The South African Journal of Animal Science is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal publishes reports of research dealing with the production of farmed animal species (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, poultry and ostriches), as well as pertinent aspects of research on companion animals and aquatic and wildlife species. All submitted articles are subjected to a single-blind peer review process that is managed by a section editor under the supervision of the editor-in-chief. Copyright of a published article resides with the authors. Such articles will be published as open access content and be covered by the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 South African Licence. Users may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, but must recognise the authors and the South African Journal of Animal Science.
Originally supported by the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), the South African Journal of Animal Science moved online in the early 2000s using a custom-built manuscript submission and editorial management system. In August 2025, the journal transitioned to the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems (PKP OJS), hosted by Khulisa Journals at the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
In line with international best practices, the journal integrates key components of digital research infrastructure, including DOIs (digital object identifiers), ORCID iDs (researcher identifiers), ROR IDs (research organisation identifiers), and CCLs (Creative Commons Licences), ensuring transparency, traceability, and global interoperability.
As of August 2025, the South African Journal of Animal Science makes use of the Crossref 10.17159 DOI prefix. View the journal metadata health and the Crossref DOI Conflict Report here.
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Clarivate Journal Impact Factor (2024): 0.6 (Q4 of subject category)
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Scopus CiteScore (2024): 1.4
Some effects of shooting on losses of meat and meat-quality in springbok and impala
The amount of tissue damaged by bullet wounds and thus unfit for human consumption averaged 13,9% of the total carcass weight. When carcasses were grouped according to the locality hit by the bullet, it was found that shots through the…
‘n Bepaling van die optimum slaggewig van vroeggespeende lammers
An investigation of the optimum slaughter weight of early weaned lambsWhereas lambs of woolled-mutton and mutton-woolled breeds are slaughtered locally at a live weight of approximately 32 kg, commensurate with the time of weaning, this experiment was planned to investigate…
Carcass composition of mature male blesbok and kudu
Data on the carcass composition of mature male blesbok and kudu shot on two Northern Transvaal nature reserves are presented. The mean live weights of the 22 blesbok and 18 kudu examined were 73,4 kg and 236,3 kg, cold carcass…
Beskrywing van ‘n apparaat om gaswisseling oor kort periodes by lammers te bepaal
Description of an apparatus for short term measurements of gas exchanges in lambsA simple apparatus, based on the confinement principle as described by Charlét-Lery (1958) and modified by Turner & Thornton (1966) for short term gas exchange measurements in lambs…
