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Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0749-0720Verify ISSN ↗1558-4240Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Animals | 14 / 46 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present (also 1971–1978), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice is Q2 in Food Animals (rank 14 of 46), by CiteScore 2025.
Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.598, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0749-0720 and its online ISSN is 1558-4240.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 1.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 45 Scopus journals in Food Animals.
Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 71. 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 77 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (84.6%), Canada (4.8%) and United Kingdom (3.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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