Journal profile · EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
GMS Journal for Medical Education
ISSN 2366-5017 · German Medical Science GMS Publishing House · Germany
GMS Journal for Medical Education: CAS Zone 4 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 231 days to acceptance (103 articles, last 24 months); 62 articles a year; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
GMS Journal for Medical Education is published by German Medical Science GMS Publishing House and is in Zone 4 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Education Methods and Technologies, Health and Medical Studies and Sociology and Education Studies, together about 35.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
GMS Journal for Medical Education (GMS J Med Educ) – formerly GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung – publishes scientific articles on all aspects of undergraduate and graduate education in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and other health professions. Research and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted. There is a special focus on empirical studies which are methodologically sound and lead to results that are relevant beyond the respective institution, profession or country. Please feel free to submit qualitative as well as quantitative studies. We especially welcome submissions by students. It is the mission of GMS Journal for Medical Education to contribute to furthering scientific knowledge in the German-speaking countries as well as internationally and thus to foster the improvement of teaching and learning and to build an evidence base for undergraduate and graduate education. To this end, the journal has set up an editorial board with international experts. All manuscripts submitted are subjected to a clearly structured peer review process. All articles are published bilingually in English and German and are available with unrestricted open access. Thus, GMS Journal for Medical Education is available to a broad international readership. GMS Journal for Medical Education is published as an unrestricted open access journal with at least four issues per year. In addition, special issues on current topics in medical education research are also published. Until 2015 the journal was published under its German name GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung. By changing its name to GMS Journal for Medical Education, we wish to underline our international mission. GMS Journal for Medical Education is part of the non-commercial portal German Medical Science (GMS) which is run by the Board of the Scientific Medical Organizations in Germany (AWMF) in cooperation with ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. The journal is the organ of the DACH Society for Medical Education (GMA). The journal is indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed and its articles are hosted at the PubMed Central repository. It is also covered by the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of the Web of Science, since 2023 it has a Journal Impact Factor.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Education Methods and TechnologiesSocial Sciences16.2%
- Health and Medical StudiesHealth Professions12.2%
- Sociology and Education StudiesSocial Sciences6.8%
- Linguistic research and analysisArts and Humanities6.8%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine5.4%
- Medical Practices and RehabilitationHealth Professions5.4%
- Linguistic Education and PedagogyArts and Humanities5.4%
- Patient-Provider Communication in HealthcareHealth Professions4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPMCEmbasePublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.83LetPub ·
- h-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 8.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 62LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 46 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 36 | 36 | 0 |
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
231 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 177 days – 293 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 138 days (104 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 382 days
- Sample
- 103 articles with submission and acceptance dates (166 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 25 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 25 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 800 | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | EUR 800 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | EUR 400 / EUR 800 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- EUR 400
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
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted9
- articles3.2.1 Articles (up to 21,000 characters, abstract up to 1,800 characters)Length not stated
- book reviews and conference reportsThese are brief commentaries on books or events.Length not stated
- commentsResearch and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted.Length not stated
- discussion papersResearch and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted.Length not stated
- editorialsThese are brief texts that express opinions on a journal issue’s focal topic, individual articles, or topics of general importance to medical education and adva…Length not stated
- letters to the editor3.2.8 Letters to the editor (up to 2,500 characters) These contain comments on and discussions of published articles.Length not stated
- project reportsResearch and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted.Length not stated
- research and review articlesResearch and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted.Length not stated
- short communicationsResearch and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use 2.7. Use of AI-supported programs
Any use of AI-supported programs that goes beyond simple spelling or grammar checking, formatting and referencing aids (e.g., Microsoft Word spell checker, Citavi, Zotero) must be clearly indicated in the manuscript. The following information must be provided in an appropriate place in the manuscript for each tool used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship 2.2 Authorship and copyright
Articles submitted in English or German are translated into the other language. Model summary
In accordance with the DFG Code, authors are defined as those who have made a genuine, verifiable contribution to the content of a scientific publication (Guideline 14 of the DFG Code). Contributors to GMS journals are required to name all those involved in the scholarly work (conception, design, implementation, interpretation, manuscript preparation) as authors and to give appropriate considerati…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 2.3 Conflicts of interest/support
Financial or other kinds of support received from institutes or companies, as well as public funding, are to be listed in the acknowledgments or conflict of interests section. The author should disclose in an attached form any financial or other ties he or she has to a company whose products or whose competitor's products are central to the facts contained in the article. This information will be …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 2.2 Authorship and copyright
In accordance with the DFG Code, authors are defined as those who have made a genuine, verifiable contribution to the content of a scientific publication (Guideline 14 of the DFG Code). Contributors to GMS journals are required to name all those involved in the scholarly work (conception, design, implementation, interpretation, manuscript preparation) as authors and to give appropriate considerati…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access ZB MED advocates Open Access
Unrestricted open access journal with at least four issues per year. Model summary
ZB MED promotes and supports open access to scientific research through the PUBLISSO portal and other services.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 4. Review process
Peer review Model summary
The editorial office of GMS J Med Educ confirms the receipt of each manuscript. Each submitted manuscript first undergoes a formal review by the editorial office and a content review by the editorial board or the editorial committee. If approved, the manuscript then undergoes a peer review process to assess its originality and scientific quality. At least two reviews are obtained for each manuscri…
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
- German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
- Country or region
- Germany
- Language
- English, German
- ISSN
- 2366-5017
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about GMS Journal for Medical Education
What CAS zone is GMS Journal for Medical Education in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, GMS Journal for Medical Education is in Zone 4 of Education, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Education, Scientific Disciplines. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at GMS Journal for Medical Education?
Based on the dates recorded on 103 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 231 days (interquartile range 177–293 days); authors report an average review time of about 25 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 GMS Journal for Medical Education?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Vancouver; Cover letter: Required. 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.
Which databases index GMS Journal for Medical Education?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, GMS Journal for Medical Education is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PMC and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is GMS Journal for Medical Education open access, and what is the APC?
GMS Journal for Medical Education is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
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: .