Journal profile · ANESTHESIOLOGY
Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
ISSN 0104-0014 · eISSN 2352-2291 · Elsevier · Netherlands
Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.18; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 149 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); 90 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology is published by Elsevier 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 Anesthesia and Pain Management, Anesthesia and Sedative Agents and Airway Management and Intubation Techniques, together about 37.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Official Publication of the Brazilian Society of AnesthesiologyThe Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (BJAN) is the official journal of the Brazilian Anesthesiology Society.The BJAN publishes original work in all areas of anesthesia, surgery, critical care, perioperative medicine, and pain medicine, including basic, translational, and clinical research, as well as education and technological innovation.The journal welcomes manuscripts in the following formats:Original investigationReviewCase reportLetter to the editorShort communicationClinical imageSince 2021, Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia (0034-7094) has merged into the Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (0104-0014), adopting English as its main publishing language.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ANESTHESIOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Liana Maria Torres dePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 74, Canada 20, United States 12, Italy 8, Germany 4 (136 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Anesthesia and Pain ManagementMedicine17.4%
- Anesthesia and Sedative AgentsMedicine11.8%
- Airway Management and Intubation TechniquesMedicine8.7%
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesMedicine7.7%
- Nausea and vomiting managementMedicine6.6%
- Pain Management and Opioid UseMedicine3.9%
- Enhanced Recovery After SurgeryMedicine3.8%
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and TherapyMedicine3.7%
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 | Anesthesiology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Anesthesiology | 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 | Anesthesiology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 2.18LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.14LetPub ·
- h-index
- 33OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 372OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.12OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 54LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,579 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 76 | 76 | 3 |
| 2025 | 90 | 90 | 89 |
| 2024 | 63 | 63 | 164 |
| 2023 | 57 | 57 | 182 |
| 2022 | 67 | 67 | 342 |
| 2021 | 346 | 346 | 2,440 |
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
149 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 78 days – 212 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 162 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (195 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 51 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 80 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 157 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 51 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | Yes | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted10, with length limits
- case reportCase report BJAN only accepts for publication clinical information or case reports that describe innovations, novelties or new clinical approaches for already e…Length not stated
- editorialEditorials must be submitted only with the editor-in-chief previous approval. Maximum of 2000 words, 15 references, 2 tables or figures. No abstract is neededmain text ≤ 2,000 words · references ≤ 15
- letter to the editorLetters to the editor should include constructive, objective and educational comments on already published BJAN papers or be freestanding.Length not stated
- meta-analysisOriginal investigationPrimary clinical, observational, or experimental research information. Each kind of study will contain different elements. A copy or link …Length not stated
- narrative reviewOriginal investigationPrimary clinical, observational, or experimental research information. Each kind of study will contain different elements. A copy or link …Length not stated
- protocolOriginal investigationPrimary clinical, observational, or experimental research information. Each kind of study will contain different elements. A copy or link …Length not stated
- rapid reviewRapid reviews aim to evaluate what is known about specific topics, guiding health policies.Length not stated
- reviewOriginal investigationPrimary clinical, observational, or experimental research information. Each kind of study will contain different elements. A copy or link …Length not stated
- scoping reviewScoping reviews may be an exercise to examine emerging evidence and evaluate specific questions before conducting a systematic reviewLength not stated
- systematic reviewOriginal investigationPrimary clinical, observational, or experimental research information. Each kind of study will contain different elements. A copy or link …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
BJAN adopts ICMJE criteria for authorship. Each author is required to declare his or her individual contribution to the article. All authors must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation, so roles for all authors should be described. The statement that all authors have approved the final article should be true and included in the disclosure statement.All authors shou…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other individuals or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work (Conflicts of Interest Statement). If there are no conflicts of interest, please state: "Conflicts of interest: none".
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Plagiarism and Editorial misconduct
The BJAN accepts only original articles that are not under consideration by any other journal and that have not been published before, except as academic theses, preprints, or abstracts presented at confer?ences or meetings. A cloud-based intuitive platform is used to compare submitted manuscripts to previous publications, and submissions must not contain any instances of plagiarism. Authors must …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND Model summary
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open access publishing Model summary
>Access rightsAll articles published as open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.User rightsPermitted reuse is defined by the following user license(s):Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND): allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and does not permi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review process Model summary
BJAN operates a double-blind review process
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism and Editorial misconduct
The BJAN accepts only original articles that are not under consideration by any other journal and that have not been published before, except as academic theses, preprints, or abstracts presented at confer?ences or meetings. A cloud-based intuitive platform is used to compare submitted manuscripts to previous publications, and submissions must not contain any instances of plagiarism. Authors must …
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 ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting guidelines
BJAN mandates the use of an appropriate reporting guideline when writing any health research manuscript. Guidance on each type of study and how to choose the correct reporting guideline can be found on the EQUATOR website, and authors must submit completed checklists for the relevant reporting guidelines (and flow diagram, if applicable) they followed along with the manuscript. Using a checklist h…
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
- Elsevier
- Country or region
- Netherlands
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0104-0014
- Electronic ISSN
- 2352-2291
- Society / sponsor
- Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
What CAS zone is Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Anesthesiology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.18; CiteScore 4.4, h-index 33.
How long does peer review take at Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 149 days (interquartile range 78–212 days); authors report an average review time of about 51 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 Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≤ 6; Reference style: Vancouver. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology based?
Of the 136 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (74), Canada (20) and United States (12). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology open access, and what is the APC?
Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .