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South African Journal of Animal Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by South African Society for Animal Science.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0375-1589Verify ISSN ↗2221-4062Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Society for Animal Science
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 331 / 520 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1974), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
South African Journal of Animal Science is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 331 of 520), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Animal Science 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.231, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$500 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.
South African Journal of Animal Science is published by South African Society for Animal Science. Its print ISSN is 0375-1589 and its online ISSN is 2221-4062.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Animal Science has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #245 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
South African Journal of Animal Science published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 135. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (42.6%), Türkiye (14.7%) and Brazil (7.7%).
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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