Animal Welfare
Last updated ISSN 0962-7286
Animal Welfare is published by Cambridge University Press in veterinary. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Animal Welfare concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal testing and alternatives
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0962-7286, 2054-1538 |
| Subject area | Veterinary |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 3,512 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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