Journal profile · Rehabilitation
Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy
ISSN 1569-1861 · eISSN 1876-4398 · Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd · SINGAPORE · Annual
Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.59; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 270 days to acceptance (27 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 20 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy is published by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd 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 Occupational Therapy Practice and Research, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, together about 42.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy is the official peer-reviewed open access publication of the Hong Kong Occupational Therapy Association. The Journal aims to promote the development of theory and practice in occupational therapy (OT), and facilitate documentation and communication among educators, researchers and practitioners. It also works to advance availability, use, support and excellence of OT and maintain professional standards to promote better understanding of OT. View full journal description
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Rehabilitation
Editor-in-chief Kenneth N.K.Publisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Hong Kong, China 33, Singapore 5, Taiwan, China 3, United States 2, United Kingdom 2 (49 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Occupational Therapy Practice and ResearchHealth Professions19.6%
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement DisordersMedicine12.8%
- Stroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryMedicine10.2%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology5%
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationMedicine4.8%
- Assistive Technology in Communication and MobilityHealth Professions4.8%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchMedicine3.2%
- Orthopedic Surgery and RehabilitationMedicine3%
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 | Rehabilitation | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 4 |
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
- 1.59LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.38LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.82LetPub ·
- h-index
- 10LetPub ·
- h-index
- 30OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 114OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.98OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 17LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 360 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025 | 20 | 20 | 29 |
| 2024 | 14 | 14 | 50 |
| 2023 | 15 | 15 | 86 |
| 2022 | 18 | 18 | 126 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 | 85 |
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
270 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 164 days – 413 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 25 days (27 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 321 days
- Sample
- 27 articles with submission and acceptance dates (35 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)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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
- APA
- Not considered
- preprints
Article types accepted6
- commentaryThe journal welcomes Commentary papers that comment on contemporary professional and research issues in occupational therapy, new concepts, theories and models …Length not stated
- meta-analysisReview articles The journal accepts systematic reviews or meta-analyses of new and updated assessments and interventions in occupational therapy. These should a…Length not stated
- research paperReview articles The journal accepts systematic reviews or meta-analyses of new and updated assessments and interventions in occupational therapy. These should a…Length not stated
- reviewReview articles The journal accepts systematic reviews or meta-analyses of new and updated assessments and interventions in occupational therapy. These should a…Length not stated
- review articleReview articles The journal accepts systematic reviews or meta-analyses of new and updated assessments and interventions in occupational therapy. These should a…Length not stated
- systematic reviewReview articles The journal accepts systematic reviews or meta-analyses of new and updated assessments and interventions in occupational therapy. These should a…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. As a condition of publication authors are required to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data availability statement. This sho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publish…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd
- Country or region
- SINGAPORE
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Annual
- ISSN
- 1569-1861
- Electronic ISSN
- 1876-4398
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy
What CAS zone is Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Rehabilitation. 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.
What is the impact factor of Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.59; CiteScore 2.2, h-index 30.
How long does peer review take at Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy?
Based on the dates recorded on 27 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 270 days (interquartile range 164–413 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy based?
Of the 49 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Hong Kong, China (33), Singapore (5) and Taiwan, China (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy open access, and what is the APC?
Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .