Journal profile · Medicine, General & Internal
Acta Clinica Croatica
ISSN 0353-9466 · eISSN 1333-9451 · Klinicka Bolnica Sestre Milosrdnice · CROATIA · Quarterly · Founded 1991
Acta Clinica Croatica: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.51; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review 6–12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 93 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Acta Clinica Croatica is published by Klinicka Bolnica Sestre Milosrdnice and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Anesthesia and Pain Management, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes and Airway Management and Intubation Techniques, together about 21.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Acta Clinica Croatica (Acta Clin Croat, ISSN 0353-9466 printed edition, ISSN 1333-9451 electronic edition) is an internationally peer reviewed general medical journal open to physicians and scientists from the field of biomedicine. Acta Clinica Croatica has been published continuously since 1962, bringing original scientific papers, professional papers, case reports, review articles, letters to the editor, etc.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal
Editor-in-chief Mirna Šitum ManuscriptsPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Anesthesia and Pain ManagementMedicine8.1%
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesMedicine7.4%
- Airway Management and Intubation TechniquesMedicine6.3%
- Tracheal and airway disordersMedicine6.2%
- Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery DiseasesMedicine5.9%
- Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5.8%
- Glaucoma and retinal disordersMedicine5.3%
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and ComplicationsMedicine4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 0.51LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.42LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.71LetPub ·
- h-index
- 18LetPub ·
- h-index
- 35OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 230OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.2OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 96.18%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 92LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,830 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | 93 | 5 |
| 2024 | 119 | 119 | 37 |
| 2023 | 170 | 170 | 283 |
| 2022 | 159 | 159 | 961 |
| 2021 | 118 | 118 | 657 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 4 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Peer review
- License & copyright
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Model summary
Prava korištenja: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
External review, equally domestic and foreign, only scientific and professional papers, double blind, double Model summary
Recenzija: vanjske recenzije, podjednako tuzemna i inozemna, samo znanstveni i stručni radovi, dvostruko slijepa, dvostruka
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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
- Klinicka Bolnica Sestre Milosrdnice
- Country or region
- CROATIA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1991
- ISSN
- 0353-9466
- Electronic ISSN
- 1333-9451
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Acta Clinica Croatica
What CAS zone is Acta Clinica Croatica in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Acta Clinica Croatica is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Medicine, General & Internal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Acta Clinica Croatica?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.51; CiteScore 1.7, h-index 35.
How long does peer review take at Acta Clinica Croatica?
Authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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 Acta Clinica Croatica?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Acta Clinica Croatica is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Acta Clinica Croatica open access, and what is the APC?
Acta Clinica Croatica is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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: .