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| Discipline | Veterinary medicine |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Suzanne Jarvis |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1888–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Semi-monthly |
| 2.695 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Vet. Rec. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | VETRAX |
| ISSN | 0042-4900 (print) 2042-7670 (web) |
| LCCN | sv89073252 |
| OCLC no. | 1769072 |
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Veterinary Record, branded asVet Record, is a semi-monthlypeer-reviewedmedical journal covering the field ofveterinary medicine. It is published byWiley on behalf of theBritish Veterinary Association and is distributed to its members as part of their membership. It was established in 1888.[1]
The journal was established in July 1888 byWilliam 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. AlthoughThe Veterinarian (1828) andThe Veterinary Journal (1844) were well established and covered some of the same ground as Hunting's new journal, the fact thatVeterinary 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.[2]
TheNational Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland took over publication of the journal from January 1921.[3]
From July 2009 to December 2020, the journal was published by theBMJ Group on behalf of the British Veterinary Association. From January 2021 has been published by Wiley.[4][5]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020impact factor of 2.695.[12]
According to theWeb of Science, the following three articles have been cited most often:[13]
TheApril Fools' Day 1972 issue included a paper on the diseases ofBrunus 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 resemblingWinnie the Pooh.[14][15]
The journal is mentioned and appears regularly in the BBC seriesAll Creatures Great and Small. In the episode "The Call of the Wild", the character based onJames Herriot's assistant Brian Nettleton, has an article published in theRecord, much to the chagrin of Herriot's partnerDonald Sinclair.