Journal profile · Multiple
Chronic Illness
ISSN 1742-3953 · eISSN 1745-9206 · SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD · ENGLAND
Chronic Illness: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.29; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 254 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 16.1% (journal website); 16 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Chronic Illness is published by SAGE PUBLICATIONS 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 Diabetes Management and Education, Chronic Disease Management Strategies and Primary Care and Health Outcomes, together about 42.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Chronic Illness is amongst the leading peer-reviewed journals for those who study, work with, manage or experience chronic illness. It integrates academic and clinical perspectives, and those of people living with long term medical conditions. Chronic Illness publishes high quality original research, reviews, discussions of topical issues, case studies and meeting … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Matthew Sorenson TexasPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 6, United Kingdom 5, Netherlands 3, Spain 2, Hong Kong, China 1 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diabetes Management and EducationMedicine21.6%
- Chronic Disease Management StrategiesMedicine15.3%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions5.3%
- Mental Health and Patient InvolvementHealth Professions4.6%
- Patient-Provider Communication in HealthcareHealth Professions4%
- Diabetes Management and ResearchMedicine3.8%
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of LifeMedicine3.4%
- Medication Adherence and ComplianceMedicine3.3%
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 | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
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 | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 1.29LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.82LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- h-index
- 67OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 410OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.12OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 15.84%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 16LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 835 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25 | 5 | 3 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5 | 25 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6 | 37 |
| 2023 | 68 | 37 | 280 |
| 2022 | 44 | 20 | 598 |
| 2021 | 62 | 35 | 799 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
254 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 16.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 208 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 254 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Colour charges
- GBP 100
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- Not considered
- preprint
Article types accepted16, with length limits
- case studyPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…Length not stated
- commentaries on classic papersShort reports, commentaries on classic papers and patients' comments should be no more than 1,000 words in length, excluding abstracts, tables and figures, and …Length not stated
- commentaryPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- correspondencePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…Length not stated
- discussion papersReview papers, discussion papers, and papers including substantive qualitative research should be no more than 5,000 words in length, excluding structured abstr…Length not stated
- meta-analysisPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…Length not stated
- original articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…Length not stated
- original paperPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…Length not stated
- original papersOriginal papers Should include: Title page: (1) title of the article; (2) first name(s) or initial(s) and surname of each author; (3) address of the department …Length not stated
- patients' commentsShort reports, commentaries on classic papers and patients' comments should be no more than 1,000 words in length, excluding abstracts, tables and figures, and …Length not stated
- quantitative research papersQuantitative research papers should be no more than 3000 words in length, excluding structured abstracts, tables and figures, and references.Length not stated
- research paperPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…main text ≤ 3,000 words
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…Length not stated
- review papersReview papers, discussion papers, and papers including substantive qualitative research should be no more than 5,000 words in length, excluding structured abstr…Length not stated
- short reportsShort reports, commentaries on classic papers and patients' comments should be no more than 1,000 words in length, excluding abstracts, tables and figures, and …Length not stated
- systematic reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, discussion…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
Research data sharing policy Model summary
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
COPE member Model summary
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
Email alerts available for latest table of contents and new online articles Model summary
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Production confirmed that …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor assigns manuscripts to AEs who then select reviewers. After review, AEs make recommendations to Editor, who then makes the final decision on all manuscripts. Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it do…
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
Preprints not accepted Model summary
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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 LTD
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1742-3953
- Electronic ISSN
- 1745-9206
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Chronic Illness
What CAS zone is Chronic Illness in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Chronic Illness is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services / Medicine, General & Internal / Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. 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 Chronic Illness?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.29; CiteScore 5.3, h-index 67.
How long does peer review take at Chronic Illness?
The publisher reports about 254 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 16.1%. 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 Chronic Illness?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; Templates: LaTeX and Word. 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 Chronic Illness based?
Of the 21 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (6), United Kingdom (5) and Netherlands (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Chronic Illness?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Chronic Illness is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Chronic Illness open access, and what is the APC?
Chronic Illness is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .