Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Subfield ranking · 2025
Small Animals journal rankings 2025
60 ranked journals · Subfield in Veterinary
Small Animals has 60 ranked journals in 2025. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2024 to 0.52, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.92. No journal’s likely rank range stays within the top 3, so the intro names none.
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 Veterinary (2)
60 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 #4 of 60International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug ResistanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 3.88 0.13 down from 2024 | 130 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #21 of 60Laboratory Animal ResearchOABioMed Central · South Korea | 1.40Q1 | 3.22 0.31 down from 2024 | 116 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #9 of 60Frontiers in Animal ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.32Q1 | 3.02 0.31 up from 2024 | 392 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #1 and #11 of 60Porcine Health ManagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 3.35 0.08 up from 2024 | 166 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
Rank 5; likely between #2 and #12 of 60Animal WelfareOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 3.01 0.34 up from 2024 | 163 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #11 of 60BMC Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.18 0.21 up from 2024 | 1,295 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #10 of 60Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.19Q1 | 3.26 0.06 up from 2024 | 5,166 | 100% | $3,801 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 8; likely between #3 and #13 of 60The Veterinary JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 2.78 0.45 down from 2024 | 305 | 52% | $3,310 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #3 and #13 of 60Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 2.98 0.06 up from 2024 | 335 | 100% | $1,800 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 10; likely between #4 and #14 of 60Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q1 | 2.83 0.44 up from 2024 | 462 | 35% | $3,680 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 11; likely between #2 and #17 of 60Veterinary Medicine Research and ReportsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.11Q1 | 3.23 0.36 up from 2024 | 73 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
Rank 12; likely between #4 and #15 of 60Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.11Q1 | 2.17 0.33 down from 2024 | 224 | 5% | $2,950 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #9 and #16 of 60Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q1 | 2.64 0.48 up from 2024 | 646 | 62% | $3,220 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #2 and #28 of 60Alternatives to Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.95Q1 | 3.22 0.21 up from 2024 | 87 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #6 and #22 of 60Journal of Small Animal PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q1 | 1.70 0.46 down from 2024 | 266 | 67% | $4,520 | ||
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #18 of 60Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.48 0.07 down from 2024 | 840 | 100% | $2,000 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 17; likely between #13 and #18 of 60Veterinary Medicine and ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 2.25 0.25 up from 2024 | 977 | 100% | $3,880 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 18; likely between #12 and #20 of 60Acta veterinaria ScandinavicaOABioMed Central · Denmark | 0.87Q2 | 2.11 0.11 up from 2024 | 157 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #17 and #21 of 60Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 2.16 0.17 up from 2024 | 819 | 41% | $3,290 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 20; likely between #16 and #29 of 60Journal of Zoological and Botanical GardensOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.73Q2 | 1.96 0.22 up from 2024 | 157 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #16 and #28 of 60Journal of Applied Animal Welfare ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.73Q2 | 1.55 0.03 up from 2024 | 127 | 35% | — | ||
Rank 22; likely between #18 and #28 of 60Journal of Veterinary ScienceOAKorean Society of Veterinary Science · South Korea | 0.68Q2 | 1.80 0.12 up from 2024 | 240 | 100% | $300 | ||
Rank 23; likely between #19 and #29 of 60Zoo BiologyWiley · United States | 0.66Q2 | 1.50 0.12 down from 2024 | 196 | 51% | $3,920 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #20 and #28 of 60Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.82 0.62 up from 2024 | 1,195 | 57% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 25; likely between #20 and #30 of 60Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.63Q2 | 1.45 0.11 down from 2024 | 404 | 64% | $3,000 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 26; likely between #21 and #30 of 60American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.49 0.09 down from 2024 | 550 | 100% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 27; likely between #23 and #30 of 60Open Veterinary JournalOAUniversity of Tripoli · Libya | 0.60Q2 | 1.55 0.16 up from 2024 | 668 | 100% | $350 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #22 and #33 of 60Veterinary Anaesthesia and AnalgesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.59Q2 | 1.50 0.12 down from 2024 | 286 | 40% | $3,000 | ||
Rank 29; likely between #19 and #39 of 60Schweizer Archiv für TierheilkundeSociety of Swiss Veterinarians · Switzerland | 0.55Q2 | 0.68 0.66 down from 2024 | 60 | 24% | — | ||
