Journal profile · Health Care Sciences & Services
Academic Medicine
ISSN 1040-2446 · eISSN 1938-808X · Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 1989
Academic Medicine: CAS Zone 1 · Education (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 4.26; hybrid open access; median 13 days to acceptance (82 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly hard; 448 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Academic Medicine is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. and is in Zone 1 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovations in Medical Education, Diversity and Career in Medicine and Global Health Workforce Issues, together about 42% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Academic Medicine serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine22.8%
- Diversity and Career in MedicineSocial Sciences9.8%
- Global Health Workforce IssuesHealth Professions9.4%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions8.2%
- Medical Education and AdmissionsMedicine7.8%
- Health and Medical Research ImpactsMedicine5%
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine4.9%
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsMedicine3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Education Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 4.26LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 6.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.42LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.03LetPub ·
- h-index
- 130LetPub ·
- h-index
- 265OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 8,463OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.34OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 10.17%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 208LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 26,572 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 295 | 76 | 65 |
| 2025 | 448 | 62 | 795 |
| 2024 | 349 | 50 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 512 | 62 | 3,977 |
| 2022 | 598 | 104 | 4,754 |
| 2021 | 685 | 143 | 9,252 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
13 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 8 days – 14 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 33 days (75 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 45 days
- Sample
- 82 articles with submission and acceptance dates (437 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 3–6 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly hardLetPub ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- am last pageAM Last PageLength not stated
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1989
- ISSN
- 1040-2446
- Electronic ISSN
- 1938-808X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 101, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Academic Medicine
What CAS zone is Academic Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Academic Medicine is in Zone 1 of Education, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Education, Scientific Disciplines / Health Care Sciences & Services; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Academic Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.26; CiteScore 6.8, h-index 265.
How long does peer review take at Academic Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 82 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 13 days (interquartile range 8–14 days); authors report an average review time of 3–6 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly hard”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Academic Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Academic Medicine is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Academic Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Academic Medicine is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .