1. Reputable peer-reviewed academic journals that publish Anthrozoological content
2. Predatory Journals & Open Access
3. Research Metrics & Matters
4. Resources on how to publish in peer-reviewed journals and academic books

Reputable peer-reviewed academic journals that publish Anthrozoological content

Journal	Publishing group	OPen Access Fees	Style Guidelines (research)	Main feild MetRic
Anthrozoös	Taylor & Francis, International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ)	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	5000 words (excluding ab, tables, refs)	Anthrozoology HAS •••Q1
Society & Animals (SOAN)	BRILL, Society & Animals Institute	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	7000 words (including references etc.,)	Anthrozoology HAS ••Q2
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (JAAWS)	BRILL, Society & Animals Institute	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	7000 words (including references etc.,)	Welfare HAS ••Q2
Pet Behaviour Science	UCO Press, Editorial Universidad de Córdoba	No Fees (OA)		Behaviour HAB Pets *Not indexed*
Human-Animal Interactions (HAI)	CABI	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	No strict limit (but typically 5-8000 words)	Anthrozoology HAS *Q3
Trace ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies	Finnish Society for Human–Animal Studies (YKES)	No Fees (OA)	(50 000 characters w/ no spaces)	Anthrozoology HAS *Not indexed*
Animal Studies Journal (ASJ)	Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA)	No Fees (OA)	7500 words (including references etc.,)	Anthrozoology HAS *Not indexed*
People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice (PAIJ)	International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO)	No Fees (OA)	No limit, but ‘authors should exercise some discretion with respect to length.’	HAS HAI *Not indexed*
Humanimalia	Utrecht University in the Netherlands	No Fees (OA)	12000 words (including references etc.,)	Anthrozoology HAS •Q3
Animal History	University of California Press	OA? No Fees	9100 words (including references etc.,) MAX, but prefer 8000 words!	History Animals HAS *Not indexed*
Journal of Posthuman Studies	Penn State University Press	No Fees (Paywall)?	3500 words (max)	Range of disciplines with posthumanist lens •Q4
Symbolic Interaction	Wiley, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI).	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	10000 words (including references etc.,)	Interactionist perspective on society, social organization etc., •••Q1
Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE)	University of Illinois Press	No Fees (Paywall)?	3-5000 words (but considers longer)	Philosophy Ethics, Animals ••Q2
Animal Sentience (ASent)	Editorial independence from publisher	No Fees (OA)	Preferred length 5000-10000 words	Philosophy Animals ••Q2
Between the Species	Editorial independence from publisher	No Fees (OA)	Not exceed 6000 words (including abstract & refs).	Philosophy *Not indexed*
Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS)	Editorial independence from publisher	No Fees (OA)	5000-10000 words	Critical Animal Studies (CAS) *Not indexed*
Politics and Animals	Lund University	No Fees (OA)	6000-9000 words	Politics HAI *Not indexed*
City & Society	Wiley, American Anthropological Association	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	8-9000 words (including references etc.,)	Anthropology, Urban geography ••Q2
Biosemiotics	Springer, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS)	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	9000 (including references etc.,)	Communications Linguistics Social Science •••Q1
Tourism Geographies	Taylor & Francis	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	7500 (including references etc.,)	Tourism Studies •••Q1
Current Issues in Tourism	Taylor & Francis	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	7500 (including references etc.,)	Tourism Studies •••Q1
Tourist Studies	Sage Journals	No Fees (Paywall) OA Fees	8-1000 (including references etc.,)	Tourism Studies Social Science ••Q2

Predatory Journals & Open Access

Some journals do charge to publish (often 1000s of Euros). Please check before submitting that your institution or funding source will be able to cover these fees. You need to also ensure that the journal is not predatory or fake (junior scholars are especially vulnerable to scams and unethical practices – if in doubt, ask around).

Many journals do NOT charge (see table above). Several higher ranking journals are two-tier, charging for Open Access (OA) and free for articles that will be stuck behind a paywall.

Many scholars publish only Open Access (OA) so their work is freely available, and funding bodies and departments sometimes insist on OA. While it is noble to only publish OA, students or independent scholars (those without funding to pay for OA) should not feel bad about choosing the non-OA option with higher ranked journal. And you can always send pdfs to anyone who requests a copy of your work. ResearchGate is a good place to request and share your articles privately (without getting in trouble with publishers!). I respond to all requests to share private copies of my non-OA articles.

Research Metrics & Matters

In the above table you may have noticed several journals were marked as Q1, Q2 etc., These are ‘Quartile Measures’. Quartiles measure the citations of a journal against those of all journals indexed in Scopus. These are divided into four categories: Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. Journals with a Q1 score have the highest impact and the greatest number of citations from other publications. Read more about Q ranking and why it might mater to your career (and the potential reach of your article) if your research is published in an indexed journal or not. Another measure is Impact factor (IF), which also ranks a journal based on the how often their content is cited.

The 2024 Impact Factors (IF) for the leading multidisciplinary journals, Nature, Science, and Cell are 49.9, 55.2, and 64.4, respectively. However, the average IF is less than 1, and what is considered a ‘good’ IF is discipline specific. The 2024 IF for Anthrozoös (a Q1 journal) is 2.3.

The metrics of the papers you have published and the journals you have published them in will likely matter when applying for academic positions, promotion, or applying for fellowships or research funding. Therefore, it may be worth checking that your target journal is listed and what its ranking is. You can search how a journal is ranked here (based on Scopus-indexed journals): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php.

If you have already published in a journal, it is likely you have automatically generated profiles on Google Scholar (see mine), Elsevier’s Scopus (see mine), and Clarivate’s Web of Science (see mine). It is worth claiming and verifying these. I also recommend you make an ORCID (see mine). ORCID is free and allows all your publications to be linked to you, which is especially important if you share a name with others or change your name during your career.

You will notice these profiles list various author metrics, based on how much their work has been cited. One commonly used metric is the h-index, which measures the number of publications (h) that have each received at least h citations (a person with a h-index of 23 will have 23 papers that have been cited at least 23 times). These may differ between platforms based on whether non- listed citations are counted or not (hence Google Scholar profiles have higher h-index scores).

Resources on how to publish in peer-reviewed journals and academic books

How to draft a paper, select a journal, address reviewer comments etc.,

More coming soon….

The inaugural Anthrozoology as International Practice Conference (AIP2021) held a workshop on Publishing Your Anthrozoology Research.

This workshop is intended to demystify the process of publishing your academic work. It is aimed at graduate students who have little or no experience of academic publishing. The panel answer questions about finding appropriate journals, preparing a manuscript, the peer-review process, navigating ‘rejections’, and finding book publishers for your thesis.

Co-hosted by Animals and Society Institute and the Animals and Society Section of the ASA, this 2022 colloquium by Dr. Tom Aiello examines publishing opportunities in human-animal studies.