Journal profile · GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Hepatology Communications
ISSN 2471-254X · Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 2017
Hepatology Communications: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 5.71; JCR Q1 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,700; median 86 days to acceptance (79 articles, last 24 months); 250 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Hepatology Communications is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Liver Disease and Transplantation and Liver Diseases and Immunity, together about 45.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Hepatology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Hepatology Communications is a peer-reviewed, online-only, Open Access journal for fast dissemination of high quality basic, translational, and clinical research in hepatology. Hepatology Communications maintains high standard and rigorous peer review. Because of its Open Access nature, authors retain the copyright to their works, all articles are immediately available and free to read and share, and it is fully compliant with funder and institutional mandates. The journal is committed to fast publication and author satisfaction.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Clinical ResearchPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine25%
- Liver Disease and TransplantationMedicine13.3%
- Liver Diseases and ImmunityMedicine6.8%
- Hepatitis C virus researchMedicine6.1%
- Hepatitis B Virus StudiesMedicine5.3%
- Alcohol Consumption and Health EffectsMedicine5%
- Liver physiology and pathologyMedicine4.8%
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisMedicine4.2%
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 | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
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 | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY · rank 26/153
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
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
- 5.71LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 11LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.42LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.4LetPub ·
- h-index
- 82OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,137OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.39OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.32%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 223LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,183 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 161 | 161 | 135 |
| 2025 | 250 | 250 | 1,211 |
| 2024 | 258 | 258 | 2,927 |
| 2023 | 338 | 338 | 5,542 |
| 2022 | 242 | 242 | 4,501 |
| 2021 | 253 | 253 | 7,049 |
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
86 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 45 days – 125 days
- Acceptance to online
- —
- Submission to online
- —
- Sample
- 79 articles with submission and acceptance dates (495 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 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 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 | USD 2,700 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,700 / EUR 2,450 / GBP 1,800 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,700 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 1,890 / USD 3,150 / USD 480 / USD 800 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- 1,890
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 prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 275 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted3, with length limits
- editorialmeeting ICJME criteria are prohibited. Editorials are invited by the Editor or Associate Editors and should be no longer than 1,500 words (including references)…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- original research articleOriginal Research Article: Full-length reports of completed basic, clinical, and experimental research reported in accordance with the Reporting Guidelines stat…Length not stated
- reviewnse to them as supplementary materials. Reviews of both basic and clinical topics should be no longer than 5,000 words (excluding references). The reference lis…main text ≤ 5,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Plagiarism, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Hepatology Communictions expects that each person listed as an author has participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, the analysis of data, and/or the writing of the manuscript to take public responsibility for it. Each author must have reviewed the manuscript, believes it represents valid work, and approves it for submission. Moreover, should the Editors request the data upon which the…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Financial Support and Competing Interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work by filling out and submitting the Copyright Transfer and Author Agreement Form. The agreement can be found here: https://bit.ly/CTA_HepatologyCommunications. The primary purpose of the Financial Disclosure section is to determine whether autho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Ethics approval statement required in Methods Model summary
All articles dealing with original human or animal data must include a statement on ethics approval within the Methods section, not in the supplementary material...
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Transfer and Author Agreement
Figure ownership/permissions Model summary
All authors must submit the author agreement and copyright transfer agreement, reflecting the manuscript ID of their submission, found here: https://bit.ly/CTA_HepatologyCommunications. Please be sure to completely fill out the Financial Disclosure section of the form, or write "nothing to disclose" in this section if no financial relationships are applicable. Manuscript files are checked for comp…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Originality Model summary
The Editors require that each manuscript is an original contribution and that it has not been, and will not be, submitted elsewhere while it is under consideration for publication in Hepatology Communications.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting Guidelines
Compliance with the relevant reporting guideline is mandatory for submission of the following guidelines. You need to: 1. Submit a completed checklist, indicating the page numbers where compliance was achieved 2. Mention in your methods section that the research is being reported in line with the relevant guideline which should be named and cited.
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
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 2017
- ISSN
- 2471-254X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 10, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Hepatology Communications
What CAS zone is Hepatology Communications in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Hepatology Communications is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Gastroenterology & Hepatology; it is a Top journal. 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 Hepatology Communications?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 5.71; CiteScore 11, h-index 82.
How long does peer review take at Hepatology Communications?
Based on the dates recorded on 79 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 86 days (interquartile range 45–125 days); authors report an average review time of about 8 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 JCR quartile is Hepatology Communications in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1; by category, GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY Q1 (26/153). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 2 of Medicine.
What are the manuscript requirements of Hepatology Communications?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 275 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; 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 Hepatology Communications?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Hepatology Communications is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Hepatology Communications open access, and what is the APC?
Hepatology Communications is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,700.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .