American Journal of Audiology

American Journal of Audiology is published by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 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 Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics and Hearing Impairment and Communication, together about 59.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Mission: AJA publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles pertaining to clinical audiology methods and issues, and serves as an outlet for discussion of related professional and educational issues and ideas. The journal is an international outlet for research on clinical research pertaining to screening, diagnosis, management and outcomes of hearing and balance disorders as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. The clinical orientation of the journal allows for the publication of reports on audiology as implemented nationally and internationally, including novel clinical procedures, approaches, and cases. AJA seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work. Scope: The broad field of clinical audiology, including audiologic/aural rehabilitation; balance and balance disorders; cultural and linguistic diversity; detection, diagnosis, prevention, habilitation, rehabilitation, and monitoring of hearing loss; hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing-assistive technology; hearing disorders; lifespan perspectives on auditory function; speech perception; and tinnitus.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY-OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

1.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.63LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.91LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

40LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

73OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

715OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.74OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

16.31%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

91LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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Publisher

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Founded

1991

ISSN

1059-0889

Electronic ISSN

1558-9137

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub