Small Ruminant Research

Small Ruminant Research is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology and Reproductive Physiology in Livestock, together about 44.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Agronomy and Crop Science and Animal Science and Zoology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Small Ruminant Research is focused on articles regarding small ruminants and is the official journal of the International Goat Association.Small Ruminant Research aims to publish original, basic and applied research articles. It publishes articles on goats, sheep, deer, and New and Old World camelids.The journal publishes topics including:• Nutrition • Physiology, • Genetics, • Microbiology, • Anatomy if associated with new research on function or production, • Ethology, • Product technology and consumer health effects, • Socio-economics, • Management, sustainability and environment, • Veterinary Medicine, • Husbandry Engineering.The primary focus of the journal is on domesticated small ruminants and camelids, but contributions on non-domesticated small ruminants and camelids may be considered if these have a clear direct or indirect relevance to farmed small ruminants and camelids.Further notes on editorial priority:Small Ruminant Research will consider studies on polymorphisms if they report novel findings and have direct relevance to those species described in the aims and scope of this journal. Manuscripts can include investigations into variation on different levels (e.g. genes, proteins, transcriptomes etc.). Associations studies involving single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), should link them strongly and experimentally to production traits. Associations of a single genetic variant with a single trait within one population without support of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) will normally not be considered for publication. Genetic diversity studies are welcome, but should include more than one or a few breeds with only local importance. Reports on allelic / genotypic frequencies or gene sequences that are not accompanied by novel genetic findings will not be considered. Manuscripts with quantitative RT-PCR without multiple normalizer gene products will be declined at preliminary review.Morphometric studies are not in our scope unless they are explicitly related with a production trait of small ruminants. Papers on the use of feeds in nutrition are publishable only if these feeds have more than local importance, which should be detailed in the introduction. In many studies of nutrition, the effect on animal performance of substituting a feed with another is investigated and the hypothesis is that no effect is anticipated. We recommend a power analysis to determine sample size before planning the study. If authors want to report that they have di

From the journal's Aims & Scope

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

Editor-in-chief Serge YanPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 3%); most named United States 10, Spain 7, Israel 6, France 4, Italy 4 (62 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

1.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

1.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

3.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

3.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.43LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.84LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

71LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

124OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,117OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.72OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

18.63%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

170LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Figures by source

Average review time (community reports)

about 6 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

62.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

50 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

121 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Elsevier

Country or region

NETHERLANDS

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1988

ISSN

0921-4488

Electronic ISSN

1879-0941

Society / sponsor

International Goat Association

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website