Veterinary Parasitology: X

Veterinary Parasitology: X is published by Elsevier. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Helminth infection and control, Parasitic infections in humans and animals and Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies, together about 100% of its articles. Its main subfields are Small Animals, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Parasitology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Veterinary Parasitology is a hybrid journal offering both subscription-based and open access publication. An international scientific journal and the Official Organ of the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists (AAVP), the European Veterinary Parasitology College (EVPC) and the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP)Veterinary Parasitology is concerned with those aspects of helminthology, protozoology and arachno-entomology which are of interest to animal health investigators, veterinary practitioners and others with a special interest in parasitology. Papers of the highest quality dealing with all aspects of disease prevention, pathology, treatment, epidemiology, and control of parasites in all domesticated animals, fall within the scope of the journal.Hosts that will be considered: Domesticated animals include farmed or companion mammals, farmed or pet birds, wild game animals kept for commercial reasons, farmed insects (e.g. bees) and farmed marine and freshwater fish. Contributions relating to parasites and parasitic disease of other animals, including species kept in zoological gardens, will only be considered upon the Editors’ discretion if they are of interest to a broader readership.Studies on natural infections of experimental animals are within the scope of the journal, while parasitological studies laboratory animal models only fall within the scope of Veterinary Parasitology if they provide a reasonably close model of parasitic infection or disease of domestic animals.The journal will consider papers relating to wildlife species where they may act as parasite reservoirs for domestic animals or humans. In these cases, the actual transmission needs to be demonstrated. Parasitic organisms that will be considered: Endo- and ectoparasites of the host species investigated. Among the arthropods, parasites senso latu (i.e. organisms that spend prolonged times on the host for feeding and/or mating and reproduction and can cause clinically relevant alterations) such as mange and other parasitic mites, ticks, nuisance insects and flies as causes of obligate or facultative myiasis fall within the journal scope. Insects such as culicids (mosquitoes) or ceratopogonids (midges) are considered as vectors only in conjunction with the parasites they transmit to domesticated animals, and will only be considered when the submitted manuscript includes data on the transmitted parasites. Zoonotic parasites will only be con

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Veterinary-Veterinary (all)

Editor-in-chief Andy GreerPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 5%); most named Germany 6, Australia 5, Denmark 5, Mainland China 2, United States 2 (38 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

2.7Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.4LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher)

3.8Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.81LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.56LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

1OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Figures by source

Submission to first decision

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

First decision after review

26 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

Submission to acceptance

87 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

Acceptance to publication

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

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Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

2590-1389

Society / sponsor

American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists

Official links

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