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Annual Journal Metrics

Citation Impact 2023
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.870
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.529

Speed 2024
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 9
Submission to acceptance (median days): 78

Usage 2024
Downloads: 252,421
Altmetric mentions: 48

Article Types

Animal Diseases accepts the following article types: 
Original Article
Review
- Short communication
Case Report

Affiliated with

Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) is a national key university of “Project 211” directly under the Ministry of Education. HZAU enjoys a history of 120 years, covers an area of 495 hectares, and consists of 18 colleges and departments. Featuring life science, HZAU also gives much emphasis on the rational disciplinary construction of agriculture, sciences, engineering, arts, law, economics, and management.

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The National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology was founded by Chen Hua-Kui, a pioneering scientist in Chinese soil microbiology in 1990. It has consistently received excellent ratings in evaluations by the Ministry of Science and Technology for national key laboratories and outstanding departmental key laboratories in the field of life sciences in 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016. In 2022, it was successfully recombined and approved as the "National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology". The lab focuses on varies of research areas, including the exploration of agricultural microbes, microbial structure and function, microbe‒host‒environment interactions, improvements in agricultural microbes, the development of new agricultural microbial products and food security.