Journal profile · Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Colorectal Disease
ISSN 1462-8910 · eISSN 1463-1318 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · ENGLAND · Bimonthly · Founded 1999
Colorectal Disease: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.27; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,480; median 85 days to acceptance (88 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: about 75%; 404 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Colorectal Disease is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments, Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes and Diverticular Disease and Complications, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Colorectal Disease is a journal devoted to the clinical problems that are directly relevant to adult (>18 years) patients with intestinal (small bowel, colon, rectum & anus) diseases & the multidisciplinary (surgical, medical, nursing, pathology, radiology, oncology) clinical teams that care for them.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Editor-in-chief Steven BrownPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 4%); most named United Kingdom 34, Italy 9, United States 7, Sweden 7, Australia 6 (119 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsMedicine20.6%
- Anorectal Disease Treatments and OutcomesMedicine10.8%
- Diverticular Disease and ComplicationsMedicine7.8%
- Pelvic floor disorders treatmentsMedicine7.3%
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and DetectionMedicine7.1%
- Colorectal and Anal CarcinomasMedicine6%
- Stoma care and complicationsMedicine4.4%
- Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesMedicine3.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 2.27LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.96LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.26LetPub ·
- h-index
- 77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 130OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,439OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.56OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 45.34%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 173LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 333Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 618,889Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 9,507 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 294 | 164 | 83 |
| 2025 | 404 | 222 | 532 |
| 2024 | 446 | 273 | 1,164 |
| 2023 | 396 | 235 | 1,664 |
| 2022 | 443 | 135 | 2,344 |
| 2021 | 539 | 137 | 4,926 |
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 Crossref · to
85 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 48 days – 137 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 28 days (99 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 120 days
- Sample
- 88 articles with submission and acceptance dates (758 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 1.5 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 75%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 19%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 30 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 70 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 27 daysPublisher 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 4,480 / EUR 3,750 / GBP 3,010 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Article types accepted4, with length limits
- original articleic statistical methods and results. 2.4 Original articles In general, Original Articles should not exceed 3000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, fi…main text ≤ 3,000 words
- protocoldx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.12.019.) Protocols should not exceed 4000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures and legendmain text ≤ 4,000 words
- review articleventions, epidemiology and diagnostics. Review Articles should not exceed 3000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures and legendmain text ≤ 3,000 words
- technical note004975) should be considered mandatory. Technical Notes should not exceed 2000 words and contain no more than 15 references and up to four illusmain text ≤ 2,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Data availability, Open access, Preprints
- AI use Artificial Intelligence Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools—such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs)—cannot be considered capable of initiating an original piece of research without direction by human authors. They also cannot be accountable for a published work or for research design, which is a generally held requirement of authorship (as discussed in the previous section), no…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author Contributions
For all articles, the journal mandates the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy)—more information is available on our Author Services site.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data sharing and accessibility
The journal expects authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alonside their paper. Please refer to the 'References' section below for guidance on citing d…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Licensing and Open Access
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the licence agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArxiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of their manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1999
- ISSN
- 1462-8910
- Electronic ISSN
- 1463-1318
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 28, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Colorectal Disease
What CAS zone is Colorectal Disease in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Colorectal Disease is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Surgery / Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 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 Colorectal Disease?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.27; CiteScore 4.5, h-index 130.
How long does peer review take at Colorectal Disease?
Based on the dates recorded on 88 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 85 days (interquartile range 48–137 days); authors report an average review time of about 1.5 months; the community-reported acceptance is “about 75%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 19% (2025). 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 Colorectal Disease based?
Of the 119 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 4%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (34), Italy (9) and United States (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Colorectal Disease?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Colorectal Disease is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Colorectal Disease open access, and what is the APC?
Colorectal Disease is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,480.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .