Journal profile · Medicine-Internal Medicine
Endocrine Connections
ISSN 2049-3614 · BioScientifica Ltd. · ENGLAND
Endocrine Connections: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.36; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 92 days to acceptance (106 articles, last 24 months); 195 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Endocrine Connections is published by BioScientifica Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Thyroid Disorders and Treatments and Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments, together about 23.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Endocrine Connections is a society-owned open-access journal offering authors the highest possible visibility for their work and stimulating cross-discipline collaboration. The journal publishes basic, translational and clinical research and reviews in all areas of endocrinology, including papers that deal with non-classical tissues as source or targets of hormones and endocrine papers that have relevance to endocrine-related and intersecting disciplines and the wider biomedical community. Topics include Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes, Cardiovascular, Thyroid, Adrenal, Bone and Mineral Metabolism, Hormones and Cancer, Pituitary and Hypothalamus, Paediatric Endocrinology, and Reproduction. The journal considers basic, translational and clinical studies. Endocrine Connections is brought to you by the Society for Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology: working together to further research, education and clinical practice in endocrinology.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Internal Medicine
Editor-in-chief Faisal AhmedPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine8.4%
- Thyroid Disorders and TreatmentsMedicine7.7%
- Pituitary Gland Disorders and TreatmentsMedicine7.3%
- Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth FactorsMedicine7.2%
- Adrenal Hormones and DisordersMedicine6.1%
- Hormonal Regulation and HypertensionMedicine5.8%
- Adrenal and Paraganglionic TumorsMedicine5%
- Ovarian function and disordersMedicine4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Endocrinology & Metabolism | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Endocrinology & Metabolism | Zone 3 |
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 | Endocrinology & Metabolism | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 3.36LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 60Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.05LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- h-index
- 12LetPub ·
- h-index
- 72OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 919OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.21OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 193LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,844 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 144 | 144 | 43 |
| 2025 | 195 | 195 | 382 |
| 2024 | 118 | 118 | 583 |
| 2023 | 165 | 165 | 1,727 |
| 2022 | 171 | 171 | 2,099 |
| 2021 | 204 | 204 | 3,186 |
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
92 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 71 days – 130 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (61 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 107 days
- Sample
- 106 articles with submission and acceptance dates (384 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 6 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 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 | GBP 2,100 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | GBP 1,750 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,750 | Yes | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open Access
Information on APCs, funder compliance, and your open access options. Read more about Open Access
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
From editorial screening to final decisions, explore our peer review process, including appeals and transfers. Read more about the Peer Review Process
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
- BioScientifica Ltd.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2049-3614
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 15, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Endocrine Connections
What CAS zone is Endocrine Connections in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Endocrine Connections is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Endocrinology & Metabolism. 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 Endocrine Connections?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.36; CiteScore 5, h-index 72.
How long does peer review take at Endocrine Connections?
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 92 days (interquartile range 71–130 days); authors report an average review time of about 6 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 Endocrine Connections?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Endocrine Connections is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Endocrine Connections open access, and what is the APC?
Endocrine Connections is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .