Journal profile · RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine
ISSN 1179-5484 · eISSN 2976-8675 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine: impact factor 4.4 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; median 167 days to acceptance (18 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 15.4% (journal website); 3 articles a year; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine is published by SAGE Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research and Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, together about 29.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Therapeutic Advances in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is an international peer-reviewed journal which considers manuscripts on the pathophysiology and treatment of diseases affecting the respiratory system and critically ill patients. The journal welcomes unsolicited article proposals. All articles are listed on PubMed and are freely … | 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): RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Editor-in-chief Hussein D. FodaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 8%); most named United States 26, Italy 6, Mainland China 5, Japan 5, India 3 (62 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisMedicine11.4%
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchMedicine9.8%
- Respiratory Support and MechanismsMedicine8.3%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine7.5%
- Asthma and respiratory diseasesMedicine7.1%
- Pulmonary Hypertension Research and TreatmentsMedicine6.7%
- Inflammatory Myopathies and DermatomyositisMedicine3.9%
- Cystic Fibrosis Research AdvancesMedicine3.5%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
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)
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.28LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- h-index
- 29OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 78OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 80.95%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 158 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | 8 | 36 |
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 37 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 | 128 |
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
167 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 116 days – 200 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 27 days (18 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 201 days
- Sample
- 18 articles with submission and acceptance dates (19 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 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 15.4%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 222 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 30 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 5,000 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- 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 prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7
- letters to the editor– Submit letters if you wish to provide alternative viewpoints or offer counter arguments to previously published articles. These must be written in a professio…Length not stated
- original articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- systematic reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, 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 ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons licensing for manuscript content Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
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 may apply. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either di…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
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
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 Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1179-5484
- Electronic ISSN
- 2976-8675
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- 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 Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine
What is the impact factor of Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.4; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 29.
How long does peer review take at Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 18 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 167 days (interquartile range 116–200 days); authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 15.4%. 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 Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine based?
Of the 62 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 8%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (26), Italy (6) and Mainland China (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Clinical Medicine Insights-Circulatory Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
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: .