Journal of Veterinary Clinics

About Journal of Veterinary Clinics

Journal of Veterinary Clinics — Korea's clinical veterinary journal, publishing since 1984

The Journal of Veterinary Clinics, abbreviated J Vet Clin or JVC and known in Korean as 한국임상수의학회지, is the official journal of the Korean Society of Veterinary Clinics (KSVC) in South Korea. Where many veterinary journals are organised around laboratory science, this one is organised around the clinic: it exists to publish what happens when veterinary knowledge meets an actual animal patient — the diagnosis reached, the treatment attempted, the outcome recorded and the lesson drawn. Its current identifiers, as carried on this JournalsWorld record and on its Korea Science journal pages, are print ISSN 1598-298X and electronic ISSN 2384-0749. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online-only journal published in English six times a year.

The journal's own history, as stated on its Korea Science pages, reaches back further than its current title. It was first published in 1984 under the name Korean Journal of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, carrying ISSN 1225-4800, and it took its present name, Journal of Veterinary Clinics, in 2001, with the 1598-298X ISSN that it still carries. That makes JVC a journal with more than four decades of continuous clinical publishing behind it — a long accumulation of case reports, clinical studies and reviews that together form one of the principal written records of companion-animal and clinical veterinary practice in Korea. This profile explains its identity and history, its scope and article types, its publishing rhythm, its indexing, the citation figures that named sources support, and how submission works.

Journal at a glance

History and identity

The founding date of 1984 places this journal near the beginning of modern companion-animal practice in Korea. Through the 1980s and 1990s, urbanisation and rising incomes transformed Korean veterinary work: small-animal clinics multiplied in the cities, owners began to expect diagnostics and surgery for dogs and cats comparable to what human medicine offered, and a generation of clinicians needed a literature of their own — Korean cases, Korean patients, Korean practice conditions. A journal devoted to veterinary clinical medicine, founded by the society of veterinary clinicians, was the profession's answer to that need. Its first title said so plainly: Korean Journal of Veterinary Clinical Medicine.

The 2001 renaming to Journal of Veterinary Clinics was more than cosmetic. A shorter, English-language title signalled an international ambition that the journal has since carried through: it now publishes in English, describes itself as an international journal, states that researchers throughout the world may submit, and holds indexing in international services. The print ISSN dates from the renamed era, and the electronic ISSN from its move to online-only publication. Through all three phases — Korean-titled print journal, renamed title, online-only English journal — the thread of continuity is the owning society and the clinical remit. Authors consulting older literature should keep the former title in mind: a citation to the Korean Journal of Veterinary Clinical Medicine from the 1990s and a citation to the Journal of Veterinary Clinics from the 2010s are citations to the same journal at different ages, a point that matters when tracing a topic through the Korean clinical literature or when checking a reference list for completeness.

It is equally important to place JVC correctly among its neighbours, because Korea has several veterinary society journals with overlapping vocabularies. JVC is the journal of the Korean Society of Veterinary Clinics — the clinicians' society. It is not the Korean Journal of Veterinary Research, which is the broader basic-to-clinical journal of the Korean Society of Veterinary Science, and it is not any of the similarly named clinical titles published elsewhere in the world. Its twin-check for this profile fetched the various "Veterinary Clinics" records on JournalsWorld — including the long-running North American review series of a similar name — and confirmed that each carries its own distinct ISSNs; the Korean journal's pair, 1598-298X and 2384-0749, belongs to it alone.

Scope and article types

The journal states that it publishes papers on all aspects of the veterinary clinics, and it names the article types it considers: clinical case reports, scientific research papers, short communications, notes and review articles, covering the diagnosis, treatment and control of animal disease. That list tells a prospective author a great deal. Case reports are not an afterthought here, tolerated at the margins; they head the list, because in clinical medicine a well-documented single case — an unusual presentation, a rare complication, a novel application of a technique — is a genuine unit of knowledge that other clinicians can use the next time a similar animal walks through the door. The research papers and reviews then build on that case-level foundation at population and synthesis level, and the short formats give clinicians a route to publish observations that are valuable but brief.

In practice, the journal's pages are dominated by companion-animal clinical work, as a recent article sample illustrates: a 2025 case report in its pages describes the diagnosis and long-term management of portal vein thrombosis in two dogs, working through the presenting signs, the imaging that confirmed the diagnosis, the anticoagulant treatment given and the follow-up — exactly the arc of reasoning a practising clinician needs. Internal medicine, surgery, diagnostic imaging, anaesthesia, dermatology, dentistry and the other clinical disciplines of small-animal practice sit naturally in this journal, and clinical work on other species falls inside a remit written as "all aspects of the veterinary clinics". Authors should still read recent issues before submitting: the journal's written scope is wide, but its living scope is the sum of what its community submits, and a manuscript that speaks to the journal's recent content — citing it where relevant, matching its standards of clinical documentation, imaging and follow-up — starts with an advantage.

The journal also makes a promise about process that reveals its self-understanding: it states that it is a priority to keep the entire process of submission, review and publication as fast as possible while maintaining international-standard rigour, and that it offers online manuscript submission for rapid peer review and communication with authors. For clinical authors — often practising veterinarians writing around clinic duties, for whom a case loses freshness as months pass — that emphasis on speed with rigour is a real part of the journal's offer.

Publishing pattern and editorial information

JVC appears six times a year, at the end of February, April, June, August, October and December, as its journal pages state. It is online-only: there is no print edition to wait for, and the electronic ISSN is the operative identifier for the current journal. Publication is in English, which distinguishes the modern journal from its Korean-language origins and matches its international indexing. The journal is supported by a grant from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies funded by the Korean Government — a funding line its pages state openly, and a typical arrangement for Korean society journals, in which national science funding underwrites the publishing operation of a scholarly society.

The current editor-in-chief, editorial board membership and any fee position could not be verified from the sources checked for this profile in a form safe to state as fact, so they are recorded here as could not be verified: authors should consult the journal's own site and submission pages for the current masthead and for any charge in force at the time they submit. That is the correct habit for any society journal, whose officers rotate on society cycles and whose policies are announced on its own pages first. What can be stated firmly is the structure within which those details sit: a peer-reviewed, society-owned, grant-supported, online-only journal with a fixed six-issue calendar and an online submission system.

Indexing and abstracting

The journal's own pages state that all or part of its content is indexed, tracked or covered by Scopus, the Korea Citation Index (KCI), KSCI, KISTI, CrossRef, Google Scholar and Naver Academic. For a clinical journal, that is a well-judged portfolio: Scopus gives international bibliometric visibility, KCI gives standing inside the Korean national research-evaluation system, CrossRef underpins its DOIs — its articles carry DOIs in the form 10.17555/jvc, visible on its published papers — and Naver Academic and Google Scholar put its content in front of the Korean and global readers who search there. OpenAlex independently lists the title among KCI-registered sources, corroborating the national-index side of the claim.

A search of the Directory of Open Access Journals by the journal's ISSNs, made at the time of checking for this profile, returned no record, even though the journal describes itself as open access. Both facts are reported as found: the journal's content is openly readable, and its pages call it an open-access journal, while the DOAJ search by ISSN returned nothing on the date checked. Directory listings change; an author whose institution requires a DOAJ-listed venue should re-check at submission time rather than treat a single dated search as permanent either way.

Metrics from named sources

OpenAlex, resolving this journal through its ISSN endpoint at the time of checking (source S4210186573), recorded 1,661 works and 1,965 citations, an h-index of 10, an i10-index of 15 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.35, with its coverage of the title running from 1994. Two cautions belong with those figures. First, OpenAlex's window begins a decade into the journal's life and its counts are its own graph's counts, not any other database's; the older JournalsWorld template text for this record quoted an h-index of 9, a slightly different figure from a different source and date, which is normal for counts of this kind. Second, case-report-driven clinical journals are systematically understated by citation metrics: a case report that changes how a hundred clinicians manage a condition may be cited rarely, because clinicians read and apply far more than they write. The honest summary is a steadily used clinical journal — an h-index around ten on the indexed record, coverage in Scopus and KCI, and a readership whose use of the journal is only partly visible in citations. No Clarivate Journal Impact Factor for this title could be verified from the sources checked, and none is claimed here.

How to submit

Submission is online, through the journal's submission site at e-jvc.org, as linked from its journal pages. Manuscripts are published in English, so authors should prepare the manuscript in English from the outset. Choose the article type that honestly fits the work — case report, research paper, short communication, note or review — and follow the journal's current instructions for authors on its own site for format, figures, tables and references; clinical manuscripts should document the case or study completely, including diagnostic methods, imaging where relevant, treatment, outcome and follow-up, in line with the standard the journal's published cases set. Confirm originality and that the work is not under consideration elsewhere. Because the editorial board, deadlines beyond the six-issue calendar and any fee position could not be verified for this profile, check the journal's own pages for those points at the moment of submission, and direct questions to the society through the contact routes given there. Authors working to a fixed deadline should allow for peer review and for placement within the bimonthly cycle even in a journal that explicitly prioritises a fast process.

Why clinical case literature matters, and how this journal carries it

It is worth pausing on why a journal built substantially around case reports deserves to be taken seriously, because readers trained in laboratory science sometimes underrate the genre. Clinical knowledge does not accumulate only through trials and large cohorts. It accumulates case by case: the first description of an unexpected drug reaction in a breed, the imaging appearance of a condition previously recognised only at surgery, the management protocol that kept an animal stable through a complication the textbooks mention in a single line. A journal that invites case reports, short communications and notes alongside full research papers is building the lower, wider courses of that pyramid — the layer practising veterinarians actually consult at the point of care. The two-dog portal vein thrombosis report noted earlier shows the form at its best: presentation, differential reasoning, confirmatory imaging, a treatment decision explained, drugs changed when side effects appeared, and an outcome followed over time, ending with the transferable lesson that the condition belongs on the differential list for dogs presenting with a particular kind of ascites and portal hypertension. Multiply that pattern across six issues a year and four decades, and the result is a clinical memory for a whole national profession — searchable, citable and openly readable. That, more than any single metric, is this journal's contribution, and it is the standard against which a prospective author's own case write-up will be judged: not novelty alone, but documented reasoning and a lesson another clinician can use.

Similar journals

The comparison an author most often makes is with the Korean Journal of Veterinary Research, the Korean Society of Veterinary Science's journal: broader in scope, quarterly, bilingual, and weighted toward the full basic-to-clinical spectrum. JVC's centre of gravity is narrower and more practical — the diagnosis, treatment and control of disease in clinical settings, with case reports welcomed as first-class contributions. Beyond Korea, the comparison set includes international small-animal and clinical veterinary journals, which offer wider global readership but typically expect larger case series or studies and may charge for publication, and the North American clinical review series whose name resembles this journal's but which publishes commissioned reviews rather than submitted case work — a different publication altogether, with its own ISSNs. For a Korean or international clinician with a well-documented case, a pragmatic clinical study or a clinically grounded review, JVC offers the combination that fits the work: a society readership of clinicians, Scopus and KCI indexing, English-language publication, open access, and an editorial process that states speed as a priority. For laboratory-centred veterinary science with no clinical setting, the broader society journal will usually be the better address, and the two journals' own scope statements make that division of labour easy to judge.

Frequently asked questions

What are the Journal of Veterinary Clinics' ISSNs? Print ISSN 1598-298X and electronic ISSN 2384-0749. Its former title, Korean Journal of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, carried ISSN 1225-4800.

When was it founded, and when did it get its current name? It was first published in 1984 as the Korean Journal of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, and renamed Journal of Veterinary Clinics in 2001.

Who publishes it? The Korean Society of Veterinary Clinics (KSVC), South Korea. The journal is supported by a KOFST grant funded by the Korean Government.

How often does it appear? Six times a year — at the end of February, April, June, August, October and December. It is online-only.

What article types does it accept? Clinical case reports, scientific research papers, short communications, notes and review articles covering the diagnosis, treatment and control of animal disease.

Where is it indexed? Its pages list Scopus, KCI, KSCI, KISTI, CrossRef, Google Scholar and Naver Academic.

What do its citation figures look like? OpenAlex recorded 1,661 works, 1,965 citations and an h-index of 10 at the time of checking, over coverage beginning in 1994.

Can authors outside Korea submit? Yes. The journal describes itself as international and states that any researcher in the world may submit a manuscript whose scope is appropriate.

Profile prepared for JournalsWorld from the journal's Korea Science journal pages and its OpenAlex source record resolved by ISSN, checked in October 2026. Figures are attributed to their sources as at checking time.