Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Animal Science and Zoology journal rankings 2025
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Animal Science and Zoology has 58 ranked journals in 2025. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2024 to 0.57, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology and Animal nutrition: each is likely ranked within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #2 of 58Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 8.26 1.04 up from 2024 | 464 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #2 of 58Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.67Q1 | 8.13 1.35 up from 2024 | 433 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #3 and #4 of 58Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 6.55 0.18 down from 2024 | 720 | 36% | $4,740 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #4 and #6 of 58animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 4.15 0.35 up from 2024 | 813 | 100% | $2,000 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 5; likely between #3 and #8 of 58Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 4.05 1.50 down from 2024 | 141 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
Rank 6; likely between #5 and #8 of 58Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan | 1.64Q1 | 4.41 0.74 down from 2024 | 289 | 100% | $300 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 7; likely between #3 and #16 of 58Animal Research and One HealthOAWiley | 1.58Q1 | 4.34 1.31 up from 2024 | 86 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #6 and #11 of 58Food Science of Animal ResourcesOAPublisher not listed | 1.41Q1 | 3.91 0.43 down from 2024 | 301 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 9; likely between #7 and #22 of 58Veterinary and Animal ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 3.16 0.19 up from 2024 | 188 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
Rank 10; likely between #8 and #13 of 58Poultry ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.22Q1 | 4.47 0.27 up from 2024 | 2,965 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
Rank 11; likely between #6 and #26 of 58International Journal of Veterinary Science and MedicineOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 1.18Q1 | 2.52 1.39 down from 2024 | 35 | 100% | $250 | ||
Rank 12; likely between #10 and #15 of 58AnimalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.17Q1 | 3.28 0.14 up from 2024 | 11,112 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #9 and #18 of 58Animal BioscienceOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea | 1.14Q1 | 3.03 0.05 up from 2024 | 586 | 100% | $700 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 14; likely between #8 and #21 of 58Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal NutritionWiley · Germany | 1.13Q1 | 2.87 0.26 up from 2024 | 381 | 56% | $4,650 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #11 and #18 of 58Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 3.35 0.23 up from 2024 | 675 | 37% | $3,360 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #22 of 58Italian Journal of Animal ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.03Q2 | 2.64 0.09 up from 2024 | 441 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #12 and #25 of 58World s Poultry Science JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.99 0.36 down from 2024 | 181 | 7% | — | ||
Rank 18; likely between #6 and #35 of 58Meat and Muscle BiologyOAUnited States | 0.99Q2 | 1.56 1.59 down from 2024 | 130 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #9 and #27 of 58PoultryOASwitzerland | 0.97Q2 | 2.68 0.38 up from 2024 | 96 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #16 and #24 of 58Veterinary MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 2.86 0.16 up from 2024 | 729 | 26% | $3,110 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #15 and #25 of 58Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.96Q2 | 3.15 0.69 up from 2024 | 319 | 100% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 22; likely between #12 and #26 of 58Journal of Applied Animal ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.16 0.13 down from 2024 | 250 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
Rank 23; likely between #16 and #25 of 58Translational Animal ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.12 0.23 up from 2024 | 494 | 100% | $3,308 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 24; likely between #16 and #26 of 58Journal of Animal Science and TechnologyOAKorean Society of Animal Sciences and Technology · South Korea | 0.92Q2 | 2.34 0.50 down from 2024 | 382 | 100% | $383 | ||
Rank 25; likely between #18 and #26 of 58Livestock ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 2.24 0.12 up from 2024 | 523 | 52% | $2,970 | ||
Rank 26; likely between #19 and #27 of 58The Journal of Applied Poultry ResearchOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.83Q2 | 2.32 0.16 up from 2024 | 265 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #25 and #38 of 58Animal - Open SpaceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.63Q2 | 1.47 0.11 down from 2024 | 78 | 100% | $1,530 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #25 and #40 of 58The Journal of Poultry ScienceOAJapan Poultry Science Association · Japan | 0.62Q2 | 2.21 0.75 up from 2024 | 74 | 100% | $452 | ||
Rank 29; likely between #26 and #44 of 58Emerging Animal SpeciesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.57Q2 | 1.33 0.24 down from 2024 | 46 | 100% | $2,020 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #27 and #36 of 58British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 1.72 0.06 up from 2024 | 258 | 21% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 31; likely between #27 and #42 of 58Journal of Animal Behaviour and BiometeorologyOABrazil | 0.56Q3 | 1.49 0.24 down from 2024 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 32; likely between #27 and #43 of 58Archives of Animal NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.26 0.50 down from 2024 | 73 | 35% | — | ||
