JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM is published by Oxford University Press 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 Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors, Thyroid Disorders and Treatments and Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments, together about 26.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism is the world’s leading peer-reviewed journal for research related to clinical endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism from investigators across the globe. JCEM will consider in scope: The full spectrum of translational research from discovery science to experimental medicine and from critical evaluation of new treatments to patient-population-related outcomes Novel developments that enhance understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of endocrine and metabolic disorders Original research that reveals insight into the metabolic-endocrine basis for, or treatment of, other related conditions including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and aging Innovations at the interface of technology and endocrinology that improve understanding, treatment of disease, and patient care, for example genomics and cell-based therapies, imaging, and digital/data-driven/artificial intelligence-enabled approaches JCEM will not consider: Research that falls outside of the journal’s scope of “clinical endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism”, as outlined above Research focused exclusively on animal or other pre-clinical data without direct clinical translation Isolated association studies that fail to validate or refute experimental data included within the same article Mendelian Randomization studies that lack clear mechanistic basis Research based primarily on self-reported patient data Clinical case reports, which should be submitted to our sister journal JCEM Case Reports

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Endocrinology & Metabolism

Editor-in-chief Paul M. StewartPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 10 in mainland China (about 9%); most named United States 31, Mainland China 10, United Kingdom 9, Japan 6, Germany 5 (113 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

5.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

11Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

5.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

11LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

11Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

2.15LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

328LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

491OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

40,372OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

5.85OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

37.43%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

553LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

5,891,920Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 1 monthLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly hardLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1952

ISSN

0021-972X

Electronic ISSN

1945-7197

Latest issue on the website

Volume 111, Issue 10 (October 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website