Advances in Animal Health and Disease: From Nutrition and Metabolism to Immunity and Infection

Topic Information

Dear Colleagues,

Improving animal health and controlling disease are important priorities in veterinary medicine, animal production, and biomedical research. The growing demand for safe, high-quality animal products, together with advances in biotechnology and animal healthcare, has increased the need for research that can support effective veterinary and management decisions. Studies that translate scientific findings into practical applications in clinical practice and other real-world settings are particularly valuable. At the same time, developments in omics technologies, microbiome research, and precision animal health monitoring are generating increasingly complex data. These advances provide new opportunities to understand the relationships among nutrition, metabolism, oxidative stress, immunity, and infection, while also requiring reliable analytical methods and careful interpretation.

This Topic focuses on recent advances in animal health and disease, from nutrition and metabolism to immunity and infection. We invite authors to submit original research articles and reviews investigating how nutritional strategies, metabolic regulation, oxidative stress, antioxidant defense mechanisms, genetic factors, immune responses, and infectious agents influence animal health, disease resistance, and physiological or production performance. Relevant approaches include molecular and cellular studies, gut microbiota analysis, metabolomics, oxidative stress and antioxidant assessments, immunological evaluations, and clinical or field-based intervention trials across different animal species.

Dr. Zhending Gan
Prof. Dr. Chuanlong Wang
Dr. Yuxin Shao
Dr. Tingting Li
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Animals animals	3.2	5.5	2011	15.7 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Antioxidants antioxidants	8.2	14.7	2012	18.7 Days	CHF 2900	Submit
Biology biology	4.3	7.3	2012	14.2 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Dairy dairy	3.0	5.4	2020	31.2 Days	CHF 1400	Submit
Pets pets	-	1.3	2024	23.5 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Ruminants ruminants	2.0	2.9	2021	18.8 Days	CHF 1200	Submit
Veterinary Sciences vetsci	2.7	3.9	2014	16.3 Days	CHF 2100	Submit

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