Ongoing Special Issue
Explore active calls for special issues and submit your research to focused collections.
Focused collections for urgent veterinary topics
Ongoing special issues in JVHC highlight time sensitive topics, new clinical practices, and emerging threats in animal health. These collections bring together expert editors and authors to accelerate evidence sharing across veterinary disciplines.
Special issues follow the same peer review standards as regular submissions and are designed to spotlight clinically relevant findings that can quickly inform practice.
- Review ongoing special issue themes and confirm scope fit.
- Prepare your manuscript according to JVHC author guidelines.
- Submit via the standard submission channel and note the special issue in your cover letter.
- Expect the same rigorous peer review and editorial decision process.
- Targeted visibility within a curated collection.
- Increased engagement from readers interested in a focused theme.
- Opportunity to contribute to consensus building in veterinary practice.
- Alignment with emerging clinical priorities and funding priorities.
Clinical Relevance
Clear relevance to veterinary practice, diagnostics, or animal health outcomes.
Strong Methodology
Well designed studies, transparent reporting, and reliable statistical analysis.
Timeliness
Findings that address urgent needs, emerging diseases, or clinical innovation.
Ethical Compliance
Documented animal welfare approvals, owner consent, and data transparency.
- Align your title and keywords with the special issue theme.
- Explain how your findings address the specific focus of the collection.
- Highlight clinical implications or translational outcomes in the abstract.
- State the special issue title and confirm scope fit.
- Summarize the clinical impact of your findings.
- Disclose ethics approvals and data availability status.
Most special issues accept original research, reviews, case reports, and short communications. The call for papers will specify any additional requirements or limits on article types.
Review timelines are typically similar to standard submissions, with editorial updates provided throughout the process.
Accepted articles are published within the special issue collection and highlighted through journal communications.
Special issue submissions often receive additional visibility through curated topic pages.
Authors should check deadlines listed in each call for papers.
Late submissions are rarely accepted.
Early submissions help ensure adequate review time.
Please submit before final deadlines.
Thank you for your interest.
We welcome your submission.
Special issue themes are updated as new proposals are approved. If you would like to be notified when new calls are launched, contact the editorial office or subscribe through your membership account.
Authors can also propose emerging themes by contacting the journal with a short outline of a potential special issue topic.
If there are no active themes at a given time, authors are encouraged to submit through the regular call for papers and indicate interest in future special issues.
Submit to an ongoing special issue
Join a focused collection and contribute to veterinary knowledge that informs practice.