Rank 33; likely between #27 and #42 of 58Journal of Animal and Feed SciencesOAKielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition · Poland | 0.54Q3 | 1.82 0.16 up from 2024 | 151 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 34; likely between #27 and #41 of 58Avian DiseasesAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists · United States | 0.54Q3 | 1.50 0.28 up from 2024 | 193 | 45% | — | ||
Rank 35; likely between #28 and #41 of 58Czech Journal of Animal ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.53Q3 | 1.69 0.20 up from 2024 | 143 | 100% | $609 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #27 and #46 of 58Journal of Swine Health and ProductionUnited States | 0.49Q3 | 1.32 0.82 up from 2024 | 60 | 27% | — | ||
Rank 37; likely between #30 and #44 of 58Journal of Aquatic Food Product TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.38 0.08 down from 2024 | 185 | 7% | — | ||
Rank 38; likely between #29 and #44 of 58Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaOASociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia · Brazil | 0.49Q3 | 1.15 0.01 down from 2024 | 170 | 100% | $61 | ||
Rank 39; likely between #34 and #42 of 58Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 0.47Q3 | 1.06 0.14 down from 2024 | 3,355 | 99% | $4,368 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 40; likely between #32 and #47 of 58Food Science of Animal ProductsOATsinghua University Press | 0.44Q3 | 1.47 0.58 up from 2024 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #34 and #46 of 58Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland | 0.43Q3 | 1.36 0.31 up from 2024 | 212 | 88% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 42; likely between #34 and #47 of 58Canadian Journal of Animal ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.43Q3 | 1.18 0.18 up from 2024 | 165 | 55% | — | ||
Rank 43; likely between #32 and #48 of 58World Rabbit ScienceOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.42Q3 | 1.28 0.21 down from 2024 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 44; likely between #40 and #48 of 58Brazilian Journal of Poultry ScienceOAFundação Apinco de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas · Brazil | 0.39Q3 | 1.11 0.07 up from 2024 | 235 | 100% | $400 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #36 and #49 of 58Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A – Animal ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.38Q4 | 1.07 0.14 up from 2024 | 59 | 77% | — | ||
Rank 46; likely between #33 and #50 of 58Animal Science Papers and ReportsPublisher not listed | 0.38Q4 | 1.10 0.48 down from 2024 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #32 and #51 of 58Biotechnology in Animal HusbandryOAFaculty of Agronomy in Čačak · Serbia | 0.36Q4 | 1.17 0.77 up from 2024 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 48; likely between #42 and #51 of 58Open Journal of Animal SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.84 0.15 up from 2024 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #44 and #49 of 58South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa | 0.31Q4 | 0.73 0.09 down from 2024 | 208 | 100% | $500 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 50; likely between #48 and #51 of 58Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical SocietyOANational Documentation Centre · Greece | 0.24Q4 | 0.55 0.08 down from 2024 | 537 | 100% | — |
7 Animal Science and Zoology journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Pakistan Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad · Pakistan+181% vs groupOJR 0.66 → 1.64range +121% to +257%
- 2Translational Animal ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States+56% vs groupOJR 0.68 → 0.93range +29% to +89%
- 3Animal BioscienceOAAsian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies · South Korea+50% vs groupOJR 0.86 → 1.14range +24% to +82%
- 4Annals of Animal ScienceOADe Gruyter · Poland+50% vs groupOJR 0.73 → 0.96range +20% to +87%
- 5Journal of Thermal BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom+20% vs groupOJR 1.05 → 1.10range +6.6% to +35%
- 6Polish Journal of Veterinary SciencesDe Gruyter · Poland+39% vs groupOJR 0.35 → 0.43range +5.1% to +84%
- 7animalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom+14% vs groupOJR 1.86 → 1.85range +0.2% to +29%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -74% to +280% (ratio scale)
4 Animal Science and Zoology journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1South African Journal of Animal ScienceOAAfrican Journals OnLine · South Africa-40% vs groupOJR 0.59 → 0.31range -54% to -21%
- 2Journal of Animal ScienceOxford University Press · United States-27% vs groupOJR 0.74 → 0.47range -34% to -19%
- 3Advances in Animal and Veterinary SciencesOANexus Academic Publishers · Pakistan-30% vs groupOJR 0.34 → 0.21range -45% to -11%
- 4British Poultry ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-22% vs groupOJR 0.83 → 0.57range -35% to -5.8%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -55% to +124% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Animal Science and Zoology highlighted.
- Plant Science551
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics145
- Food Science143
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science49
- Agronomy and Crop Science42
- Soil Science39
- Aquatic Science35
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% 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 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,939 +6.2% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.57 -7.3% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.