Journal profile · PSYCHIATRY
Journal of Attention Disorders
ISSN 1087-0547 · eISSN 1557-1246 · SAGE Publications Inc. · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1996
Journal of Attention Disorders: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.19; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,650; review about 226 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 119 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Attention Disorders is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, together about 55.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Attention Disorders (JAD) focuses on basic and applied science concerning attention and related functions in children, adolescents, and adults. JAD publishes articles on diagnosis, comorbidity, neuropsychological functioning, psychopharmacology, and psychosocial issues. The journal also addresses practice, policy, and theory, as well as review articles, … | 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): PSYCHIATRY
Editor-in-chief Michael Kofler FloridaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 112, Canada 9, Australia 3, Israel 3, United Kingdom 2 (138 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderMedicine38.7%
- Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchNeuroscience9%
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeuroscience7.8%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology7.2%
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical InnovationsNeuroscience6.6%
- Children's Physical and Motor DevelopmentPsychology5.4%
- Behavioral and Psychological StudiesPsychology4.3%
- Traumatic Brain Injury ResearchMedicine2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 3.19LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 62LetPub ·
- h-index
- 124OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,715OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.37OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 26.63%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 119LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,685 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 92 | 52 | 27 |
| 2025 | 119 | 72 | 330 |
| 2024 | 116 | 54 | 744 |
| 2023 | 166 | 81 | 1,958 |
| 2022 | 76 | 29 | 1,056 |
| 2021 | 91 | 38 | 1,903 |
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
226 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports 6–12 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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 226 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 46 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher 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.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Colour charges
- No colour charges
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Reference style
- APA
- Not considered
- narrative reviews; bibliographic reviews; rapid reviews; theoretical articles; commentaries; letters to the editor
Article types accepted13
- case presentations or program evaluationsThe journal welcomes manuscripts addressing timely, notable topics in practice, policy, and theory, as well as review articles, commentaries, in-depth analyses,…Length not stated
- commentaryBest Student Paper Award We are excited to announce a new initiative to recognize up-and-coming researchers! The JAD submission portal now includes an option to…Length not stated
- empirical research articlesThe journal welcomes manuscripts addressing timely, notable topics in practice, policy, and theory, as well as review articles, commentaries, in-depth analyses,…Length not stated
- letters to the editorBest Student Paper Award We are excited to announce a new initiative to recognize up-and-coming researchers! The JAD submission portal now includes an option to…Length not stated
- literature reviewBest Student Paper Award We are excited to announce a new initiative to recognize up-and-coming researchers! The JAD submission portal now includes an option to…Length not stated
- literature reviewsJAD additionally publishes unsolicited articles in three other sections: Research Into Practice, Research Briefs, and Literature Reviews.Length not stated
- meta-analysisBest Student Paper Award We are excited to announce a new initiative to recognize up-and-coming researchers! The JAD submission portal now includes an option to…Length not stated
- narrative reviewBest Student Paper Award We are excited to announce a new initiative to recognize up-and-coming researchers! The JAD submission portal now includes an option to…Length not stated
- research briefsJAD additionally publishes unsolicited articles in three other sections: Research Into Practice, Research Briefs, and Literature Reviews.Length not stated
- research into practiceJAD additionally publishes unsolicited articles in three other sections: Research Into Practice, Research Briefs, and Literature Reviews.Length not stated
- reviewBest Student Paper Award We are excited to announce a new initiative to recognize up-and-coming researchers! The JAD submission portal now includes an option to…Length not stated
- systematic literature reviews and meta-analysesFinally, the journal is interested in publishing systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses.Length not stated
- systematic reviewBest Student Paper Award We are excited to announce a new initiative to recognize up-and-coming researchers! The JAD submission portal now includes an option to…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. 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
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice p…
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 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 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
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1996
- ISSN
- 1087-0547
- Electronic ISSN
- 1557-1246
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Attention Disorders
What CAS zone is Journal of Attention Disorders in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Attention Disorders is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Psychiatry / Psychology, Developmental. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Attention Disorders?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.19; CiteScore 6.8, h-index 124.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Attention Disorders?
The publisher reports about 226 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 14%. 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 Journal of Attention Disorders?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 3; Reference style: APA. 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 Journal of Attention Disorders based?
Of the 138 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (112), Canada (9) and Australia (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Attention Disorders?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Attention Disorders is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Attention Disorders open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Attention Disorders is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,650.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .