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Animal Genetics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0268-9146Verify ISSN ↗1365-2052Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 103 / 520 | 80th | Q1 |
| Genetics | 192 / 357 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Animal Genetics is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 103 of 520) and Q3 in Genetics (rank 192 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Animal Genetics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.526, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 99.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Animal Genetics is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0268-9146 and its online ISSN is 1365-2052.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Animal Genetics has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #164 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Animal Genetics published 84 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 146. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (31.6%), United States (5.9%) and Brazil (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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