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About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y de Zootecnia (Rev. Med. Vet. Zoot.) is an open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y de Zootecnia of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The journal was founded in 1929 by Dr. Domenico Geovine, then dean of the National School of Veterinary Medicine, and is one of the oldest academic journals in the field of veterinary and animal sciences in the region. Since its creation, the journal has aimed to provide a rigorous and inclusive platform for the dissemination of scientific knowledge related to animal health, animal production, livestock development, and environmental protection.
The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, and case reports in the fields of veterinary medicine and animal sciences. Its scope includes, but is not limited to, anatomy, physiology, pathology, surgery, pharmacology, toxicology, internal medicine, small and large animal clinical sciences, animal nutrition and feeding, genetics and genomics, reproduction and animal biotechnology, animal production systems, livestock product processing and quality, animal welfare and behavior, wildlife and conservation medicine, environmental sustainability related to animal production, and public health.
All manuscripts are subject to a double-blind peer review process, except for editorial notes. The journal accepts submissions in Spanish, English, and Portuguese; however, all accepted articles are published in English, with translation provided by the journal at no cost to the authors.
The journal publishes three issues per year and has followed a continuous publication model since Volume 70, Issue 3 (September–December 2023), whereby articles are published online as soon as they are ready. Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y de Zootecnia does not charge any fees for article submission, processing, publication, or translation, and all content is freely available to readers.
The journal is indexed in major national and international databases and information systems, including AGRIS, CAB Abstracts, CrossRef, DIALNET, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO Education Source, LILACS, Latindex Catálogo 2.0, Redalyc, and SciELO.
Detailed requirements for each type of manuscript are available in the Author Guidelines.
Reviewer Guidelines
All manuscripts submitted to the journal must comply with the presentation, style and citation standards of the journal described in this document. Otherwise, the documents will be returned and the peer review process will be postponed until the authors have made the pertinent correction.
In the first instance, the submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the journal editor to determine if the manuscript is into the interest area, if so, the assignment and sending to academic peers will be approved through the double-blind modality with at least two evaluators by manuscript; otherwise, an email will be sent to the authors indicating that the article is not accepted to continue with the academic peer review process.
The evaluation by academic peers will try to identify the contributions to the scientific, technological or pedagogical innovation of the proposals, compared to the current state of knowledge in a discipline; the academic reviewers must give a concept of approval, modification or disapproval. In case of a divided concept by the evaluators, the manuscript will be sent to a third expert reviewer in the area to define if the manuscript is accepted or rejected. The Editorial Committee or the editor-in-chief may recommend or deny the publication of the manuscript, or request the correction of its form or material.
The criteria considered during the evaluation will be:
- Compliance with the style rules of the journal
- Relevance of content: the texts should address the issues that are relevant, directly or indirectly, for the understanding of any of the disciplines of health and animal production.
- Originality, novelty, relevance of the topic.
- Scientific quality: Appropriate methodologies must be used to the subject studied, be understandable and possible to reproduce.
- Rigor of argumentation: the works must have a coherent and logical formal thought.
- Methodological coherence: agreement between the problem statement, the objectives, results and interpretations.
- Conceptual clarity: correspondence between scientific or technical terms used in the thematic purpose.
If the articles are accepted for publication, the authors must correct them according to the observations of the peers and / or the editorial committee within the time allotted for it. The observations that are not accepted by the authors must have an appropriate support and sent in a document attached to the corrected manuscript indicating the page and the line number to which it refers, these changes and clarifications will be evaluated by the corresponding editor. The editor and editorial committee reserve the right to reject or accept materials submitted for publication.
The forms to complete the academic review of articles can be downloaded at the following links:
Research article evaluation format
