ACTA VETERINARIA-BEOGRAD

ACTA VETERINARIA-BEOGRAD is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH and is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Reproductive Physiology in Livestock and Animal health and immunology, together about 20.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Animal Science and Zoology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Acta Veterinaria is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia, dedicated to the publication of original research articles, invited review articles, and to a limited extent methodology articles, short communications and case reports. The journal considers articles on all aspects of veterinary science and medicine, including the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of medical conditions of domestic, companion, farm and wild animals, as well as the biomedical processes that underlie their health. The journal is devoted to the advancement and dissemination of scientific knowledge concerning veterinary sciences and related academic disciplines. Acta Veterinaria is published in English in yearly volumes of four issues, on Open Access model which allows high visibility of articles. The instructions for manuscript submission, paper preparing, peer-review procedure and all other details are available on the Journal homepage: www.actaveterinaria.rs. This site will guide authors stepwise through the submission process.Article-processing chargesThe Acta Veterianaria Beograd is freely available without charge to the user or institution. There is no article processing charge for the Journal printing and there is no charge for the color images processing.Open access publishingActa Veterinaria is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge and used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Open access publishing (https://reference-global.com/journal/ACVE) is not without costs. Acta Veterinaria therefore levies an article-processing charge of EUR380 for each article accepted for publication.Manuscripts will be subjected to a double-blind peer review. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject a manuscript that is not within the scope of the journal and does not meet the standards and requirements for publication. Detailed description of the peer review process can be found in Instructions for Authors.Why subscribe and readHigh standard of contents. Good publishing quality in electronic and printed form. The journal is devoted to the advancement and dissemination of scientific knowledge concerning veterinary sciences and related academic disciplines.Why submitPromotion of each article in numerous abstracting databases. Fast peer review and objective decision.Acta Veterinaria is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downlo

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Veterinary Sciences

Editor-in-chief Sanja Aleksić-KovačevićPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Serbia 6 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.91LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

15Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.28LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

14LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

30OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

247OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.74OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

40LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

18–36 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Country or region

SERBIA

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1951

ISSN

0567-8315

Electronic ISSN

1820-7448

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub