Animal

Animal is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 1 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Animal Nutrition and Physiology and Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, together about 38% of its articles. Its main subfields are Animal Science and Zoology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

animal, The international journal of animal biosciencesThe flagship journal of the animal Consortium, a collaboration between the British & Irish Society of Animal Science ( BISAS), the Institut National de la Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE) and the European Federation for Animal Science (EAAP). animal is part of a family of journals including animal - science proceedings and animal - open space , a new publishing initiative of the animal Consortium.animal publishes the best, innovative and cutting-edge science that relates to farmed or managed animals, and that is relevant to whole animal outcomes, and/or to animal management practices. Papers can be accepted from all species if they are in, or contribute knowledge to, farmed and managed animal systems (e.g., cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, horses, rabbits, fish, insects).animal is essential reading for all animal scientists, stakeholders and policy makers interested in agricultural, biomedical, veterinary and environmental sciences with expected impacts on Animal Performance and Productivity, Animal Welfare, Animal Health, Food Security, Environment, Climate Change, Product Quality, Human Health and Nutrition, and Sustainability of Animal Agriculture and Livestock Systems. Impacts should be of international relevance.animal aims to publish novel and original research papers, horizon-scanning reviews and critically informative opinion papers. Papers should consider animal responses, as well as lower or upper levels of understanding, with research spanning from genes to systems. Interactions between levels of approach are encouraged to account for the integrative nature of biological systems.The journal is divided into a number of SectionsBreeding and Genetics : considers research on genomics and genomic selection, breeding and breeding programs, and association between phenotypic and genetic variation in consideration of genomic and pedigree information.Nutrition : considers studies on all nutritional functions. It has two subsections, 2A - Monogastrics and 2B - Ruminants.Physiology and Functional Biology : considers studies on the biology of tissues and functions, including the physiological modes of action of growth, developmental, reproductive and productive processes in animalsWelfare, Behaviour and Health Management : considers studies on behaviour, animal-health and welfare, with an emphasis on their interactions, as well as ethics of animal production and animal research. This includes population medicine, preventive medicine and epidemiological approaches to animal health. It has two subsections, 4A - Welfare and Behaviour, and 4B - Health Management.Livestock Farming Systems : considers all aspects of livestock farming systems and their sustainability (economic, social, environmental, and their interactions). It also includes precision livestock management and technologies for research on real-time monitoring technologies aimed at managing the temporal variability of individuals or of groups, when groups are the smallest manageable production unit. It has two subsections, 5A - Livestock Systems, 5B - Precision Livestock Farming.Quality of Animal Products : considers the quality and safety of animal products (whether food or non-food products), consumer acceptance and perception, as well as impacts of animal products on food security and human health.Insects as Livestock : considers all aspects of insect production, including breeding and genetics, nutrition, physiology (biology of tissues, growth, development, reproduction, productive processes) , behaviour and welfare (including ethics), health management (population medicine, preventive medicine, epidemiological approaches), production systems and their sustainability (economic, social, environmental and their interactions), and quality of insect derived products (quality and safety, impacts of animal products on food security and human health).

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science

Editor-in-chief Isabelle Louveau INRAEPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United Kingdom 19, Germany 10, Spain 10, United States 9, Canada 9 (129 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

4.05LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

4.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

7.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

7.9Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

1.07LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.69LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

61LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

145OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,666OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.21OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

267LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

9 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

80 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to acceptance

189 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 35 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

2007

ISSN

1751-7311

Electronic ISSN

1751-732X

Official links

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• Special issues ↗Publisher website
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