Journal profile · Physics and Astronomy-Radiation
EJNMMI Physics
ISSN 2197-7364 · Springer International Publishing · Switzerland · Founded 2014
EJNMMI Physics: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.45; fully open access; APC about USD 2,590; median 163 days to acceptance (106 articles, last 24 months); 114 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
EJNMMI Physics is published by Springer International Publishing 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 Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, together about 47.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
EJNMMI Physics is an international platform for scientists, users and adopters of nuclear medicine with a particular interest in physics matters. As a companion journal to the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, this journal has a multi-disciplinary approach and welcomes original materials and studies with a focus on applied physics and mathematics as well as imaging systems engineering and prototyping in nuclear medicine. This includes physics-driven approaches or algorithms supported by physics that foster early clinical adoption of nuclear medicine imaging and therapy. EJNMMI Physics publishes original research articles, reviews, case reports, commentaries, and short communications, as well as article types with unique submission criteria, Young Investigator Articles and Teaching Files. Young Investigator Articles: This category is reserved for young scientists in the course of their MSc or PhD studies who wish to present part of their undergraduate and graduate research in a scientific framework. Manuscripts should follow the structure of an original research submission, however, the content may be comprised of several sub-projects. Typically, young investigator reports entail a scientifically sound summary report of a short-term project or a PhD thesis. Teaching Files: This category is reserved for manuscripts that aim at educating the readership on an important or common application of physics in nuclear medicine imaging and therapy. To introduce, explain, detail and summarise an observation, process, workflow related to the physics of nuclear medicine or hybrid imaging. The same trail of educational thoughts may be applicable to methodologies and applications of physics in nuclear medicine, e.g. image-guided dosimetry.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Physics and Astronomy-Radiation
Editor-in-chief Stefaan VandenberghePublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 6%); most named United States 5, Netherlands 5, Germany 4, France 4, United Kingdom 3 (36 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Medical Imaging Techniques and ApplicationsMedicine30.1%
- Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and ApplicationsMedicine9.8%
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingMedicine7.8%
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator TechnologiesPhysics and Astronomy6.9%
- Advanced Radiotherapy TechniquesPhysics and Astronomy6.7%
- Advanced MRI Techniques and ApplicationsMedicine6.4%
- Advanced X-ray and CT ImagingEngineering6%
- Radiation Dose and ImagingMedicine3.6%
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 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EmbaseCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
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
- 3.45LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.01LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.29LetPub ·
- h-index
- 55OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 393OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 14.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 111LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 726,700Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,028 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 111 | 111 | 29 |
| 2025 | 114 | 114 | 332 |
| 2024 | 107 | 107 | 774 |
| 2023 | 82 | 82 | 1,015 |
| 2022 | 91 | 91 | 1,426 |
| 2021 | 82 | 82 | 1,682 |
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
163 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 125 days – 223 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (106 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 194 days
- Sample
- 106 articles with submission and acceptance dates (251 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 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 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 | EUR 2,290 / USD 2,590 / GBP 1,990 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,490 / EUR 2,190 / GBP 1,890 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,690 / USD 2,290 / EUR 1,990 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,990 / USD 2,590 / EUR 2,290 | — | — |
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
Article types accepted10
- artefact reportsArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- commentariesArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- guideline articlesArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- letters to the editorArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- opinion articlesArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- original research articlesArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- reviewsArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- short communicationsArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- teaching file articlesArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
- young investigators articlesArtefact Reports Commentaries Letters to the Editor Short Communications Original Research Articles Young Investigators Articles Opinion Articles Reviews Teachi…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. EJNMMI Physics articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Comm…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Editorial policies are hosted on the Springer Open website. Model summary
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
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
- Springer International Publishing
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2014
- ISSN
- 2197-7364
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- 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 EJNMMI Physics
What CAS zone is EJNMMI Physics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, EJNMMI Physics is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of EJNMMI Physics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.45; CiteScore 5.3, h-index 55.
How long does peer review take at EJNMMI Physics?
Based on the dates recorded on 106 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 163 days (interquartile range 125–223 days); authors report an average review time of about 13 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of EJNMMI Physics?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Vancouver; Templates: LaTeX and Word. 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 EJNMMI Physics based?
Of the 36 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (5), Netherlands (5) and Germany (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index EJNMMI Physics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, EJNMMI Physics is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Embase, CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is EJNMMI Physics open access, and what is the APC?
EJNMMI Physics is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,590.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .