Journal profile · Medicine-Surgery
Brain Hemorrhages
ISSN 2589-238X · KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. · China
Brain Hemorrhages: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 980; review about 10 weeks (community reports); 51 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Brain Hemorrhages is published by KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 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 Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research, Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications and Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications, together about 44% of its articles. Its main subfields are Neurology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Brain Hemorrhages is an open-access journal that aims to provide an academic exchange platform for neurology, specifically brain hemorrhages, at an...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Surgery
Editor-in-chief Zhouping TangPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 15 in mainland China (about 33%); most named United States 18, Mainland China 15, Japan 3, Canada 3, Germany 2 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ResearchMedicine21.8%
- Neurosurgical Procedures and ComplicationsMedicine11.4%
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and ComplicationsMedicine10.9%
- Acute Ischemic Stroke ManagementMedicine10.2%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine8.7%
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19Medicine4.5%
- Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine4.5%
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsNeuroscience4.1%
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 | Clinical Neurology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | 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)
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.43LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.48LetPub ·
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 40OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.55OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 20%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 95.76%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 43LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 296 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | 23 | 15 |
| 2025 | 51 | 51 | 111 |
| 2024 | 45 | 45 | 178 |
| 2023 | 43 | 43 | 163 |
| 2022 | 44 | 44 | 212 |
| 2021 | 41 | 41 | 232 |
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)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 | USD 980 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 980 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 980 | — | — |
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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- AMA
Article types accepted7
- letters to the editorContributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor and short commu…Length not stated
- original research paperContributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor and short commu…Length not stated
- original research papersContributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor and short commu…Length not stated
- reviewContributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor and short commu…Length not stated
- reviewsContributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor and short commu…Length not stated
- short communicationContributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor and short commu…Length not stated
- short communicationsContributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor and short commu…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship Statement
For transparency, we encourage authors to submit an author statement file outlining their individual contributions to the paper using the relevant CRediT roles: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Roles/Writing - original draft; Writing - review & edi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Declaration of competing interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should complete the declaration of compe…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
CC BY-NC-ND license Model summary
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'. Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement. If excerpts from oth…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open access publication Model summary
Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in this journal will be published open access. This means that the article is universally and freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity, in an easily readable format immediately after publication. To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
This journal operates a double anonymized review process. All contributions are typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The editor's decision is final. Editors are not involved in decisions about papers which they have written themse…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
iThenticate CrossCheck plagiarism screening Model summary
Submissions to KeAi journals are automatically screened using iThenticate's CrossCheck within the editorial system to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint references
Where a preprint has subsequently become available as a peer-reviewed publication, the formal publication should be used as the reference. If there are preprints that are central to your work or that cover crucial developments in the topic, but are not yet formally published, these may be referenced. Preprints should be clearly marked as such, for example by including the word preprint, or the nam…
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
- KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
- Country or region
- China
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2589-238X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- 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 Brain Hemorrhages
What CAS zone is Brain Hemorrhages in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Brain Hemorrhages is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Clinical Neurology. 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 Brain Hemorrhages?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.5, h-index 17.
How long does peer review take at Brain Hemorrhages?
Authors report an average review time of about 10 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Brain Hemorrhages based?
Of the 46 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 15 (about 33%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (18), Mainland China (15) and Japan (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Brain Hemorrhages?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Brain Hemorrhages is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Brain Hemorrhages open access, and what is the APC?
Brain Hemorrhages is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 980.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .