Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Field ranking · 2024
Veterinary journal rankings 2024
68 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Veterinary has 68 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 0.94. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice, and Laboratory Animal Research.
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.
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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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1International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug ResistanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 4.01 0.80 down from 2023 | 131 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
2Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q1 | 2.51 0.01 up from 2023 | 246 | 25% | $2,950 | ||
3Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 1.42Q1 | 3.53 0.29 down from 2023 | 107 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Porcine Health ManagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 3.27 0.33 down from 2023 | 166 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
5Frontiers in Animal ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.29Q1 | 2.71 0.11 down from 2023 | 378 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
6Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.25Q1 | 3.19 0.04 up from 2023 | 5,166 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
7Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 2.92 0.54 up from 2023 | 367 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
8BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 2.97 0.04 up from 2023 | 1,100 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
9Veterinary Medicine Research and ReportsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.14Q1 | 2.87 0.57 up from 2023 | 93 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
10The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 3.24 0.60 up from 2023 | 224 | 65% | $3,310 | ||
11Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 2.67 1.07 up from 2023 | 149 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
12Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q1 | 2.16 0.44 down from 2023 | 641 | 64% | $3,220 | ||
13Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 1.04Q1 | 2.55 0.12 up from 2023 | 857 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
14Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.98Q1 | 2.38 0.05 up from 2023 | 441 | 42% | $3,680 | ||
15Equine Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 2.17no change | 349 | 76% | $4,480 | ||
16Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 2.16 0.14 up from 2023 | 318 | 53% | $4,520 | ||
17Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 0.94Q1 | 2.00 0.25 down from 2023 | 153 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
18Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 3.02 1.03 up from 2023 | 85 | 45% | $4,150 | ||
19Veterinary Medicine and ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 2.00 0.32 down from 2023 | 882 | 100% | $3,880 | ||
20Journal of Zoological and Botanical GardensOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.88Q2 | 1.74 0.46 down from 2023 | 157 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
21Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 1.99 0.57 down from 2023 | 833 | 45% | $3,290 | ||
22Veterinary Clinics of North America Equine PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.87 0.51 up from 2023 | 126 | 12% | $2,850 | ||
23Journal of Equine Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.74 0.37 up from 2023 | 575 | 52% | $3,210 | ||
24Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.62 0.32 up from 2023 | 303 | 21% | $3,000 | ||
25Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q2 | 1.52 0.09 down from 2023 | 159 | 41% | — | ||
26Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.69Q2 | 1.68no change | 266 | 100% | $300 | ||
27Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 1.56 0.07 up from 2023 | 459 | 68% | $3,000 | ||
28Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal ScienceAmerican Association for Laboratory Animal Science · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.68 0.17 up from 2023 | 202 | 94% | — | ||
29Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.37 0.36 down from 2023 | 164 | 29% | $2,740 | ||
30Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya | 0.63Q2 | 1.39 0.27 up from 2023 | 424 | 100% | $350 | ||
31Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.27 0.47 down from 2023 | 117 | 4% | $3,000 | ||
32American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.61Q2 | 1.58 0.22 up from 2023 | 459 | 100% | — | ||
33Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.60Q2 | 1.52 0.16 down from 2023 | 155 | 42% | $3,400 | ||
34Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.60Q2 | 1.62 0.32 up from 2023 | 207 | 67% | $3,920 | ||
35Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.55Q3 | 1.16 0.30 up from 2023 | 150 | 15% | — | ||
36Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.20 0.14 up from 2023 | 1,212 | 59% | — | ||
37Journal of Equine ScienceOAJapan | 0.52Q3 | 1.03no change | 53 | 100% | — | ||
38New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.42Q3 | 1.04 0.24 down from 2023 | 126 | 66% | — | ||
39Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland | 0.42Q3 | 1.34 0.41 up from 2023 | 91 | 32% | — | ||
| 0.40Q3 | 0.74 0.14 down from 2023 | 67 | 100% | — | |||
41Equine Veterinary EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.65no change | 450 | 76% | $3,760 | ||
42Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.34Q3 | 0.90 0.01 up from 2023 | 128 | 36% | — | ||
43VCOT OpenOAGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany | 0.34Q3 | 0.82 0.24 up from 2023 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.93 0.04 down from 2023 | 385 | 7% | — | ||
45Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.32Q3 | 0.84 0.05 up from 2023 | 197 | 100% | $609 | ||
46Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.30Q3 | 0.93 0.11 up from 2023 | 120 | 100% | $129 | ||
47Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.29Q3 | 0.91 0.20 up from 2023 | 157 | 100% | — | ||
48Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.28Q3 | 0.58 0.48 down from 2023 | 51 | 100% | $65 | ||
49Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.27Q3 | 0.70 0.13 down from 2023 | 149 | 15% | $3,620 | ||
50Comparative Exercise PhysiologyNetherlands | 0.27Q3 | 0.64 0.21 down from 2023 | 135 | 7% | — |
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.
10 additional Veterinary 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
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 21,684 +3.8% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.575 +1.9% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7Comparison-group list (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 |
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| 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.