Journal profile · VETERINARY SCIENCES
Veterinaria Italiana
ISSN 0505-401X · eISSN 1828-1427 · Istituto sperimentale zooprofilattico · ITALY · Quarterly · Founded 1954
Veterinaria Italiana: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.52; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 73 days to acceptance (71 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 47 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Veterinaria Italiana is published by Istituto sperimentale zooprofilattico 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 Disease Management and Epidemiology, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases and Animal Virus Infections Studies, together about 27.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Veterinaria Italiana is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal devoted to veterinary public health and other aspects of veterinary science and medicine. Veterinaria Italiana primarily focuses on viral, bacterial and parisitic diseases affecting domesticated vertebrate animals, including livestock, companion animals, fur-bearing animals, game, poultry, and fish. The journal also considers microbial diseases in wild animals kept in captivity or part of feral populations, particularly when these are zoonoses. We also consider papers on toxicology and poisoning of animals and oncology research that impacts animal health from a One Health perspective. Furthermore, innovative research products based on the study of interactions between the environment and animals are welcome. We also welcome submissions focusing on both diagnostic techniques and microbial sequence data. Studies presenting new diagnostic methods, such as PCR-based protocols or ELISA, are encouraged, provided they offer significant advancements in the understanding or management of microbial diseases rather than solely describing the technique itself. Similarly, papers reporting microbial sequences, metagenomics, transcriptomics, or proteomics data will be considered if they contribute meaningful insights that advance knowledge related to microbial disease. Why choose us? Edited by field-expert scientists Timely review, Fast publication Free of charge Publishing timeline: time to first decision, 5 days review time and notification to the authors, 45 days from submission to the first online version, 60 days Journal rates (last year) Rejection rate, 81% Desk Reject rate, 60% Acceptance rate, 19% Open Access: Open Access Journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.APCs: no publication fees. Veterinaria Italiana has an impact factor of 1.4 (2025). NEW Veterinaria Italiana is ranked in the third quartile (Q3) in the Veterinary Sciences category according to the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate). Available in electronic (ISSN 1828-1427) format, Veterinaria Italiana is indexed as follows: National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE/PubMed system Thomson Reuters Science Journal Citation Reports® database Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded™ CABI’s Full-Text Repository Veterinaria Italiana is also listed in the Dire
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): VETERINARY SCIENCES
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Animal Disease Management and EpidemiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences11%
- Vector-Borne Animal DiseasesAgricultural and Biological Sciences9%
- Animal Virus Infections StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.4%
- Microbial infections and disease researchImmunology and Microbiology7.2%
- Virus-based gene therapy researchBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.2%
- Virology and Viral DiseasesMedicine4.9%
- Viral Infections and VectorsMedicine4.5%
- Herpesvirus Infections and TreatmentsMedicine4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Veterinary Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Veterinary Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Veterinary Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0.52LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.29LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- h-index
- 14LetPub ·
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 37OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.54OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 42LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 436 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33 | 33 | 5 |
| 2025 | 47 | 47 | 18 |
| 2024 | 45 | 45 | 44 |
| 2023 | 40 | 40 | 39 |
| 2022 | 47 | 47 | 112 |
| 2021 | 42 | 42 | 103 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
73 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 44 days – 134 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 46 days (69 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 128 days
- Sample
- 71 articles with submission and acceptance dates (86 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 60%Publisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- editorialEditorial policies established by Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor and Editorial Board are implemented by the Associate Editors. Authors are not required to be …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePreprints
- Preprints
Exclusive submission required; material must not be under consideration elsewhere. Model summary
All material must be submitted exclusively to Veterinaria Italiana.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Istituto sperimentale zooprofilattico
- Country or region
- ITALY
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1954
- ISSN
- 0505-401X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1828-1427
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Veterinaria Italiana
What CAS zone is Veterinaria Italiana in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Veterinaria Italiana is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Veterinary Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Veterinaria Italiana?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.52; CiteScore 1.5, h-index 17.
How long does peer review take at Veterinaria Italiana?
Based on the dates recorded on 71 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 73 days (interquartile range 44–134 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 60%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Veterinaria Italiana?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Veterinaria Italiana is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Veterinaria Italiana open access, and what is the APC?
Veterinaria Italiana is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .