Animal

Aims & Scope

Animal publishes the best, innovative and cutting-edge science that relates to animals (farmed or managed) used for animal production, and that is relevant to whole animal outcomes, and/or to animal management practices.

Papers can be accepted from all species if they are in, or contribute knowledge to, animal production systems.

Animal is essential reading for all animal scientists, stakeholders and policy makers interested in agricultural, biomedical, veterinary and environmental sciences with expected impacts on Animal Production and Productivity, Animal Welfare, Animal Health, Food Security, Environment, Climate Change, Product Quality, Human Health and Nutrition, and Sustainability of Animal Agriculture and Livestock Systems.

Impacts should be of international relevance.

Animal aims to publish novel and original research papers, horizon-scanning reviews and critically informative opinion papers.

Papers should consider animal responses, as well as lower or upper levels of understanding, with research spanning from genes to systems.

Interactions between levels of approach are encouraged to account for the integrative nature of biological systems.

The main subject areas include: breeding and genetics; nutrition (monogastrics, ruminants); physiology and functional biology; welfare, behaviour and health management (welfare and behaviour; health management); livestock farming systems (livestock systems; precision livestock farming); quality of animal products.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science
• Medline

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 1,733.00 EUR. Learn more.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Adaptation to hot climate and strategies to alleviate heat stress in livestock production

  Citation: 718

  Authors: D., A., S., V., J.L., R.J.

• Metabolic and hormonal acclimation to heat stress in domesticated ruminants

  Citation: 664

  Authors: U., N., L.H., R.P., B., A.

• Intramuscular fat content in meat-producing animals: development, genetic and nutritional control, and identification of putative markers

  Citation: 650

  Authors: J.F., F., E., F., C., D.W.

• Methane mitigation in ruminants: from microbe to the farm scale

  Citation: 629

  Authors: C., D.P., M.

• Microbial ecosystem and methanogenesis in ruminants

  Citation: 480

  Authors: D.P., E., C., C.J.

• The roles of livestock in developing countries

  Citation: 429

  Authors: M., D., J., N., D., S., M.C.

• Review: Fifty years of research on rumen methanogenesis: lessons learned and future challenges for mitigation

  Citation: 409

  Authors: K.A., E.M., R.J., M.

• Recent developments in altering the fatty acid composition of ruminant-derived foods

  Citation: 387

  Authors: K.J., M., N.D.

• Mitigating the greenhouse gas balance of ruminant production systems through carbon sequestration in grasslands

  Citation: 386

  Authors: J.F., T., V.

• Review: Adaptation of animals to heat stress

  Citation: 383

  Authors: V., R., J.B., F.R., N.