Journal profile · ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
Journal of Diabetes
ISSN 1753-0393 · eISSN 1753-0407 · Wiley-Blackwell · PEOPLES R CHINA
Journal of Diabetes: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 5.87; fully open access; APC about USD 3,000; median 113 days to acceptance (75 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 163 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Diabetes is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Diabetes Treatment and Management, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins and Diabetes Management and Research, together about 39.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Diabetes (JDB) devotes itself to diabetes research, therapeutics, and education. It aims to involve researchers and practitioners in a dialogue between East and West via all aspects of epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, management, complications and prevention of diabetes, including the molecular, biochemical, and physiological aspects of diabetes. The Editorial team is international with a unique mix of Asian and Western participation.The Editors welcome submissions in form of original research articles, reviews, novel case reports, letters to the editor and research letters, and will solicit point-counterpoint, commentaries, editorials and meeting abstract. Readership Clinical doctors and researchers in diabetes Keywords diabetes, research, therapeutics, endocrinology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, prevention Abstracting and Indexing Information Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI) Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing) CAB Abstracts® (CABI) CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS) Crop Physiology Abstracts (CABI) Current Contents: Clinical Medicine (Clarivate Analytics) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Embase (Elsevier) Global Health (CABI) Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest) Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest) Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest) Leisure, Recreation & Tourism Abstracts (CABI) MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM) Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews Series A: Human & Experimental (CABI) Open Access Journal Index – OAJ (NSLC & CEPIEC) Plant Breeding Abstracts (CABI) Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts (CABI) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) Review of Aromatic & Medicinal Plants (CABI) Rural Development Abstracts (CABI) Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Soybean Abstracts Online (CABI) Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) Journal of Diabetes
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
Editor-in-chief Zachary T. BloomgardenPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 51 in mainland China (about 46%); most named Mainland China 51, United States 20, Japan 8, India 8, Australia 6 (111 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diabetes Treatment and ManagementMedicine14.4%
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and LipoproteinsMedicine12.8%
- Diabetes Management and ResearchMedicine11.9%
- Diabetes and associated disordersBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7%
- Pancreatic function and diabetesMedicine6.7%
- Metabolism, Diabetes, and CancerBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.8%
- Hyperglycemia and glycemic control in critically ill and hospitalized patientsMedicine4.1%
- Diabetes Management and EducationMedicine3.9%
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 | Endocrinology & Metabolism | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Endocrinology & Metabolism | Zone 2 |
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 | Endocrinology & Metabolism | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCASCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 5.87LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 5.9Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 7.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.44LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.27LetPub ·
- h-index
- 36LetPub ·
- h-index
- 75OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 910OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.71OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 94LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 136Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 492,411Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,172 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 99 | 99 | 46 |
| 2025 | 163 | 163 | 529 |
| 2024 | 149 | 149 | 1,360 |
| 2023 | 183 | 183 | 2,126 |
| 2022 | 109 | 109 | 1,068 |
| 2021 | 104 | 51 | 1,108 |
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
113 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 39 days – 215 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (84 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 135 days
- Sample
- 75 articles with submission and acceptance dates (281 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)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 101 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 14 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 3,000 / GBP 2,330 / EUR 2,550 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 3,000 / EUR 2,550 / GBP 2,325 | — | — | |
| 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 prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7, with length limits
- case reportn either basic or clinical science. (2) Case Reports Word limit: 1,000 words maximum excluding references, tables and figures. Abstract:main text ≤ 1,000 words
- commentaryce to the scope of the letter type. (5) Commentaries Word limit: 1,500 words maximum excluding references. Title: 20 words maximum. Abstmain text ≤ 1,500 words
- correspondencee on an aspect of practice/policy. (12) Correspondence Word limit: 1,500 words maximum. Abstract: not required. Figures/Tables: 1 maximum.main text ≤ 1,500 words
- editorialblication will undergo peer review. (8) Editorials [by invitation of Editors] Word Limit: 1,500 words maximum. Abstract: not required. References: No limit. Des…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- original articleal policy. 4. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES (1) Original Articles Word limit: 4,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding the highlights ofmain text ≤ 4,000 words
- reviewJDB adopts single anonymised peer review. In order to assure full assessment all manuscripts are reviewed by three members of the editorial group and a decision…Length not stated
- review articlein the wider context of the field. (6) Review Articles Word limit: 3000-5,000 words including abstract but excluding the highlights of the studmain text ≤ 5,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Correction to authorship
In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, JDB will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author li…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 3. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Authorship and AcknowledgementsThe journal adheres to the definition of authorship set up by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria: i) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; ii) Drafting the work or rev…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 8. OPEN ACCESS, COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING
Journal of Diabetes has joined Wiley’s Open Access portfolio as of January 2022. As a result, all submissions received from 15 September 2021 are subject to an Article Publication Charge if accepted and published in the journal (unless a waiver is applied). While Journal of Diabetes does not charge any submission fees, authors of accepted articles are asked to pay an Article Publication Charge to …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Understanding Open Access
As of January 2022, all papers in Journal of Diabetes is now freely available to read, download and share upon publication. Watch the video and learn more:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Review Process
JDB adopts single anonymised peer review. In order to assure full assessment all manuscripts are reviewed by three members of the editorial group and a decision is made whether to send for external review within 2 weeks. Manuscripts are assigned sequentially to Associate Editors. An Associate Editor solicits reviewers (typically, two external reviews are sought). The reviewers’ evaluations are com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Please find our preprint policy here.This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. You may also post the final published version of the article immediately after publication.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Country or region
- PEOPLES R CHINA
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1753-0393
- Electronic ISSN
- 1753-0407
- Society / sponsor
- Chinese Society of Endocrinology endorsed by the Chinese Endocrinologist Association
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 18, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Diabetes
What CAS zone is Journal of Diabetes in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Diabetes is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Endocrinology & Metabolism. 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 Journal of Diabetes?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 5.87; CiteScore 7.1, h-index 75.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Diabetes?
Based on the dates recorded on 75 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 113 days (interquartile range 39–215 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10% (2025). 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 Diabetes?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Diabetes based?
Of the 111 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 51 (about 46%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (51), United States (20) and Japan (8). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Diabetes?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Diabetes is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, CAS, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Diabetes open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Diabetes is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,000.
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: .