Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Scope
The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association is published by the association that owns it. There is no commercial publisher in the chain, and the Crossref record names the AVMA as the publisher in the same way it would name Elsevier elsewhere.《Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association》由拥有它的学会自己出版。链条上没有商业出版方，Crossref 记录把美国兽医协会写成出版方，位置与别处的 Elsevier 相同。
One volume carries three kinds of material. Research reports, a news section, and practice material that would be a magazine in another field all sit inside the same cover and the same page numbers.一卷里装三类东西。研究报告、新闻栏，以及在任何别的领域都会办成杂志的实务材料，全在同一张封面、同一套页码里。
The news section is paginated with the science. In a 2026 issue it occupies pages 1435 to 1449, between research articles, and it counts as one more item in the DOI stream.新闻栏与研究论文共用一套页码。2026 年某期的第 1435 到 1449 页就是它，夹在研究文章之间，照常算作 DOI 流水里的一条。
Species coverage is the widest of any journal in this batch. Dogs and cats fill most pages, horses and cattle take a large share, and poultry, rabbits and reptiles appear often enough to need their own reviewers.物种覆盖面是这一批里最宽的。犬猫占的篇幅最多，马与牛拿走一大块，家禽、兔与爬行动物出现得也够频繁，得单独配审稿人。
Diagnostic accuracy is a recurring subject. A 2026 issue carries ultrasonography for otitis media in unsedated pet rabbits and a new single-antigen serological test for Streptococcus equi in horses, both built around whether the test works rather than what it costs.诊断准确性是反复出现的题目。2026 年某一期登了未镇静宠物兔中耳炎的超声诊断，还有马链球菌的单抗原血清学新检测，两篇问的都是检测准不准，不是检测贵不贵。
Standing annual reports run for decades. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2024 appears in a 2026 issue, which means the 2025 instalment is the continuation of a series older than most of its readers.常设年度报告一跑就是几十年。2024 年美国狂犬病监测登在 2026 年某一期，2025 年那一份接着往下写，这个系列比多数读者年纪都大。
What Is Your Diagnosis is a fixed feature. A reader is given images and a history, and the answer runs in a later issue, which makes the journal a teaching instrument as well as a record.《What Is Your Diagnosis》是固定栏目。给读者几张影像与一段病史，答案放在后一期，刊物因此既是记录，也是教具。
Supplements are a separate stream. Three appeared in 2025 with 12, 14 and 22 items, conference material that carries its own S numbers inside the volume and its own editorial handling.增刊是另一条流。2025 年出了三期，分别 12、14、22 条，属会议材料，在卷内自带领 S 的期号，编辑流程也另走一套。
One Health is a working category here rather than a slogan. Screwworm biosecurity in livestock systems and the integration of veterinary professionals into emergency management both appear in 2026.同一健康在这里是个干活的类目，不是口号。2026 年既有牲畜生产体系里的新世界螺旋蝇生物安全，也有兽医专业人员编入应急管理的讨论。
Veterinary education has a place in the research pages. Curriculum revision at one school and a competency framework at another are reported as studies with methods, not as announcements.兽医教育在研究版面里有位置。某校的课程改革、另一校的能力框架，都按带方法的研究来写，不按通告来写。
New methods arrive with their own refereeing problem. A 2026 paper tests large language models on diagnostic questions and finds variable performance with a systematic risk of confident error.新方法带来自己的审稿难题。2026 年有一篇拿大语言模型做诊断题，测下来表现不稳，且存在系统性的自信错误。
Output is 428 records in 2025 and 495 in 2026 so far, spread over twelve issues and up to three supplements a year. Each monthly issue carries between 25 and 45 items.2025 年 428 条，2026 年至今 495 条，摊在十二期正刊与最多三期增刊上。每期正刊收 25 到 45 条。
Volume structure changed recently. Until 2022 the journal ran two volumes a year, one for each half, and from 2023 it has run one volume of twelve issues plus supplements.卷的结构近年改过。2022 年以前一年两卷，上下半年各一卷，2023 年起改成一年一卷，十二期正刊加增刊。
The archive is enormous and old. Crossref holds 27,895 records, beginning with volume 156 of 1970, which is as far back as the deposits go rather than as far back as the journal does.存档又大又老。Crossref 存着 27,895 条记录，最早是 1970 年的第 156 卷，那是存档往回走到的位置，不是刊物往回走到的位置。
Pagination is mixed. Some articles carry printed page ranges inside the issue and some carry electronic pagination such as pages 1 to 8, which is how a hybrid print and online production shows up in metadata.页码是混的。有些文章在期内带印刷页码，有些带 1 到 8 这样的电子页码，纸网并行的生产流程在元数据里留下的就是这个样子。
Open access is available per article. The 2025 file puts the gold share at 29.21 percent, so roughly three papers in ten are free at publication and the rest sit behind the association's subscription.开放获取按篇走。2025 年表里的金色占比是 29.21%，大约十篇里有三篇发表即可免费阅读，其余留在学会的订阅墙后。
History
The first year is 1915. The library record dates the title from then, and the American Veterinary Medical Association has published it continuously since, through two world wars and several changes of address.起点是 1915 年。图书馆记录从这一年起算，美国兽医协会此后一直出版，中间过了两次世界大战与几次搬家。
The early imprint was Ithaca, New York. The current one is Schaumburg, Illinois, dated from March 1975, and the library record keeps both, one as the old place and one as the present.早期出版地记在纽约州伊萨卡。现址是伊利诺伊州绍姆堡，标着 1975 年 3 月起，图书馆记录两地都留着，一处算旧地，一处算现址。
Volume numbering shows the old rhythm. Volume 156 covered 1970 and volume 263 covered 2025, which is slightly under two volumes a year across that span and exactly one since 2023.卷号暴露出旧节奏。第 156 卷是 1970 年，第 263 卷是 2025 年，这段跨度里平均每年略少于两卷，而 2023 年以来整好一年一卷。
The two-volume year was still running in 2021. Volume 258 carried twelve issues and volume 259 carried twelve more, so a subscriber received twenty-four numbers in one calendar year.一年两卷的做法到 2021 年还在跑。第 258 卷十二期，第 259 卷又十二期，一年里订户收到二十四期。
Supplements were large in that period. Volume 259 added two, one with 45 items and one with 85, which is conference abstract volume rather than a normal issue.那个时期的增刊很大。第 259 卷加了两期，一期 45 条，一期 85 条，那是会议摘要的体量，不是正常一期的体量。
The changeover shows in volume 260. It ran to issue 15, more numbered issues than a twelve-issue year allows, and it carried three supplements besides.过渡期留在第 260 卷上。这卷编到第 15 期，比十二期一年的常态多出三期，另外还带了三个增刊。
From 2023 the count settles. Volume 261 carried twelve issues and two supplements for 433 records, and the later volumes repeat that shape.2023 年起数目稳定下来。第 261 卷是十二期加两个增刊，共 433 条，此后各卷沿用这个形状。
MEDLINE coverage began mid-volume. The library record gives volume 145, number 7, dated 1 October 1964, in full rather than selectively, and the title has never dropped out.MEDLINE 从卷中间接上。图书馆记录写的是第 145 卷第 7 期，1964 年 10 月 1 日，全量收录不是选摘，此后没有断过。
Index Medicus and OLDMEDLINE both carry it. Chemical Abstracts did too, which is a reminder that a veterinary journal of that era was also a source for laboratory science.《医学索引》与 OLDMEDLINE 都收过它，化学文摘也收过。那个年代的兽医刊，同时也是实验室科学的来源之一。
The record still says semimonthly. Deposits show twelve issues for 2025, so the frequency field has not caught up with the redesign, and a reader who trusts the catalogue will expect issues that no longer exist.记录上仍写半月刊。2025 年的存档是十二期，频率一栏没跟上改版，信目录的人会去找已经不存在的期号。
The current volume is 264. It has deposited eleven issues for 2026 and eighty-three online-first items that have no volume yet.现卷是第 264 卷。2026 年已存进十一期，另有 83 条尚未归卷的在线优先条目。
The ranking is second quartile in veterinary sciences, 45th of 170, with an impact factor of 2.3 and a five-year figure of 2.4. The article influence score puts it in the first quartile at 33 of 167.排名在兽医学是第二区，170 种里第 45。影响因子 2.3，五年值 2.4。论文影响力指标把它放进第一区，167 种里第 33。
Five impact factors read 1.936, 1.836, 1.6, 1.8 and 2.3. The dip bottomed out in 2023 and the 2025 figure is the highest in the run.五个影响因子依次是 1.936、1.836、1.6、1.8、2.3。低谷在 2023 年，2025 年那个数是这段里最高的。
The cited half-life is 17.8 years, the longest in this group by a wide margin. 14,500 citations to 256 articles means the back volumes are still doing work.被引半衰期 17.8 年，在这一组里拉开一大截。14,500 次引用对 256 篇文章，说明过刊还在干活。
The immediacy index is 0.8. A journal with a half-life of nearly eighteen years does not need to be cited in its first year, and the low figure is consistent with that.即年指标 0.8。半衰期将近十八年的刊物，用不着在头一年就被引，这个低数与此一致。
Editors
The editorial office is at the association's headquarters. Schaumburg is not a university town and the desk is not attached to a veterinary school, which keeps it at arm's length from any one faculty.编辑部设在协会总部。绍姆堡不是大学城，这张桌子不挂在任何兽医学院名下，与每一家院系都保持距离。
Two desks share one volume. The news staff writes to a weekly rhythm and the science staff to a monthly one, and the editor has to make the two coexist in a single page sequence.两张桌子共用一个卷。新闻组按周写，科学组按月写，主编得让两套节奏在同一串页码里共存。
Standing features need custodians rather than authors. A diagnostic quiz and an annual surveillance report survive only because somebody is responsible for the next instalment.常设栏目要的是管事的人，不是写稿的人。诊断问答与年度监测报告能活下来，只因为有人对下一期负责。
Supplements are edited on their own calendar. Three in a year means three extra review rounds and three sets of guest editors who do not sit on the board.增刊按自己的日历编。一年三期就是三轮额外的评审，三套不在编委会名单上的客座编辑。
Species breadth sets the referee pool. A paper on a backyard rooster and a paper on a racehorse share a journal but not a single competent reviewer, and the desk recruits accordingly.物种宽度决定了审稿人池。后院公鸡的论文与赛马的论文同在一本刊，却找不到一位两边都称职的审稿人，编辑部按这个现实招人。
Corrections are routine. Eight in 2025 and three in 2026 is a rate that suggests a working post-publication process rather than a crisis.更正是常规事务。2025 年八条，2026 年三条，这个频率说明发表后流程在运转，不是在救火。
Comment and reply items are few. Three comments in 2025 is a small number for a journal this old, and it fits a readership that argues at conferences rather than in print.评论与回复都不多。2025 年三篇评论，对这么老的刊物算少，也符合一个更爱在年会上争论、不爱在纸上争论的读者群。
Education papers need education referees. A curriculum revision is not judged by a clinician's eye, so the journal keeps a second pool for the teaching section.教育学论文要教育学的审稿人。课程改革不能用临床的眼光来判，刊物因此为教学栏目留着第二个池子。
One Health work pulls in public health reviewers. Screwworm biosecurity and emergency management are not clinical questions, and the referees come from agencies rather than from practices.同一健康的稿子会拉进公共卫生审稿人。螺旋蝇生物安全与应急管理都不是临床问题，审稿人来自机构，不来自诊所。
A long half-life changes what an editor asks for. Completeness matters more than speed when a paper will still be cited in 2040, and the review letters say so.半衰期长，编辑要的东西就不一样。一篇到 2040 年还会被引的论文，完整性比速度更要紧，审稿信里就是这么写的。
The association owns the title and the desk answers to it. That is a different accountability from a commercial publisher's, and it shows in what the journal is willing to print about its own profession.学会拥有刊名，编辑部对它负责。这种问责关系与商业出版方不同，刊物敢登多少对本行业自身的批评，就是证据。
Twelve issues a year with three supplements is a fixed production load. The editorial work is mostly keeping the calendar, because a missed supplement is a conference without a record.一年十二期加三个增刊，是固定的生产负荷。编辑的工夫多半花在守日历上，因为漏掉一期增刊，就意味着一场会议没有记录。