Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2024
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 58 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology, Animal nutrition, and Veterinary Quarterly.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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
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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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 7.22 0.27 down from 2023 | 422 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
2Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.58Q1 | 6.78 0.18 up from 2023 | 448 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
3Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 5.55 3.34 down from 2023 | 89 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
4Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 6.73 0.41 up from 2023 | 698 | 43% | $4,740 | ||
5animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 3.80 1.05 down from 2023 | 778 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
6Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 1.63Q1 | 5.15 0.81 up from 2023 | 152 | 100% | $300 | ||
7World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 3.35 0.48 down from 2023 | 198 | 13% | — | ||
8Food Science of Animal ResourcesOAPublisher not listed | 1.36Q1 | 4.34 0.02 down from 2023 | 233 | 100% | — | ||
9Animal Research and One HealthOAWiley | 1.30Q1 | 3.03no 2023 value | 37 | 100% | $2,700 | — | |
10Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.29Q1 | 4.20 0.09 down from 2023 | 2,335 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
11AnimalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.22Q1 | 3.13 0.23 down from 2023 | 11,111 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
12Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.12 0.40 down from 2023 | 737 | 51% | $3,360 | ||
13International Journal of Veterinary Science and MedicineOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 1.18Q1 | 3.91 0.53 up from 2023 | 31 | 100% | $250 | ||
14Animal BioscienceOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 1.14Q1 | 2.98 0.50 up from 2023 | 517 | 100% | $700 | ||
15Veterinary and Animal ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.06Q1 | 2.97 0.54 up from 2023 | 157 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
16Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 1.05Q2 | 2.83 0.35 down from 2023 | 382 | 100% | $383 | ||
17Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 1.04Q2 | 2.61 0.14 down from 2023 | 401 | 55% | $4,650 | ||
18Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 0.98Q2 | 2.55 0.04 down from 2023 | 506 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
19Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 2.70 0.22 up from 2023 | 691 | 33% | $3,110 | ||
20Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.96Q2 | 2.12 0.12 down from 2023 | 701 | 58% | $2,970 | ||
21PoultryOASwitzerland | 0.89Q2 | 2.31 0.03 down from 2023 | 60 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
22Meat and Muscle BiologyOAUnited States | 0.85Q2 | 3.16 0.41 up from 2023 | 123 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
23Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q2 | 2.28 0.63 up from 2023 | 250 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
24Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.76 0.19 down from 2023 | 76 | 59% | — | ||
25Translational Animal ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.89 0.28 up from 2023 | 545 | 100% | $3,308 | ||
26Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.77Q2 | 2.47 0.42 up from 2023 | 293 | 100% | — | ||
27The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.76Q2 | 2.15 0.24 up from 2023 | 246 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
| 0.72Q2 | 1.73 0.45 down from 2023 | 105 | 100% | — | |||
29Emerging Animal SpeciesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.69Q2 | 1.57 0.20 up from 2023 | 35 | 100% | $2,020 | ||
30Animal - Open SpaceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.63Q3 | 1.57 0.35 up from 2023 | 54 | 100% | $1,530 | ||
31Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.61Q3 | 1.66 0.11 down from 2023 | 140 | 100% | — | ||
32British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.67 0.15 down from 2023 | 257 | 24% | — | ||
33The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.59Q3 | 1.46 0.26 down from 2023 | 86 | 100% | $452 | ||
34Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 0.55Q3 | 1.21 0.28 down from 2023 | 230 | 2% | — | ||
35Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 1.46 0.03 down from 2023 | 238 | 14% | — | ||
36Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.53Q3 | 1.16 0.20 down from 2023 | 176 | 100% | $61 | ||
37Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 0.53Q3 | 1.20 0.37 down from 2023 | 2,617 | 100% | $4,368 | ||
38Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.92 0.15 down from 2023 | 53 | 65% | — | ||
39Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.46Q3 | 1.00 0.16 down from 2023 | 170 | 65% | — | ||
40Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.46Q3 | 1.48 0.30 down from 2023 | 150 | 100% | $609 | ||
41World Rabbit ScienceOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.42Q3 | 1.49 0.66 up from 2023 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
42Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.42Q3 | 1.05 0.19 up from 2023 | 225 | 73% | — | ||
43South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.41Q3 | 0.83 0.42 down from 2023 | 190 | 100% | $500 | ||
44Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.41Q3 | 1.04 0.34 down from 2023 | 227 | 100% | $400 | ||
45Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.33Q4 | 0.50 0.69 down from 2023 | 68 | 81% | — | ||
46Open Journal of Animal SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.69 0.27 down from 2023 | 137 | 100% | — | ||
47Food Science of Animal ProductsOATsinghua University Press | 0.33Q4 | 0.89no 2023 value | 47 | 100% | — | — | |
48Advances in Animal and Veterinary SciencesOANexus Academic Publishers · Pakistan | 0.28Q4 | 0.66 0.14 down from 2023 | 738 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical SocietyOANational Documentation Centre · Greece | 0.28Q4 | 0.63 0.05 up from 2023 | 428 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.19Q4 | 0.44 0.15 up from 2023 | 158 | 40% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science550
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics147
- Food Science143
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science48
- Agronomy and Crop Science40
- Soil Science40
- Aquatic Science34
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,513 +9.0% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.663 -1.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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 | 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.