Rank 30; likely between #25 and #36 of 60Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.53Q2 | 1.34 0.18 down from 2024 | 172 | 48% | $3,400 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 31; likely between #25 and #37 of 60Topics in companion animal medicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.14 0.23 down from 2024 | 136 | 19% | $2,740 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #27 and #37 of 60Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal ScienceAmerican Association for Laboratory Animal Science · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.18 0.50 down from 2024 | 203 | 78% | — | ||
Rank 33; likely between #28 and #38 of 60New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.47Q3 | 1.15 0.11 up from 2024 | 124 | 63% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 34; likely between #30 and #39 of 60Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag | 0.45Q3 | 1.06 0.10 down from 2024 | 153 | 4% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 35; likely between #29 and #39 of 60Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.44Q3 | 1.32 0.48 up from 2024 | 164 | 100% | $609 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 36; likely between #30 and #39 of 60Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.97 0.29 down from 2024 | 115 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
Rank 37; likely between #32 and #43 of 60Acta Veterinaria HungaricaAkadémiai Kiadó · Hungary | 0.38Q3 | 1.12 0.21 up from 2024 | 96 | 45% | — | ||
Rank 38; likely between #31 and #45 of 60Journal of the South African Veterinary AssociationOAAOSIS · South Africa | 0.38Q3 | 0.76 0.18 up from 2024 | 62 | 100% | $65 | ||
Rank 39; likely between #35 and #46 of 60Acta veterinariaOADe Gruyter Open · Serbia | 0.33Q3 | 0.98 0.05 up from 2024 | 120 | 100% | $129 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #33 and #48 of 60Austral journal of veterinary sciencesOAChile | 0.33Q3 | 0.57 0.18 down from 2024 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #38 and #47 of 60Journal of Exotic Pet MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.30Q3 | 0.74 0.04 up from 2024 | 127 | 14% | $3,620 | ||
Rank 42; likely between #28 and #57 of 60Journal of Dairy Veterinary & Animal ResearchOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.28Q3 | 0.78 0.35 up from 2024 | 45 | — | — | ||
Rank 43; likely between #38 and #49 of 60Acta Veterinaria BrnoOAUniversity of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno · Czechia | 0.27Q3 | 0.84 0.08 down from 2024 | 159 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 44; likely between #40 and #47 of 60Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States | 0.27Q3 | 0.66 0.27 down from 2024 | 335 | 6% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 45; likely between #39 and #49 of 60In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.26Q3 | 0.61 0.23 up from 2024 | 175 | 36% | $2,900 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 46; likely between #38 and #51 of 60VCOT OpenOAGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany | 0.25Q4 | 0.70 0.12 down from 2024 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #38 and #52 of 60Slovenian Veterinary ResearchOASlovenia | 0.23Q4 | 0.54 0.10 down from 2024 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 48; likely between #42 and #52 of 60Macedonian Veterinary ReviewOASs.Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje · North Macedonia | 0.22Q4 | 0.71 0.20 up from 2024 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #42 and #55 of 60Case Reports in Veterinary MedicineOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.47 0.07 up from 2024 | 34 | 100% | $790 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #43 and #53 of 60Veterinary EvidenceOARCVS Knowledge · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.60 0.35 up from 2024 | 79 | 100% | — |
7 Small Animals 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.
- 1Journal of the American Veterinary Medical AssociationAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States+37% vs groupOJR 0.49 → 0.65range +12% to +67%
- 2In PracticeWiley · United Kingdom+73% vs groupOJR 0.16 → 0.26range +9.5% to +172%
- 3Veterinary ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands+30% vs groupOJR 0.90 → 1.12range +7.8% to +57%
- 4Journal of Feline Medicine and SurgeryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom+35% vs groupOJR 0.89 → 1.15range +5.9% to +73%
- 5American Journal of Veterinary ResearchOAAmerican Veterinary Medical Association · United States+26% vs groupOJR 0.51 → 0.62range +4.1% to +52%
- 6Veterinární MedicínaOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia+38% vs groupOJR 0.33 → 0.44range +0.6% to +89%
- 7Veterinary Medicine and ScienceOAWiley · United Kingdom+16% vs groupOJR 0.81 → 0.91range +0.3% to +35%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -65% to +186% (ratio scale)
8 Small Animals 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.
- 1Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and TraumatologySchattauer Verlag-32% vs groupOJR 0.69 → 0.45range -49% to -9.3%
- 2Veterinary SurgeryWiley · United Kingdom-20% vs groupOJR 0.83 → 0.63range -33% to -6.0%
- 3Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland-11% vs groupOJR 1.40 → 1.19range -17% to -4.7%
- 4Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineOAWiley · United States-18% vs groupOJR 1.17 → 0.92range -30% to -4.5%
- 5Laboratory AnimalsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom-45% vs groupOJR 0.99 → 0.53range -68% to -3.8%
- 6New Zealand Veterinary JournalTaylor & Francis · New Zealand-34% vs groupOJR 0.74 → 0.47range -54% to -3.8%
- 7Research in Veterinary ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands-15% vs groupOJR 0.96 → 0.78range -26% to -2.4%
- 8Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians · United States-21% vs groupOJR 0.35 → 0.27range -37% to -1.1%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -70% to +235% (ratio scale)
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.
4 additional Small Animals 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
- 60
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,615 +1.8% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.519 -8.3% 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 | 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.