Journal of Veterinary Research

About Journal of Veterinary Research

Journal of Veterinary Research — The Tehran Journal: Profile

Journal of Veterinary Research is the English alternative title of the Persian-language veterinary journal whose Persian title is recorded in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as مجله تحقیقات دامپزشکی, transliterated in OpenAlex as Majallah-i tahqiqat-i dampizishki. Its print ISSN is 2008-2525 and its electronic ISSN is 2251-6190. Those two identifiers are the anchor for this profile: they are the identifiers on the live JournalsWorld record for this post, they are the pair in the DOAJ record retrieved for this profile, and they are the identifiers under which the journal's own site at the University of Tehran operates. Any catalogue entry, citation or index record carrying this ISSN pair belongs to this Tehran journal, whatever language or transliteration it uses for the title.

That caution about names is essential, because at least three different journals can appear under very similar English names. The Journal of Veterinary Research published in Poland, financed by the National Veterinary Research Institute and published through Sciendo, carries ISSNs 2450-7393 and 2450-8608 and is a different journal in a different country; JournalsWorld holds it separately as post 20242, and it shares no ISSN with this post. The Iranian Journal of Veterinary Research, published by Shiraz University, carries ISSN 1728-1997, is held separately on this site, and is likewise a different journal despite the shared country and the shared discipline. A reader who checks the ISSN before trusting a metric, a ranking or a submission link will avoid almost every confusion that surrounds this title.

Publisher, Home and Identity in the Official Record

DOAJ, in the record retrieved through its search API for ISSN 2008-2525 and again for 2251-6190, names the publisher as University of Tehran Press, with country Iran, and gives the journal's own website at jvr.ut.ac.ir as the journal home, its aims-and-scope page, its author instructions and its editorial board page. OpenAlex, resolving the print ISSN through its ISSN endpoint to the exact source record S2738684666 and then returning that record, names the host organisation as the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran. Secondary SCImago-derived services give the publisher in an older transliterated form that renders, in effect, as the University of Tehran and its Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Read together, those three descriptions describe one home in three different naming conventions: a university faculty journal, published through the university's press, in Tehran.

The stored JournalsWorld record that this profile replaces described the publisher only as a bare number, 8861. That is a garbled numeric publisher field, not a publisher name, and readers should disregard it: the verifiable publisher is University of Tehran Press, for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran. The same stored record gave the journal's scope simply as a quartile label. A quartile is a ranking outcome, not a subject, and the sections below restore the subject matter that the journal itself states.

DOAJ records the journal's language as Persian (FA). That single fact shapes how an international reader should approach the journal. It is an Iranian national veterinary journal published in Persian, with an English alternative title and English-language web pages for its aims, scope and author guidance, operating from one of Iran's principal universities. It is not an English-language international journal that happens to be based in Iran, and authors who need an English-language venue, or who cannot prepare a manuscript and its apparatus in the journal's language of publication, should establish the current language requirements on the official site before preparing a submission.

History and Standing

The journal's numbering and back file reach much further back than the modern ISSN record suggests. OpenAlex gives a first publication year of 1951 for source S2738684666, and DOAJ records an open-access start year of 1997 for the journal. Neither figure should be read carelessly. The OpenAlex first year describes the earliest works that database associates with the source, and aggregator coverage is often incomplete for older, non-English and print-era material. The DOAJ open-access start year describes when openly accessible content begins in that record, not a founding date printed by the publisher. What can be said safely, on the combined evidence, is narrower and still significant: this is a long-running faculty journal, with a documented back file extending across many decades in OpenAlex and openly accessible content recorded since the late 1990s in DOAJ, and it remains active, with its official site presenting current issues and current articles.

Examples visible in the journal's own feed illustrate that continuity and range. Recent material includes a molecular investigation of bovine hydatid cyst strains collected from a slaughterhouse in Zabol, in south-eastern Iran — work on Echinococcus granulosus, its genotypes, its life cycle and its implications for disease control, presented with background, objectives, methods and results in the structured form the journal uses. Older material in the back file ranges from seasonal incidence work on theileriosis in cattle around Tehran to studies of tick resistance, parasitology, anatomy and physiology. A journal whose archive moves, over decades, from regional field parasitology to molecular characterisation of a zoonotic parasite is recording the changing methods of veterinary science in its own country, and that archival value is part of its standing, independent of any ranking table.

Aims and Scope, in the Journal's Own Terms

The journal's official aims-and-scope page states its goal plainly: to publish the most up-to-date articles in order to improve and advance knowledge in different areas of veterinary science, while observing the criteria of international publishing, and it invites researchers, academics and scientists to contribute. It then lists the areas in which articles are evaluated and reviewed. That list is unusually comprehensive, and it is reproduced here in substance because it, and not a database category, defines what the journal will consider.

The stated areas include epidemiology and public health; parasitology and parasitic diseases; descriptive and clinical pathology; the health of feed for animals, birds and fish, and the health of nutrients; the health and diseases of fish, of birds, and of large and small livestock; diagnostic imaging techniques; surgery and anaesthesiology; diseases of the locomotor organs; the basic sciences of biochemistry, anatomy, embryology, histology and physiology; pharmacology and toxicology; midwifery and diseases of reproduction; microbiology and immunology; and haematology and clinical biochemistry, together with other areas of animal science. DOAJ summarises the same territory with the keywords veterinary, epidemiology, public health, parasitology and livestock, and classifies the journal under Veterinary medicine in the Library of Congress scheme.

Read as a whole, the scope has a clear centre of gravity. First, it is a whole-of-veterinary-medicine journal rather than a single-species or single-system title: basic science, clinical science, population science and production-animal science all sit inside the same remit. Second, parasitology, epidemiology and public health are prominent, which fits the disease ecology of the region the journal serves, where vector-borne, parasitic and zoonotic conditions of livestock carry heavy economic and human-health weight. Third, aquatic and avian health are named in their own right — fish health and bird health are not afterthoughts — reflecting the importance of aquaculture and poultry production. Fourth, the clinical disciplines are named individually, from imaging and surgery to reproduction and locomotor disease, so clinicians as well as laboratory and field researchers have a stated route in. An author whose work falls outside every heading in that list should look elsewhere; an author whose work falls inside one heading should still read recent issues, because a stated scope tells you what is admissible, while recent issues tell you what the journal actually publishes, in what proportions, and to what standard of presentation.

What Recent Content Shows About the Journal in Practice

The hydatid cyst study mentioned above is a useful specimen of the journal's practical character. It takes a locally important problem — cystic echinococcosis in cattle slaughtered in an endemic region — and applies a molecular method, PCR work on the ITS2 gene with restriction analysis and sequencing, to characterise strains and connect them to transmission and control. That combination, a regional field problem handled with a laboratory method and discussed in terms of public-health consequence, recurs across the journal's scope areas: parasitology meeting epidemiology, laboratory science meeting livestock practice, and animal disease meeting human health. Veterinary public health, in the One Health sense of animal, human and environmental health considered together, is not a fashionable add-on for this journal; zoonotic and food-animal disease has been part of its stated business throughout the scope list.

Authors should also notice the article architecture visible on the official site: structured sections for background, objectives, methods, results and conclusions, with full texts presented as PDFs through the university system. A manuscript prepared as an unstructured narrative, or one whose methods cannot support its conclusions, is unlikely to travel well through a journal that presents its research in that disciplined form. Case material, field investigations, laboratory studies and reviews all need the same transparency about where animals, samples and data came from, what was done, and what the limits of the work are.

Peer Review, Open Access, Charges and Author Terms — From DOAJ

DOAJ is the strongest independent source available for this journal's publishing terms, because its record is a curated listing with named policy pages on the journal's own site. That record states that the journal uses double anonymous peer review, that it operates plagiarism detection, that articles carry a CC BY licence, and that authors retain copyright. It records an article processing charge: the listing says the journal has an APC, with a maximum figure of 6,000,000 Iranian rials in the record retrieved for this profile, pointing to a charges page on the official site. It also gives a publication time of 12 weeks. Each of those figures needs the same careful handling. A DOAJ maximum is a ceiling recorded at the time of listing, not a promise of the current price for a particular article type; a publication-time figure is an average or stated norm, not a guarantee for an individual manuscript; and authors must confirm the current charge, in the current currency terms, on the official charges page before submitting, especially where their institution will reimburse or refuse a charge.

The open-access position matters for readers as well as authors. A CC BY licence with author-retained copyright is the most permissive arrangement in common scholarly use: readers may read, download, copy, distribute and reuse the work with attribution, and authors keep rights that more restrictive arrangements sign away. For a Persian-language journal, open access is also the mechanism by which the work reaches readers outside the subscription systems of Iranian institutions — veterinarians, public-health workers, livestock specialists and researchers elsewhere who encounter the article through DOAJ, OpenAlex or a search engine rather than through a library subscription. When citing or reusing material from the journal, check the licence statement on the article itself, because the article-level statement governs that article.

Indexing and Metrics, With Their Conflicts Left Visible

Three different evidence streams give three different pictures of this journal's citation standing, and an honest profile reports the conflict rather than smoothing it away. OpenAlex, for the exact source S2738684666 retrieved in full for this profile, records 1,901 works and 560 citations, with summary statistics of an h-index of 8, an i10-index of 5 and a two-year mean citedness of 0.0. The counts by year in that record run to 2021, with 54 works recorded for 2021, 55 for 2020 and 80 for 2019, which underlines that OpenAlex coverage of this Persian-language journal is partial and ends earlier than the journal itself: the official site presents later and current material that the OpenAlex source record, as retrieved, does not yet carry. SCImago-derived secondary services, reporting Scopus-based data, have given the journal an h-index of 10 and an SJR of around 0.18 in the snapshots those services publish, with a CiteScore in the region of 0.3 to 0.4 depending on the snapshot year, and quartile placements in Veterinary (miscellaneous) that have varied between Q3 and Q4 across years. The thin JournalsWorld record that this profile replaces carried an h-index of 14 — a figure that matches none of the sources retrieved in foreground for this profile, and which should therefore not be repeated as fact.

