Journal profile · RHEUMATOLOGY
Indian Journal of Rheumatology
ISSN 0973-3698 · eISSN 0973-3701 · Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications · India
Indian Journal of Rheumatology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 108 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 34.6% (journal website); 63 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Indian Journal of Rheumatology is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 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 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research and Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research, together about 39.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Rheumatology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Indian Journal of Rheumatology is an open access, peer reviewed journal which publishes high-quality empirical original research and review articles pertaining to all domains of Rheumatology. Articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license . It started in 2006 as the official publication of Indian Rheumatology Association and is a … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): RHEUMATOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Durga PrasannaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named India 131, United States 13, United Kingdom 9, Italy 5, Türkiye 3 (173 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and TherapiesMedicine17.6%
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ResearchMedicine14.8%
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders ResearchMedicine7.5%
- Spondyloarthritis Studies and TreatmentsMedicine6.9%
- Systemic Sclerosis and Related DiseasesMedicine5.8%
- Vasculitis and related conditionsMedicine5.3%
- Inflammatory Myopathies and DermatomyositisMedicine4.3%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.2%
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 | Rheumatology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Rheumatology | 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
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
- 1.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.26LetPub ·
- h-index
- 21OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 99OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.45OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 16.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,969 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | 59 | 2 |
| 2025 | 63 | 63 | 12 |
| 2024 | 77 | 77 | 75 |
| 2023 | 59 | 59 | 94 |
| 2022 | 161 | 161 | 308 |
| 2021 | 118 | 118 | 256 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
108 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports about 13 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 34.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 35 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 108 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 38 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 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-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 4,000 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
Article types accepted4
- editorialThese updated guidelines are effective from March 2026. General Type the manuscript using 'Times New Roman' font, size 12 in double space throughout. Please ref…Length not stated
- original articleThese updated guidelines are effective from March 2026. General Type the manuscript using 'Times New Roman' font, size 12 in double space throughout. Please ref…Length not stated
- reviewThese updated guidelines are effective from March 2026. General Type the manuscript using 'Times New Roman' font, size 12 in double space throughout. Please ref…Length not stated
- review articleThese updated guidelines are effective from March 2026. General Type the manuscript using 'Times New Roman' font, size 12 in double space throughout. Please ref…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 Author contributions
Copyright held by the Indian Rheumatology Association (IRA). Model summary
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
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. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
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
No APCs currently Model summary
Indian Journal of Rheumatology 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. There are currently no Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish in this journal. For general information on open access at Sage please visit the Open Access …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Double Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor/Associate 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 m…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism check
IJR strives to publish only honest original work, and any form of plagiarism is viewed very seriously. The manuscripts identified such would be rejected/ after publication would be retracted with formal communication to the head of institution and/or other relevant authorities. To detect plagiarism, your article may be checked by softwares after submission. Data availability The Journal is committ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
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
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
- Country or region
- India
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0973-3698
- Electronic ISSN
- 0973-3701
- Society / sponsor
- Indian Rheumatology Association
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Indian Journal of Rheumatology
What CAS zone is Indian Journal of Rheumatology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Indian Journal of Rheumatology is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Rheumatology. 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 Indian Journal of Rheumatology?
The publisher reports about 108 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of about 13 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 34.6%. 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 Indian Journal of Rheumatology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 4,000 words; Reference style: AMA; Suggested reviewers: 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Indian Journal of Rheumatology based?
Of the 173 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (131), United States (13) and United Kingdom (9). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Indian Journal of Rheumatology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Indian Journal of Rheumatology is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Indian Journal of Rheumatology open access, and what is the APC?
Indian Journal of Rheumatology 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, Publisher website, OpenAlex, 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: .