Advances in Health Sciences Education

Advances in Health Sciences Education is published by Springer Netherlands and is in Zone 2 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, Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills and Medical Education and Admissions, together about 51.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Advances in Health Sciences Education (AHSE) is a forum for scholarly and state-of-the art research and scholarship into all aspects of health professions education including (but not limited to) medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, veterinary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dentistry, pharmacy, and nutrition. Articles that do not have a strong health professions education focus will not be considered. We publish empirical studies as well as discussions of theoretical issues and practical implications. The primary focus of the Journal though is linking theory to practice; thus, all submissions should engage with theory in some substantive way. Moreover, authors are encouraged to explore their study from multiple theoretical and analytical perspectives, and to include multiple converging studies if possible. Papers should also have some practical relevance for health professions education or health professions education scholarship. This should be made explicit and not left for readers (and editors and reviewers) to infer. The focus of any scientific paper is the research question. In an empirical paper, the literature review should lead to research questions and these questions in turn should set the agenda for the research methods and results. We acknowledge that whether it is called a research question, goal, or hypothesis is a paradigmatic issue. What does matter is that the question is answerable by the study design. This is what characterizes scientific questions. Having posed questions or hypotheses etc., authors should describe how their study has answered them. Studies that do not answer their own research questions will be rejected. Authors also need to demonstrate that their study questions have not been previously addressed and are important for the field. Empirical papers should employ rigorous methodologies, whether quantitative, qualitative, or mixed, and they should provide: 1) a rationale for their methodological orientation, 2) a clear description of the methodology they used, and 3) a clear description of the study design and the steps within. For hybrid methodologies, not only should each methodology be described and justified, the reasons for using variations on a methodology or a combination of methodologies must be provided along with a clear rationale and process for synthesizing findings across different approaches. Studies of a single course or program with weak evidence of effectiveness, such as student ratings,

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services

Editor-in-chief Rachel EllawayPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Canada 20, United States 10, Netherlands 4, Australia 2, Denmark 2 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS

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Impact

Impact factor

3.37LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

7.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.34LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.22LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

54LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

118OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,219OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.36OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

59.32%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

81LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

856,600Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

16 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Single anonymous 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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Tri-annual

Founded

1996

ISSN

1382-4996

Electronic ISSN

1573-1677

Latest issue on the website

Volume 31, Issue 4 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website