Selected Papers from the 4th International Online Conference on Animals (IOCAN 2026)
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
2. Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland and Foundation Director, Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Interests: animal welfare; animal ethics; captive animal management; heavy metals in animals
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Interests: herd health; clinical epidemiology; neonatal immunity in newborn bovines; etiology; (NIR) non-ionidasing radiation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We can announce the 4th International Online Conference on Animals (IOCAN2026), organized by MDPI's open access journal Animals (ISSN: 2076-2615; Impact Factor: 2.7). This year's conference will be held online from 17 to 19 March 2026 (https://sciforum.net/event/IOCAN2026).
This conference offers a unique opportunity for animal scientists globally to share their latest research, foster communication, and collaboratively address the pressing challenges that animals face, such as declining genetic diversity, climate change, pollution, and intensive production systems.
This Special Issue welcomes selected papers from IOCAN2026 that promote and advance this exciting and rapidly developing field. More specifically, the following areas will be covered:
S1. Sustainable Animal Welfare, Ethics and Human–Animal Interactions;
S2. One health: Improve Disease Manifestation and Management in Animals, Humans, and the Environment;
S3. Sustainable Animal Nutrition;
S4. Animal Genetics and Genomics;
S5. Environmental Challenges to Animals and Precision Livestock Farming;
S6. Animal Physiology, Reproduction, and Sustainable Animal Production;
S7. Aquatic Animals.
Submitted contributions will be subjected to peer review and, upon acceptance, will be published, aiming to rapidly and widely disseminate research results, developments, and applications.
It should be noted that submitted manuscripts should be more substantial in length and depth compared to the papers presented at IOCAN2026.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Clive J. C. Phillips
Prof. Dr. Michael Hässig
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- aarm animals
- companion animals
- zoo animals
- wildlife
- aquatic animals
- sustainable animal production
- animal genetics and genomics
- animal health and welfare
- one health
- precision livestock farming
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