It is published by Wiley on behalf of the British Veterinary Association and is distributed to its members as part of their membership.

Although The Veterinarian (1828) and The Veterinary Journal (1844) were well established and covered some of the same ground as Hunting's new journal, the fact that Veterinary Record was published every week and carried verbatim reports of council and local association meetings gave it an immediacy that the other publications could not match.

[2] The National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland took over publication of the journal from January 1921.

[3] From July 2009 to December 2020, the journal was published by the BMJ Group on behalf of the British Veterinary Association.

[12] According to the Web of Science, the following three articles have been cited most often:[13] The April Fools' Day 1972 issue included a paper on the diseases of Brunus edwardii: a description of lost limbs and thinning hair suffered by an animal whose Latin name means "brown" and "Edward".