Journal profile · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care
ISSN 1751-4258 · eISSN 1751-4266 · Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · UNITED STATES
Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.25; JCR Q3 (journal website); hybrid open access; 44 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 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 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Cancer survivorship and care and Pain Management and Opioid Use, together about 31.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
A reader-friendly resource, Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care provides an up-to-date account of the most important advances in the field of supportive and palliative care. Each issue contains either two or three sections delivering a diverse and comprehensive coverage of all the key issues, including end-of-life management, gastrointestinal systems and respiratory problems. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care is an indispensable journal for the busy clinician, researcher or student.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Editor-in-chief Sam AhmedzaiPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine14.6%
- Cancer survivorship and careMedicine8.8%
- Pain Management and Opioid UseMedicine7.9%
- Nutrition and Health in AgingMedicine7.4%
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchMedicine6.4%
- Pain Mechanisms and TreatmentsMedicine4.8%
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of LifeMedicine4.2%
- Oral health in cancer treatmentMedicine4.2%
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 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
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 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q3 · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES · rank 106/194
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- 2.25LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.61LetPub ·
- h-index
- 34LetPub ·
- h-index
- 66OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 604OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 15.32%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 37LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,155 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | 44 | 9 | 75 |
| 2024 | 47 | 13 | 178 |
| 2023 | 55 | 12 | 368 |
| 2022 | 36 | 10 | 299 |
| 2021 | 51 | 9 | 475 |
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
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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".
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.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1751-4258
- Electronic ISSN
- 1751-4266
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 20, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care
What CAS zone is Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services. 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 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.25; CiteScore 3.4, h-index 66.
What JCR quartile is Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q3; by category, HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES Q3 (106/194). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
Which databases index Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care open access, and what is the APC?
Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-24). Last updated: .