Improving the conducting and reporting of veterinary systematic reviews and scoping reviews to facilitate identification and dissemination via the VetSRev database

Veterinary medicine advances rapidly, generating extensive amounts of research. Systematic and scoping reviews synthesise evidence to help guide clinical decisions, improve welfare, influence policy, and shape research priorities. Unlike narrative reviews, they employ transparent, rigorous methods. This commentary presents insights from curating VetSRev, a decade-old, freely accessible repository containing an interactive list of published veterinary systematic and scoping reviews. Accessible, high-quality reviews strengthen public and owner trust, improve animal welfare, and promote evidence-based practice. Following established protocols and guidelines ensures quality, visibility, and VetSRev inclusion, thereby disseminating the reviews to users, advancing knowledge, informing research priorities, and enhancing clinical decision-making in veterinary medicine.