 17,717 | 18,291 | 18,631 | 18,602 | 18,615 | |
| Median OJR | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.525 | 0.572 | 0.55 | 0.665 | 0.68 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.592 | 0.5931 | 0.656 | 0.5928 | 0.590 | 0.594 | 0.58 | 0.566 | 0.585 | 0.60 | 0.519 |
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.