Journal profile · RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Advances in Respiratory Medicine
ISSN 2451-4934 · eISSN 2543-6031 · Via Medica · Switzerland
Advances in Respiratory Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 47 days to acceptance (108 articles, last 24 months); 60 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Advances in Respiratory Medicine is published by Via Medica 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 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Asthma and respiratory diseases, together about 32.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Advances in Respiratory Medicine is a journal of respiratory medicine, covering allergology, immunology, oncology, and infectious diseases of the respiratory system. It welcomes manuscripts related to respiratory system structure, physiology, pathology, diagnostics, and treatment. It includes, but is not limited to, manuscripts on the following subjects: Respiratory structure and physiopathology (including basic science, molecular aspects of pathology, mechanisms of lung injury and repair, immunology of the respiratory system, etc.); Clinical problems, rehabilitation, chronic care, and respiratory medicine (in general practice and primary care); Chronic airway diseases (asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, chronic cough, etc.); Infectious diseases of the respiratory system (including tuberculosis and non-tuberculosis mycobacterial diseases, COVID-19, AIDS, and diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites); Interstitial lung diseases (all aspects); Genetic diseases with respiratory manifestations (cystic fibrosis, A1AT deficiency, etc.); Pulmonary vascular diseases (vasculitis, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hypertension, etc.); Rare (orphan) diseases with respiratory system involvement; Respiratory intensive care (acute critical care, noninvasive ventilatory support, oxygen therapy, etc.); Thoracic oncology (lung cancer, pleural and mediastinal malignancies, etc.); Thoracic surgery and lung transplantation; Sleep-disordered breathing; Epidemiology and environment (occupational respiratory diseases, environmental exposure, tobacco, smoking control, etc.); Respiratory diagnostics (imaging, ultrasound, lung function testing, exercise testing, microbiology, endoscopic methods, etc.); Respiratory medicine in pediatrics (respiratory physiology and sleep, pediatric asthma and allergies, cystic fibrosis, respiratory infections, intensive care, epidemiology, diagnostics, etc.).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchMedicine14.4%
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisMedicine9.2%
- Asthma and respiratory diseasesMedicine9.2%
- Respiratory Support and MechanismsMedicine5.6%
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5%
- Medical Imaging and Pathology StudiesMedicine5%
- Pleural and Pulmonary DiseasesMedicine3.8%
- Respiratory and Cough-Related ResearchMedicine3.8%
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 | Respiratory System | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Respiratory System | 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
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- h-index
- 34OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 254OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.79OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 57LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,723 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 67 | 67 | 20 |
| 2025 | 60 | 60 | 113 |
| 2024 | 45 | 45 | 347 |
| 2023 | 46 | 46 | 709 |
| 2022 | 63 | 63 | 370 |
| 2021 | 112 | 112 | 638 |
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
47 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 36 days – 57 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 4 days (108 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 52 days
- Sample
- 108 articles with submission and acceptance dates (139 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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 6 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 1,300 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,300 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 1,300 | Yes | — | |
| 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 prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- Case Reports
Article types accepted20
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in ARM will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Published by MDPI on behalf of the Polish Respiratory Society. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article i…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
Case Reports are not considered in the journal. Model summary
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
ARM accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independently of…
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
- Via Medica
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2451-4934
- Electronic ISSN
- 2543-6031
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 94 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Advances in Respiratory Medicine
What CAS zone is Advances in Respiratory Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Advances in Respiratory Medicine is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Respiratory System. 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 Respiratory Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.5, h-index 34.
How long does peer review take at Advances in Respiratory Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 108 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 47 days (interquartile range 36–57 days); 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Advances in Respiratory Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. 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 Respiratory Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Advances in Respiratory Medicine is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Advances in Respiratory Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Advances in Respiratory Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .