World s Poultry Science Journal

World s Poultry Science Journal is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Livestock and Poultry Management and Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, together about 54.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Animal Science and Zoology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

World's Poultry Science Journal is the official publication of the World’s Poultry Science Association. The journal provides authoritative reviews in poultry science and an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of information including research, education and industry organisation. Each issue includes poultry industry-related news, regional reports on global developments in poultry, reports from specialist scientific working groups, book reviews, association news and a calendar of forthcoming events. Coverage includes breeding, nutrition, welfare, husbandry, production systems, processing, product development, physiology, egg and meat quality, industry structure, economics and education. The journal is of interest to academics, researchers, students, extension workers and commercial poultry producers. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Manuscripts may be rejected by the editor without peer review if there is insufficient justification for an updated review of the proposed topic or if similar comprehensive reviews have been published recently. The World's Poultry Science Journal prioritises review articles that address significant gaps in the current literature. Before submitting your manuscript, carefully evaluate whether your proposed review topic fulfils a genuine need in the field. Consider the following: When was this topic last comprehensively reviewed? What significant new research has emerged since the most recent review? How does your proposed review differ from or build upon existing literature reviews? What unique perspective or synthesis will your review provide to the poultry science community? Authors are strongly encouraged to conduct a thorough literature search and clearly articulate the necessity and novelty of their proposed review in their cover letter to avoid desk rejection

From the journal's Aims & Scope

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

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

PubMedPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, AGRICOLA, OCLC, CABI, Biological Abstracts (online)

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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

3.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

6.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.73LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.73Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

1.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.31Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

62LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

125OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,270OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.37OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

5.26%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

55LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

132,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Figures by source

Average review time (community reports)

12–24 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

37%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

43 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

61 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

20 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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

Cambridge University Press

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1945

ISSN

0043-9339

Electronic ISSN

1743-4777

Society / sponsor

World's Poultry Science Association

Latest issue on the website

Volume 82, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub