Veterinary Record


Vet Record is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of veterinary medicine. It is mainly distributed to members of the British Veterinary Association 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 and The Veterinary Journal 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.
Since July 2009, VetRecord has been published by the BMJ Group on behalf of the British Veterinary Association.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE, ISI Current Contents, EMBASE and Sociedad Iberoamericana de Informacion Cientifica. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.050.

Most cited articles

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

''Brunus edwardii'' joke

The April Fools' Day 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.

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