Journal of Dairy Science

Journal of Dairy Science is published by Elsevier Ltd 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 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, Reproductive Physiology in Livestock and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, together about 40.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Agronomy and Crop Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

An official journal of the American Dairy Science Association®The Journal of Dairy Science (JDS) is an open access journal. Authors who publish in JDS make their work immediately, permanently, and freely accessible worldwide. JDS authors pay an article publishing charge (APC), have a choice of license options, and retain copyright to their published work.The APC for JDS is USD 3,500. Members of the American Dairy Science Association receive a discounted price of USD 1,600. Learn more about becoming an ADSA member and receiving a discounted APC. Still have questions? Read the FAQ page for further information.An official journal of the American Dairy Science Association®, Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) is the leading peer-reviewed general dairy research journal in the world. JDS publishes original research, invited review articles, and other scholarly work that relates to the production and processing of milk or milk products intended for human consumption. The journal is broadly divided into dairy foods and dairy production sections. JDS readers represent education, industry, and government agencies in more than 70 countries with interests in biochemistry, breeding, economics, engineering, environment, food science, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, pathology, physiology, processing, public health, quality assurance, and sanitation.A Journal Impact Factor of 4.4 places JDS 4th out of 86 journals in the Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science category, which ranks JDS in the first quartile. The journal also has a five-year Impact Factor of 4.4, indicating that articles in JDS continue to be cited well beyond the immediate two-year period following publication. In the Food Science and Technology category, JDS is ranked 50th out of 181 journals, which is in the second quartile.On January 1, 2024, the American Dairy Science Association launched the ADSA Loyalty Program, a program designed to reward member contributors to ADSA's ecosystem of journals, JDS and JDSC with the opportunity to publish original articles at no charge or at a reduced charge. Points are earned by either contributing papers as a corresponding author or reviewing articles for JDS or JDSC. Corresponding authors and reviewers with a current ADSA membership and a valid ORCID are eligible. For more information on the ADSA Loyalty Program, see adsa.org/Publications/Journal-Rewards or contact loyalty@adsa.org with any questions about the program.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

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

Editor-in-chief Laura HernandezPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named United States 57, Canada 7, Ireland 6, New Zealand 3, Spain 2 (95 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

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

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

4.66LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

4.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

4.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

7.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

7.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.69LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

166LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

325OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

26,634OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.4OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

21.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

99.92%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

913LetPub · 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)

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance to publication

29 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 10 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1917

ISSN

0022-0302

Electronic ISSN

1525-3198

Society / sponsor

American Dairy Science Association ®

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