''Veterinary Record'', branded as ''Vet Record'', is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the field of

veterinary medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

. It is published by

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on behalf of the

British Veterinary Association The British Veterinary Association (BVA) is the national body for veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom and is a not-for-profit organisation. Its purpose is that of knowledge dissemination, and not professional validation or academic compete ...

and is distributed to its members as part of their membership. It was established in 1888.

History

The journal was established in July 1888 by William Hunting, who is said to have started the journal with loans of £50 from another London veterinary surgeon, T. A. Dollar, which he never repaid, and £20 from Dollar's son, J.A W. Dollar. Although '' The Veterinarian'' (1828) and '' The Veterinary Journal'' (1844) were well established and covered some of the same ground as Hunting's new journal, the fact that ''Veterinary Record'' was published every week and carried verbatim reports of council and local association meetings gave it an immediacy that the other publications could not match. The National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland took over publication of the journal from January 1921. From July 2009 to December 2020, the journal was published by the BMJ Group on behalf of the British Veterinary Association. From January 2021 has been published by Wiley.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 2.695.

Most cited articles

According to the Web of Science, the following three articles have been cited most often: # # #

''Brunus edwardii'' joke

The

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1972 issue included a paper on the diseases of ''Brunus edwardii'': a description of lost limbs and thinning hair suffered by an animal whose Latin name means "brown" and "Edward". The paper was accompanied by sketches of a teddy bear resembling

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Popular culture

The journal is mentioned and appears regularly in the BBC series '' All Creatures Great and Small''. In the episode "The Call of the Wild", the character based on

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's assistant Brian Nettleton, has an article published in the ''Record'', much to the chagrin of Herriot's partner Donald Sinclair.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Veterinary Record Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies Wiley (publisher) academic journals English-language journals Publications established in 1888 Veterinary medicine journals Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom Semi-monthly journals 1888 establishments in the United Kingdom