Pakistan Veterinary Journal

The Pakistan Veterinary Journal (Pak Vet J) is a peer-reviewed journal of veterinary medicine published by the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, continuously since 1981, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.5 that places it fifth among 170 journals in the Web of Science category Veterinary Sciences.《巴基斯坦兽医杂志》（Pakistan Veterinary Journal，简称 Pak Vet J）是一本由巴基斯坦费萨拉巴德农业大学兽医科学学院出版的兽医学同行评议期刊，自 1981 年起持续出版，2025 年影响因子为 6.5，在 Web of Science 兽医学类别 170 种期刊中排名第 5。

Scope

• Veterinary biomedical sciences, spanning anatomy and histology, biotechnology, embryology, molecular and cellular biology, physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, nutrition and metabolism.兽医生物医学，涵盖解剖与组织学、生物技术、胚胎学、分子与细胞生物学、生理学、药理学、毒理学、营养与代谢等方向。
• Veterinary pathology, microbiology and preventive medicine, covering immunology, infectious disease, pathology, microbiology, parasitology and virology.兽医病理学、微生物学与预防医学，涵盖免疫学、传染病、病理学、微生物学、寄生虫学与病毒学。
• Veterinary public health, including environmental health, epidemiology, food safety and hygiene, meat hygiene, milk hygiene and zoonotic disease.兽医公共卫生，包括环境健康、流行病学、食品安全与卫生、肉品卫生、乳品卫生与人畜共患疾病。
• Veterinary clinical sciences, from anesthesiology, animal behavior, comparative and translational medicine, dentistry, dermatology, clinical pathology, emergency and critical care and internal medicine to medical imaging, oncology, regenerative medicine, rehabilitation, ophthalmology, surgery, theriogenology and veterinary acupuncture.兽医临床科学，自麻醉学、动物行为、比较与转化医学、牙科学、皮肤病学、临床病理、急诊与重症监护、内科学，延伸至医学影像、肿瘤学、再生医学、康复医学、眼科学、外科学、繁殖学与兽医针灸。
• Veterinary humanities and social sciences, including animal welfare, human and animal bonds, One Health and eco-health, veterinary economics, veterinary education, veterinary policy and wildlife health and conservation.兽医人文与社会科学，包括动物福利、人与动物的关系、（One Health）与生态健康、兽医经济学、兽医教育、兽医政策及野生动物健康与保护。
• The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, short communications and case reports, and guarantees readers immediate free online access to everything it publishes, without subscription or registration barriers.该刊发表原创研究论文、综述、短篇通讯与病例报告，并保证读者可即时免费在线阅读其全部内容，无须订阅或注册。

History

• The journal was founded in 1981 by the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, and has been published regularly ever since as a national venue for veterinary research in Pakistan.该刊于 1981 年由费萨拉巴德农业大学兽医科学学院创办，此后持续出版，成为巴基斯坦本国的兽医学术园地。
• Its archive shows four issues per volume from 1997 through 2025, and with volume 46 in 2026 the journal moved to monthly publication, a change reflected in the publisher's current description of the journal as a monthly.其存档显示 1997 年至 2025 年每卷四期，2026 年出版的第 46 卷起改为月刊，出版方现行介绍亦已改称月刊。
• The journal began publishing in open access in 1998, registered an online ISSN of 2074-7764 alongside the print ISSN 0253-8318, and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals with a CC BY-NC license and a seal of approval.该刊自 1998 年起以开放获取方式出版，在印刷版 ISSN 0253-8318 之外登记了网络版 ISSN 2074-7764，并列入开放获取期刊目录（DOAJ），采用 CC BY-NC 许可且获该目录认证标识。
• Authors pay an article processing charge of up to 15,000 Pakistani rupees, about 300 US dollars, with no waiver policy, and the journal asks that the similarity index of a manuscript stay below 19 percent.作者须支付最高 15,000 巴基斯坦卢比（约 300 美元）的文章处理费，且不设减免政策，投稿稿件的文字重合率须低于 19%。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, and its impact factor climbed from 1.318 in 2021 and 1.803 in 2022 to 5.4 in 2024 and 6.5 in 2025, when it ranked fifth of 170 in Veterinary Sciences with a Journal Citation Indicator of 2.58.该刊为科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE）收录，影响因子由 2021 年的 1.318 与 2022 年的 1.803 升至 2024 年的 5.4 与 2025 年的 6.5，2025 年在兽医学 170 种期刊中排名第 5，期刊引文指标为 2.58。
• Its readership and abstracting and indexing services extend worldwide, with coverage including Scopus, the Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, BIOSIS, the Tropical Disease Bulletin and the Veterinary Bulletin.其读者群与文摘索引服务遍及全球，收录范围包括（Scopus）、Web of Science、（CAB Abstracts）、（BIOSIS）、《热带病公报》与《兽医通报》等。

Editors

• The journal is headed by Editor-in-Chief Muhammad Shahid Mahmood, dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, under the patronage of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.该刊由兽医科学学院院长（Muhammad Shahid Mahmood）任主编，费萨拉巴德农业大学校长任名誉保护人。
• Rao Zahid Abbas, a parasitologist and one of Pakistan's most highly cited researchers in pathobiology, serves as Editor, and Aisha Khatoon as Editor Finance.（Rao Zahid Abbas）是巴基斯坦病理生物学领域被引最高的研究者之一、寄生虫学家，担任编辑，（Aisha Khatoon）任财务编辑。
• Nine associate editors, including Bilal Aslam, Mashkoor Mohsin Gillani, Muhammad Imran, Nazir Ahmad, Sidra Altaf and Sultan Ali, share handling duties across the journal's subject areas.九位副编辑分担各学科稿件的处理工作，包括（Bilal Aslam）、（Mashkoor Mohsin Gillani）、（Muhammad Imran）、（Nazir Ahmad）、（Sidra Altaf）与（Sultan Ali）等。
• The editorial board counts about forty members based in more than ten countries, among them the United States, Turkey, China, Canada, Germany, Australia, Egypt, Algeria, Chile and South Korea.编委会约有四十名成员，来自十余个国家，包括美国、土耳其、中国、加拿大、德国、澳大利亚、埃及、阿尔及利亚、智利与韩国。
• Review is double anonymous, a manuscript normally takes ten to twelve weeks from complete submission to a conclusion, and authors must suggest three potential reviewers, two of them from technologically advanced countries.该刊实行双匿名评审，稿件自完整投稿至出结论通常需十至十二周，作者须推荐三位潜在审稿人，其中两位须来自科技发达国家。
• Submissions go by e-mail to the editorial office, manuscripts must be written in US-spelled English on double-spaced A4 pages with continuous line numbers, and the copyright of accepted manuscripts belongs to the journal.投稿以电子邮件方式寄至编辑部，稿件须用美式英语拼写、A4 纸双倍行距并连续编排行号，录用稿件的版权归该刊所有。