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Animal Welfare is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0962-7286Verify ISSN ↗2054-1538Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterinary (all) | 30 / 204 | 85th | Q1 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 101 / 520 | 80th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 95 / 223 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Animal Welfare is Q1 in Veterinary (all) (rank 30 of 204), Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 101 of 520) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 95 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Animal Welfare 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 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.549, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 85.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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 Welfare is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0962-7286 and its online ISSN is 2054-1538.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Animal Welfare has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 197 Scopus journals in Veterinary (all).
Animal Welfare published 81 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 84. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31%), United States (15.6%) and Australia (9.2%).
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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