Arguably, the greatest single advance in veterinary medicine has been the increase in the amount of information about diagnosis, prevention and treatment of animal diseases. This increase in the amount of information available to veterinarians is mostclearly demonstrated by the increase in number of articles published each year in the veterinary scientific literature, from 8815 in 1996 to 20549 in 2014. Not only did the number of articles increase, but so did the number of veterinary journals indexed by Scopus - from 109 in 1996 to 288 in 2017, although this does not include all journals that publish veterinary material. These increases are representative of the increase in information available for equine veterinary science, with 123,146 equine-related articles published between 1996 and 2014, rising from 2534 in 1996 to 7722 in 2014. There is clearly an abundance of scientific literature in which we can seek answers to important clinical questions - begging the question of what should one read - and similarly a wide variety of journals in which to publish results of our studies.
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