Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Preventive Veterinary Medicine is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 2 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, together about 37.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

An International Journal reporting on Methodological and Applied Research in Veterinary Epidemiology, Animal Disease Prevention & Control and Animal Health Economics, and on the contributions of Veterinary Epidemiology to One Health, including Environmental HealthPreventive Veterinary Medicine is one of the leading international resources for scientific reports on animal health programs and preventive veterinary medicine. The journal follows the guidelines for standardizing and strengthening the reporting of biomedical research which are available from the CONSORT, MOOSE, PRISMA, REFLECT, STARD, and STROBE statements. The journal focuses on:Epidemiology of health events relevant to domestic and wild animals;Economic impacts of epidemic and endemic animal and zoonotic diseases;Latest methods and approaches in veterinary epidemiology;Disease and infection control or eradication measures;The "One Health" concept and the relationships between veterinary medicine, human health, animal-production systems, and the environment;Development of new techniques in surveillance systems and diagnosis;Evaluation and control of diseases in animal populations.The journal encourages the submission of clinical and field-trial studies, particularly those related to new vaccines and other preventive measures. These studies, however, should follow the Consort Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org) or Reflect Statement (http://reflect-statement.org).Prevalence studies may be considered for publication, but only if the results are likely to be of international interest (i.e. it must be possible to generalize the findings using scientifically based approaches). For these studies, key considerations in the review process will include (but are not limited to): consideration of both animal-level and herd-level demographics in the sampling design; the study population's relevance to the authors' described target population; the potential for confounding; and how well the sample-size justification assures high precision. The sensitivity and specificity of non-perfect tests used must be declared; the true rather than the apparent prevalence must be presented.Submissions of reviews of relevant topics are also encouraged, but these should follow the systematic-review process addressed by the guidelines in the following two websites: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/283/15/2008; http://prisma-statement.org.Preventive Veterinary Medicine does not publish studies on experimental development of diagnostic assays without the appropriate field evaluation. Guidelines for the evaluation of diagnostic assays are followed in the review process (http://www.stard-statement.org)).

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Veterinary Sciences

Editor-in-chief Marcus DoherrPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 3%); most named United States 20, Australia 7, Denmark 7, United Kingdom 4, Canada 4 (74 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

2.81LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

4.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.77LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

84LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

148OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,247OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.08OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

10.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

56.76%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

244LetPub · 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)

6–16 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

42%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

6 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

63 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

170 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Elsevier

Country or region

NETHERLANDS

Language

English

Frequency

Semimonthly

Founded

1982

ISSN

0167-5877

Electronic ISSN

1873-1716

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website