Journal profile
Acta Medica Leopoliensia
ISSN 1029-4244 · eISSN 2415-3303 · Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University · Ukraine
Acta Medica Leopoliensia: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 6 weeks (community reports); 25 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Acta Medica Leopoliensia is published by Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Medical and Biological Sciences, Healthcare Systems and Public Health and Human Health and Disease, together about 30.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Epidemiology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Acta Medica Leopoliensia (AML) aims to publish evidence-based research, reviews, and other articles types of interest to medical and healthcare professionals in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. Accordingly, the scope of interests includes priority research topics related to theoretical and clinical medicine in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Submissions with properly formulated hypotheses, innovative ideas, robust research and statistical methods, well-edited texts and abstracts, and validated references lists will be prioritized. To preserve and nurture traditions of this academic journal, expert opinion articles of Lviv academics and representatives of national and regional research and academic institutions will be regularly published. Priority of these type of actively solicited items will be evaluated in view of their relevance to the interests of Eastern European readership. The following is a non-exhaustive list of priority research topics: Innovations in pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of internal diseases common in Ukraine and East Europe Clinical aspects of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease) Medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic Diseases of ageing Organ transplantation Allergology and immunology Imaging and radiology Radiation hygiene in Eastern Europe War and medicine Innovations in established and emerging academic disciplines Digitization in clinical medicine
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Andriy Zimenkovsky DoctorPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Ukraine 16, Poland 3, United Kingdom 1, Sweden 1 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Medical and Biological SciencesMedicine11.1%
- Healthcare Systems and Public HealthMedicine10.6%
- Human Health and DiseaseMedicine8.9%
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine4.4%
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic ControlMedicine4.4%
- Diet and metabolism studiesMedicine3.9%
- Multiple and Secondary Primary CancersMedicine3.9%
- Medical and Pharmaceutic StudiesPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.9%
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
DOAJLetPub
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
- h-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.04OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 300 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2025 | 25 | 25 | 0 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 2 |
| 2023 | 28 | 28 | 7 |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 | 38 |
| 2021 | 28 | 28 | 36 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 6 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous 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 | |
| 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 websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Plagiarism
- Authorship Author contributions
The AML editors endorse principles of integrity and visibility of pre and post-publication communications presented by the Sarajevo Declaration on Integrity and Visibility of Scholarly Publications. In line with the Declaration, authors are advised to provide ORCID iDs with publicly available information. ORCID iDs of all co-authors with full and open information about correct first, middle, and l…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of interest disclosures
Authors are responsible for full disclosures of any financial and non-financial conflicts of interest that may compromise the trustworthiness of their manuscripts. Related disclosures should appear before manuscript References. Authors should familiarize themselves with the updated ICMJE statement on conflict of interest and submit the Disclosure of Interest form (updated February 2021) filled by …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and licensing
The authors of the AML retain copyright and allow the publisher to publish their manuscript as a primary article. All the published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons attribution license, which permits freely copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format, remix, transform, and build upon the material for commercial and non-commercial purposes. The authors may share …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication and charges
The AML Editors adhere to the latest editorial recommendations on transparency and best practice open access publishing. The following document is consulted on a regular basis for updating the Journal website and editorial policies: Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (written by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, WAME; updated January 15, 2018). The AML employs the Platinum Open …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism and related preventive procedures
The Journal Editors check all submissions for text and graphics similarities using the following free online platforms: Grammarly, Google Images. Additional checks of textual similarities will be performed by iThenticate plagiarism detection software. Authors are required to ensure that all parts of their manuscripts are free of any unethically copied texts, ideas, graphics, and violation of copyr…
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
- Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
- Country or region
- Ukraine
- Language
- English, Ukrainian
- ISSN
- 1029-4244
- Electronic ISSN
- 2415-3303
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- 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 Medica Leopoliensia
How long does peer review take at Acta Medica Leopoliensia?
Authors report an average review time of about 6 weeks. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Acta Medica Leopoliensia based?
Of the 21 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Ukraine (16), Poland (3) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Acta Medica Leopoliensia?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Acta Medica Leopoliensia is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Acta Medica Leopoliensia open access, and what is the APC?
Acta Medica Leopoliensia 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .