Journal of Veterinary Research

Journal of Veterinary Research is published by De Gruyter Open Ltd. 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 Virus Infections Studies, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology and Microbial infections and disease research, together about 20.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Agronomy and Crop Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Veterinary Research financed by the National Veterinary Research Institute is a quarterly that publishes original papers on bacteriology, virology, parasitology, immunology, molecular biology, pathology, toxicology, pharmacology, and biochemistry. The main emphasis is, however, on infectious diseases of animals, food and feed safety, and public health. Review articles will be published only at the editor's request.The approaches and techniques used in the research published in the journal are expected to encompass many disciplines, including microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, biochemistry, morphology, genetics and pathogenesis.The journal welcomes articles of basic research as well as clinical studies of novel diagnostic tools, vaccines and antimicrobial therapies. Studies of antimicrobial resistance may also be accepted, provided that the results represent a substantial advance in knowledge. The journal will also publish articles on molecular aspects of the control and prevention of animal infectious diseases and food safety.Articles dealing primarily with immunology, epidemiology, molecular biology and microbial or antiviral agents are appriopriate if they demonstrate a clear contribution of knowledge on the mechanism, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of animal diseases. The journal does not publish papers focusing solely on diagnostic techniques because the content should devote attention to the microorganism and not to a particular technique. Reports only of microbial sequences, metagenomics, transcriptomics or proteomics will not be considered unless they serve the widening of our understanding of microbial diseases.Case reports and short communications are not published. Papers of geographically limited interest, which repeat what had been established in research conducted elsewhere are unsuitable because the journal has a global readership, and in article selection the editors should anticipate potential interest to many readers.Why publish in the Journal of Veterinary Research?wide-spectrum journal;2020 IF: 1.744, 5-year IF: 1.838;2021 IF: 2.058, 5-year IF: 1.948;2022 IF: 1.8, 5-year IF: 2.2;2023 IF: 1.3, 5-year IF: 1.8;2024 IF: 1.5, 5-year IF: 1.9;Ministry of Education and Science (Poland) Journal Rating Scale - 140 points;fast and efficient publishing cycle;professional linguistic service.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Veterinary-General Veterinary

Editor-in-chief Beata Cuvelier-MizakPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.74LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

18Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

1.84Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

27Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.43LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.66LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

20LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

37OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

374OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.56OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

74LetPub · 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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 18 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

De Gruyter Open Ltd.

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

English

ISSN

2450-7393

Electronic ISSN

2450-8608

Official links

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• Editorial board ↗LetPub