Journal profile · RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING
Journal of diagnostic medical sonography
ISSN 8756-4793 · eISSN 1552-5430 · SAGE
Journal of diagnostic medical sonography: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.4 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 107 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 49.5% (journal website); 142 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of diagnostic medical sonography is published by SAGE 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 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors and Credit Risk and Financial Regulations, together about 23.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Creating and interpreting clear and precise sonographic images is both an art and a science. The Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JDMS) which is the official journal of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, provides peer-reviewed innovative publications in all specialties including but not limited to abdominal, women’s health, pediatric, cardiovascular, … | 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): RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING
Editor-in-chief Kevin D. EvansPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 51, Canada 1, Saudi Arabia 1 (53 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.4%
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsMedicine6.5%
- Credit Risk and Financial RegulationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.8%
- Ultrasound in Clinical ApplicationsMedicine5.6%
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine5.2%
- Prenatal Screening and DiagnosticsMedicine4.9%
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine4.9%
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studiesMedicine4.4%
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 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 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
ESCIScopusLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.17LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.35LetPub ·
- h-index
- 53OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 319OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.18OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 25%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 8.94%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 70LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,502 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 89 | 17 | 3 |
| 2025 | 142 | 26 | 14 |
| 2024 | 151 | 60 | 51 |
| 2023 | 148 | 62 | 164 |
| 2022 | 145 | 13 | 113 |
| 2021 | 152 | 20 | 263 |
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
107 dayssubmission to acceptance
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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 49.5%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 1 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 107 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 52 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 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| 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)
- Other fees
- USD 3,950
- 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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted8
- case studyPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Case Study or Case Series Written accounts of the impact o…Length not stated
- case study or case seriesCase Study or Case Series Written accounts of the impact of sonography on patients with rare pathology or unusual combinations of pathology are popular contribu…Length not stated
- editorialPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Case Study or Case Series Written accounts of the impact o…Length not stated
- editorials and guest editorialsEditorials and Guest Editorials Written by a JDMS Editor or invited guest and express an idea that is thought provoking and relevant to JDMS readers.Length not stated
- hypothesisPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Case Study or Case Series Written accounts of the impact o…Length not stated
- literature reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Case Study or Case Series Written accounts of the impact o…Length not stated
- original researchPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Case Study or Case Series Written accounts of the impact o…Length not stated
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Case Study or Case Series Written accounts of the impact o…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
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
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Sage Choice pricing for Open Access publication in JDMS is set at $3950 (USD) per article. Find out if your inst…
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 The journal adheres to a rigorous double-anonymized reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. Two independent reviews are required for a manuscript t…
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
- ISSN
- 8756-4793
- Electronic ISSN
- 1552-5430
- Society / sponsor
- Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of diagnostic medical sonography
What CAS zone is Journal of diagnostic medical sonography in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of diagnostic medical sonography is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging. 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 Journal of diagnostic medical sonography?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.4; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.7, h-index 53.
How long does peer review take at Journal of diagnostic medical sonography?
The publisher reports about 107 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 49.5%. 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 diagnostic medical sonography?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 3; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional. 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 diagnostic medical sonography based?
Of the 53 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (51), Canada (1) and Saudi Arabia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of diagnostic medical sonography?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of diagnostic medical sonography is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of diagnostic medical sonography open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of diagnostic medical sonography is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,150.
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 2026-08-30). Last updated: .