Journal profile · Engineering, Biomedical
Biorheology
ISSN 0006-355X · eISSN 1878-5034 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) · NETHERLANDS · Bimonthly · Founded 1962
Biorheology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 2.25; subscription journal; APC about USD 4,150; review over 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 5 articles a year; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Biorheology is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) and is classed under Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Blood properties and coagulation, Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology and Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, together about 49.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
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From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Biomedical
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Blood properties and coagulationMedicine27.9%
- Erythrocyte Function and PathophysiologyMedicine13.6%
- Rheology and Fluid Dynamics StudiesChemical Engineering7.7%
- Osteoarthritis Treatment and MechanismsMedicine4.4%
- Coronary Interventions and DiagnosticsMedicine3.8%
- Cardiovascular Health and Disease PreventionMedicine3.8%
- Cellular Mechanics and InteractionsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.3%
- Cell Adhesion Molecules ResearchMedicine2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biophysics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Hematology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biophysics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Hematology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- 2.25LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.32LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- h-index
- 62LetPub ·
- h-index
- 105OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,192OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.14OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 5LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,387 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | 3 | 8 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| 2021 | 15 | 3 | 27 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| 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 prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted9
- book reviewThese types of manuscripts will be considered for publication: 1) Full length articles. These are reports of original research and have an abstract. 2) Brief Co…Length not stated
- brief communicationThese types of manuscripts will be considered for publication: 1) Full length articles. These are reports of original research and have an abstract. 2) Brief Co…Length not stated
- brief communications2) Brief Communications. These are short, often preliminary, reports of new research. They should have an abstract and should not exceed 6 journal pages.Length not stated
- full length articles1) Full length articles. These are reports of original research and have an abstract.Length not stated
- letters to the editorThese types of manuscripts will be considered for publication: 1) Full length articles. These are reports of original research and have an abstract. 2) Brief Co…Length not stated
- opinionThese types of manuscripts will be considered for publication: 1) Full length articles. These are reports of original research and have an abstract. 2) Brief Co…Length not stated
- original researchThese types of manuscripts will be considered for publication: 1) Full length articles. These are reports of original research and have an abstract. 2) Brief Co…Length not stated
- review articleThese types of manuscripts will be considered for publication: 1) Full length articles. These are reports of original research and have an abstract. 2) Brief Co…Length not stated
- review articles3) Review articles. Up-to-date accounts on the state of subjects of interest to the journal.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, fees will be determined and applied at production stage. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
Clinical trial registration required Model summary
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
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
- SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- Country or region
- NETHERLANDS
- Language
- Multi-Language
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1962
- ISSN
- 0006-355X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1878-5034
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Biorheology
What CAS zone is Biorheology in?
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 Biorheology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.25; CiteScore 1.9, h-index 105.
How long does peer review take at Biorheology?
Authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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 Biorheology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not 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 Biorheology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Biorheology is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Biorheology open access, and what is the APC?
Biorheology is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .