Journal of Animal Science: impact and ranking
Journal of Animal Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 0.84 in OpenAlex, which ranks #10,681 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 267. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.84 #10,681 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 267 #715 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #337 of 18,122
- Works
- 48k 22.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Animal Science?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Journal of Animal Science: 0.84, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Animal Science #10,681 of 18,122 journals, in the top 59%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Animal Science?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Animal Science an h-index of 267: 267 of its papers have each been cited at least 267 times. That ranks #715 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Animal Science publish?
OpenAlex records 48,467 works in Journal of Animal Science from 1817 to 2026, cited 1,077,634 times in all, 22.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #337 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Animal Science
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0021-8812
- In OpenAlex
- 1817 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Animal Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,368.
- Website
- academic.oup.com/jas
- OpenAlex record
- S72684844
Journals ranked near Journal of Animal Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Animal Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,124 | Clinical Chemistry | 0.96 | 323 |
| 10,233 | Transplantation | 0.94 | 277 |
| 10,407 | American Journal of Physics | 0.90 | 315 |
| 10,752 | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 0.82 | 373 |
| 10,813 | International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics | 0.81 | 346 |
| 11,021 | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | 0.76 | 312 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.