About the Journal

Animal Reports | journal (eISSN: 3068-5044; pISSN: 3071-4141) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to advancing scientific knowledge, promoting sustainable practices, and fostering innovation across the animal sciences. Animal Reports publishes high-quality original research, review articles, short communications, editorials, and perspectives covering all major disciplines of animal science, veterinary medicine, aquaculture, wildlife science, and related fields. For more information, click here.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Abdallah Tageldein Mansour

Affiliation: Animal and Fish Production Department, College of Agricultural and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.

Journal metrics 2025:

Usage

| More than 5Ks annual downloads/views.

Processing speed

| Two days avg. from submission to first decision.

| 35 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision.

| Two days avg. from acceptance to online publication.

Acceptance rate:

| 50% acceptance rate.

Main Journal Features

| Open Access: Diamond Open Access with no publication fees, DOI registration fees, or article processing charges (APCs).

| Frequency: Two issues per year (January–June and July–December), with articles published online immediately upon acceptance.

| Copyright: Authors retain full copyright of their work (License: CC By 4.0).

| Indexing & abstracting: Animal Reports is indexed by Crossref, Eurobup, Scilit-MDPI, Harvard Library, PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PN), and Google Scholar.

| Flexible Manuscript Preparation Guidelines: No restriction on manuscript length, number of tables, figures, colored figures, and references.

| Publication Ethics & Compliance: Animal Reports adheres to established ethical publishing standards and follows the principles and guidelines of COPE, ARRIVE, National Research Council, and Declaration of Helsinki, where applicable.

| Peer-Review Process: Animal Reports uses a single-blind peer-review process, in which all submitted manuscripts are evaluated by independent experts in the relevant field. The journal supports transparency and reviewer recognition through its membership in the Reviewer Credits platform.

| Digital Preservation and Archiving: Animal Reports ensures the long-term preservation of its published content through participation in recognized digital archiving and preservation services, including the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP PN), LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and Keepers Registry. The journal also encourages self-archiving of published articles in accordance with its Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). In addition, the journal is exploring opportunities for inclusion in other established preservation systems, such as PORTICO, to further strengthen its long-term archiving strategy.

| Publishing Language: Animal Reports accepts only manuscripts written in high-quality academic English.

Journal History: 

| Animal Reports | journal was established in 2025 as an open-access scholarly journal. It obtained its electronic ISSN (eISSN: 3068-5044) in the same year, followed by the assignment of a print ISSN (pISSN: 3071-4141) in 2026, marking its transition to both electronic and print publishing.