Acceptance and Editorial Review
The quality, uniqueness, and relevance of the research to our audience are the requirements for acceptance of all papers. Manuscripts are double-blind peer reviewed, unless otherwise indicated. Only when the Editor-in-Chief concludes that an article satisfies the necessary quality and relevance standards will it be sent for review. Wiley’s review process confidentially policy can be found here.
Open and Honest Peer Review
Science and Veterinary Medicine is taking part in a Peer Review Transparency project. By submitting to this journal, authors consent to the fact that, should their work be accepted, the editor’s decision letter, reviewer reports, and their responses will all be linked from the published article to their Publons page. Reviewers can choose to be anonymous unless they want to sign their report, and authors can opt out at the time of submission.
Policy for peer review
Veterinary Medicine and Science improves process efficiency while upholding the highest peer review standards. The following are important aspects of the journal’s review procedure:
- The Editor-in-Chief reviews all papers sent directly to the Journal; at least two appropriately qualified experts will assess articles deemed suitable for the Journal.
- Double-blind peer review will be applied to all manuscripts sent directly to Veterinary Medicine and Science.
- Original peer-review reports from supporting journals may be used to evaluate submissions transferred to Veterinary Medicine and Science; however, the Editor-in-Chief will critically evaluate these reports and may decide to submit manuscripts for further double-blind review.
- Based on the submitted reviews, the editors make all choices regarding publication.
- Associate Editors help the Editor-in-Chief make decisions regarding submissions and offer advise, counsel, and insights. All manuscripts are subject to the Editor-in-Chief’s final discretion.
- In order to guarantee that Veterinary Medicine and Science upholds the integrity of peer review and provides authors and reviewers with timely and effective publishing, the editorial assistant offers administrative support.
Papers cited
Veterinary Medicine and Science will take into account papers recommended from other Wiley journals that are taking part in the Manuscript Transfer Program in addition to those submitted directly to the journal. A mechanism has been established to enable a select group of prestigious partner journals to refer high-quality manuscripts to Veterinary Medicine and Science, along with any existing peer-review reports, when these journals are unable to accept the manuscripts themselves (for example, due to scope or space constraints). This is part of our commitment to speed of publication and to lessen the burden on the peer-review system. The Editor-in-Chief can make a decision about a manuscript’s suitability for publishing very fast if it has peer-reviewed reports already in place. All transferred papers will be rigorously examined by the Editor-in-Chief, who may decide to send them out for further double-blind review before making a decision.
Availability and Data Sharing
The numerous advantages of preserving research data are acknowledged by Veterinary Medicine and Science. The journal recommends that you store all of the data used to generate your published findings in a publicly accessible location. According to FAIR Data Principles, the repository you select should assist you make it findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-useable. It should also guarantee preservation (see the registry of research data repositories at https://www.re3data.org/).
To verify whether or not shared data is there, all accepted publications must provide a data availability statement. If you have shared data, this statement will explain how to access it and contain a persistent identification from the repository where you shared it, such as the data’s DOI or accession number. The authors will have to attest to their compliance with the policy. You must include the relevant data availability statement if you are unable to share the data detailed in your paper, for instance due to ethical or legal constraints, or if you do not plan to release the data. The FAIR principles encourage data sharing to be as open as possible, but it can also be as closed as needed, according to Veterinary Medicine and Science. However, FAIR data sharing permits access to shared data under restrictions (for example, to protect proprietary or confidential information).
Here are some examples of statements. Please be aware that the offered samples are only examples of possible statement formats; they can be altered to suit your needs. All assertions will appear in the manuscript’s heading if it is published.
Policy on Ethics
High ethical standards pertaining to animal welfare must be met by any content published in Veterinary Medicine and Science. In order to disclose study design and statistical analysis, experimental techniques, experimental animals, and housing and husbandry, authors are encouraged to follow animal research reporting standards, such as the ARRIVE reporting guidelines.
1) Complies with applicable laws and adheres to international, national, and/or institutional standards for the humane treatment of animals. US authors should cite compliance with the US National Research Council’s Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the US Public Health Service’s Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. UK authors should conform to UK legislation under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations (SI 2012/3039). Directive 2010/63/EU should be followed by European authors who are not from the UK.
2) Has been approved by the ethics review committee at the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted where such a committee exists
3) For studies using client-owned animals, demonstrates a high standard (best practice) of veterinary care and involves informed client consent.
Statement of Ethics
During the submission procedure, authors will have to attest to their compliance with the Ethics Policy of Veterinary Medicine and Science. The authors must submit an Ethics Statement outlining the ethical review committee approval procedure and the international, national, and/or institutional criteria for humane animal treatment followed in order to confirm compliance with the aforementioned rules, should the work be accepted. The Ethics Statement should specify whether ethical permission was necessary, for instance, if the work is a review that contains no original research data. Please make sure this information is not included in the main text document because Veterinary Medicine and Science uses a double-blind peer review procedure. Should your manuscript be approved, the Editorial Office will ask you for these information. Below are some examples of how these statements could appear:
“The authors affirm that the ethical policies of the journal, as mentioned on the journal’s author rules page, have been adhered to and the proper ethical review committee permission has been received,” is an example of an ethics statement where ethical approval was necessary. The Care and Use of Laboratory Animals criteria established by the US National Research Council were adhered to.
An example of an ethics statement in which ethical approval was not necessary is: “The authors attest to the adherence to the journal’s ethical policies, as stated on the author guidelines page.” Since this is a review article without any original research data, ethical approval was not necessary.
Animal ethics-based criteria for manuscript rejection:
1) Manuscripts and authors that fail to meet the aforementioned requirements
2) Studies that involve unnecessary pain, distress, suffering, or lasting harm to animals
3) The Editor retains the right to reject manuscripts on the basis of ethical or welfare concerns.
Clinical Trial Registration
We require that clinical trials are prospectively registered in a publicly accessible database and clinical trial registration numbers should be included in all papers that report their results. Please include the name of the trial register and your clinical trial registration number at the end of your abstract. If your trial is not registered, or was registered retrospectively, please explain the reasons for this.