Journal profile · GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Advances in Digestive Medicine
ISSN 2351-9797 · eISSN 2351-9800
Advances in Digestive Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.5 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,100; median 108 days to acceptance (24 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 46% (journal website); 41 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Advances in Digestive Medicine 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 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes and Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments, together about 23.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Advances in Digestive Medicine is the official peer-reviewed journal of GEST, DEST and TASL. Missions of AIDM are to enhance the quality of patient care, to promote researches in gastroenterology, endoscopy and hepatology related fields, and to develop platforms for digestive science.Specific areas of interest are included, but not limited to: • Acid-related disease • Small intestinal disease • Digestive cancer • Diagnostic & therapeutic endoscopy • Enteral nutrition • Innovation in endoscopic technology • Functional GI • Hepatitis • GI images • Liver cirrhosis • Gut hormone • NASH • Helicobacter pylori • Cancer screening • IBD • Laparoscopic surgery • Infectious disease of digestive tract • Genetics and metabolic disorder • Microbiota • Regenerative medicine • Pancreaticobiliary disease • Guideline & consensus AIDM aims to promote basic and clinical researches in digestive diseases, and to disseminate these up-to-date advances in gastroenterology, endoscopy and hepatology to the international community of medical and healthcare professionals. Authors are welcome to submit reviews, perspectives, original articles, short communications, case reports, images and challenges, and letters to the editor for consideration.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Chun-Ying WuPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine8.9%
- Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesMedicine7.9%
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatmentsMedicine6.6%
- Esophageal and GI PathologyMedicine6.3%
- Hepatitis C virus researchMedicine5.6%
- Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and TreatmentMedicine4.9%
- Hepatitis B Virus StudiesMedicine4.2%
- Gastroesophageal reflux and treatmentsMedicine4.2%
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 | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCILetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceEmbasePublisher 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 (publisher)
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 11OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.32OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 20%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 13.33%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 27Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 72,199Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 607 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025 | 41 | 34 | 7 |
| 2024 | 46 | 32 | 29 |
| 2023 | 26 | 17 | 12 |
| 2022 | 53 | 32 | 46 |
| 2021 | 47 | 30 | 53 |
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
108 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 44 days – 174 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 212 days (26 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 349 days
- Sample
- 24 articles with submission and acceptance dates (67 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 46%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 46%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 49 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 49 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 133 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 292 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,100 / EUR 1,890 / GBP 1,680 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 500 words
- Keywords
- 3–6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 1,200 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Optional
Article types accepted7
- case imageCase Image These present a striking clinical image for the evaluation of unusual or interesting diagnostic features.Length not stated
- editorialEditorial These are usually written by invited authors or editorial board members and are comments on recent news or articles published in the Journal.Length not stated
- letter to the editorLetter to the Editor Letters are welcome in response to previously published AIDM articles and may also include interesting cases that do not meet the requireme…Length not stated
- original articleOriginal Article These articles typically include randomized trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, laboratory and animal stud…Length not stated
- perspectivePerspective These are comments on recent news or ground-breaking work and should provide a short review of the current state of research and explain the importa…Length not stated
- review articleReview Article These should aim to provide the reader with a balanced overview of an important and topical subject in digestive medicine, emphasizing factors su…Length not stated
- short communicationShort Communication These reports should be concise presentations of preliminary experimental results or technical aspects of clinical or experimental practice …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review
- Authorship Authorship
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual's objectivity is potentially compromised by a desire for financial gain, prominence, professional advancement or a successful outcome. AIDM Editors strive to ensure that what is published in the Journal is as balanced, objective and evidence-based as possible. Since it can be difficult to distinguish between an actual conflict of interest and a perc…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical Approval of Studies and Informed Consent
Publication ethics commitment. Model summary
For human or animal experimental investigations, appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee approval is required, and such approval should be stated in the methods section of the manuscript. For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki should be followed (World Medical Association. Declaration of Hel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
CTA or Open Access (CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND). Model summary
AIDM is the official peer-reviewed publication of The Gastroenterological Society of Taiwan (GEST), The Digestive Endoscopy Society of Taiwan (DEST) and Taiwan Association for the Study of the Liver (TASL).Manuscripts with CTA published in the AIDM become the permanent property of GEST, DEST and TASL. All articles published in the Journal with CTA are protected by copyright, which covers the exclu…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review The Editorial and Peer Review Process
Single anonymized peer review process. Model summary
As a general rule, the receipt of a manuscript will be acknowledged within 2 weeks of submission, and authors will be provided with a manuscript reference number for future correspondence. If such an acknowledgment is not received in a reasonable period of time, the author should contact the Editorial Office.Submissions are reviewed by the Editorial Office to ensure that it contains all parts. Sub…
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
- ISSN
- 2351-9797
- Electronic ISSN
- 2351-9800
- Society / sponsor
- Gastroenterological Society of Taiwan
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Advances in Digestive Medicine
What CAS zone is Advances in Digestive Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Advances in Digestive Medicine is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 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 Advances in Digestive Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.5 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 10.
How long does peer review take at Advances in Digestive Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 24 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 108 days (interquartile range 44–174 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 46% (2025). 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Advances in Digestive Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 500 words; Keywords: 3–6; Manuscript length: ≤ 1,200 words; Reference style: Vancouver; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Cover letter: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Advances in Digestive Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Advances in Digestive Medicine is indexed in ESCI. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Advances in Digestive Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Advances in Digestive Medicine is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,100.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .