''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
Wiley
Wiley may refer to:
Locations
* Wiley, Colorado, a U.S. town
* Wiley, Pleasants County, West Virginia, U.S.
* Wiley-Kaserne, a district of the city of Neu-Ulm, Germany
People
* Wiley (musician), British grime MC, rapper, and producer
* Wiley Mil ...
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 ''
Journal Citation Reports
''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collec ...
'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
of 2.695.
Most cited articles
According to the
Web of Science, the following three articles have been cited most often:
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''Brunus edwardii'' joke
The
April Fools' Day
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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
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard.
The first collection of stories about the character w ...
.
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
James Herriot
James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author.
Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to Engl ...
's assistant Brian Nettleton, has an article published in the ''Record'', much to the chagrin of Herriot's partner
Donald Sinclair.
References
External links
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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