Animal Feed Science and Technology

Animal Feed Science and Technology is an international journal published by Elsevier since 1976 and devoted to the science of feeds and the nutrition of farmed animals.《动物饲料科学与技术》是 Elsevier 自 1976 年起出版的国际期刊，专注饲料科学与饲养动物的营养。

It covers feed ingredients, feed processing, feed evaluation and the feeding value of diets for ruminants, pigs, poultry and farmed fish.刊物涵盖饲料原料、饲料加工、饲料评价，以及反刍动物、猪、家禽与养殖鱼类的日粮饲养价值。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 3.2, with a five-year value of 3.5, and it ranks 13th among 87 titles in agriculture, dairy and animal science.2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.2，五年影响因子为 3.5，在农业、乳业与动物科学领域的 87 种期刊中排第 13 位。

Scope

• Feed evaluation is the journal's oldest subject, covering chemical composition, digestibility, energy value and protein value of feeds.饲料评价是该刊最古老的题目，涉及饲料的化学成分、消化率、能量价值与蛋白质价值。
• Feed ingredients are treated one by one, from forages, cereals and oilseed meals to by-products of the food and biofuel industries.饲料原料被逐类讨论，从粗饲料、谷物与油籽粕，到食品工业与生物燃料工业的副产品。
• Novel and alternative feeds appear regularly, including insects, algae, single-cell protein and food waste streams.新型与替代饲料经常出现，包括昆虫、藻类、单细胞蛋白与食品废弃物流。
• Feed additives form a large share of the content, with enzymes, probiotics, organic acids, plant extracts and trace minerals among the recurring groups.饲料添加剂占内容的很大比重，酶制剂、益生菌、有机酸、植物提取物与微量元素是反复出现的类别。
• Feed processing papers examine grinding, pelleting, extrusion, expansion and ensiling, and how each step alters nutritive value.饲料加工论文考察粉碎、制粒、挤压、膨胀与青贮，以及每一环节如何改变营养价值。
• Ruminant nutrition covers dairy cows, beef cattle, sheep and goats, with rumen fermentation and enteric methane as standing topics.反刍动物营养覆盖奶牛、肉牛、绵羊与山羊，瘤胃发酵与肠道甲烷是常设题目。
• Non-ruminant work spans pigs and poultry, from nutrient requirements and gut health to litter and carcass outcomes.非反刍动物研究横跨猪与家禽，从营养需要量与肠道健康到垫料与胴体表现。
• Aquaculture feeds are within the remit, and papers on fish meal replacement and plant protein sources are common.水产饲料属于收稿范围，鱼粉替代与植物蛋白源方面的论文较为常见。
• Feed safety is addressed through mycotoxins, contaminants, antinutritional factors and the carry-over of residues into animal products.饲料安全通过霉菌毒素、污染物、抗营养因子以及残留向动物产品的迁移得到讨论。
• Feed technology and manufacturing are studied at plant scale, including quality control, mixing uniformity and near-infrared evaluation.饲料技术与制造在工厂尺度上得到研究，包括质量控制、混合均匀度与近红外评价。
• Feed microbiology and fermentation appear through silage inoculants, yeast cultures and the microbial ecology of stored feed.饲料微生物学与发酵通过青贮接种剂、酵母培养物以及贮存饲料的微生物生态得到呈现。
• Feed supply questions reach into by-product availability, price volatility and the competition between feed, food and fuel uses of grain.饲料供给问题延伸到副产物的可得性、价格波动以及谷物在饲料、食品与燃料用途之间的竞争。
• Nutrient requirements and modelling appear as requirement estimates, feed formulation and dose-response descriptions of animal performance.营养需要量与模型以需要量估计、饲料配方以及动物表现的剂量反应描述形式出现。
• Environmental questions enter through nitrogen and phosphorus excretion, ammonia loss and life-cycle assessment of feed supply chains.环境问题通过氮磷排泄、氨损失与饲料供应链的生命周期评价进入刊物。
• The link between feed and product quality is followed into milk, meat and eggs, including fatty acid profiles and sensory traits.饲料与产品品质的联系延伸到乳、肉与蛋，包括脂肪酸组成与感官性状。
• Authors are asked to test additives at several inclusion levels, so that a response curve rather than a single contrast can be read.刊物要求作者在多个添加水平上测试添加剂，以便读出反应曲线而不是单一对比。
• The guide asks for full diet composition, analysed values where possible, and enough detail on animals and housing to judge the result.投稿指南要求给出完整日粮组成、尽可能使用实测值，并把动物与饲养条件写到足以判断结果的程度。
• Papers that report a commercial product without a testable hypothesis, or without a control diet, are outside the journal's interests.只报告商业产品而没有可检验假设、或没有对照日粮的论文不在刊物兴趣之内。

History

• The journal was founded in 1976 by Elsevier and has been published from Amsterdam throughout its life.该刊于 1976 年由 Elsevier 创办，始终在阿姆斯特丹出版。
• It appears fortnightly, with twenty-four issues a year gathered into several volumes.刊物为半月刊，每年出版 24 期，编入若干卷。
• Gerhard Flachowsky, long associated with the Institute of Animal Nutrition of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, has served as book review editor.长期任职于弗里德里希·勒夫勒研究所动物营养研究所的 Gerhard Flachowsky 担任书评编辑。
• Impact factors stood at 3.247 in 2021 and 3.313 in 2022, before easing to 2.5 in 2023 and 2.7 in 2024 and rising to 3.2 in 2025.影响因子在 2021 年为 3.247，2022 年为 3.313，2023 年回落至 2.5，2024 年为 2.7，2025 年升至 3.2。
• The 2025 report counted 16,170 citations to the journal, 303 articles and 311 citable items.2025 年报告统计该刊被引 16170 次，论文 303 篇，可引用条目 311 项。
• About 26 percent of recent content is gold open access, and the article processing charge for that route is 3,250 dollars.近期内容约有 26% 为金色开放获取，该途径的文章处理费为 3250 美元。
• The title is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, BIOSIS Previews and CAB Abstracts, among other services.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版、Scopus、BIOSIS Previews 与 CAB Abstracts 等服务收录。
• Its abstracting coverage reaches AGRICOLA and Chemical Abstracts, which keeps older volumes visible to agricultural libraries.其摘录覆盖 AGRICOLA 与 Chemical Abstracts，使较早的卷期仍能被农业图书馆找到。
• The masthead as of 2024 listed four co-editors rather than a single editor-in-chief, with associate editors grouped by species and discipline.2024 年的编委会名单列出四位共同主编而非单一主编，副编辑按畜种与学科分组。
• Statistical advisors are named separately on that masthead, a sign that design and analysis are reviewed by specialists.同一份名单单独列出统计学顾问，显示试验设计与分析由专门人员审阅。
• The journal's archive is reached through ScienceDirect, where volumes back to 1976 are available to subscribers.该刊的过刊通过 ScienceDirect 访问，1976 年以来的卷期对订阅者开放。

Editors

• Vasileios Bampidis of the International Hellenic University in Greece is one of the four co-editors and works on feed additives and ruminant nutrition.希腊国际希腊大学的 Vasileios Bampidis 是四位共同主编之一，研究饲料添加剂与反刍动物营养。
• Vikas Kumar of the University of Idaho is a co-editor with a programme in aquaculture nutrition and fish meal replacement.爱达荷大学的 Vikas Kumar 是共同主编，研究方向为水产营养与鱼粉替代。
• Victor Mlambo of the University of Mpumalanga in South Africa is a co-editor known for work on tannins and plant secondary compounds in ruminant diets.南非姆普马兰加大学的 Victor Mlambo 是共同主编，以反刍动物日粮中单宁与植物次生化合物的研究知名。
• Amlan Kumar Patra of West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences in India is a co-editor who studies rumen fermentation and methane mitigation.印度西孟加拉邦动物与渔业科学大学的 Amlan Kumar Patra 是共同主编，研究瘤胃发酵与甲烷减排。
• Daniel Brugger, based at a Swiss agricultural research institute, is an associate editor working on mineral nutrition and feed evaluation.任职于瑞士农业研究机构的 Daniel Brugger 是副编辑，研究矿物质营养与饲料评价。
• Zoey Durmic of the University of Western Australia is an associate editor with interests in rumen microbiology and plant bioactives.西澳大利亚大学的 Zoey Durmic 是副编辑，关注瘤胃微生物学与植物活性物质。
• Sebastian Kaczmarek of Poznan University of Life Sciences in Poland is an associate editor for poultry nutrition and feed technology.波兰波兹南生命科学大学的 Sebastian Kaczmarek 是负责家禽营养与饲料技术的副编辑。
• Sung Woo Kim of North Carolina State University is an associate editor for swine nutrition and gut physiology.北卡罗来纳州立大学的 Sung Woo Kim 是负责猪营养与肠道生理的副编辑。
• Aires Oliva-Teles of the University of Porto is an associate editor for fish nutrition, with work on dietary protein and lipid utilisation.波尔图大学的 Aires Oliva-Teles 是负责鱼类营养的副编辑，研究日粮蛋白质与脂质的利用。
• Wenzhu Yang of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is listed as an associate editor for ruminant nutrition and feed evaluation.加拿大农业与农业食品部的 Wenzhu Yang 被列为负责反刍动物营养与饲料评价的副编辑。
• The editors are drawn from Greece, the United States, South Africa, India, Switzerland, Australia, Poland, Portugal and Canada.编辑来自希腊、美国、南非、印度、瑞士、澳大利亚、波兰、葡萄牙与加拿大。