Slovenian Veterinary Research

About Slovenian Veterinary Research

Slovenian Veterinary Research — Journal Profile

Slovenian Veterinary Research (Slovenski Veterinarski Zbornik) is the scientific journal of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia's veterinary school, publishing original research across veterinary medicine, biomedicine, comparative biology, physiology and one-health science. It appears in print and electronic form four times a year, under print ISSN 1580-4003 and electronic ISSN 2385-8761. The journal is fully open access, listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals under a CC BY-SA licence with no article processing charge recorded, and published — per the DOAJ record — by the University of Ljubljana Press. Manuscripts are considered in English only, are put through editorial review and review by independent referees, and are published with their titles, abstracts and keywords also rendered in Slovenian by the editorial team. The journal's own submissions page stated, at the time this profile was checked, that it is not accepting submissions at this time; authors should check its current status on the journal platform before preparing a manuscript. This profile documents its identity and history, scope, editorial and ethical requirements, metrics from the sources checked, indexing, and submission arrangements.

At a Glance

• Full title: Slovenian Veterinary Research
• Slovenian title: Slovenski Veterinarski Zbornik
• Abbreviation: Slov Vet Res
• Print ISSN: 1580-4003
• Electronic ISSN: 2385-8761
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana Press, per DOAJ; the journal of the Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana
• Editorial address: Veterinary Faculty, Gerbičeva 60, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia (from the journal's published imprint)
• Country: Slovenia
• Language: English for manuscripts; titles, abstracts and keywords also in Slovenian
• Frequency: Four issues a year
• Open access: Listed in DOAJ; CC BY-SA; no article processing charge recorded by DOAJ
• Peer review: Anonymous peer review — editorial review plus independent referees, per DOAJ and the author guidelines
• Fields: Veterinary medicine, biomedicine, comparative biology, physiology, one health

Scope: Veterinary Medicine, Biomedicine and One Health

The journal's author guidelines state its scope directly: Slovenian Veterinary Research publishes original articles reporting research in most areas of veterinary medicine, biomedicine, comparative biology, physiology and medicine, as well as one-health sciences, together with review articles in these rapidly developing areas, case reports, shorter scientific contributions, letters to the editor, and abstracts of theses. The DOAJ record's keywords for the journal run in the same direction — veterinary medicine; health and welfare; animal science and comparative biology and biomedical research; physiology and disease mechanisms; one health at the human and animal interface; and translational research. In practice the contents span the working breadth of a university veterinary faculty: farm-animal and companion-animal clinical studies, pathology and infectious-disease work including zoonoses, reproductive physiology in livestock, animal nutrition, pharmacology and toxicology, food-safety-related research, wildlife and exotic-animal case work, and the laboratory animal science that underpins biomedicine.

The OpenAlex topic record for the journal, checked for this profile, maps the same territory from the citation side: veterinary medicine and surgery leads, followed by reproductive physiology in livestock, animal nutrition and physiology, microbial infection and disease research, and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology. Recent article titles visible in journal listings — seasonal vitamin D and growth performance in pigs on organic farms, antimicrobial-resistance profiling of E. coli isolates from broiler flocks, surgical case reports in cats and dogs, and reviews of extracellular-vesicle research in veterinary medicine — show the mixture in action: production-animal research of direct regional economic interest, companion-animal clinical work, and food-chain microbiology with public-health significance. A manuscript in English, reporting original work or a genuine review in any of those areas, and not published or under consideration elsewhere, is in scope; work in languages other than English is not considered, a rule the guidelines state without exception.

History and Standing

The journal's Slovenian title, Slovenski Veterinarski Zbornik, is its original identity: the scientific journal of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, recorded in the Slovenian COBISS catalogue with publication in Ljubljana by the Veterinary Faculty from 2000 for its English print edition, in English and Slovenian. The bilingual presentation persists in the journal's current practice — articles are written in English while the editorial team provides Slovenian titles, abstracts and keywords, translating them for authors who are not native Slovenian speakers — which makes the journal simultaneously Slovenia's national veterinary research journal and an English-language journal open to international authorship, as its contents from universities across Europe, the Middle East and Asia attest. Its imprint in a 2008 issue records the practical arrangements of the print era: editorial offices at the Veterinary Faculty in Gerbičeva street, sponsorship by the Slovenian Research Agency, and an indexing list for that period that named AGRIS, Biomedicina Slovenica, CAB Abstracts and the Science Citation Index Expanded with the Journal Citation Reports science edition.

The journal now lives on two connected platforms: its long-standing site at slovetres.si, and the University of Ljubljana journals platform at journals.uni-lj.si/slovetres, to which its current author guidelines point readers and authors. DOAJ records its digital preservation through the PKP Preservation Network, with the Slovenian digital library dLib.si also referenced for its archive. Its standing in the region is that of a faculty journal with genuine international reach in its niche: SCImago-derived reporting places it in the veterinary sciences in the third quartile, and its citation record — set out below — is respectable for a small-country, single-faculty journal publishing four issues a year.

Editorial Process and Ethical Requirements

The journal's guidelines describe a two-stage assessment: the editor-in-chief's office reviews every contribution, and all articles are subjected to both editorial review and review by independent referees chosen by the editors; DOAJ characterises the process as anonymous peer review. The named editorial team is published on the journal platform's editorial-team page, which DOAJ links; this profile does not copy a board list, because boards change and the platform page is the authoritative current source.

Authors must supply three potential reviewers, none of whom may be from the authors' own institution or a collaborator as shown by joint publications in the last two years, and at least one of whom must be from a different country than the authors. The submission's cover letter must carry four statements, and they are worth listing because they define the journal's ethical gate. First, an originality statement certifying the material is unpublished except in abstract form and not under consideration elsewhere. Second, an ethical statement: experiments on living non-human vertebrates, and on Octopus vulgaris, must conform to the EU legislation on animals in research (Directive 2010/63/EU) and to the IASP guidelines for the use of animals in research, and every research article must include a statement that ethics approval was obtained, with the approval number — declared in the cover letter and again in the Materials and Methods, which must also report the animal-study design in ARRIVE-guideline detail, from group sizes and randomisation to anaesthetic doses and pain management. Third, a conflict-of-interest statement covering consultancies, financial involvement and patent ownership, including any arrangement with a company whose product features in the manuscript. Fourth, a statement of each author's contribution, judged against the ICMJE authorship criteria the guidelines reproduce. Preprints are welcomed under a stated policy: drafts may be posted to recognised servers such as bioRxiv or medRxiv, must be cited with version and DOI at submission, and may not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere.

Metrics and Citation Record

OpenAlex's source record for the journal (S48344891), resolved from its print ISSN, records 849 works and 3,075 citations, with an h-index of 22 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.47, at the time of checking, and shows the University of Ljubljana as host organisation with both ISSNs attached to the one source. Its recent yearly counts — 20 works recorded for 2022, 70 for 2023, 38 for 2024 and 53 for 2025 — reflect the archive's digitisation as much as output, and should be read as database coverage rather than as a publishing schedule. SCImago-derived reporting for the journal gives a SCImago Journal Rank of 0.184 and places it in the third quartile for veterinary sciences, with an h-index of 21 on Scopus counting in one such listing and 22 in OpenAlex's counting — a normal database-to-database difference, and the reason this profile attributes each figure to its source instead of printing a single unlabelled number. The earlier JournalsWorld record for this post likewise carried an h-index of 22 and a Q3 label, which the SCImago-derived reporting supports for the quartile; its publisher field, however, showed a numeric code in place of a name, and that is corrected here to the Veterinary Faculty and University of Ljubljana Press on the evidence of the catalogue, imprint and DOAJ records. For a journal of its size, the citation profile indicates a working research journal whose papers are found and used internationally in veterinary and one-health literature, not a purely local bulletin.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, which is both an index in its own right and the source of several facts in this profile — its CC BY-SA licence, its anonymous peer review, its publisher of record and its preservation arrangements through the PKP Preservation Network. The Slovenian COBISS catalogue entry additionally associates the journal with EBSCO's Academic Search Complete and with the Digital Library of Slovenia. Its 2008 print imprint listed AGRIS, Biomedicina Slovenica, CAB Abstracts and the Science Citation Index Expanded among its indexing services for that period; that list is quoted here as the journal's own historical statement, and readers who need the current roster for a specific database should confirm it in that database, since rosters change and no single current list from the publisher was fetched for this profile beyond the DOAJ and catalogue records above.

How to Submit

Two facts must be stated together. The journal's guidelines direct authors to submit manuscripts through the journal's webpage — the guidelines point to the University of Ljubljana platform at journals.uni-lj.si/slovetres, with registration and login required — and the submissions page on the journal's own site stated at checking time that the journal is not accepting submissions at this time. Authors should therefore verify the live submission status on the platform before preparing a manuscript, and treat the requirements summarised here as the journal's standing rules for when submissions are open. Manuscripts must be in English, should not exceed twelve pages in the journal's stated format, double-spaced with numbered lines, and follow the uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (ICMJE). The initial submission is a single file, preferably PDF, with figures and tables at the end; the title page carries title, authors, affiliations and the corresponding author's contact details; the abstract runs to 200 to 300 words with three to six keywords; research papers are structured as Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and References, with acknowledgements before the references and figure legends after them, while case reports follow their own stated structure and must not include the words "a case report" in the title. References are numbered in order of appearance. The journal does not provide free English editing — manuscripts in unacceptable English may be rejected before review — but offers English editing as a paid service through its editorial office. DOAJ records no article processing charge for the journal.

Who Should Publish Here?

The journal suits veterinary and biomedical researchers — in Slovenia, in the wider region, and internationally — whose work fits its stated areas and who want an open-access, faculty-published outlet with no recorded author charge, anonymous peer review, and a readership across clinical veterinary medicine, animal science and one-health research. Its ethical and reporting requirements are demanding by design: authors working with live animals must be able to document approvals and ARRIVE-style design details, and groups unable to meet those requirements should not submit. Authors should also weigh the journal's current submission status, stated above, and its scale: four issues a year from a single faculty means space is limited and a clear fit with the journal's areas matters. For Slovenian and regional authors it carries the additional weight of being the home faculty's journal of record; for international authors it offers a European university-press platform whose papers are openly readable worldwide.

Article Types and Readership

The journal's mixture of content is defined in its guidelines and visible in its tables of contents. Original research articles carry the bulk of each issue: controlled studies, field investigations, laboratory work and clinical series, structured in the classical biomedical form and capped at twelve pages in the journal's format, which keeps papers tight and methods-forward. Review articles take up fast-moving areas — the extracellular-vesicle review visible in recent listings is typical, synthesising a young field for readers who work in clinics and laboratories rather than in that field itself. Case reports present single instructive patients from companion-animal, farm-animal and wildlife practice, following the journal's own structure of background, case presentation, discussion and conclusions. Shorter scientific contributions and letters to the editor keep a channel open for preliminary findings and for argument about published work, and abstracts of theses connect the journal to the faculty's doctoral training. Readership follows the same map: veterinary clinicians and researchers in Slovenia and the neighbouring countries, animal-science and food-safety researchers who meet the journal at its one-health edge, and an international specialist audience that reaches it through its open-access platform and indexing rather than through print circulation. For authors, the practical lesson is that a paper written for that mixed readership — specialists in the author's own corner, generalists everywhere else in the journal — should explain its context generously and its methods exactly, which is what the journal's format rules are designed to produce.

Similar Journals

Neighbouring titles in the same space include Veterinarski Arhiv from Zagreb, Acta Veterinaria Brno, Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, and the Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine — national and regional veterinary journals with their own publishers and ISSNs — and, inside JournalsWorld's own directory, Archives of Veterinary Medicine, a Serbian journal with its own distinct ISSNs (1820-9955 and 2683-4138) that should not be confused with this one. Slovenian Veterinary Research's distinguishing marks are its University of Ljubljana faculty base, its English-language content with Slovenian abstracts, its DOAJ-listed open access under CC BY-SA, and its explicit one-health framing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of Slovenian Veterinary Research?
Print ISSN 1580-4003 and electronic ISSN 2385-8761, confirmed by the DOAJ record and library catalogues.

Who publishes Slovenian Veterinary Research?
It is the scientific journal of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Ljubljana; DOAJ names the University of Ljubljana Press as publisher. An earlier JournalsWorld record showed a numeric code in place of the publisher's name, corrected here.

Is Slovenian Veterinary Research open access?
Yes. DOAJ lists it with a CC BY-SA licence and records no article processing charge.

Is the journal accepting submissions?
Its submissions page stated at checking time that it is not accepting submissions at this time. Check the journal platform for the current position before preparing a manuscript.

What language must manuscripts be in?
English only. The editorial team translates titles, abstracts and keywords into Slovenian for authors who are not native Slovenian speakers.

Is the journal peer-reviewed?
Yes — editorial review plus review by independent referees, characterised by DOAJ as anonymous peer review.

What are its citation metrics?
OpenAlex records 849 works, 3,075 citations and an h-index of 22 at checking time; SCImago-derived reporting gives an SJR of 0.184 and a third-quartile placing in veterinary sciences.

What ethical documentation do animal studies need?
An ethics statement in the cover letter and the Materials and Methods, with the approval number, conformity with EU Directive 2010/63/EU and the IASP guidelines, and ARRIVE-style reporting of study design.

Sources and Verification

This profile was built from the journal's own author guidelines and submissions page at slovetres.si (scope, article types, English-only rule, review arrangements, cover-letter statements, ethics and ARRIVE requirements, manuscript format, preprint policy, paid English-editing service, and the not-accepting-submissions notice at checking time), the DOAJ record for ISSN 1580-4003 (publisher University of Ljubljana Press, electronic ISSN 2385-8761, no article processing charge, CC BY-SA, anonymous peer review, PKP Preservation Network), the Slovenian COBISS catalogue entry (Slovenian title, Veterinary Faculty as publisher in Ljubljana from 2000, DOAJ association), the journal's 2008 print imprint (editorial address at Gerbičeva 60, Slovenian Research Agency sponsorship, period indexing list), the OpenAlex source record S48344891 (849 works, 3,075 citations, h-index 22, two-year mean citedness about 0.47), and SCImago-derived reporting (SJR 0.184, third quartile in veterinary sciences). The stored JournalsWorld record gave the publisher as a numeric code; that is corrected above and flagged for the corrections pass.