JVHC ISSN 2575-1212 Open access CC BY 4.0 Published since 2017
About the journal
About the Journal of Veterinary Healthcare
Journal of Veterinary Healthcare (JVHC) is a peer reviewed, open access journal published by Open Access Pub. It exists to place evidence about animal health into the permanent scholarly record, openly, so that the veterinarians, diagnosticians and animal health scientists who need it can read, cite and reuse it without a subscription.
The journal takes veterinary healthcare in its full sense: the care of the individual patient, the health of the herd or flock, and the points at which animal disease becomes a human health question. Its published record runs from 2017 and is concentrated in veterinary infectious disease, parasitology, animal reproduction and companion animal oncology.
Species in the published record
- Cattle and buffalo
- Sheep
- Poultry
- Camels and llamas
- Dogs
- Cats
- Horses
- Farmed fish
- Free ranging wild camelids
- Laboratory rodents and rabbits
Read from the titles of all 39 articles JVHC has published between 2017 and 2025. The formal statement of what the journal will consider is on the Aims & Scope page.
Identity and purpose
What the journal isA journal for evidence that has to survive contact with an animal
JVHC publishes peer reviewed research on the health of animals: clinical studies, diagnostic and therapeutic work, preventive and population health, and the veterinary public health questions that follow from them.
The journal's purpose is narrow and practical. Veterinary evidence is generated in clinics, faculties, diagnostic laboratories and national animal health institutes, and a great deal of it never reaches a citable, permanent form. JVHC gives that work a peer reviewed record with a registered identifier, published openly, so that it is available to a practitioner, a laboratory or an animal health service anywhere.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Authors keep their copyright; anyone may read, redistribute and build on the work, including commercially, provided the authors are credited.
This page describes what the journal is. It does not decide what the journal will consider. Subject inclusion, exclusions, borderline submissions and article-type suitability are set out on the Aims & Scope page, which is the authority on fit. The journal home page publishes the whole published record classified by subject, so that fit can also be judged against what JVHC has actually printed.
Why the journal exists
Three reasons, each visible in the recordReason 01
Evidence is worth what its access allows
Every JVHC article is open from the day it is published, under CC BY 4.0. A district veterinary officer, a diagnostic laboratory or a postgraduate student reads the full text without a subscription and may reuse it with attribution.
Reason 02
The patient and the population are one subject
The record carries clinical work on individual animals alongside herd prevalence surveys, abattoir studies and community animal health programmes. JVHC treats them as parts of one field rather than two literatures that rarely meet.
Reason 03
Research from where the animals are
Much of the published record comes from veterinary faculties and national animal health institutes in Egypt, Ethiopia, Brazil and Mexico, working on the diseases that matter in their own production systems. JVHC exists in part to give that work a permanent venue.
What publication provides is a permanent, openly available and citable record of a piece of work, assessed by independent reviewers before it was accepted. It is not a claim about how widely that work will be read, cited or adopted in practice.
Who the journal is for
Readers and authorsThe veterinary community JVHC serves
- Veterinary clinicians in small animal, farm and mixed practice
- Veterinary researchers and academic staff
- Diagnostic and animal health laboratory scientists
- Herd and flock health specialists and production veterinarians
- Veterinary public health, meat inspection and food safety professionals
- Postgraduate researchers and veterinary educators
Readers outside veterinary medicine use the parts of the record that cross into their own fields, particularly human public health, food safety and agricultural research. The journal is written for the veterinary reader first, and does not adapt its reporting standards to a general audience.
Veterinary healthcare and One Health
Stated from the record, not the prospectusWhere the record crosses into human health
JVHC is a veterinary journal. The larger part of what it publishes answers a veterinary question about a veterinary patient or population, and that is the journal's principal identity.
A defined strand of the record does follow pathogens and hazards across the boundary between animals and people. Where a study does that, it is because the study itself does — not because a One Health label has been applied to it afterwards. These are the strands that exist:
- Zoonotic influenza in South American camelids Serum from domestic llamas and free ranging guanacos and vicuñas, sampled before, during and after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, tested for evidence of natural infection with an H1-like influenza A virus.
- Bovine tuberculosis BCG vaccination of cattle as a control strategy, and the reliability of immunodiagnosis in animals carrying a concurrent liver fluke infection — work carried out over several years by a national animal health institute and a veterinary faculty.
- Foodborne pathogens in poultry meat Aerobic plate counts and culture-plus-molecular identification of Escherichia coli in raw chicken from a commercial slaughtering plant.
- Aflatoxins in milk The public health consequences of aflatoxin contamination in milk and milk-based foods produced by dairy cattle.
- Awareness of a companion animal zoonosis Knowledge and practice among people living where the parasite is endemic, including awareness of transmission from dogs and cats.
That is a genuine, if modest, One Health record, concentrated in zoonotic infectious disease and food safety. JVHC does not describe itself as a One Health journal, does not treat every veterinary article as a One Health article, and makes no claim to a body of work in environmental surveillance or antimicrobial stewardship.
Publishing principles
Each links to the policy that governs itPrinciple 01
Fit is judged against the record
A manuscript belongs in JVHC if it addresses animal health in a way the journal's own published record supports. Scope is a statement of what the journal will consider, not an advertisement.
Principle 02
Methods stated well enough to be checked
Design, sample, analysis and endpoints reported so that a reader can judge validity. Reporting guidelines are encouraged: ARRIVE for animal research, CONSORT for trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for reviews.
Principle 03
Ethics evidenced, not asserted
Animal studies report ethics approval, welfare oversight and humane endpoints. Owner consent is required for identifiable animals and farm-specific data. Wildlife work requires permits and conservation approvals.
Principle 04
Independent assessment before acceptance
Manuscripts that pass editorial screening go to at least two independent reviewers with expertise in the relevant discipline. Review is single blind: reviewer identities are not disclosed to authors.
Principle 05
Decisions independent of payment
There is no submission fee. The article processing charge applies only after acceptance, and no payment, waiver request or membership status affects an editorial decision.
Principle 06
A record that can be corrected
Articles carry a Crossref digital object identifier under the prefix 10.14302. Where the published record needs correcting, JVHC issues corrections, expressions of concern or retractions rather than amending an article silently.
Editorial accountability and research integrity
Summary only — policies governWho is accountable
Editorial responsibility rests with the Editor-in-Chief, Mohammed A. Elmetwally, Department of Theriogenology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt, working with an editorial board of thirteen members across nine countries.
Every submission is screened for scope, ethical compliance and reporting quality before it reaches review. The Editor-in-Chief takes the decision on the reviewers' recommendations; an author may appeal, and an appeal is reviewed by a senior editor.
Editorial standards are aligned with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors, reviewers and editors disclose conflicts of interest. Where an editor is also an author, editorial responsibility for that manuscript is delegated to another qualified person under Open Access Pub's editor guidance; the journal home page states how often that has applied to JVHC's own record.
The editorial board page lists every member with affiliation and, where registered, an ORCID iD.
How the record is protected
Animal studies must comply with institutional and national welfare regulations, and report approval details and humane endpoints. Owner consent is required for identifiable animals, owner details and farm-specific data. Wildlife studies require permits and conservation approvals.
A data availability statement is required for every submission. Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism and redundant publication. Use of AI for language editing or analysis must be disclosed, and authors remain responsible for accuracy, originality and ethical compliance.
Corrections, expressions of concern and retractions are issued where the record requires them, and stay permanently attached to the article they concern.
Full requirements: editorial policies, publication ethics and data and archiving.
The journal record
Verified facts| Full title | Journal of Veterinary Healthcare |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | JVHC |
| ISSN | 2575-1212Online. The journal is not issued in print and holds no print ISSN. |
| Publisher | Open Access Pub |
| Publication model | Open accessNo subscription and no reader charge. An article processing charge applies to accepted manuscripts. |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Authors retain copyright; commercial reuse is permitted with attribution. |
| DOI registration | Crossref, prefix 10.1430233 of the 39 published articles carry a registered DOI; the remaining 6 are awaiting deposit. |
| Peer review | Single blindAt least two independent reviewers. Reviewer identities are not disclosed to authors. The Editor-in-Chief takes the decision. |
| Primary discipline | Veterinary medicine and animal healthThe published record is concentrated in infectious disease and immunodiagnostics, parasitology, animal reproduction, and companion animal oncology and pathology. |
| Editor-in-Chief | Mohammed A. ElmetwallyDepartment of Theriogenology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt. ORCID 0000-0001-7486-7756. |
| Editorial board | 13 members across 9 countriesListed in full, with affiliations, on the editorial board page. |
| Published record | 39 articles · 3 volumes · 11 issuesFirst article 24 July 2017; most recent 25 December 2025. |
| Article processing charge | Approximately US$2,400US$999 student rate with valid student ID. Charged only after acceptance. There is no submission fee. |
| Editorial office | Contact Open Access PubManuscripts are submitted through the journal's Submit Paper page, not by post or email to the editors. |
Every value in this register is read from a source of record: the journal's own publication database for the counts and dates, Crossref for DOI registration, and the ISSN Portal for the ISSN. Nothing here is carried over from a description of the journal.
Evidence from the publication record
Three studies of manyJVHC is an active scholarly journal rather than a prospectus. The three articles below are drawn from different years, species, disciplines and research settings, and are representative of the kind of work the journal accepts. They are not the whole record: the current issue and the archive carry every article JVHC has published since 2017.
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Research article
Observations and analysis of risk factors for GDV in a single institution: a case-control study
Fabrizio di Virgilio, Emanuela Rabaioli, Massimo Gualtieri, Luca Formaggini
Clinique Vétérinaire VET24, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France, with the Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Italy
A matched case-control study of gastric dilatation-volvulus drawn from a single referral caseload over eighteen years — the design a clinician needs when asking which dogs are actually at risk.
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Research article
Coprological examination of ovine fasciolosis in Horro District community based sheep breeding programme, Horro Guduru Wollega Zone, western Ethiopia
Fanta Lule Bimirew, Tesfaye Mersha Cherinnat
Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, and Bako Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopia
A cross-sectional prevalence survey inside a working community breeding programme, tying a parasite burden to the flock management decisions that follow from it.
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Research article
Cytokine expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cell cultures obtained from cattle with different stages of natural Mycobacterium bovis infection
María Teresa Lugo-Arriaga, Laura Jaramillo-Meza, Anabelle Manzo-Sandoval, Fernando Díaz-Otero
CENID-Salud Animal e Inocuidad, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Mexico City, with FES Cuautitlán, UNAM, Mexico
National-institute work on a notifiable zoonosis, and the third paper in a sustained bovine tuberculosis series JVHC has carried from the same research programme.
Submitting to JVHC
Considering JVHC for a manuscript
Check the fit against the Aims & Scope page and against the published record, then submit through the journal's Submit Paper page, which is the single route into the editorial system.
There is no submission fee. Charges apply only after acceptance, and editorial decisions are independent of payment or membership status.