Journal profile · VETERINARY SCIENCES
Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports
ISSN 2230-2034 · Dove Medical Press · United Kingdom
Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports: CAS Zone 3 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.1 (journal website); JCR Q1 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 3,565; median 133 days to acceptance (11 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 10% (journal website); 8 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports is published by Dove Medical Press and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Virology and Viral Diseases, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology and Microbial infections and disease research, together about 20.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Small Animals. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Editor-in-Chief: Dr Irene Nocera Veterinary Medicine: Research and Reports is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing original research, case reports, editorials, reviews and commentaries on all aspects of preclinical and clinical veterinary medicine. The journal is characterized by the rapid reporting of new and emerging diagnostic protocols and therapeutic strategies to overcome a wide range of veterinary diseases, as well as reporting the biological basis of these. Veterinary Medicine: Research and Reports will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication. Topics covered in the journal include: • Veterinary Immunology and Pathology• Veterinary Physiology • New and Emerging Veterinary Drugs and Vaccines• Feline and Canine Dermatology• Veterinary Ophthalmology• Veterinary Surgery and Anesthesia • Avian, Bovine, Porcine, and exotic animal Medicine• Parasitology and animal related infectious disease research Updated 6 August 2025
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): VETERINARY SCIENCES
Editor-in-chief Irene NoceraPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 12, Japan 4, Italy 4, Taiwan, China 2, Egypt 2 (24 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Virology and Viral DiseasesMedicine7.6%
- Animal Disease Management and EpidemiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.1%
- Microbial infections and disease researchImmunology and Microbiology6%
- Helminth infection and controlVeterinary5.7%
- Veterinary Orthopedics and NeurologyVeterinary5.7%
- Zoonotic diseases and public healthMedicine5.7%
- Vector-Borne Animal DiseasesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.4%
- Veterinary Medicine and SurgeryVeterinary4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Veterinary Sciences | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Veterinary Sciences | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ESCIDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 43OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 147OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.2OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 8LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 164,570Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 284 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| 2024 | 20 | 20 | 123 |
| 2023 | 20 | 20 | 196 |
| 2022 | 33 | 33 | 421 |
| 2021 | 41 | 41 | 501 |
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
133 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 111 days – 153 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (11 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 153 days
- Sample
- 11 articles with submission and acceptance dates (11 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)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 3,565 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,320 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,990 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 accepted2
- case reportAuthors may use these detailed descriptions of different paper types accepted by Dove Medical Press (case reports, reviews, etc) to decide how to label their pa…Length not stated
- reviewAuthors may use these detailed descriptions of different paper types accepted by Dove Medical Press (case reports, reviews, etc) to decide how to label their pa…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePeer review
- Peer review
Member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Model summary
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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
- Dove Medical Press
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2230-2034
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports
What CAS zone is Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Veterinary Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 43.
How long does peer review take at Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports?
Based on the dates recorded on 11 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 133 days (interquartile range 111–153 days); authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10%. 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.
What JCR quartile is Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences.
Where are the editorial board members of Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports based?
Of the 24 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (12), Japan (4) and Italy (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ.
Is Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports open access, and what is the APC?
Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,565.
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: .