A survey of 1,325 cat owners suggests that cats fed a plant-based diet are less likely to suffer from health issues such as gastrointestinal and liver disease.
The most common health problems of UK dogs in 2016 were dental disease, ear infections, and obesity, according to VetCompass data.
The ARRIVE guidelines for reporting in vivo animal research have recently been updated to support their use in practice. View the new ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines here.
BMC Veterinary Research is recruiting new Editorial Board Members. More information & how to apply can be found here.
Combatting veterinary antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Our new guest edited collection welcomes research into the combatting of antimicrobial resistance in helminths, fungi, bacteria, virus and protozoa.
This collection is open to submissions until March 2022.
For further information and to submit your article please click here.
Introducing two new Guidelines to our COHA: CTSA One Health Alliance Collection:
- A CTSA One Health Alliance guidance on institutional review of veterinary clinical studies
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Data are the cornerstones to transparency and reproducibility of research. At the BMC Series, we offer different article types to help you share your data. Explore some of our open access data publications in this focus issue and browse through the additional reading and resources to learn more about this topic.
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In celebration of World Environment Day on the 5th June, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on Water and Sanitation. We have collated open-access content from across our journals to highlight research into clean water, investigating links between water and health and our overall relationship with water.
We are pleased to announce the launch of two new sections in BMC Veterinary Research:
- Animal ethics, policy and research integrity
- Zoological and wildlife medicine
Veterinary antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use
Critically Appraised Topics on Adverse Food Reactions
Autoimmune and Immune-mediated Skin Diseases of Animals
International Veterinary Epilepsy Task Force Consensus Reports
International Committee on Allergic Diseases of Animals (ICADA) Consenus and Guideline Papers
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BMC Veterinary Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of veterinary science and medicine, including the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of medical conditions of domestic, companion, farm and wild animals, as well as the biomedical processes that underlie their health.
Animal ethics and welfare
Animal ethics, policy and research integrity
Epidemiology and public health
Veterinary clinical services
Anesthesiology and pain management
Animal behavior and psychology
Gastroenterology, nutrition and metabolism
Musculoskeletal disorders and orthopaedics
Pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics
Pulmonology and respiratory disorders
Veterinary education and training
Genetics, cell biology and clinical pathology
Cell biology and stem cell research
Clinical pathology, physiology and immunology
Microbiology and parasitology
Zoological medicine
Valuable data often go unpublished when they could be helping to progress science. Hence, the BMC Series introduced Data notes, a short article type allowing you to describe your data and publish them to make your data easier to find, cite and share.
You can publish your data in BMC Genomic Data (genomic, transcriptomic and high-throughput genotype data) or in BMC Research Notes (data from across all natural and clinical sciences).
More information about our unique article type can be found on the BMC Genomic Data and BMC Research Notes journal websites.
View our trending articles in BMC Veterinary Research.
Over 500 institutions have partnered with us to help authors maximize their research funding. Researchers affiliated with these member institutions may receive a discount on article processing charges (APCs). Check to see if your institution is a member and learn how you could benefit from APC savings when publishing with us.
The Meridian Network is home to a collection of reporting guidelines and checklists for research that involve animals. The checklists are intended as an aid for authors to clearly, completely and transparently let reviewers and readers know what they did and found. We encourage our authors to adhere to these standards.
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1.282 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
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