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1 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 1. ET RES VET MICROBIOL FISH SHELLFISH IMMUN VET PARASITOL MED MYCOL COMP IMMUNOL MICROB ILAR J VET J DIS AQUAT ORGAN VET IMMUNOL IMMUNOP PREV VET MED J VET EMERG CRIT CAR BMC VET RES J FISH DIS J VET INTERN MED THERIOGENOLOGY X VET PATHOL VET DERMATOL APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI MED VET ENTOMOL X Page 1

2 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 21. ZOONOSES PUBLIC HLTH TRANSBOUND EMERG DIS JAVMA-J AM VET MED A > J MED ENTOMOL ANIMAL AVIAN PATHOL RES VET SCI J COMP PATHOL > VET CLIN N AM-SMALL VET COMP ONCOL VET CLIN PATH VET CLIN N AM-FOOD A > AVIAN DIS > EQUINE VET J > J FELINE MED SURG X ACTA VET SCAND X > REPROD DOMEST ANIM J VET BEHAV J MED PRIMATOL AM J VET RES > Page 2

3 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 41. VET SURG PAK VET J VET REC > J VET DIAGN INVEST LAB ANIM-UK > J VET PHARMACOL THER J VET SCI X ANIM WELFARE TROP ANIM HEALTH PRO REV SCI TECH OIE VET RADIOL ULTRASOUN J WILDLIFE DIS > CAN VET J > COMPARATIVE MED TOP COMPANION ANIM M J SMALL ANIM PRACT > J AM ANIM HOSP ASSOC > AUST VET J > VET ANAESTH ANALG CAN J VET RES > Page 3

4 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 61. EXP ANIM TOKYO ANAT HISTOL EMBRYOL NEW ZEAL VET J VET CLIN N AM-EQUINE > ASIAN J ANIM VET ADV ANTHROZOOS J ANIM PHYSIOL AN N J VET MED SCI ZOO BIOL > J AQUAT ANIM HEALTH > VET RES COMMUN BERL MUNCH TIERARZTL VET COMP ORTHOPAED VET MED-CZECH VET OPHTHALMOL J APPL ANIM WELF SCI FISH PATHOL X > REV BRAS PARASITOL V X J AM ASSOC LAB ANIM J SWINE HEALTH PROD X Page 4

5 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 81. ACTA VET HUNG J EQUINE VET SCI VET ITAL X J AVIAN MED SURG SCHWEIZ ARCH TIERH J ANIM PLANT SCI PROD ANIM J VET MED EDUC X POL J VET SCI EQUINE VET EDUC SOC ANIM ARCH MED VET X PESQUISA VET BRASIL X KAFKAS UNIV VET FAK JPN J VET RES > WIEN TIERARZTL MONAT X J EXOT PET MED ACTA VET BRNO B VET I PULAWY DEUT TIERARZTL WOCH > Page 5

6 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor 101. J ANIM VET ADV Article Influence 102. J ZOO WILDLIFE MED LAB ANIMAL ONDERSTEPOORT J VET > J S AFR VET ASSOC > ITAL J ANIM SCI IRISH VET J VLAAMS DIERGEN TIJDS VET ARHIV J VET DENT > ISR J VET MED ARQ BRAS MED VET ZOO INT J APPL RES VET M TIERAERZTL PRAX > IRAN J VET RES TIERAERZTL UMSCHAU > IN PRACTICE X TURK J VET ANIM SCI PFERDEHEILKUNDE VET ZOOTECH-LITH Page 6

7 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor 121. VET MEXICO Article Influence 122. REV MED VET-TOULOUSE SLOV VET RES SCAND J LAB ANIM SCI ACTA SCI VET MAGY ALLATORVOSOK X THAI J VET MED ANKARA UNIV VET FAK > TIJDSCHR DIERGENEESK > REV CIENT-FAC CIEN V CATTLE PRACT ACTA VET-BEOGRAD PHILIPP J VET MED KLEINTIERPRAXIS > REV BRAS MED VET B ACAD VET FRANCE PRAKT TIERARZT X > VETERINARIA-CREMONA J CAMEL PRACT RES IPPOLOGIA Page 7

8 VETERINARY SCIENCES JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 141. AUST VET PRACT X ANN MED VET CLIN VET PEQUENOS AN INRA PROD ANIM VET QUART > Page 8

9 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 1. GENET SEL EVOL X J DAIRY SCI ANIM GENET J ANIM SCI > DOMEST ANIM ENDOCRIN APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI ANIM REPROD SCI ANIMAL POULTRY SCI > ANIM FEED SCI TECH J DAIRY RES > LIVEST SCI J REPROD DEVELOP J ANIM BREED GENET REPROD DOMEST ANIM SMALL RUMINANT RES WORLD POULTRY SCI J CZECH J ANIM SCI J POULT SCI BRIT POULTRY SCI > Page 1

10 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 21. ARCH ANIM NUTR X ANIM BIOTECHNOL J APPL POULTRY RES ANIM SCI J J ANIM PHYSIOL AN N CAN J ANIM SCI > ACTA AGR SCAND A-AN > WORLD RABBIT SCI J ANIM FEED SCI ASIAN AUSTRAL J ANIM PROD ANIM ANIM SCI PAP REP AUST J DAIRY TECHNOL > ARCH TIERZUCHT J APPL ANIM RES TEC PECU MEX ANN ANIM SCI ARCH GEFLUGELKD > BRAZ J POULTRY SCI X ZUCHTUNGSKUNDE Page 2

11 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE JCR Science Edition Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites 5-Year Immediacy Index Articles Cited Halflife Eigenfactor Article Influence 41. ITAL J ANIM SCI REV COLOMB CIENC PEC ANIM NUTR FEED TECHN AVIAN BIOL RES FOURRAGES S AFR J ANIM SCI SABRAO J BREED GENET TROP GRASSLANDS > INDIAN J ANIM SCI > REV MEX CIENC PECU BUFFALO BULL REV MVZ CORDOBA LARGE ANIM REV INDIAN J ANIM RES INRA PROD ANIM Page 3

12 Veterinary Medicine Alphabet / << Topic Veterinary Research Alternative link French ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Journal of Dairy Science ISSN: EISSN: ISI : Free after 12 months 1917-present ILAR Journal (Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources. National Research Council) ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Diseases of Aquatic Organisms ISSN: EISSN: ISI : Free after 60 months 1985-present Journal of Animal Science ISSN: EISSN: ISI : Free after 12 months 1910-present Veterinary Pathology ISSN: ISI : Free after 12 months 1997-present Poultry Science ISSN: EISSN: ISI : Free after 12 months 1997-present

13 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica Alternative link ISSN: X EISSN: ISI : present Pakistan Veterinary Journal ISSN: ISI : present Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation ISSN: ISI : Free after 12 months 1989-present Laboratory Animals ISSN: ISI : Free after 36 months 1967-present Journal of Veterinary Science Alternative link ISSN: X EISSN: X ISI : present Revue Scientifique et Technique: Scientific and Technical Review (International Office of Epizootics) Spanish French ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Journal of Wildlife Diseases ISSN: ISI : Free after 18 months 1965-present Canadian Veterinary Journal: La Révue Vétérinaire Canadienne French ISSN: ISI : Free after 3 months 1960-present

14 Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research ISSN: ISI : Free after 3 months 1986-present Experimental Animals ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Asian Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Journal of Veterinary Medical Science ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Veterinární Medicína (Veterinary Medicine - Praha) ISSN: ISI : present Veterinární Medicína: International Journal for Veterinary and Biomedical Science ISSN: ISI : present Fish Pathology ISSN: X EISSN: ISI : Free after 12 months 1966-present Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Alternative link ISSN: ISI : Free after 6 months

15 2004-present Journal of Swine Health and Production ISSN: X ISI : present Veterinaria Italiana ISSN: X EISSN: ISI : present Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde German ISSN: EISSN: ISI : Free after 12 months 2002-present Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria Alternative link Spanish ISSN: X EISSN: ISI : present Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira Portuguese ISSN: X EISSN: ISI : present Kafkas šniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Acta Veterinaria (Brno) ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawi ISSN: ISI : 0.414

16 2002-present Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances ISSN: EISSN: X ISI : present Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Irish Veterinary Journal : Iris Tréidliachta Éireann Alternative link ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Vlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift : Flemish Veterinarian Journal ISSN: ISI : present Some of the articles aren't available in fulltext. Veterinarski Arhiv: Journal of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - University of Zagreb Alternative link ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Israel Journal of Veterinary Medicine ISSN: ISI : present Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia Portuguese ISSN: ISI : present

17 International Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine ISSN: EISSN: X ISI : present Iran Journal of Veterinary Research ISSN: ISI : present Iranian Journal of Veterinary Research Alternative link ISSN: ISI : present Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Veterinaria México Alternative link Spanish ISSN: ISI : present Revue de Médecine Vétérinaire French ISSN: ISI : Free after 6 months 2000-present Slovenian Veterinary Research / Slovenski Veterinarski Zbornik ISSN: ISI : present Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science ISSN: ISI : Free after 3 months 2000-present Acta Scientiae Veterinariae

18 ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Title was 'Arquivos da Faculdade de Veterinária - UFRGS' until Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine ISSN: ISI : present Ankara šniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi / Veterinary Journal of Ankara University ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present Revista Científica (Maracaibo) Alternative link Spanish ISSN: ISI : present Acta Veterinaria Alternative link ISSN: ISI : present Revista MVZ Córdoba Alternative link Spanish ISSN: ISI : present This journal is open access. A free registration, however, is needed. Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire French ISSN: EISSN: ISI : present BMC Veterinary Research Alternative link EISSN: ISI : 0

19 2005-present Revista Portuguesa de Ciências Veterinárias EISSN: ISI : Veterinary Medicine International Alternative link EISSN: ISI : present Archives of Razi Institute EISSN: ISI : present Revista Complutense de Ciencias Veterinarias Spanish EISSN: ISI : present Arquivos de Ciências Veterinárias e Zoologia da UNIPAR Portuguese EISSN: ISI : present Life Science Journal - Acta Zhengzhou University Overseas Edition Life Science Journal; Introduction; ISSN: ; 2010: 0.158

20 Journal Ranking for Biological & Marine Sciences This purpose of this page is to give an explanation of the various methods which have been used to rank scientific journals, with particular reference to biology and marine biology-related titles. The information should help the reader to assess the value or ranking of journals in their field of research, and to evaluate which ones are the most suitable in which to publish. Contents: Introduction: PBRF and Journal Ranking Journal Citation Reports Immediacy Index Cited Half-life Citing Half-life JCR categories for biology and marine sciences Reasons that impact factors may vary between journals of similar quality Use and mis-use of s Eigenfactor.org Journal-Ranking.com Introduction: PBRF and Journal Ranking The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is responsible for leading the government's relationship with the Tertiary education sector, and for policy development and implementation. There is some pressure to publish in journals that can be seen to be of high standing in their area, although assessing the quality of a journal objectively and without bias is not easy (especially for specialist titles) as there are many factors involved, some of which are very subjective. In past years, the main resource used to assess journal rankings by the TEC has been Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson in their ISI Web of Knowledge database (of which Web of Science forms a part). JCR can be accessed from the database listings on the library homepage under J:. Top of Page

21 Journal Citation Reports JCR provides (IF) information and is published in two editions, 1) Science and Technology, and 2) Social Sciences. Currently, ISI indexes about 8700 journals (there are over journals worldwide), of which 6100 are in the so called hard sciences, 1860 are in the social sciences and 1200 are in the arts and humanities. Of these, the JCR Science and Technology edition includes data from some 5900 titles while the Social Sciences edition includes data from 1700 titles. Each annual database collection contains the previous year's publication data (loaded and made available each July) which is the accumulated and tabulated citation data and article counts used to measure various parameters, including: What are the largest journals? Journals are ranked by the number of published articles What journals are most often used? Journals are ranked by the number of times they are cited in other journals Which journals have the highest impacts? Journals are ranked by their (IF) which allows some evaluation and comparison of a journal's relative importance to other titles in the same category What are the hottest journals? JCR's Immediacy Index can indicate which journals are publishing the latest highest cited research in rapidly moving fields For each journal title covered in JCR, the following information is collected and/or tabulated Citation and article counts Immediacy Index Cited Half-life Citing Half-life Source Data Listing Citing Journal Listing Cited Journal Listing Subject Category Publisher Information Journal Title Changes Top of Page

22 A journal's is defined as the number of times a journal is cited within the previous two years of publication divided by the total number of articles published by that journal over that period. It is intended to measure how often on average authors cite moderately recent articles from a particular journal. For example, the 2013 = [ all citations made in 2013 to items in the issues ] [number of articles in the issues] The term 'article' is undefined but includes review articles. Journals often have referenced, peerreviewed papers that are not considered 'articles' by Thomson. Letters or editorials are not counted as articles (even if they generate many citations) but citations to them are included in the calculation. Hence a journal which has many letters in its correspondence section and which generate large numbers of citations to them will tend to have an over-estimated impact factor. Recently, in recognition that literature from some sciences have very long half lives (eg. mathematics, palaeontology), JCR now includes a five-year impact factor calculation. Five Year = [ all citations made in 2013 to items in the issues ] [number of articles in the issues] Immediacy Index The Immediacy Index of a journal is intended to measure how often on average authors cite very recent articles from that journal, and hence how rapidly the average paper from that journal is adopted or accepted into the literature. For example, the 2013 Immediacy Index = [ all citations made during 2013 to items in the 2013 issues ] [number of articles in the 2013 issues] Cited Half-life The Cited Half-life of a journal is the calculated point (or age) in years, above which 50% of the citations to the journal are more recent, and below which 50% of the citations are older. This is intended to measure how long, on average, articles from journals continue to receive citations. This will change year by year, and the results are presented by Thomson graphically. For example, all citations to Nature Genetics in 2004 may be broken down as: 48.4 % of citations are to issues for 2000 or more recent 12.2 % of citations are to 1999 issues 39.4 % of citations are to issues prior to 1999

23 So in 2004, Nature Genetics had a cited half-life of 5.1 years (the following year it was 4.7 years). All citations made to American Journal of Mathematics in 2004 can be broken down to: 18.3 % of citations are to issues for 1995 or more recent 81.7 % to citations are to issues earlier than 1995 So in 2004, American Journal of Mathematics had a cited half life of > 10 years. Citing Half-life The Citing Half-life of a journal is the calculated point (or age) in years, above which 50% of the citations made by authors of articles in that journal are more recent, and below which 50% are older. The intention is to give a relative measure of the age of articles being cited by articles within the journal. Top of Page JCR categories for biology and marine sciences The following Biological/Marine subject categories (as at 2012) are included in Journal Citation Reports (note that many biology journals fall into more than one category so will be represented more than once): Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science Agriculture, Multidisciplinary Agronomy Anatomy & Morphology Behavioral Sciences Biochemical Research Methods Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biodiversity Conservation Biology Biophysics Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology Cell Biology Crystallography Developmental Biology Ecology Entomology Environmental Sciences Evolutionary Biology Fisheries Forestry Genetics & Heredity Horticulture

24 Immunology Limnology Marine & Freshwater Biology Materials Science, Biomaterials Microbiology Mycology Neurosciences Oceanography Oncology Ornithology Paleontology Parasitology Physiology Plant Sciences Reproductive Biology Veterinary Sciences Virology Zoology Reasons that impact factors may vary between journals of similar quality Within each JCR subject category, there is a rough correlation between the journal's (IF) and what is perceived to be journal quality: the inference is that the more prestigious journals will have higher s. However, there are many reasons, both deliberate and incidental, why two journals of very similar quality may have different IFs. Books, book chapters and non-listed journals are excluded from ISI data. All citations to non-citable items (letters, editorials) are included as numerators in the IF calculations. The denominator of the IF only contains articles designated by ISI as primary research articles or review articles, and this excludes certain sections of so called front matter' (such as Nature's 'News and Views' ). Publications from some non- speaking countries, including those with applied biomedical industries, are excluded from ISI data (for example, the Cuban National Health System journals published by Editorial de Ciencias M dicas). The data is biased toward US publications and language. IFs are often very biased estimates, and the proportion of this bias can vary widely even within the same JCR subject category. IFs are not statistically representative of individual articles (ie. they actually correlate poorly with citation rates of individual articles). Journals in categories with a high rate of research or developing technologies (eg biotechnology) often contain content that is rendered redundant or is superseded soon after publication, and are therefore more likely to have higher IFs (a high number of

25 citations in a short period of time), higher Immediacy Indexes, and shorter Cited Halflives. Journals where content is more permanent (natural history, taxonomy, mathematics, palaeontology) contain content that is more permanent and less likely to become obsolete, and for these reasons will tend to have lower IFs and Immediacy Indexes, and long Cited Half-lives (they are more likely to be cited long after publication). Self citations are included in citing journal data (the number of citations a journal has in its reference lists) but are excluded in cited only journal data. Journals with many review articles generally have high IFs as reviews are more likely to be widely cited than individual articles of original research, regardless of the quality of their content. Ease of access (electronic versions) increases IFs. A citation may signify utility for the person citing it, rather than relevance (a constant temptation with reference software such as Endnote and Refworks). Journals can raise their IFs by publishing fewer articles or by changing the categories of the sections in which the articles are published. The citation rate of a single article can determine the IF of an entire journal. Long-term studies (particularly those involving several seasons of field or trial results) will have low IFs. Studies authored by a group rarely receive individual author citations (eg. the major International Stroke Trial of 1997 only received 1 citation in 1999 according to ISI). Some articles have high citations rates simply because they represent flawed science and are being cited as such by critics of the original article (cold fusion and the South Korean stem cell research articles being cases in point). Articles are often mis-cited (error rates of 25% are not uncommon) and these errors are replicated by IF data. A 1999 study of a well known botany serial found errors in 45.5% of all citations: half had one error per citation and one citation had eight errors. Top of Page Use and mis-use of s Although IFs have been used since the 1950s, it was only in the 1990s that any serious attention was given to them by the wider scientific community. One of the more unfortunate drawbacks of IFs (and one that was probably totally unexpected by JCR s originator Eugene Garfield) is that it has altered scientists behaviour towards publishing their work. Many researchers now seem intent on only publishing in journals with perceived high IFs (ie. the so-called free-ride syndrome) at the expense of specialist journals that may be far more appropriate vehicles for their research. Unfortunately for these authors, there is no free ride. It is the citation rate of the articles that generate a journal s IF, not vice versa. Bibliometric studies have shown no difference at all in citation rates of similar articles published in journals of widely differing IFs (from 0.5 to 8.0), but most authors would still prefer to publish in a journal that is expected to have a high impact factor in the belief that this will somehow flow on to the citation rate of their article. Editors too have been tempted to use IFs to their own end - the editor of a certain medical journal was found to be routinely sending letters to submitting authors requesting that they increase their citations to papers published in that journal.

26 Thomson employees are charged with designating articles as primary, review or 'front matter' using a variety of criteria (it has been suggested that publishers can sometimes negotiate with Thomson to change these categories if they so wish). The details of how this is carried out are not available to the public, a fact that has been viewed with some concern by authors such as Rossner et al (2007); they noted that the journal Current Biology had an IF of 7 in 2002 and 11.9 in The denominator of the IF dropped from 1032 articles in 2002 to 634 articles in 2003, in spite of the fact that the number of articles published by that journal actually increased over the same period. There was also concern expressed that citations to retracted articles were counted in the IFs (the case in point being given as W.S. Hwang's stem cell papers published in Science from and subsequently retracted by the journal but not before having generated a total of 419 citations). The same authors also pointed out that because the IF is a mean, it can be easily skewed by one blockbuster paper. The example given was the initial human genome paper published in Nature which received some 5904 citations as at Nov Indeed, Nature itself noted that 89% of citations to Nature articles referred to 25% of their published papers. Rossner et al favour the provision of a median IF calculation rather than a mean (the median would typically be much lower than the mean). For biologists, the risk of putting too great a stock in the value of IFs is greater than it is for some other sciences - in 2001 ISI claimed that 90% of chemistry journals were being covered by their journal selection, but coverage of biology titles over the same period was estimated at only 30%. It has been estimated that the average scientific article will only ever be cited 1.5 times during its life, and up to 50% of articles may never be cited. Which is not to say that IFs don't have their worth when used correctly and in conjunction with other factors, but they are only one facet of providing information on data value and are really only meaningful in a comparative sense when used in conjunction with subject- and journal-specific criteria as well as peer review. ISI has become aware of the pitfalls that mis-use of IFs has caused in recent years, and now has a cautionary note on its online help site that sounds not unlike a surgeon general s warning to smokers printed on cigarette packets. Citation data are not meant to replace informed peer review. Additionally, careful attention should be paid to the many conditions that can influence citation rates, such as language, journal history and format, publication schedule, and subject speciality. The number of articles given for journals listed in the JCR include only original research and review articles. Editorials, letters, news items, and meeting abstracts are not included in article counts because they are not generally cited. Journals publishing in non- languages or using non-roman alphabets may be less accessible to researchers worldwide, which can influence their citation patterns. This should be taken into account in any comparative journal citation analysis (JCR Online help Using JCR Wisely Yet just as with smokers, it is proving difficult to change people s habits. Marketing promotions of new journals will make the most of high IFs wherever and whenever possible, as it is often seen as definitive numerical evidence of a journal s perceived standing or popularity. Finland directly links state funding of university hospitals to publication points of staff articles (which in turn are based on direct IF comparisons) and German universities have also been guilty of using IFs to calculate funding in a similar fashion. Editors, researchers and authors need to understand how IFs are generated and what their limitations are, because their mis-use can

27 unduly advantage review journals as well as be detrimental towards specialist niche journals. Top of Page Eigenfactor.org Another database that ranks journals in the biological sciences area is Eigenfactor.org. which is sometimes seen by users as an antidote to the shortcomings of Journal Citation Reports. See: Eigenfactor.org was set up and is maintained by Carl and Ted Bergstrom from the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. This database uses algorithms to calculate influence rankings for over 7000 science and social science journals (in fact the same ones listed by ISI in their Journal Citation Reports) as well other material such as books, newspapers, PhD theses and popular magazines. There are a number of features of Eigenfactor.org that make it different to, and potentially more advantageous than, Journal Citation Reports. Eigenfactor.org ranks journals in a similar manner to how search engines such as Goggle rank websites, by using networking theory where citations replace hyperlinks. The so called Eigenfactor indicates the amount of use any given journal is getting by scholars, while a second measure called Article Influence more closely correlates to the used by ISI. As well as citation data, information on journal prices and value are also included, and cost effectiveness of journals is measured. Eigenfactor.org takes into consideration the fact that different disciplines have different standards for citation ranking and different time scales over which citations might be expected to occur. By using the whole citation network, Eigenfactor.org tries to allow for more meaningful comparisons between research areas. The time factor used in citation data calculation is five years (as opposed to two in Journal Citation Reports) so as to account for the longer citation half lives of journals in disciplines such as mathematics/taxonomy/palaeontology. The variances in assumed 'prestige' of journals is taken into account during data manipulation, so that the ranking adjusts for differences in citation patterns among different disciplines (ie. the expected citation rates and half-lives within each discipline). Journal-Ranking.com A third journal ranking database that includes biology titles is Journal-Ranking.com which is a new resource (launched Jan 2007) run out of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology accessed at:

