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Preventive Veterinary Medicine
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Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Animal Science and Veterinary 17 264 432 25

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 376
Documents by Best Scientists*: 510
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 19
SCIMAGO H-index: 115
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.708
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Preventive Veterinary Medicine?

Preventive Veterinary Medicine primarily tackles Veterinary medicine, Herd, Animal science, Outbreak and Epidemiology. Flock is a primary topic of Veterinary medicine research in Preventive Veterinary Medicine. Animal husbandry, Mastitis and Logistic regression are some topics wherein Herd research discussed in it have an impact.

While work presented in Preventive Veterinary Medicine provided substantial information on Animal science, it also covered topics in Feces and Ice calving, Lactation. The Outbreak research dealing mostly with Foot-and-mouth disease is the focus of the journal. The concepts on Epidemiology presented in Preventive Veterinary Medicine can also apply to other research fields, including Disease and Environmental health.

  • Veterinary medicine (50.08%)
  • Herd (28.19%)
  • Animal science (17.64%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Principles and practical application of the receiver-operating characteristic analysis for diagnostic tests. (1422 citations)
  • Herd-level economic losses associated with Johne's disease on US dairy operations. (531 citations)
  • Interpreting vegetation indices (444 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Preventive Veterinary Medicine:

The most cited publications facilitate discussions on Veterinary medicine, Herd, Animal science, Incidence (epidemiology) and Outbreak. The most cited articles explore research in Animal husbandry and overlapping concepts in Livestock to expand the discourse in Veterinary medicine. The journal publications address concerns in the field of Herd by exploring it in line with topics in Disease which intersect with Environmental health subjects.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Disease
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Veterinary medicine, Herd, Livestock, Animal science and Outbreak. The Veterinary medicine study tackling the subject of Flock is the focus of Preventive Veterinary Medicine. The studies in Herd featured incorporate elements of Paratuberculosis, Feces, Dairy cattle, Litter (animal) and Udder.

The research on Livestock featured in it combines topics in other fields like Biosecurity, Disease and Wildlife. The journal tackles studies in Mastitis and the interrelated subject of Milking and Antibiotic resistance to gain insights into Animal science. Outbreak research featured in Preventive Veterinary Medicine incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, Epidemiology, Socioeconomics and Environmental health.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Stress response after race and endurance training sessions and competitions in Arabian horses. (8 citations)
  • Managing respiratory disease in finisher pigs: Combining quantitative assessments of clinical signs and the prevalence of lung lesions at slaughter (5 citations)
  • Current incidence, treatment costs and seasonality of pinkeye in Australian cattle estimated from sales of three popular medications (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Preventive Veterinary Medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michael P. Ward (84 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Simon J. More (66 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tim E. Carpenter (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Laura E. Green (62 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Ian R. Dohoo (59 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Preventive Veterinary Medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of California, Davis (231 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Utrecht University (157 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (156 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Guelph (148 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Royal Veterinary College (138 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 4.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.82% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.82% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.70% of all publications and 40.65% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Initial assessment of the economic burden of major parasitic helminth infections to the ruminant livestock industry in Europe

    J Charlier;L Rinaldi;V Musella;H.W Ploeger

    (2020)
    408 Citations
  • Epidemiological analysis of the 2015-2017 African swine fever outbreaks in Estonia.

    (2020)
    153 Citations
  • COVID-19 is likely to impact animal health.

    Christian Gortázar;José de la Fuente

    (2020)
    70 Citations
  • Neethling vaccine proved highly effective in controlling lumpy skin disease epidemics in the Balkans.

    Eyal Klement;Alessandro Broglia;Sotiria-Eleni Antoniou;Vangelis Tsiamadis

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • Mechanistic modelling of African swine fever: A systematic review.

    Brandon H. Hayes;Mathieu Andraud;Luis G. Salazar;Nicolas Rose

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • Seasonal distributions and other risk factors for Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium spp. infections in dogs and cats in Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Sahatchai Tangtrongsup;Sahatchai Tangtrongsup;A. Valeria Scorza;John S. Reif;Lora R. Ballweber

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • A risk-based scoring system to quantify biosecurity in cattle production

    Bert Damiaans;Véronique Renault;Steven Sarrazin;Anna Catharina Berge

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Wild mammals as potential silent reservoirs of Leishmania infantum in a Mediterranean area.

    M. Magdalena Alcover;Alexis Ribas;M. Carmen Guillén;Diana Berenguer

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • The effect of tylosin on antimicrobial resistance in beef cattle enteric bacteria: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Casey L. Cazer;Erin R.B. Eldermire;Guillaume Lhermie;Sarah A. Murray

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Managing respiratory disease in finisher pigs: Combining quantitative assessments of clinical signs and the prevalence of lung lesions at slaughter

    (2020)
    33 Citations

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