Journal profile · AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Hearing Balance and Communication
ISSN 2169-5717 · eISSN 2169-5725 · Taylor & Francis
Hearing Balance and Communication: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; median 42 days to acceptance (41 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 55% (journal website); 25 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2023 (Volume 21, Issue 4): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Hearing Balance and Communication is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation and Vestibular and auditory disorders, together about 58.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Published by MedKnow from 2024. Hearing, Balance and Communication provides an international scientific and clinical forum for professionals to present research developments and novel clinical data in the rapidly expanding and inter-related fields of hearing, balance and communication medicine. The journal has a particular emphasis on medical, therapeutic and rehabilitative topics. Two issues per volume are dedicated to specific subjects of topical clinical or scientific relevance. In addition, regular issues will contain original research papers, basic science reviews, clinical reviews of conditions and treatment and an editorial. Moreover, short communications will include radiological and clinical cases together with historical, technical and pathological notes, book reviews and letters to the editor. The primary aim of the journal will be to raise standards of care for patients with hearing, balance and communication disorders. The journal is the official journal for the International Association of Physicians in Audiology (IAPA) including the British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP), the Chinese Association of Audiovestibular Physicians, the Danish Medical Audiological Society (DMAS) and the Egyptian Audio Vestibular Medicine Associaiton (EAVMA) as well as the Italian society, Societá Italiana di Audiologia e Foniatria (SIAF).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, GeneticsNeuroscience22.8%
- Hearing Loss and RehabilitationNeuroscience20.5%
- Vestibular and auditory disordersNeuroscience15.1%
- Noise Effects and ManagementHealth Professions7.8%
- Ear Surgery and Otitis MediaMedicine4.8%
- Neuroscience and Music PerceptionNeuroscience3.7%
- Hearing Impairment and CommunicationPsychology3.6%
- Ophthalmology and Eye DisordersMedicine3.1%
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 | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | 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
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCPubMedEmbasePublisher website
Other: EMCare (Elsevier), Medicing & Health (NLM)
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 (publisher) 2022
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2022
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2022
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.28LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2022
- 0.27Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.48LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2022
- 0.35Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 35OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 161OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.72OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 14.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 67.11%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 24LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 21,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 866 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| 2025 | 25 | 25 | 14 |
| 2024 | 25 | 25 | 32 |
| 2023 | 28 | 4 | 64 |
| 2022 | 49 | 7 | 117 |
| 2021 | 51 | 9 | 145 |
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
42 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 28 days – 63 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 82 days (41 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 154 days
- Sample
- 41 articles with submission and acceptance dates (46 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 55%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 77 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 110 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
Overview Open journals Open Select Dove Medical Press F1000Research
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 2169-5717
- Electronic ISSN
- 2169-5725
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 21, Issue 4 (2023)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Hearing Balance and Communication
What CAS zone is Hearing Balance and Communication in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Hearing Balance and Communication is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Audiology & Speech-language Pathology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Hearing Balance and Communication?
Based on the dates recorded on 41 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 42 days (interquartile range 28–63 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 55%. 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 Hearing Balance and Communication?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Hearing Balance and Communication is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists PMC, PubMed and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Hearing Balance and Communication open access, and what is the APC?
Hearing Balance and Communication 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, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .