Veterinary Pathology

Veterinary Pathology is published for the American College of Veterinary Pathologists by SAGE from Thousand Oaks, California, and it comes out six times a year.《兽医病理学》由 SAGE 在加州千橡市为美国兽医病理学家学会出版，一年出六期。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 and the five-year figure is 2.6.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 2.6。

Clarivate puts it 41st of 89 in pathology and 45th of 170 in veterinary sciences, both Q2, with a percentile of 74 in the second category.科睿唯安在病理学 89 种刊里排第 41，在兽医学 170 种刊里排第 45，两处都是 Q2，后一个类目的百分位为 74。

Volume 63 belongs to 2026, and the print ISSN is 0300-9858 against an electronic 1544-2217.第 63 卷属于 2026 年，纸本 ISSN 为 0300-9858，电子版为 1544-2217。

It began in 1964 in Basel as Pathologia Veterinaria and took the present title in 1971 at volume 8.刊物 1964 年在巴塞尔以《兽医病理学》的拉丁文刊名创刊，1971 年第 8 卷改用现名。

Scope

• The journal takes basic and applied research on domestic, laboratory, wildlife, marine and zoo animals, with poultry on the same list.刊物接收家养，实验，野生，海洋与动物园动物的基础与应用研究，家禽也在名单上。

• Natural and experimental disease are treated together, and the journal says its role is to bridge the two.自然发病与实验发病放在一处处理，刊物自陈的作用就是把两者接起来。

• Diagnostic investigation of animal disease is a stated subject, so case material with a diagnostic edge belongs here.动物疾病的诊断性研究是明列题目，带诊断价值的病例材料因此有位置。

• Mechanisms of specific processes are wanted, which keeps pathogenesis on the same footing as description.特定过程的机制也是征稿方向，发病机理与形态描述因此地位相当。

• Animal models of human disease appear in the scope, a line that draws medical pathology readers to a veterinary title.人类疾病的动物模型写在宗旨里，这一条把医学病理读者引向一份兽医刊物。

• Environmental and pharmaceutical hazards are named, and so are food, chemical and drug safety.环境与药物危害被点名，食品，化学品与药品安全也在其列。

• Novel descriptions of pathologic changes are accepted on their own account, without a mechanism attached.对病变的新描述可以单独成立，不必附上机制研究。

• Clinical pathology and clinicopathologic correlation sit beside morphology, so laboratory data and lesions are read together.临床病理与临床病理联系与形态学并列，化验数据与病变因此合起来读。

• General pathology and pathogenesis get their own line in the manuscript guidance.普通病理学与发病机理在投稿指引里单列一条。

• Biothreat and genetically modified animals are listed among the issues the journal follows.生物威胁与转基因动物被列入刊物关注的议题。

• Environmental monitoring and diagnostic technology are treated as live subjects rather than as tools only.环境监测与诊断技术被当作活题目，而不只是工具。

• Each issue carries original articles, in-depth reviews, brief communications and case reports.每期载有原创论文，深度综述，简报与病例报告。

• Case reports survive here, which is worth noting at a time when many pathology titles have dropped them.病例报告在这里还活着，在不少病理刊物已经砍掉这一栏的时候值得一提。

• The audience runs from diagnostic laboratory staff to toxicologic and comparative pathologists.读者从诊断实验室人员一直排到毒理病理与比较病理学家。

• Medical pathology researchers and environmental scientists are counted in the same readership.医学病理研究者与环境科学家也算在同一批读者里。

• Emerging disease trends are named as a front-line concern, and the journal places itself at that edge.新发疾病趋势被写成前沿关切，刊物把自己放在那个边缘位置。

• A supplement series exists in the catalogue, which lets symposia and workshop proceedings appear under the same title.目录里另有一个增刊系列，研讨会与工作坊的论文集因此能挂同一个刊名。

• Poultry is named apart from other livestock, which suits readers who work in diagnostic laboratories that serve the industry.家禽与其他畜种分开列出，适合那些服务于养殖业的诊断实验室读者。

History

• The first seven volumes ran from 1964 to 1970 under the Latin title, published in Basel by Karger.最初七卷在 1964 年到 1970 年间以拉丁文书名出版，出版方是巴塞尔的 Karger。

• That earlier record carries the ISSN 0031-2975 and is held separately by the National Library of Medicine.那一份旧记录使用 ISSN 0031-2975，在美国国家医学图书馆里单独存放。

• The English title began at volume 8 in 1971, and the volume count has run on ever since.英文刊名从 1971 年第 8 卷开始，卷号此后一路延续。

• Volume 63 in 2026 is therefore the fifty-sixth year of the present name.2026 年的第 63 卷因此是现名下的第五十六个年头。

• SAGE took over publication in January 2010, which is the imprint the catalogue now records.2010 年 1 月起由 SAGE 接手出版，目录如今记录的就是这个出版方。

• Crossref holds 6,755 DOIs for the title, 6,410 of them in the backfile.Crossref 名下这个刊名有 6755 个 DOI，其中 6410 个属于回溯部分。

• Six issues appeared in 2024 and six again in 2025, with volume 62 running through the second year.2024 年出六期，2025 年又是六期，后一年走完第 62 卷。

• The impact factor moved from 2.221 in 2021 to 3.157 in 2022, then fell to 1.7 in 2024 before returning to 2.3.影响因子 2021 年为 2.221，2022 年升到 3.157，2024 年跌到 1.7，2025 年回到 2.3。

• The five-year figure of 2.6 stays above the annual one, so older papers carry weight in the citation base.五年影响因子 2.6 高于年度值，较早的论文在引用基础里占着分量。

• The 2025 citation indicator is 0.82, and gold open access covers 20.59 percent of the output.2025 年期刊引文指标 0.82，金色开放获取覆盖 20.59% 的发文。

• Clarivate counts 101 articles and 110 citable items in the window, with 7,233 citations behind them.科睿唯安的统计窗口里有 101 篇文章与 110 条可引项，背后是 7233 次被引。

• The article influence score is Q1 in veterinary sciences, which is a stronger showing than the impact factor percentile.论文影响分值在兽医学为 Q1，这一项比影响因子的百分位更好看。

• The college's members read the journal without paying, and that access is part of membership.学会会员免费阅读这份刊物，这项权限算在会员资格里。

• The title carries two subject headings in the catalogue, pathology and veterinary medicine, and that pairing has held for decades.目录给这个刊名挂了病理学与兽医学两个主题词，这一对组合维持了几十年。

• A digital backfile of more than six thousand papers makes the journal a record of the field going back to the Basel years.六千多篇的回溯全文让这份刊物成为领域档案，一直追到巴塞尔时期。

• Publication in Thousand Oaks places the title in the SAGE home city rather than in a university department.出版地千橡市是 SAGE 的总部所在，而不是某个大学院系。

• Reports of errors in published papers go through a dedicated college portal rather than an email address.已发表论文的勘误通过学会的专门入口提交，而不是发到某个邮箱。

• The catalogued abbreviation is Vet Pathol, and citations use that short form.目录里的缩写是 Vet Pathol，引用时就用这个短式。

Editors

• The editorial roster is published on the SAGE board page under the journal code VET.编委名单挂在 SAGE 的编委页上，用刊物代码 VET 标注。

• Editors and associate editors vote on the annual Editors' Choice awards, so both ranks take part in recognition.年度编辑选择奖由编辑与副编辑投票产生，两级都在评奖里出力。

• Two papers are chosen each year, one observational and one experimental, from issues spanning November to September.每年选两篇，一篇观察性研究，一篇实验性研究，取自头年十一月到当年九月的各期。

• Design, clarity of writing, data presentation and likely impact are the stated grounds for the award.研究设计，行文清楚，数据呈现与可能的影响是评奖写明的依据。

• The editorial staff makes the recognition, and the college announces it on its own site.表彰由编辑部做出，学会在自己的网站上公布。

• Manuscripts are handled through ScholarOne, at a submission address that carries the journal's short name.稿件经 ScholarOne 系统处理，投稿地址里带刊物的简称。

• Author instructions are published on the publisher platform under the same code, so rules and board share one site.作者须知也挂在出版方平台的同一代码下，规则与编委共用一个站点。

• Readers can sign up for new-issue alerts from the publisher page, which the college links to directly.读者可以在出版方页面订阅新刊提醒，学会网站直接给出链接。

• Original articles, reviews, brief communications and case reports all pass the same editorial desk before review.原创论文，综述，简报与病例报告都要先过同一道编辑初筛。

• The journal appears on both the college site and the publisher platform, and the two carry the same article record.刊物在学会站与出版方平台上各有一处，两处的文章记录一致。

• A society journal of this age keeps its editorial office close to the college, while production sits with the publisher.这个年头的学会刊物把编辑部留在学会身边，生产环节交给出版方。

• That split matters for authors, who submit through the platform but follow editorial decisions made by pathologists.这一分工对作者有用，投稿走平台，决定却由病理学家做出。