Annales Academiae Medicae Silesiensis

Annales Academiae Medicae Silesiensis is published by Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Katowicach. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior, Health and Lifestyle Studies and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, together about 23.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Annales Academiae Medicae Silesiensis (AAMS) is the official, interdisciplinary journal of the Medical University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland). Areas of interest include all disciplines of medical sciences and health sciences. It contains peer-reviewed original papers, experimental as well as clinical, and also review articles, case reports, communications and abstracts of papers from medical congresses and conferences in English (with the possibility of attaching the Polish version of the manuscript). The articles cover issues related to medicine and pharmacy, health care, rehabilitation and sports activity, dietetics and nutrition, public health and health risk management. They also cover issues at the intersection of medical and engineering sciences and the use of new technologies. AAMS has been published continuously since 1978. Since 2013, the original (reference) version of the journal has been available electronically at www.annales.sum.edu.pl. Since 2015, the articles have been published on the website as part of an annual, without any division into separate issue numbers. Access to articles is free of charge and does not require logging in. The journal is indexed in the Library of Science ICM UW, CAS, DOAJ, EBSCO, ICI Journals Master List (ICV 2024: 100.00), ICI World of Journals, Polish Medical Bibliography, Polish Scientific Journals Database, Sherpa Romeo. Ministry of Science and Higher Education – value 20. Since February 2021, AAMS is published in the open access (OA) system, and articles are made available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International), specifying the rules for their use. Please read the Regulations for publishing works in the "For Authors" tab. Articles sent to the Editorial Board via the Editorial System by the end of January 2021, in accordance with the previous publishing policy, have been published on the old terms (with a copyright notice and the transfer of the copyrights to the Publisher of the journal; these articles may be used only under fair use). The average waiting time for an article to be published, depending on the course of the review process and the timely return of the corrected version of the manuscript by the authors, is currently on 6 months. The publisher recommends that authors use the version published on the AAMS website for autonomous sharing/archiving of works and metadata in any repositories and journal indexing databases. Authors do not bear for any

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Impact

h-index

7OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

4OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.3OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 56 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 56 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Katowicach

Country or region

Poland

Language

English, Polish

ISSN

1734-025X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
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• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