Journal profile
Current Medical Issues
ISSN 0973-4651 · eISSN 2666-4054 · Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications · India
Current Medical Issues: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 45 days to acceptance (85 articles, last 24 months); 67 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Current Medical Issues is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovations in Medical Education, Health and Medical Education and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, together about 27% of its articles. Its main subfields are Emergency Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Editor-in-chief KPP AbhilashPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine12%
- Health and Medical EducationHealth Professions8.3%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine6.7%
- Medical research and treatmentsMedicine6.7%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine6.2%
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchMedicine5.3%
- Poisoning and overdose treatmentsMedicine5.1%
- Diabetes Management and ResearchMedicine4.9%
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
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 12OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 19OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.49OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 715 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 99 | 99 | 182 |
| 2025 | 67 | 67 | 171 |
| 2024 | 59 | 59 | 171 |
| 2023 | 56 | 56 | 141 |
| 2022 | 64 | 64 | 143 |
| 2021 | 72 | 72 | 139 |
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
45 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 36 days – 59 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 109 days (85 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 158 days
- Sample
- 85 articles with submission and acceptance dates (164 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 19 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 27 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-NC-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
- Country or region
- India
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0973-4651
- Electronic ISSN
- 2666-4054
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 24, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Current Medical Issues
How long does peer review take at Current Medical Issues?
Based on the dates recorded on 85 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 45 days (interquartile range 36–59 days); authors report an average review time of about 19 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.
Which databases index Current Medical Issues?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Current Medical Issues is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Current Medical Issues open access, and what is the APC?
Current Medical Issues 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, 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: .