28 Certain features can only be accessed with registration. The site does not give much detailed information on how rankings are compiled, but the authors state that their intention in setting up was to address the deficiencies of the ISI citation index rankings, which assigns all citations equal weight. Journal-Ranking.com note that a citation by a paper in a top journal may outweigh many citations from lesser journals. Another stated drawback of the (IF) used by ISI is that it does not apportion suitable credit to so-called indirect citations (the example given is that of a notable theory published in a leading maths journal which is then extended to applied journals, and which in turn would be more likely to attract citations than would the original paper). Like Eigenfactor, Journal-Ranking.com make use of Google's PageRank methodology which uses an extended version of the Pinski & Natin invariant method of ranking and sorting. The graph theoretic properties and axiom analysis of the PageRank model are extended to rank individual journal influences so as to produce a similar ranking order to that of the PageRank algorithm. Journal-Ranking.com ranks journals by the following parameters PII = ranking of the title among all journals JII = Journal Influence Index PII = Paper (ie. article) Influence Index which is the JII divided by the article number multiplied by 1000 B2 = IF as used by ISI B4 = IF measurement using article counts from the preceding four years rather than two as used by ISI B6 = IF measurement using article counts from the preceding six years rather than two as used by ISI References Amin M & Mabe M, Pers in Pub 1 (Oct): Bloch S & Walter G, Aus NZ J Psych 35: Hecht F et al, Cancer Genet Cytogenet 104: Seglen PO, BMJ 314 (7079): Rossner M, Van Epps H & Hill E, J Cell Bio 179 (6):

29 List Common Rankings Animal and dairy science Attention: If you are not a registered user, you would NOT be able to change any settings below except for the last one "Journals to be ranked". To enable full access, please log in now. If you have not registered for an account, click here to register now Self Citation Weight Category Internal Citation Weight 1 Cross Category Citation Weight Citation Period to 2010 Journals to be ranked Total 68 Records - Page (1 of 1) No. Journal Rank JII PII B2 B4 B6 1 JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 2 GENETICS SELECTION EVOLUTION 3 APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE 4 JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE 5 POULTRY SCIENCE ANIMAL GENETICS DOMESTIC ANIMAL ENDOCRINOLOGY 8 JOURNAL OF DAIRY RESEARCH 9 ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 10 ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE 11 JOURNAL OF ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS 12 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 13 BRITISH POULTRY SCIENCE

30 14 JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT 15 WORLDS POULTRY SCIENCE JOURNAL 16 Rangeland Ecology & Management 17 REPRODUCTION IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS 18 SMALL RUMINANT RESEARCH 19 ACTA AGRICULTURAE SCANDINAVICA SECTION A-ANIMAL SC ARCHIVES OF ANIMAL NUTRITION 21 ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 22 JOURNAL OF APPLIED POULTRY RESEARCH 23 JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION 24 SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 25 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF DAIRY TECHNOLOGY 26 WORLD RABBIT SCIENCE 27 PRODUCTIONS ANIMALES 28 ARCHIV FUR GEFLUGELKUNDE 29 LIVESTOCK SCIENCE ANIMAL SABRAO JOURNAL OF BREEDING AND GENETICS 32 ANIMAL SCIENCE JOURNAL 33 ARCHIV FUR TIERZUCHT-ARCHIVES OF ANIMAL BREEDING 34 JOURNAL OF POULTRY SCIENCE 35 CZECH JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

31 36 REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ZOOTECNIA- BRAZILIAN JOURNAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL AND FEED SCIENCES 38 FOURRAGES ASIAN-AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCES 40 ZUCHTUNGSKUNDE BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF POULTRY SCIENCE 42 ANIMAL SCIENCE PAPERS AND REPORTS 43 AVIAN BIOLOGY RESEARCH 44 ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 45 INDIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCES 46 ANIMAL NUTRITION AND FEED TECHNOLOGY 47 REVISTA MVZ CORDOBA 48 JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL RESEARCH 49 REVISTA COLOMBIANA DE CIENCIAS PECUARIAS LARGE ANIMAL REVIEW ANNALS OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 52 BUFFALO BULLETIN INDIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL RESEARCH 54 TECNICA PECUARIA EN 9720 N/A N/A MEXICO 55 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL 9823 N/A N/A OF EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE 56 WOOL TECHNOLOGY 9829 N/A N/A AND SHEEP BREEDING 57 TROPICAL GRASSLANDS 9830 N/A N/A LIVESTOCK 9831 N/A N/A PRODUCTION SCIENCE 59 JOURNAL OF RANGE 9832 N/A N/A MANAGEMENT 60 CUBAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL 9833 N/A N/A

32 SCIENCE 61 AVIAN AND POULTRY 9834 N/A N/A BIOLOGY REVIEWS 62 ARCHIVES OF ANIMAL 9835 N/A N/A NUTRITION 63 ANIMAL SCIENCE 9836 N/A N/A ANIMAL RESEARCH 9837 N/A N/A ANNALES DE N/A N/A ZOOTECHNIE 66 ANNALS OF ARID ZONE N/A N/A 67 MLJEKARSTVO N/A N/A 68 ALL_JOURNALS N/A Legend No. The row number of the record in the result table. Journal The name of the journal. Rank The rank of journal among all journals based on PII. JII Journal Influence Index, the score of the journal calculated by our method, the bigger the more impactful. PII Paper Influence Index, the JII divided by Article Number multiplied by The average number of citations received by papers published in the journal in the 2 preceding B2(2010) years before 2010 (2009, 2008) from all the papers published in This is also commonly known as the ISI. The average number of citations received by papers published in the journal in the 4 preceding B4(2010) years before 2010 (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006) from all the papers published in The average number of citations received by papers published in the journal in the 6 preceding B6(2010) years before 2010 (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004) from all the papers published in Journal Ranking, Launched 15, Jan Designed by Red Jasper Limited.

33 Veterinary List Common Rankings Attention: If you are not a registered user, you would NOT be able to change any settings below except for the last one "Journals to be ranked". To enable full access, please log in now. If you have not registered for an account, click here to register now Self Citation Weight Category Internal Citation Weight 1 Cross Category Citation Weight Citation Period to 2010 Journals to be ranked No. Journal Rank JII PII B2 B4 B6 1 VACCINE JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 3 MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY 4 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIA... 5 VETERINARY RESEARCH 6 APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE 7 AVIAN DISEASES ILAR JOURNAL VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY 10 JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES 11 DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 12 EQUINE VETERINARY JOURNAL 13 FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 14 AVIAN PATHOLOGY MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

34 16 JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 17 VETERINARY PATHOLOGY 18 VETERINARY RECORD JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PRIMATOLOGY 20 COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS FISH PATHOLOGY JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY 23 ZOO BIOLOGY LABORATORY ANIMALS REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DE L OFFICE INTERN VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 27 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH 28 JOURNAL OF AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH 29 ONDERSTEPOORT JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH 30 VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY 31 AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL 32 PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE 33 THERIOGENOLOGY RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE 35 VETERINARY JOURNAL JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION 37 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH-REVUE CANA