Journal profile · Medicine-Medicine (all)
Acta Informatica Medica
ISSN 0353-8109 · eISSN 1986-5988 · Avicena Publishing
Acta Informatica Medica: subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 33 days to acceptance (55 articles, last 24 months); 56 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Acta Informatica Medica is published by Avicena Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Electronic Health Records Systems, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and Ophthalmology and Visual Health Research, together about 32.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health Information Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal Acta Informatica Medica (Acta Inform Med) is Official Journal of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Federation for Medical Informatics. Acta Informatica Medica was founded as official journal of YAMI–Yugoslav Association of Medical Informatics in 1990, but because of wartime in former Yugoslav countries journal started to print out in 1993 (Editors: Izet Masic and Zoran Ridjanovic). Also, Acta Inform Med has membership of EASE and COPE. Acta Informatica Medica is a peer-reviewed international quarterly journal published by Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 71000, Sarajevo, Mis Irbina 11, p. box 415. The journal is published in Mar, Jun, Sep, and Dec. Circulation of each issue is 300 copies. Journal publishing original research papers, professional papers, educational lectures and reviews, covering all issues in Medical and Biomedical informatics and Science communication in health care. Scope of interests of the journal includes: Medical/Health informatics, Biomedical informatics, System analysis, On-line databases, Classification systems, Medical documentation, Electronic Health Records, Clinical Decision Making, Artificial intelligence, Computer-assisted Learning, Distance Learning, Database Knowledge, Biomedical information, Information technologies in biomedicine, Signal processing, Science Editing, Biomedical Scientometrics, and Webometrics, History of Biomedical informatics.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Medicine (all)
Editor-in-chief ORCID IDPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Electronic Health Records SystemsHealth Professions18.8%
- Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsHealth Professions6.9%
- Ophthalmology and Visual Health ResearchMedicine6.4%
- scientometrics and bibliometrics researchDecision Sciences6%
- Artificial Intelligence in HealthcareHealth Professions5.5%
- Health and Medical Research ImpactsMedicine4.4%
- Medical Coding and Health InformationHealth Professions4.2%
- Nursing Diagnosis and DocumentationNursing3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCEmbaseCAB AbstractsDOAJPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, SCIMAGO INDEX
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.34LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.65LetPub ·
- h-index
- 50OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 334OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.82OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 772Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 389,923Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,047 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | 47 | 80 |
| 2024 | 42 | 40 | 98 |
| 2023 | 56 | 53 | 252 |
| 2022 | 49 | 47 | 355 |
| 2021 | 52 | 43 | 879 |
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
33 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 27 days – 35 days
- Acceptance to online
- —
- Submission to online
- —
- Sample
- 55 articles with submission and acceptance dates (55 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
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted8, with length limits
- case reportOriginal article should not contain more than 3,500 words, Review article more than 4,000 and Case report more than 1,500 words, including ReferencesLength not stated
- case studypublishing original articles, professional articles, reviews, viewpoints, and case studiesLength not stated
- letter to the editorManuscripts submitted as a Letter to the Editor:Should relate to a paper previously published in a journal;Have a word count of no more than 1,500 words;May con…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- original articleirst instance in the abstract and paper Original article should not contain more than 3,500 words, Review article more than 4,000 and Case report more than 1main text ≤ 3,500 words
- professional articlepublishing original articles, professional articles, reviews, viewpoints, and case studiesLength not stated
- reviewpublishing original articles, professional articles, reviews, viewpoints, and case studiesLength not stated
- review articleould not contain more than 3,500 words, Review article more than 4,000 and Case report more than 1,500 words, including References Generic drug names are used i…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- viewpointpublishing original articles, professional articles, reviews, viewpoints, and case studiesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship AUTHORSHIP
Authorship based on ICMJE criteria Model summary
Authorship credit should be based on the ICMJE criteria (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html):
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Endorses the Sarajevo Declaration on Integrity and Visibility of Scholarly Publications Model summary
Editorial team of the journals of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia & Herzegovina endorses the Sarajevo Declaration on Integrity and Visibility of Scholarly Publications aimed at improving the ethical standards, quality and implications of published articles
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Authors retain copyright under CC BY-NC 4.0 Model summary
Any reproduction is possible with a permission of the authors who retain copyrights under the following license agreement: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Gold Open Access publishing model Model summary
All manuscripts submitted to Acta Informatica Medica journal are assumed to be submitted under the Gold Open Access publishing model.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review after initial Editorial Board review Model summary
After initial review from Editorial Board, article will be sent to double-blind peer review
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
- Avicena Publishing
- ISSN
- 0353-8109
- Electronic ISSN
- 1986-5988
- Society / sponsor
- EFMI
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Acta Informatica Medica
How long does peer review take at Acta Informatica Medica?
Based on the dates recorded on 55 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 33 days (interquartile range 27–35 days). 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 Informatica Medica?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Acta Informatica Medica is indexed in Scopus. The journal's website also lists PMC, Embase, CAB Abstracts and DOAJ; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Acta Informatica Medica open access, and what is the APC?
Acta Informatica Medica is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .