Animal Production Science
Animal Production Science is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal for agriculture and animal science and published by CSIRO Publishing. Research articles in the journal focus on improving livestock and food production, and on the social and economic issues that influence primary producers. It is predominantly concerned with domesticated animals ; however, contributions on horses and wild animals are also published where relevant.
It was established in 1961 as Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. In 1985, this was shortened to Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture. The current name was adopted in 2009.
The current Editor-in-Chief is Wayne Bryden.The journal is abstracted and indexed in AgriBiotech, Agricola, Australian Bibliography of Agriculture, Elsevier BIOBASE, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Institute for Scientific Information Moscow, Science Citation Index, Scopus and TEEAL.According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had an impact factor in 2015 of 0.902, and a 2016/2017 impact factor of 1.371.
