Veterinary Medicine

Section scope

This section covers veterinary medicine within veterinary and animal science. It welcomes foundational questions, methodological contributions and well-supported applications that make a clear scholarly contribution. Authors should identify the problem, explain why the chosen approach is suitable, and report the sources, methods, assumptions or evidence needed for readers to assess the work.

Example topics

The following examples illustrate the section’s subject range; they are not an exhaustive list.

• Foundational questions, concepts, theories or methods concerning veterinary medicine within veterinary and animal science.
• Research using field, laboratory, biological, ecological, molecular or computational methods appropriate to the organism and research question to examine a defined problem in veterinary medicine.
• Comparative, interdisciplinary or applied studies connecting veterinary medicine with broader questions in veterinary and animal science, when the section’s scholarly contribution is explicit.

Scope boundary

Submissions that mention veterinary medicine but do not make a substantive contribution, use methods appropriate to the question or support conclusions with suitable evidence fall outside this section’s scope.

Editorial assessment

Once the journal opens, a qualified editor will assess section fit and, where appropriate, coordinate independent peer review. Editors will make decisions under the journal’s published review and ethics policies.