The lesson is general, and it applies to every journal in this batch. An h-index is a property of a database's coverage as much as of a journal: Scopus, OpenAlex and any other index count different works and different citations, in different languages, over different windows, and produce different numbers for the same title, all of them internally correct. A small h-index for a national-language journal usually reflects how much of its citation life happens inside its own language community and outside the big English-language indexes, not a direct measure of whether the work is sound or useful to the veterinarians who read it. Authors who need a Scopus or Web of Science indexed venue for institutional or funder reasons must verify the journal's current status in those services directly, from the services' own title lists, at the time of submission — not from this profile, not from an aggregator summary, and not from the journal's older web pages — because indexing status changes, and the consequences of a wrong assumption fall on the author.

Who This Journal Suits, and Who It Does Not

The journal suits researchers working in veterinary science in Iran and the wider region — in universities, veterinary faculties, diagnostic laboratories, field services and production-animal practice — who want their work read by the community that can act on it locally, in the language that community works in, under open-access terms. It suits work on the parasitic, infectious, reproductive, nutritional and clinical problems of the livestock, poultry, fish and companion animals of the region, work on the epidemiology and public-health consequences of animal disease, and basic-science work in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, pharmacology and toxicology that supports those applied fields. Its long back file and faculty home give it an archival permanence that newer, purely commercial titles cannot demonstrate.

It is less likely to suit an author whose overriding need is maximum visibility in the English-language citation economy, a high Journal Impact Factor, or a guaranteed Scopus quartile for a promotion file, because on the evidence retrieved here its measured citation footprint in the international indexes is small. It will not suit an author who cannot meet its language and formatting requirements, or who needs a decision in days: a 12-week publication time is recorded, and peer review, revision and production each take the time they take. None of that is a criticism. A national veterinary journal's first duty is to the veterinary problems of the place it serves, and the correct author question is fit — of subject, language, audience and institutional requirement — not prestige in the abstract.

Practical Guidance Before Submitting

Start on the official site, and work only from it for operational details: read the aims and scope in full, read the author instructions to which DOAJ links, inspect the editorial board page, and read several recent articles in your subfield, noting structure, reference style, figure and table practice, and how methods and ethics statements are presented. Confirm, in writing from the current pages rather than from any third-party summary, the manuscript language or languages accepted, the current article charge and when it falls due, the licence and copyright terms, and the submission route. Prepare the manuscript for double anonymous review from the outset: identifying material belongs where the instructions put it, not scattered through the main text. Report animal work with the ethical approvals, husbandry and sampling detail, and statistical candour that veterinary readers will look for, and write the background and objectives sections so that a reader outside your immediate locality can see why a regional study matters more widely. If your institution requires a particular index listing, verify that listing yourself, in the index's own current title list, before you submit rather than after you are accepted.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of the Tehran Journal of Veterinary Research? Print ISSN 2008-2525 and electronic ISSN 2251-6190. The Polish journal of the same English name uses 2450-7393 and 2450-8608, and the Shiraz Iranian Journal of Veterinary Research uses 1728-1997; those are different journals.

Who publishes it? University of Tehran Press, for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Iran. The bare number in the older site record was a garbled field, not a publisher.

Is it open access, and on what terms? DOAJ lists it as open access under a CC BY licence, with copyright retained by authors, double anonymous peer review, plagiarism checking, a recorded APC ceiling of 6,000,000 Iranian rials and a stated publication time of 12 weeks. Confirm the current charge and terms on the official site before submitting.

What subjects does it cover? Veterinary science broadly, in the journal's own list: epidemiology and public health, parasitology, pathology, feed and nutrient health, fish, bird and livestock health and disease, diagnostic imaging, surgery and anaesthesiology, locomotor disease, basic sciences, pharmacology and toxicology, reproduction, microbiology and immunology, and haematology and clinical biochemistry, among related animal-science areas.

What are its citation metrics? They depend on the database. OpenAlex source S2738684666, retrieved for this profile, records 1,901 works, 560 citations and an h-index of 8, with coverage in that record running to 2021. Scopus-based secondary services have reported an h-index of 10 in their snapshots. The h-index of 14 in the older record could not be verified against any foreground source and is not relied on here.

Where is the official site? At jvr.ut.ac.ir, the address given in the DOAJ record for the journal home, its aims and scope, its author instructions and its editorial board.

Sources and Verification Note

This profile is grounded in the journal's official aims-and-scope page at the University of Tehran; the DOAJ API record for ISSNs 2008-2525 and 2251-6190, retrieved in full, for publisher, language, review model, licence, charges and publication time; the OpenAlex ISSN resolution and the full OpenAlex source record S2738684666 for works, citations and topic data; SCImago-derived secondary summaries, attributed as such, for Scopus-based indicators; and the live JournalsWorld records for this post and for the distinct Polish and Shiraz journals named in the disambiguation, checked by ISSN and by slug. Where sources conflicted — as they do on h-index — the conflict is reported rather than resolved by invention. Fields that no retrieved source supported have been left as not published or not publicly disclosed rather than filled by guesswork.