Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences is published by Informa Healthcare 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 Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control, Meta-analysis and systematic reviews and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, together about 25.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Aims and scopeJournal metrics Editorial board Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences publishes comprehensive and high quality review articles in all areas of clinical laboratory science, including clinical biochemistry, hematology, microbiology, pathology, transfusion medicine, genetics, immunology and molecular diagnostics. The reviews critically evaluate the status of current issues in the selected areas, with a focus on clinical laboratory diagnostics and latest advances. The adjective “critical” implies a balanced synthesis of results and conclusions that are frequently contradictory and controversial. Our aim is to meet the needs of and build a bridge between two constituencies: to allow clinical scientists to broaden their knowledge base to include the vocabulary, concepts, and information from the various fields of medicine that they require to perform their work; and to allow laboratory physicians to keep pace with the rapid developments taking place in scientific disciplines that directly impact their daily activities. The articles in this journal are accessible to a broad/non-specialist audience, in addition to the constituencies highlighted above. Therefore, introductory material should be included in each article to allow a non-specialist reader to understand the text that follows. The scope includes the clinical laboratory aspects of detection, prevention, diagnosis, monitoring, prognosis, and management of disease, including cancer and metabolic disease; biochemistry, genetics and immunobiology of disease; biomarkers and their application; genomic and proteomic approaches; and trends in clinical laboratory diagnostics. Reviews are generally solicited from international experts on the advice of members of the Editorial Advisory Board. However, other authors are encouraged to submit outlines of proposed reviews to the Editor-in-Chief for consideration, following which a formal invitation may be issued. Authors are recommended to recruit collaborators to help in forging a representative consensus and comprehensive coverage of the selected topic. Peer Review Policy: Two or more reviewers/editorial board members, with appropriate expertise in the field but no conflicts of interest, are assigned to referee each manuscript. Read full aims and scope

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medical Laboratory Technology

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

6.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

12.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.14LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

66LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

118OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

588OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

6.52OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

3.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

18.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

47LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly hardLetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Informa Healthcare

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1980

ISSN

1040-8363

Electronic ISSN

1549-781X

Latest issue on the website

Volume 63, Issue 6 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
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