Translational Animal Science

Translational Animal Science is the open-access journal of the American Society of Animal Science, published by Oxford University Press and launched in 2017 as the society's first open-review title in the field. It publishes applied and translational research on livestock and other managed animals, linking nutrition, genetics, health, welfare and product quality to decisions taken on farms and in processing plants. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, ranking it 38th of 87 journals in Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science.《转化动物科学》是美国动物科学学会的开放获取期刊，2017 年创刊，以开放评审为特色，聚焦把实验发现转化为牧场与加工环节可用的方案。刊物覆盖家畜与其他受管理动物的应用研究，选题贯穿营养与遗传，也涉及健康、福利和产品质量。办刊目标是缩短从试验结果到生产决策之间的距离。

Scope

• The journal's remit is translational in the literal sense, moving results from controlled trials and experimental units into commercial herds, flocks and processing chains.刊物的核心定位是转化研究，即把对照试验与实验单元得到的结果推进到商业畜群、禽群与加工链条中。
• Beef and dairy cattle, swine, sheep, goats, poultry and farmed fish all appear in its pages, and papers on horses, companion animals and zoo species are accepted when the findings inform managed populations.肉牛和奶牛是常见对象，猪、绵羊与山羊同样在列，家禽和水产动物也占有位置，马、伴侣动物与动物园物种的研究在结果可外推到受管理群体时同样接收。
• Nutrition and feed science form the largest cluster, covering feed additives, by-product feeds, digestibility assays, diet formulation and the economics of feeding.营养与饲料科学是最大的板块，涵盖饲料添加剂与副产物饲料，也包括消化率测定、日粮配方与饲养成本分析。
• Feed processing papers examine how grinding, pelleting, ensiling and thermal treatment alter nutrient availability and animal performance.饲料加工研究考察粉碎与制粒的作用，也分析青贮和热处理对养分利用率与生产表现的影响。
• Genetics and breeding contributions address genomic prediction, breed composition, genetic parameters for carcass and growth traits, and selection decisions in commercial populations.遗传与育种稿件讨论基因组预测和品种组成，也估计胴体与生长性状的遗传参数，并为商业群体中的选配决策提供依据。
• Physiology and reproduction work spans gestation, lactation, stress response, thermal load and the endocrine signals that link management to fertility.生理与繁殖研究覆盖妊娠和泌乳，也涉及应激反应、热负荷以及把管理措施与繁殖力联系起来的激素信号。
• Health papers deal with respiratory disease, lameness, enteric infections and antimicrobial use, usually measuring effects on growth, feed efficiency or carcass value.健康类论文处理呼吸道疾病与跛行，也关注肠道感染和抗菌药使用，通常以生长、饲料效率或胴体价值衡量影响。
• Welfare and behaviour studies test housing, space allowance, handling, transport and painful procedures such as castration, with outcomes that can be audited on farm.福利与行为研究检验圈舍与饲养密度，也评估装卸、运输以及去势等造成疼痛的操作，并要求结局指标能够在场评估。
• Meat science and carcass evaluation cover tenderness, cutability, quality grading, postmortem handling and national quality audits that trace defects back to production.肉品科学与胴体评定关注嫩度和出肉率，也讨论质量分级、宰后处理与国家质量审计中的缺陷来源。
• Production systems research compares feedlot, pasture and indoor systems, and builds decision tools and budgets that producers can apply directly.生产系统研究比较舍饲育肥、放牧与舍内模式，并开发生产者可以直接使用的决策工具与预算模型。
• Environmental papers quantify methane, nitrogen losses, manure management and the footprint of feed sourcing, often testing mitigation strategies at commercial scale.环境类论文量化甲烷与氮素损失，也评估粪污管理和饲料采购的碳足迹，并常在商业规模上检验减排策略。
• Methodological work includes meta-analysis, simulation modelling, sensor validation and the analysis of experimental error in on-farm trials.方法学研究包括荟萃分析与模拟建模，也涉及传感器验证和牧场试验中的实验误差分析。
• Review and synthesis papers are commissioned or accepted when they consolidate evidence for practitioners, and the journal values work that reports applied outcomes rather than laboratory promise alone.综述与综合类论文在能够为从业者整合证据时会被约稿或接收，刊物看重报告应用结局的工作，而不满足于实验室层面的前景描述。
• Studies of zoo-managed and non-commercial species are considered when they address nutrition, health or welfare questions with relevance to managed populations elsewhere.动物园饲养物种与非商业物种的研究，只要讨论营养或健康问题，并且结论对其他受管理群体有参考价值，也会受理。

History

• The American Society of Animal Science launched Translational Animal Science in 2017, with the first quarterly issue dated February and volume 1 opened at the start of that year.美国动物科学学会于 2017 年创办《转化动物科学》，第 1 卷第 1 期在当年 2 月出版。
• ASAS presented the new title as the first open access, open review journal in animal science, a combination intended to separate it from the society's older Journal of Animal Science.学会把这份新刊定位为动物科学领域首个开放获取与开放评审结合的期刊，以区别于历史更久的《动物科学杂志》。
• James W. Oltjen of the University of California, Davis, was appointed editor-in-chief at launch and has held the post since 2017.首任主编为（James W. Oltjen），来自加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校，自 2017 年起任职至今。
• Papers in the first volume carried the society's DOI prefix 10.2527 and the Champaign, Illinois, imprint of ASAS.第 1 卷论文使用学会的 DOI 前缀 10.2527，出版地记为伊利诺伊州尚佩恩。
• By June 2018 new articles appeared under the 10.1093 prefix, marking the shift of publishing operations to Oxford University Press, which remains the publisher of record.2018 年 6 月起，新发表论文改用 10.1093 前缀，出版业务随之转由牛津大学出版社承担，该社至今仍是登记出版方。
• PubMed and PubMed Central have indexed the journal from volume 1, number 1, in February 2017, giving the title an unbroken biomedical record from its first issue.PubMed 与 PubMed Central 从 2017 年 2 月的第 1 卷第 1 期起收录该刊，使其自创刊号起就有完整的生物医学文献记录。
• Four issues appear each year, and accepted papers are published online individually before being collected into the annual volume.刊物每年出版 4 期，录用论文先以单篇形式在线发布，随后归入年度卷次。
• The journal is fully open access, with authors choosing among Creative Commons licences that include CC BY, and no subscription barrier applies to any article.该刊完全开放获取，作者可在包括 CC BY 在内的知识共享许可中选择，所有文章都不设订阅门槛。
• It entered the Emerging Sources Citation Index and recorded a Journal Impact Factor of 1.3 in 2023, 1.8 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025.该刊进入 Emerging Sources Citation Index，2023 年影响因子为 1.3，2024 年为 1.8，2025 年为 1.9。
• The 2025 edition places it 38th among 87 titles in Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science, with a five-year impact factor of 1.9 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.73.2025 年版将其列于农业、乳品与动物科学类 87 种期刊的第 38 位，五年影响因子为 1.9，期刊引文指标为 0.73。
• Roughly 160 articles a year and about 2,550 citations give the title a cited half-life of 4.5 years, short by animal science standards and consistent with rapid applied uptake.年发文约 160 篇，总被引约 2550 次，被引半衰期为 4.5 年，这一数值在动物科学领域偏短，与成果被快速应用相符。
• In 2025 the editor joined nine counterparts from other society-owned animal science journals in a joint editorial on the values that distinguish learned-society publishing.2025 年，该刊主编与另外九位学会期刊主编联合发表社论，阐述学术团体办刊所坚持的价值。^[1]
• The title now sits alongside Journal of Animal Science and Animal Frontiers in the ASAS portfolio, and its volumes are numbered continuously from the 2017 launch.该刊与《动物科学杂志》和《动物前沿》共同构成美国动物科学学会的期刊组合，卷号自 2017 年创刊起连续编排。

Editors

• James W. Oltjen, an extension specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis, has led the journal since its launch in 2017.主编（James W. Oltjen）是加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校动物科学系的推广专家，自 2017 年创刊起领导该刊。
• His research and extension work centres on beef cattle nutrition and feedlot management, the applied ground on which much of the journal's content sits.他的研究与推广工作围绕肉牛营养和育肥场管理展开，这正是刊物多数稿件所处的应用场景。
• Oltjen completed a doctorate in nutrition at UC Davis and has worked as an extension specialist there since 1990, giving him long contact with producers and advisers.他在加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校取得营养学博士学位，1990 年起在该校担任推广专家，长期与养殖者和顾问保持联系。
• He has also served ASAS as Western Section president in 2002, as national board president in 2010 and as chair of its publication committee.他还曾于 2002 年出任美国动物科学学会西部学区分会主席，2010 年担任全国理事会主席，并主持出版委员会。
• The society owns the title and sets its editorial policy, while Oxford University Press runs production, hosting and submission through its academic platform.学会拥有刊名并制定编辑方针，牛津大学出版社负责生产、托管以及基于其学术平台的投稿系统。
• A board of subject editors, listed on the journal's Oxford University Press site, supports the editor-in-chief across species and disciplines.编委会由学科编辑组成，名单列于牛津大学出版社的期刊页面，协助主编覆盖不同畜种与学科。
• Manuscripts are assessed through single anonymous peer review, in which reviewers know the authors but authors do not know the reviewers.稿件采用单盲同行评审，评审人知晓作者身份，作者则不知道评审人是谁。
• The open review label reflects the journal's founding design, which gives the review process a more visible place than conventional closed review allows.开放评审的定位源自创刊设计，评审过程因此比常规封闭评审更具可见度。
• Authors submit through the Oxford University Press platform, where the journal's aims, author instructions and editorial board page are maintained.作者通过牛津大学出版社的平台投稿，刊物的宗旨、作者须知与编委页面都在该平台维护。
• The 2025 joint editorial with nine other society journals, signed by Oltjen, set out shared commitments on integrity and independence and stressed service to the research community.2025 年由（James W. Oltjen）参与签署的十刊联合社论，提出在诚信与独立性方面的共同承诺，并强调服务学界。