Canadian Journal of Animal Science

The Canadian Journal of Animal Science (French: Revue canadienne de zootechnie) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on all aspects of animal agriculture and animal products. It was established in 1921 and is published by Canadian Science Publishing. The current editors-in-chief are Tim McAllister (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) and Greg Penner (University of Saskatchewan).

Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Discipline	Animal science
Language	English, French
Edited by	Tim McAllister, Greg Penner
Publication details
History	1957–present
Publisher	Canadian Science Publishing (Canada)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Delayed, after 12 months; Hybrid
Impact factor	1.2 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Can. J. Anim. Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0008-3984 (print) 1918-1825 (web)
OCLC no.	17346081
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

History

In 1921, the Agricultural Institute of Canada established the journal Scientific Agriculture/La revue agronomique canadienne. It was renamed in 1953 to Canadian Journal of Agricultural Science. In 1957 the institute split the journal into three, one of them being the Canadian Journal of Animal Science. In 2015 the journal was acquired by its current publisher.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[2]
• BIOSIS Previews^[2]
• CAB Abstracts^[3]
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences^[2]
• EBSCO databases^[4]
• Embase^[5]
• Food Science & Technology Abstracts^[4]
• ProQuest databases^[4]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[2]
• Scopus^[6]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.2.^[7]

See also

• Canadian Journal of Plant Science
• Canadian Journal of Soil Science